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Post by rangersedge on Jul 26, 2024 20:28:13 GMT -5
In the July issue of pondboss is an interesting article by Dan Van Schaik on wild hogs. Some of the highlights...
Between 2014 and 2023 fatal shark attacks averaged 5.8 while fatal hogs attacks averaged 19.7.
It's not sharks, wolves, or bears that kill the most people, it is wild pigs and the numbers are trending up.
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Post by Big Bore on Jul 26, 2024 20:30:29 GMT -5
Considering some of the drunken redneck stupidity I’ve seen growing up in South Texas, I’m not the least bit surprised.
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Post by Big Bore on Jul 26, 2024 20:33:06 GMT -5
I should also admit…some that I’ve actively participated in…
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Post by x101airborne on Jul 27, 2024 6:47:55 GMT -5
I invented some of that stupidity. With hogs spreading into urban areas, people who dont know how to handle the encounters are probably adding to the numbers as well.
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Post by 45MAN on Jul 27, 2024 6:47:57 GMT -5
I WOULD LIKE TO READ ABOUT THE HOG FATALITIES, PROBABLY A MIX OF STUPIDITY (GETTING TOO CLOSE TO A WOUNDED OR BAYED HOG), FARM INCIDENTS, AND MAYBE A FEW UNPROVOKED ATTACKS BY FERAL HOGS (NEVER HEARD OF ANY).
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Post by Fowler on Jul 27, 2024 7:55:16 GMT -5
So if a redneck gets passed out drunk in the Taxas brush (I have heard there are a few examples so not unheard of) and a pig comes along and eats said passed out person killing this person as an incidental side effect of his free and easy dinner.
Does this count as a hog attack?
Just asking
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jul 27, 2024 9:42:52 GMT -5
Just like how to avoid a shark attack, is stay out of the water. Avoiding a feral hog attack is stay away from feral hogs. Having spent 28 of the previous 30 years dealing with human stupidity and poor choices, the more recent years definitely have increased the stupid level to new heights. Reports need to be read critically and with an understanding of the facts and circumstances, not casually and then opinions drawn from anecdotal and heresay accounts. One would think the 40sw is the greatest handgun bear cartridge around since more bears have been handgun killed with that caliber in previous years. Yet when taken in context and circumstances understood that Police did the killing and used duty handguns, it becomes clearer that what was available was used not exactly the best.
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Post by bigbore5 on Jul 27, 2024 10:26:21 GMT -5
In my hands there's no better defense gun than a 5-1/2" BFR in 500 Linebaugh. It's custom grips fit my hand perfectly. It's accuracy with both my designed just for it 355swc and the MP 525gr is simply amazing. It gets shot often.
However, the experienced handgunners I do let try it who are more used to the 44mag do have to adjust a bit. The semiautomatic guys are overwhelmed. The recoil is stiff, but I am used to it, so follow up shots are pretty quick. Others better hope that they get it done with one. The recovery is pretty slow and they tend to flinch pretty bad.
There's also alot going on in a charge. Pigs are fast and don't always come straight while they are trying to get away from the dogs. Most people have no idea how quick a pig can move. You have to aim in front of the nose to anchor them, especially since you are taller and will be firing at an angle into a target moving towards you. Most of the time that puts my bullets into the neck or between the shoulders, cracking the spine and ending it then, but I always pay the insurance with a fast follow up.
Do I need the 500? Nope. But I like it and am proficient with it. Hunting hogs is great practice for bear and other dangerous game that may charge. The big difference is that they are smaller, so it's hard to drop down for a level face on shot. A leopard is faster and more agile, but the shooting isn't too much different.
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Post by bigmuddy on Jul 27, 2024 11:32:23 GMT -5
I should also admit…some that I’ve actively participated in… Now that there’s funny. 😆 Dan
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Post by rangersedge on Jul 28, 2024 13:19:55 GMT -5
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jul 28, 2024 14:07:37 GMT -5
The break down of attacks by country would have been nice, the results are from 57 different countries worldwide
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Post by 500fksjr on Jul 28, 2024 15:42:56 GMT -5
I should also admit…some that I’ve actively participated in… As youngsters I am sure we all contributed to stupids...Not considering them at the time!
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Post by junebug on Jul 28, 2024 16:03:30 GMT -5
And old sow with a fresh litter of young piglets, can and will put you over a fence you thought you couldn't jump or up a tree you know you cant possibly climb. About the only way to stop her short of shooting is whack the hell out of the end of her nose with a big club. Hitting her anywhere else just makes her madder. Work on the end of that nose and you can change her mind.
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Post by bula on Jul 28, 2024 16:25:40 GMT -5
Youngins needin to be protected on the way to the outhouse ...goes back to colonial times and OLd Yaller.. the book.
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Post by 45MAN on Jul 28, 2024 16:41:31 GMT -5
THIS IS A TRUE STORY, HAPPENED OVER 40 YEARS AGO, NEAR SAN FERNANDO, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO, ON A WHITE WING DOVE HUNT: A BUNCH OF US WERE HUNTING A BIG GRAIN FIELD AT AN EJIDO (A FARM CO-OPERATIVE). AS USUAL EACH HUNTER HAD A BIRD BOY, USUALLY A LOCAL YOUNGSTER, WHO WOULD RETRIEVE AND CLEAN YOUR BIRDS. BESIDES MY BIRD BOY, ABOUT 13 YEARS OLD, ALSO WITH ME WAS MY SON JOHN MATTHEW WHO WAS 5 OR 6 YEARS OLD.
I WAS USING MY WINCHESTER MODEL 42 410 SKEET GRADE SHOTGUN AND THERE WAS A LOT OF ACTION FOR ALL THE HUNTERS, LOTS OF SHOOTING, SHOUTING AND NOISE. I WAS HUNTING NEAR A RAVINE IN THE GRAIN FIELD WHEN SUDDENLY A GOOD SIZED SOW, HER HAIR BRISTLING ON HER BACK, CHARGES OUT OF THE RAVINE AND ATTACKS THE BIRD BOY, KNOCKS HIM DOWN AND IS GROVELING ALL OVER HIM, I WALKED UP TO THE SOW AND AT DAMN NEAR POINT BLANK RANGE SHOT HER MID-BODY WITH MY 410, TRYING TO AVOID HITTING THE BIRD BOY. AT THE SHOT, THE SOW STAGGERED BACKWARDS AND FELL OVER DEAD. THE BIRD BOY HAD A CUT ON HIS FACE AND WAS REALLY SHAKEN UP. LUCKY BOY AS HE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN KILLED, LUCKY ME THAT THE HOG WENT FOR THE OLDER BIRD BOY INSTEAD OF MY VERY YOUNG SON.
TURNS OUT THE SOW HAD A LITTER DOWN IN THE RAVINE. SHE WAS NOT A TRUE FERAL HOG AS SHE BELONGED, FORTUNEATELY FOR ME, TO THE BIRD BOY's GRANDFATHER. THE LOCALS RETRIEVED THE DEAD SOW AND HER LITTER AND WERE IN A FESTVE MOOD AS MONEY FROM THE HUNTING FEES AND BIRD BOY TIPS WAS FLOWING INTO THE EJIDO AND THEY WERE GOING TO FEAST ON FRESH PORK.
THE INCIDENT TOOK ONLY A FEW SECONDS, TAKES LONGER TO TELL IT THAT IT DID TO LIVE IT.
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