Wild pigs

[chuditch]

Bloody feral pigs hate the buggers the damage they do to pasture.

Saw one in the paddock rushed back to house in vehicle grabbed rifle off the wall a Winchester 30/30 Trapper.

Rush back over on foot and of course its not there.

I sneak around looking no sign it has obviously made a run for the fence and back out into the forest.

Walking back and being colour blind makes observing things easier and there is the bugger lying doggo in the mud pretending it isn't there.

Well after cranking 4 rounds though and hearing click each time I bent down picked one up no dent in the primer must be a broken firing pin.

Words of not being happy and I quietly backed away ran back to the house couldn't find the packet of rounds for the .44 Mag so ran back with the sawn off double barrel shotgun with 00 buck.

Dead pig now

Young boar must have dug up about 1/2 a hectare over the past few days (5)

Was a feeling of unease when the rifle didn't fire and realised must have a broken firing pin I guess they have to break sometime but would rather happen when sighting in than when faced with a pig.

Could have been worse I guess some of you have much more interesting and dangerous animals around your countries.

 

[indianjoe]

Feral hogs are a problem here as well, but we got a couple of dozen hog dogs that can bay them. Some of the boys I hunt with will only use a knife to approach a bayed hog, but I always tote a couple of fire sticks.
As far as dangerous animals, gaters, several types of poisonous snakes, panthers, and bears to name a few. They are all interesting to be around.

 

[chuditch]

Feral hogs are a problem here as well, but we got a couple of dozen hog dogs that can bay them. Some of the boys I hunt with will only use a knife to approach a bayed hog, but I always tote a couple of fire sticks.
As far as dangerous animals, gaters, several types of poisonous snakes, panthers, and bears to name a few. They are all interesting to be around.

Check out the list of nasties in Australia. Fortunately not in the vicinity of salt water crocks but the spiders and snakes don't take any prisoners and the bloody big lizards will give you a cute bite but going face to face with a pig and trying to beat it into submission with the butt of my rifle just didnt appeal to me

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Well at least you have a nice supply of bacon now!

 

[Chicken]

i agree with you.... australia has some of the most dangerous animals on earth... id say the worst..

everything there will kill you dead.

i'd trap them hog's... build yourself a big trap. and eat what you catch..ive done that in the past... once had 3 hog's in one trap.

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and the guy's i sometimes go hog hunting with.... only carries a knife also.... when approaching the dog's with a caught hog.

really hog hunting for me, is just riding thru the woods. while sucking on sud's...and listening to the c.b. radio.

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if i were in your position i'd just get me some dog's... i got 4 bulldog's in a fenced in area.... i bet they'd have fun chasing your hog's. and my male would '' grab '' that hog.

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[BarG]

You know they are pissed when they start clacking their teeth together.

 

[USHOG]

They are some nasty critters and do a ton of damage. Here is a little pig that we caught.

 

[chuditch]

that is an impressive pig

last big one we got on the farm I caught in a trap and when the pig hunter I use came out to get it (it was at night and he only came out because I said it was going to bust the trap) he said he was going to reach in grab a back leg pull it out and cuts its throat.
When we drove up to it and he saw it in the headlights and I asked if he was still going to reach in pull it out and cut its throut he told me to "F" off if it had been in the figure 6 trap he would have shot it from the window of the car.
When it was hanging from a branch and he was gutting it, it was longer than he was tall.
It took three of us to lift it onto the back of the Ute (your small truck)
That one on the front of your bike looks like it would have weighed a bit
Was pleased the one this afternoon was smaller but would still have given me a good seeing to if it had of had a mind to.
The click as the hammer fell and no bang was a bit off putting I think that is the bit that has cheesed me off the most.

They are some nasty critters and do a ton of damage. Here is a little pig that we caught.

 

[USHOG]

At least the boar wasn't charging when it misfired. My friend Josh put 8 rounds into a wounded charging boar with his 40 needless to say it took 5 surgeries to put his knee back together. The boar ran right by him and hooked him in the knee breaking off 1/2 inch of tooth in his knee bone. They are mean and strong and worse than that is the diseases that they carry. I am telling everyone to always wear gloves when cleaning the hogs. They are nasty and I know a guy over in Tomball that caught brucellosis and almost died just from cleaning a hog his son had shot.

They are some mean destructive critters but that is good for me as it is job security.
I have a few hog hunting pictures if you look at my website

This is Nitro and Glycerin on their first hunt at 10 months old

 

[chuditch]

Just had a look at your web site. there are some good sized pigs there. They are certainly not the cute cuddly pet ones. Some city people don't realise how big and evil they can be. They will take lambs too if they get a chance. Due to the large forest fires that were near me I havent gotten the electric fence back on again just slackness on my part but will be getting it turned back on tomorrow. Sorry to hear about your friends misadventure with the pig. I don't eat them I just pick them up in the tractor bucket and dump them in a hole. if the pig hunters come out and get them they can have them they like to turn them into sausages with lots of garlic I think by the smell of the pigs would need a lot of garlic to hide the game smell and taste on a big boar.

At least the boar wasn't charging when it misfired. My friend Josh put 8 rounds into a wounded charging boar with his 40 needless to say it took 5 surgeries to put his knee back together. The boar ran right by him and hooked him in the knee breaking off 1/2 inch of tooth in his knee bone. They are mean and strong and worse than that is the diseases that they carry. I am telling everyone to always wear gloves when cleaning the hogs. They are nasty and I know a guy over in Tomball that caught brucellosis and almost died just from cleaning a hog his son had shot.

They are some mean destructive critters but that is good for me as it is job security.
I have a few hog hunting pictures if you look at my website

 

[USHOG]

Josh is good now and I have a 100 stories about people getting sliced up by wild boars these boars are much faster than they look and when you mix young males with wild animals and add a few girls all hell breaks loose and many stitches are given.
If you prepare the hogs correctly they taste great but they need to die without their adrenalin pumping or it will taste very wild but that is all animals. And yes garlic makes it taste better. I like to take a backstrap and cut it into a V then lay some sausage down the middle of the V and add garlic and peppers and then wrap the whole thing in lots of bacon and grill till done. It is a wonderful way to eat pig

 

[bonehead]

I like to take a backstrap and cut it into a V then lay some sausage down the middle of the V and add garlic and peppers and then wrap the whole thing in lots of bacon and grill till done. It is a wonderful way to eat pig

that almost sounds like the fatties i smoke on my smoker.

 

[webmost]

Was a feeling of unease when the rifle didn't fire and realised must have a broken firing pin I guess they have to break sometime but would rather happen when sighting in than when faced with a pig.

I read somewhere the second loudest sound you will ever hear is a gunshot. The loudest being a click.

 

[chuditch]

I read somewhere the second loudest sound you will ever hear is a gunshot. The loudest being a click.

I can now agree with that. The third click was by far the loudest I could understand one miss fire even two but not the third. Its the click in the silence when you expect a boom. I hadnt thoght about that but that was a good comment very true and like I said the clicks I think got louder

 

[DGBAMA]

You got some nice dogs USHOG.

 

[Chicken]

a boars head is the only thing missing on my wall.

 

[USHOG]

Thank you DGBAMA. The dogs are a lot of fun

 

[BarG]

They are some nasty critters and do a ton of damage. Here is a little pig that we caught.

The biggest I ever killed around here was a boar 5' snout to tail. I used to bow hunt and trap hogs in Tomball when I lived there. Everyone has put up hogwire where I am now and my best hunting spot at home was turned into a horse ranch.I have to go 30 miles now to hunt hogs on the Trinity river. What do you do with the big live ones?

 

[USHOG]

I sell the big boars to high fence ranches. If you want to go hunting let me know you are very close to us

 

[LewZephyr]

The biggest I ever killed around here was a boar 5' snout to tail. I used to bow hunt and trap hogs in Tomball when I lived there.

Sorry for the segue..... Tomball? Tomball, TX North of Houston?
That's my mailing address.
Just curious. Neat to know others are aware of the area.
I grew up in Spring, but when I was in the Army, I just told peeps I was from Houston. Was MUCH easier.