OMG that's a lotta hogs...

[Land_Owner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=urY33QxtDWQ

Never EVER have I seen anything like this.  Incredible

[bulletstuffer]

And they ask the question of how many rounds do we need!  You will never know until a situation like this arises so you had better have plenty


Looks like your neighbor must have not trapped as many hogs as you thought


Bulletstuffer

[Land_Owner]

Went this morning.  Found some sign.  Evidence of a small pig.  Pictures on cameras of larger hog or two in the middle of the night.

That marurading band of pigs would eat a hunter on the ground alive and it wouldn't fill any one of them.  wouldn't do the hunter any good either...

[Oldshooter]

I have seen as many as 25 on my game camera at night. Never that many moving as a group in daylight though
 
One evening in central Texas my buddy and I were watching a large group(about 20) grazing in a pasture next to the one we were setting up in for night vision shooting. we were just sitting in the ranger under a tree watching thinking that after dark we would move in and take a few. Well along comes two dudes in a pickup and jump out and cut loose with ARs, pigs went everywhere and one poor porky was shot in the behind and was squealing to beat the band. When things got quiet I yelled out "nice shooting" in the most sarcastic voice i could muster. They hadn't seen us before but did then. Sheepishly they got in the truck and left dust!

[Land_Owner]

Would have been "more satisfying" to return fire since they didn't have the decency or ethics to scan that field for humans in the first place.  What Rubes!  Some people go out of their way to make life a living nightmare for everyone else.  Would have served them right to receive some incoming fire.  Dust would have been the last thing they left...

[hillbill]

ive seen that video before. i think its some where in europe.that herd would feed a lot of folks but im sure its prob illeagal to kill them there.or illegal to own a gun to kill them with. one or the other.

[briarpatch]

Usually when you see that many hogs you will see a lot of footballs I didnt see any.
The camera person seemed to have been waiting for this. Wonder if some rancher just turned them out.

[FPH]

Saw about half that many crossing 20 by Tyler Tx.  back in the late 70's.  Men on horse back and foot were rounding them up and had highway 20 shut down.

[hillbill]

Usually when you see that many hogs you will see a lot of footballs I didnt see any.
The camera person seemed to have been waiting for this. Wonder if some rancher just turned them out.

as i said i think this is in europe somewhere where hogs have been wild a long time. is it possible that they have reverted to a state where they dont reproduce in the fall cuz the winters are too harsh for the footballs to survive? notice the trees and landscape it looks like winter? hogs are highly adaptable and just 2 or 3 generations of fall pigging sows that had no litters survive would prob wipe out all the non spring and summer pigging sows. kind of like how deer only fawn in the spring under optimum conditions?

[briarpatch]

Could be Hillbill.

[Oldshooter]

Would have been "more satisfying" to return fire since they didn't have the decency or ethics to scan that field for humans in the first place.  What Rubes!  Some people go out of their way to make life a living nightmare for everyone else.  Would have served them right to receive some incoming fire.  Dust would have been the last thing they left...

We were ready! it looked like a war movie! we saw them getting out and raising rifles, then started seeing the dust fly around the pigs, then heard the shots, The pigs were coming our way and so were the misses. The pigs turned for the woods and the shooters ran out of their 30 round magazines. I had a AR10 in 308 and Walter had a AR in 6.8 with a 30 rd magazine, it wudda been a hell of a fire fight! 
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I also noticed no footballs in that video, but there were a lot of young uns the same size. did you see them stop and look at the camera man. Then went on about their business. 

[Swampman]

Wild hogs are not going to bother a man......don't believe old wives tales.

[HL]

Swampy, you keep telling yourself that, if it helps you sleep. Not a wives tale.  I had a 350+ pound boar come after me two years ago while walking my creek bottom.

It's statements like yours that will end up getting someone hurt, if they listen to you.

[HL]

Swampy, you keep telling yourself that, if it helps you sleep. Not a wives tale.  I had a 350+ pound boar come after me two years ago while walking my creek bottom.

It's statements like yours that will end up getting someone hurt, if they listen to you.

[Dee]

Me and Swampy don't agree much, but Florida and East Texas has had wild hogs for over a hundred years. Swampy's pretty much right. NOW! You corner a boar, or make him THINK he's cornered, and he'll charge tryin to get by you. A sow is most likely to fight IF you get between her and her babies.
I've been around'em, and hunted them all my life, and they are more interested in getting away than fightin. That's why they'll run till their cornered, and why their mostly nocturnal. They want nothing to do with humans. It's also like the myth that their hard to kill. Mostly promoted by folks that weren't raised around them. Their no harder to kill than a whitetail, if you know where to hit them.

[45-70.gov]

i was about to load up the truck.....then realized  that wasn't your land

[Land_Owner]

i was about to load up the truck.....then realized  that wasn't your land

Glad it is not my land...but sometimes, in the recesses of my twisted mind, I wish for a little while that it was, for Commraderie with my fellow GBO Hunters and for SOMETHING to shoot outside of deer season!!!

Come down any time.  I have camera pics of hogs, a few anyway, that frequent the place.  A couple of bags of corn in feeders and pipes and they would wander into a shooting lane in daylight I'm sure.  It is REAL hot though and the yellow flies at present will carry you far-far away.

[FPH]

Me and Swampy don't agree much, but Florida and East Texas has had wild hogs for over a hundred years. Swampy's pretty much right. NOW! You corner a boar, or make him THINK he's cornered, and he'll charge tryin to get by you. A sow is most likely to fight IF you get between her and her babies.
I've been around'em, and hunted them all my life, and they are more interested in getting away than fightin. That's why they'll run till their cornered, and why their mostly nocturnal. They want nothing to do with humans. It's also like the myth that their hard to kill. Mostly promoted by folks that weren't raised around them. Their no harder to kill than a whitetail, if you know where to hit them.

Have to agree.  Unless you corner them or separate Mom from her litter(then it can get interesting), all should be fine.  Heck my old neighbor hunted  them using nothing but dogs to run them and a knife to cut their throats......no firearms. San Antonio to Irann area.

[Swampman]

Swampy, you keep telling yourself that, if it helps you sleep. Not a wives tale.  I had a 350+ pound boar come after me two years ago while walking my creek bottom.

You just happened to be in his path.

[Oldshooter]

Yea HL find out where he's going next time and dont go there! 

[swordfish]

Swampy, you keep telling yourself that, if it helps you sleep. Not a wives tale.  I had a 350+ pound boar come after me two years ago while walking my creek bottom.

You just happened to be in his path.

And that makes them any less dangerous, how? 

[Swampman]

A car is dangerous if you stand in the road.  The hog is just moving and you're on the trail he uses.

[swordfish]

I'll be sure to use the sidewalk next time I'm in the bush.

[SHOOTALL]

That is what it looked like at Wilderness Lodge in TN.