Hog Spoof?

[clodbuster]

I gotta lay bare my gullibility and ask a greenhorn hog hunter question.  A former boss of mine claims he went hog hunting in the Oakmulgee(sic)
swamp near Macon GA and killed a 300 lb boar with a bowie knife after hounds brought the beast to bay, the outfitter turned a pitbull loose in to the fight and with everything at full cry, he rushed in-grabbed the boar's tail and stuck the knife in behind the gristle plate and hung on till he died(the hog).  He had the boar mounted and yes someone somehow did kill a large Russian boar.   Could it have happened the way he told it?  The outfitter was a well-know GA highway patrolman and his father fyi.

[muzzleblast525]

Guy that I work with, also a police officer, and his brother, State Trooper, both go at hogs this way.  They have couple of pitbulls they turn loose on the hog and then they move in for the stick.  Kinda of crazy if you ask me, for I've always felt you should take a gun to a knife fight.
 :wink:

[victorcharlie]

Got some friend who do it that way down in Fl. only thing is they grab the back legs. I'd love to video it one of these days.

[Wynn]

I've gotten a little old for the grabbin & stick'n part these days but that is a very common way of taking hogs here in Florida. Very often, they are taken alive using duct tape on hind legs and snout. Then just grab the hind legs and "wheelbarrow" them to the truck. Had one get loose at the truck one night after the dogs were put up. Got real interesting. I'll never forget that gal hauling herself up on top of the truck feet first using the side view mirror for leverage. I nearly got slashed by the hog I was laughing so hard. It tends to turn into a group affair of men, neighbor kids, wives & girlfriends. If your new girlfriend can't at least drive the truck and break a dog off the hog, you don't marry her. One night about 20 years ago, we caught a 450 lb piney woods boar. Black as night and mad as hell. Backed into a hole he had rooted under a downed oak tree trunk. Teeth snapping, squeeling, barkin & snarlin. Two dogs killed, 7 more need'n stitchin up and two hunters to the ER before it was all over. Some of the best fun I ever had.

[Wynn]

Here is a couple of young ones we caught recently. They are off to the fattening/breeding pen I keep.
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[victorcharlie]

Thats not a bad idea.......put them on corn for awhile........unfortunately, that's not legal here.......

[PEPAW]

Just saw this old post.   I would never, ever attempt to catch a 450 lb boar alive.    I get nervous with a 20 lb pig in a trap.

Why is it not legal to catch and "feed up" a wild pig?    Very common here in TX.

[Dusty Miller]

Here in the PRC you are not allowed to keep wild game as pets or for any other reason.

[FWiedner]

Yeah, but see, they're pigs.

Once ya trap 'em and start feeding them, they're "domesticated".

 

[JeffG]

Yeah, Wisconsin declared feral pigs an invasive species; ya gotta kill them and eat 'em.  Too bad, eh?  

[hillbill]

the dogs if well trained attach themselves to the hogs ears and eventually the hog is to tired to do anything but stand there and let yu stab him to death. id prefer at least a 4 ft spear tho :-D

[rockbilly]

:eek: I don't doubt for one minute that some people are crazy enough to attempt to kill a hog with a knife, some have even taken bear that way.  My first knowledge of this unique method of taking game was while attending school at U of Eastern New Mexico back in the early sixties.  I had to write a term paper on any individual that helped settle the west for a history class.  Everyone had been written about at some point, so I started looking for someone special.  I wrote my paper on Ben Lilly, a predator-control hunter that lived in the N.M-CO. area during the early 1900s.  In one piece of research material, "The Life of Ben Lilly" several incidents of taking bear and hogs with a knife were discussed.  The pay for much of his early hunting came from the ranchers of the area, a bounty for lions, bear, etc.  Later in life he was a government hunter and sometimes guide for Teddy Roosevelt.  Ben was such a unique individual, several others started using his method of killing game.....Course I never picked it up. :roll: