Hog Attack

[gcrank1]

I know you mean,'shake hands'; A Cognac hoisted to you! 

[cwlongshot]

I've been in a situation where several smaller pigs ran by me after I started shooting the lead pig. I was real glad to have a 1911 in my hands and some combat training guiding me. It's an intense 3 seconds of man versus animal that is still a vivid memory. I have often thought about what I would do if I was carrying a single shot if/when it happens again. It only seems logical to start swinging the rifle like a club. I've been in combat situations where anything and everything was used as a weapon. These hog encounters would qualify as a comparable situation.

Thanks, Dinny

I agree with Dinny on this, as I was in the same situation but I was carrying my 30-30 Winchester.  The hog turned and came right at me and I opened fire when it initiated it's charge and I realized it's intent.
My two first shots missed it's mark, but the third dropped the hog within 30 feet of me.
You stay focused on the chore at hand, and you don't think about anything but stopping the charge!
There is plenty of time to shake afterwards.

There is a joke in there somewhere.... I know the saying that an unloaded gun is like a club and not a great one at that.

Roger that any item can be a weapon if you think. I'd rather do as my signature... If your gonna carry a single shot LEARN TO USE IT!


Also 30' that the outside edge of a danger zone on this critter. They can move quick but a level head and good shot are quicker.

CW

[Singlebarrel]

I have been charged twice by hogs that I can recall.  Or maybe a better word is treed.  Once in a Custard Apple swamp on Lake Okeechobee and once on a tree island in the everglades.  All I ever had with me was a machette.  Both times I dropped the machette and scrambled up the closest tree that was big enough to get me off the ground a little ways.  I know that Tarzan would have taken the machette and wacked those hogs into porkchops. My mama did not raise Tarzan. Hogs could be a little scary at times. But wild cattle?  Bad news.  Forty years gone by and they are still giving me nightmares. Funny, that native wildlife never was much of a bother. It was the feral stuff you had to watch out for.
Eight years out there and I never took a gun.  Only machettes.
 

[Jim Stacy]

If I hunt hogs ,on foot , I also wear a compact 4"41Mag should things get close and the Handi run empty with hostilities still in effect. 

[Joe S.]

I've been in a situation where several smaller pigs ran by me after I started shooting the lead pig. I was real glad to have a 1911 in my hands and some combat training guiding me. It's an intense 3 seconds of man versus animal that is still a vivid memory. I have often thought about what I would do if I was carrying a single shot if/when it happens again. It only seems logical to start swinging the rifle like a club. I've been in combat situations where anything and everything was used as a weapon. These hog encounters would qualify as a comparable situation.

Thanks, Dinny

I agree with Dinny on this, as I was in the same situation but I was carrying my 30-30 Winchester.  The hog turned and came right at me and I opened fire when it initiated it's charge and I realized it's intent.
My two first shots missed it's mark, but the third dropped the hog within 30 feet of me.
You stay focused on the chore at hand, and you don't think about anything but stopping the charge!
There is plenty of time to shake afterwards.

sounds like a Kenny Rogers song.

I have been charged twice by hogs that I can recall.  Or maybe a better word is treed.  Once in a Custard Apple swamp on Lake Okeechobee and once on a tree island in the everglades.  All I ever had with me was a machette.  Both times I dropped the machette and scrambled up the closest tree that was big enough to get me off the ground a little ways.  I know that Tarzan would have taken the machette and wacked those hogs into porkchops. My mama did not raise Tarzan. Hogs could be a little scary at times. But wild cattle?  Bad news.  Forty years gone by and they are still giving me nightmares. Funny, that native wildlife never was much of a bother. It was the feral stuff you had to watch out for.
Eight years out there and I never took a gun.  Only machettes.
 

my dad grew up in Florida and his grand dad grew up in near and spent much time in the glades. He has a horn mount of a feral bull he killed back in the 20's or 30's.  Has a lil ol hole in its skull plate. Said his grandpa would sit in a tree and let em pass under em and shoot em with a .22. But he didn't dare get down til the twitchin was over.

[petemi]

Also down in Florida, I had a wild cow with a calf put me up a tree.  I had my 12 ga. and put about three rounds over her head.  It didn't phase her.  After about a half hour she got bored and wandered off.

Pete

[Joe S.]

Ive had brahma cows put me in truck beds and over fences. And they aint even wild. Cant imagine once they go wild how they'd be.

[gcrank1]

Yeah, but a Brahma doesnt even like it's favorite food........

[glockmeister]

gcrank1, you mean to say, ''a brahma get up in the morning in a BAD MOOD and it just goes downhill from there.'' Been there in my younger days and do not care to repeat the experience. I guess the old saying about God protecting the young and foolish is true, it was in my case. Y'all take care, John.

[oldsoldja]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&ved=0CG4QtwIwCg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DObzfz4xEpgY&ei=23gOU_LDIoK52AWt2IHoAw&usg=AFQjCNF6qk7ruy646PDm3LgiB1CanNyo-Q&sig2=3tVXHKxD0RoVbwVRNKsFwg&bvm=bv.61965928,d.b2I
      this is a funny short on a brahman bull, the guys first one dies, so they cloned it.

[jeepmann1948]

I had an equally horrific episode occur while on the island of Oahu several years back.We were at North Shore having a family picnic on one of the prettiest beaches in the world.Two rather large Samoan sows in the 300-400lb range  wearing traditional sarongs  noticed a large bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken in our picnic area.Their primal instincts aroused to a very dangerous level. A charge was imminent!!!!!!!!!!! Luckily I was prepared! I reached in the bag a pulled the only thing that would save us ............ A can of SPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tossed it to  them and they went merrily on their way . Even a 45-120 would not have stopped the charge as quickly !!!!
[/size]George

[Dinny]

George,
  I'm amazed every time I read about people making life or death decisions with limited time.  I don't know that I could have remained as calm and collected as you. 

I hope you're never put into that situation again. No one knows what the outcome would be.

 

Thanks, Dinny

[Singlebarrel]

During the 1970s my project area covered Lake Okeechobee and much of the remaining saw grass everglades running south to the north border of Everglades National Park and to the west by the Big Cypress.  During lower lake stages Lake Okeechobee was heavily grazed in some areas.  The cowboys would round up the cows before the water levels got too high, but left a lot of strays.  I was often neck deep in alligators and had my share of experiences with panthers and bears and hogs. There were times when I was a little uneasy with the alligators.  However, the only two things I ever encountered that really had me scared, I mean down right heart pumping, palm sweating, crap in the pants scared, were wild bulls and lightning.  No control over either one and both totally unpredictable.  My heart rate just jumped up to about 120 beats a minute just writing about them. 

[garbhead]

That reminds me of a time I was helping father-in-law and the vet pull a dead calf from a cow...had cow in head-gate, come-a-long puller hooked on one end around calf, the other end hooked to corner post. My job (@250# at the time) was to stand on the cable and jump up and down to help pull.  After we got the dead calf out, the vet turned the cow loose, and for some reason or another the cow blamed me for all the pain and dead baby....she charged at me and I ran around a big bale feeder ring and as i turned I slipped in the mud, etc and fell clear down on the ground. I thought I has toast, but luckily the cow slipped and fell too, giving me time to jump in the bed of the vet's pickup...he was laughing his ass off saying "I was rodeoing"
I asked him what I feller could do if one of them ever got them down and he said , "about the only thing you can do is reach up and pull one of their eyeballs out...he said the farmers don't like it but too bad...."
Oh for about 5 yrs until my FIL got rid of that old cow, anytime I was on place she would raise holy hell and try to get me and no one else , until he finally took her to sale barn.

[SHOOTALL]

not a hog but a bull , my dad was raking hay with a horse drawn rake when a bull crossed the river and came at him. the horses broke free and the bull attacked the rake . Got it stuck on his head then chased my dad up a tree . the bull kept him up the tree for a couple hours. My grandpa shot the bull .