Some Feral hogs made a visit to a friend's ranch last night..............

[Kelley (Texas)]

Earlier today, a good friend of ours that lives out near Leon Springs, Texas had some feral hogs come through their place last night, killed their dog, tore the fence up, and tore up part of the yard and wrecked their garden. Grant said that he is going to sit in a tree with a rifle tonight in the event that they return. It took him and his brother several hours to get the fence back up.

I remember the time that two of them paid us a visit to eat some corn that we had put out for the deer. When I tried to chase them off, one of them tore up our fence while escaping, but the other one decided he was going to challenge me to a fight. He made a bad decision and lost his life. I spent the entire next day putting the fence back up too.

Unlike coyotes, feral hogs can get large, up to 400 pounds with large tusk that can rip a dog or man apart. Under the right circumstances they can be highly dangerous and destructive. Three or four can tear a pasture apart in a single night as they eat the roots to the pasture grass. Quite often, you will not even know that they are there until the next morning when you wake up and see big circles in your pasture. They will run right through your fence, often snapping the post off at the ground, tearing the wire loose. They are bad news!

Anytime they showed up at our place and did damage, we would hunt them down and shoot them. If one thinks it is threatened or cornered, they will attack you. They run fast too! I once had one that was approximately 300 pounds in size charge me and he got within ten feet of me before I finally dropped him. I did not know he was there at first, but when I first saw him I figured he would run off somewhere. Thank goodness I had slipped the rifle from the saddle scabbard as I dismounted. With no warning, he turned and charged me. I have had them charge me in the past, but none had ever gotten that close to me before dropping. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Royal]

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[ojm bc]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

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[George-CT]

meat menu. Don't know what they taste like but a few of thy guys at the gun club bring them in on hunts out in Pa, and NH and they taste pretty good to me... Here is one my buddy Gary got in NH this spring.... I was snacking on him over the summer at his cook outs when he was back here....He hunts with a 454 pistol....This was early spring in NH. They bring them in and I think he said they are Russia bores raised elsewhere and released in a big swamp with lot of hills... He said they go down hard....

George-CT

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

The tusk on the hog in the picture are not very big, but I guess they are big enough to rip someone apart. They are good eating as long as you field dress them as soon as possible. The only advice I ever give is to not trust them, you can not predict what they are going to do...charge you or run for cover. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

Any animal that size with that type of disposition is to be feared. Hope your friend takes care of business with them

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

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[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

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[Micheal_R]

I would think that at least you could turn them into sausages.... or bacon. Let's face it, you fed them : ... the least you should be able to do is eat them in exchange for all the food you have given them.

When I shot that cougar, it might have felt similar..... although from the way you describe them, the hogs may be even more dangerous.

Calm seas

Micheal

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I have never seen a feral hog stalk anyone, and they only attack if provoked. The wild pig makes good Bar-B-Q. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Micheal_R]

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[Cupajo]

Yes Fred, but they don't take much provokin!!

Heard tell of a hunter sorta dozin in a ground blind while white tail hunting and wakin up to find his-self amid a whole herd o wild hogs!!

He lived to tell about it and somehow managed to do it without even killin a hog! Things gotta a little tense for a while there what with over a dozen pigs rootin all around him and all. He was just lucky he had used some sort of de-scenting stuff that saved him from being detected by these mean tempered critters.

He said he "was mighty afeared o wettin hisself and alerting the pigs!":sad:

Although they tend to hole up in the same place at night (usually in a thicket), they will often cover lots of ground during the day searching for food.

Many of the hunters I knew in Texas considered deer hunting a waste of time when they had a place to hog hunt.

CJ

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

a boy in our class whose father had been killed by a herd of feral hogs while fishing down at some creek. I don't even remember the boy's name, but he did not come back to school, never saw him again. When you live far out in the country like we did, you tend to have an encounter or two with animals bent on doing bodily harm to you. The worse for me was the pack of wild dogs that I escaped from by climbing a tree...was not a very enjoyable afternoon. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Wayne in BC]

hmmmmmmmmm Fred? Seems you are holding out on us, being charged by wild boars, treed by wild dogs, lots of very good adventures and stories that we never heard.

 

[LuckyDig]

I had a chance to hunt some of these in the Olympic Mt range with my uncle here about 3 years ago. We didn't see any but we could sure hear them down in the low lying areas of the clear cut...just didnt want to walk down in to chase them out, they left some MONSTER sized tracks and made some really scary sounding noises..not the kind of beast I wanted to tangle with face to face.