Thread: wild pig fights back

The big boar turning and chasing the pigdogs mentioned above was a tale in itself. Again way in the backblocks in south Waikato bush and the dogs had been on this boar for maybe an hour. They'd bail him but he'd keep breaking. Eventually they seemed to stop him up on top of a flat looking hill. We climbed up the side - found a hell of a racket and very thick bush with supplejack etc. Dogs bailing like hell maybe 30m away, then boar breaks again straight towards us!! Old man shoves me up a short tree for safety as pig and dogs come racing towards us. As they get to us the dogs and boar vary left by a couple of meters - and the tree fell down !!!!!! Absolutely terrified ... 8 year old on the ground with a bloody boar meters away. Dogs then reversed and bailed him again against a rock about 10 meters away, and old man finally gets through and drops him with the old carbine. Will never forget that one...

On another occasion when I wasn't there, old man and his mate were on horseback on a bush track when dogs got onto a boar. Boar broke, came straight down onto the track and went for the horse - had a real go at it!! They didn't get that one.....

True stories..