Thread: OK I almost shit myself

You'd be worth trying a spotlight.

Anyone seen the the big White Boar on the wall at the forks pub outside Waimate?

I saw that once when it was still alive in 2007, fuck me I thought it was a calf.

Walt Disney did not write the Razorback movie.

Has anyone seen that movie, man that thing was agressive and Huge

Thanks everyone for your constructive input, it is always great to get all this knowledge from other peoples experiences and thats what makes this forum such a great place.

I will let you in on a couple of stories that have always stuck in my mind and I guess what has fueled my fear of pigs.

One story is of a couple of guys that went out for a hunt, there was a big boar in the area that was well known and had been shot at and been bailed by dogs but had always got away.

On this particular hunt they were crossing a field when this mighty big boar appeared out of no where and charged at them, now although flight mode should have been this pigs number one instinct apparently it was so sick of being hunted by both riffles and dogs that it had decided enough was enough.

It charged after the pair and after they had a couple of pop shots they turned and ran with one of then jumping the fence while the other one climbed a fence post.

The big boar ran up to the fence and gave it a good nudge resulting in the gentleman falling to the ground while said boar commenced his unrelentless assult on its 1st victim goring him with its tusks and opening his stomach up.

The other fella being such a good mate and comrade made the choice to come to his mates aid, pulling his blade from his pouch and with the massive boar preoccupied feasting on his mate he swipped his blade through the air slashing the archillied heels of the boar laying it out.

With the mighty boar now in 2 wheel drive instead of 4wd the man jumped on the back of the boar slitting its throat from ear to ear.

Serveying the carnage he could see his mate had his stomach opened up from top to bottom so he managed to get the truck so close then manovered his mate the rest of the way and got him into the truck.

He got his mate to hospital where he recieved over 600 stitches, now this maybe a wives tale I don't know but certainly doesn't hurt to air on the side of caution when dealing with unkown animals.

It certainly has made me keep my witts about me.

The othe story was about a tramper who got lost in the bush and all they found was the remains of him after being eaten by a pig or pigs.

the ONLY documented story of a boar attack I can recal is in one of the hunting books FROM 80S ,might be wild pig in NZ.and is chap in maize field close to pig farm full of in season sows,boar encountered and chap gets ripped up before dog bits pigs nuts and it gets away...the thing that struck me in that tale...he had double barreled shotgun with birdshot in hand...at CLOSE range 1-2-5 yards it hits like a solid...so would have put lights out every day of week.....

I met a guy who was gored badly by a boar. I assumed he was pig hunting, he said no, he was just getting in to his car on his rural property! I can't corroborate his story, but the injury was real.

I don't think wild pigs stalk people or attack without provocation, but you need to be aware of not cornering them, or having them think they are cornered. I have been charged by dogged wild pigs several times, but the scariest situation I have been in was with a semi-domestic sow. We were ringing the noses of her weaners in the woolshed - the sow was literally climbing the gate to try and get at us.
I think it was in one of Phillip Holden's books where a hunter was resting by a log and had piglets running around him and over his legs, he picked one up and stood up, it started squealing, next thing the sow had him by the leg shaking him, he threw the sucker away and the sow departed, but it took a lot of stitches to put his calf muscle back in place.

Originally Posted by CBH Australia

Walt Disney did not write the Razorback movie.

Has anyone seen that movie, man that thing was agressive and Huge

"Wakey, wakey, hands off snakey!". A classic quote from that movie that I use regularly

I would leave the big sow alone and just shoot weaners when you need one.
Remember a story years ago from a bloke who started sheparding on Montrose at the back of Culverden ( Montrose holds the Canterbury record for heaviest Boar 392 lb, just heading off the Dove river at 385lb - both caught in traps) He was walking back down a track in the dark after shooting rabbits and could hear snuffling noises gaining on him, fearing the worst he let strip with the shotty in the direction of the snuffling and legged it back to the shepards quarters. In the morning he went back to see if he had shot anything, he had, a very large Boar.....Hedgehog !!!

I've hunted a lot of pigs on foot. Well more like go pig shooting on foot cull pests.
I've had smaller sows run at me on a walking track only problem she had was I shot that one close range. Problem solved.
I've had pigs run toward me but I think it was more the only clear path when we met and I started shooting, they split where they could.
They are usually evasive and try flee but there may be an exption to the rule.

What @Dusty Fog said might come in useful. Pigs can be baited, trapped or lured to a place where you have the advantage.

If you have cameras you might be able to pick her pattern or timing, you might be able to figure her behaviour. They are creatures of habit.

Fermented grain, or veg, kitchen waste all work. If you don't have time to ferment grain try cordial or juice. I even threw Prawn heads in with scraps one occasion.

Originally Posted by Cigar

I think it was in one of Phillip Holden's books where a hunter was resting by a log and had piglets running around him and over his legs, he picked one up and stood up, it started squealing, next thing the sow had him by the leg shaking him, he threw the sucker away and the sow departed, but it took a lot of stitches to put his calf muscle back in place.

I found the book in the shed and the story in the book, Philip Holden's The Wild Pig in New Zealand, page 142.

Originally Posted by bluebaiter222

This notion of pigs stalking/attacking/charging hunters is absolute bloody Walt Disney Hog Wash.What do you base your beliefs on?It's nothing more than a wives tale.Having run pig dogs for 35years I recon I've got a reasonable understanding of Sus Scrofa. Like every other introduced mammal into NZ,their strong natural reaction to a human threat is to get the hell out of it.Hence their acute hearing and smell defence.Although they,re not as leggy as a donk,they can still turn and burn at pace once the dreaded human threat is detected.Granted like many other mammals if cornered by you,with no line of escape, they will change from the default flight to fight mode but only because you have brought this situation about.Suckling sows with a strong maternal instinct will occasionally return to a squealing weaner if you have your mitts on it,but generally she,ll play the odds game and scarpper with the balance of the litter.Similarly bailed,cornered Boars with no other option will temporarily stand and fight to save it's skin as a result of the situation responsible by you again.Once shacken of the bail they will once again take to their heels as their natural flight mode.Funny thing is all these yarns about stalking pigs is that they are invariably HUGE which to me says to me a bit about the victim.

Well put there..so very true.

Bet the hair was standing up on the back of your neck...?

I have a good friend who once tried to catch a smallish boar in a roadside drain, chased it down to the dead end of the drain where there was a deep soak hole. He only had a small pocket knife and as he approached the pig it charged at him and as it went past him it ripped a tusk up part of his forearm. To this day he has no feeling in part of his hand as the tear damaged some nerves in his arm.

If anyone is keen on catching piglets, as a teenager I worked weekends in a piggery cleaning pens and feeding the pigs. When the boss was docking the piglet tails he taught me that if you hang them by their back legs, their guts stretches out and they don't squeal. I watched him do this and mummy pig didn't even know one of the litter was removed from the pen.

Originally Posted by bluebaiter222

This notion of pigs stalking/attacking/charging hunters is absolute bloody Walt Disney Hog Wash.What do you base your beliefs on?It's nothing more than a wives tale.Having run pig dogs for 35years I recon I've got a reasonable understanding of Sus Scrofa. Like every other introduced mammal into NZ,their strong natural reaction to a human threat is to get the hell out of it.Hence their acute hearing and smell defence.Although they,re not as leggy as a donk,they can still turn and burn at pace once the dreaded human threat is detected.Granted like many other mammals if cornered by you,with no line of escape, they will change from the default flight to fight mode but only because you have brought this situation about.Suckling sows with a strong maternal instinct will occasionally return to a squealing weaner if you have your mitts on it,but generally she,ll play the odds game and scarpper with the balance of the litter.Similarly bailed,cornered Boars with no other option will temporarily stand and fight to save it's skin as a result of the situation responsible by you again.Once shacken of the bail they will once again take to their heels as their natural flight mode.Funny thing is all these yarns about stalking pigs is that they are invariably HUGE which to me says to me a bit about the victim.

Get a load of this boar....

https://youtu.be/HOOR49OmxQ4

He ain't playin'! Yikes