>>2829498
All the time. They just run away.

>>2829498
Yeah I've seen them but they've always been elusive and scared. I've seen videos of boar attacking people and it is always a losing-battle. They can tear your shit up. I don't know much about them though. Maybe they're only mean in the rut or when you're perceived as an aggressor to their young. Like any other wild animal though, you can either bring a weapon or learn about the animal to avoid conflict, the latter being your safer option but the forming being more badass. One thing is for certain, though. Animals with hooves don't climb trees.

>>2829523
>rut
Pigs don’t have a rutting season, they have a heat cycle and breed throughout the year. Really interesting group dynamics. The sounder is led by the most charismatic, well liked pig. They’re usually old, but not the oldest, and usually big, but not the biggest. They’re just the most liked by everyone else.

And the sounders are all female. Males are run off when they mature. They come to different groups to mate but aren’t allowed to stay. It’s a strict girls rule/boys drool society.

Males are mostly solitary, but will link up with other males to hang out. It’s males they’re just friends with. Just hanging out with the bros, rooting around for truffles or whatever.

>I heard they attack people
lol
LMAO

I mean, sure, it happens. They have the ability. But they’re mega smart and see people as a threat. They take off before you even realize they’re around.

And it’s nuts to see them run because they’re heavy and not nimble like a deer. Deer hop and dip around through the underbrush with grace. Pigs just run straight through it like a wrecking ball.

Never met a boar because I'm not a Southern subhuman, but I've encountered moose 3 times. Basically just mind your own business and so will they. None of us are predators of each other, usually, so just relax and move on, and they'll do the same thing

>>2829534
>I'm not a Southern subhuman
Plenty of boar out west and up north too

4 people have died from boar attacks in the entire history of the US, and a whopping zero from javalina. I don't think they are worth worrying about. I have heard that javalina fucking hate dogs though, and will attack them on sight.

>>2829498
There's a ton of them in my area despite a lot of hunting.
You won't encounter them unless you're actively trying to find them because they will be running away from you. They will be smelling and hearing you long before you can.
Attacks are very rare and pretty much all the attacks I've heard of happened during hunts because a wounded boar will try to fuck you up if it can in order to defend itself.
You'll be fine.

>>2829531
>I mean, sure, it happens. They have the ability. But they’re mega smart and see people as a threat. They take off before you even realize they’re around.
if it's just one or two of them they'll leave but if it's a whole group with multiple sows, males and multiple children yeah they'll attack.

>>2829534
Wild hogs are all throughout the united states. They move in a giant loose herd. There was a map a few years ago going around that showed how many there are and where. It was just a big black fucking mass

>>2829634
No they fucking won’t you god damn idiot
>groups with makes
lol
LMAO
I’ve seen sows run over piglets while fleeing from me in terror. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

>>2829637
ok

>>2829637
literally multiple videos on youtube of hog attacks
you're a faggot and you talk like one too
https://youtu.be/oTEOtxZBebo?feature=shared
it wouldnt surprise in the slightest if you were a larping faggot knowing this board

Central Sweden

Yes
>be me last fall
>dusk, wet snowfall
>been out foraging on an island with no bears/wolves
>following what increasingly seems like an animal trail
>suddenly, across the trail, there lies a freshly shat most boastful turd
>identical to turds of men in stench and shape
>No snow – The defecator must be moments away
What?
>I walk 5m/yds further, cresting a ridge
>10m/yds ahead, a huge black mass
>it’s rummaging
”Too big for a boar” I think
>instantly believe Sweden has blackbears
>the mass looks up
>it’s the lord of the boars
>later learn hunters say he’s >230kg / >500lbs
>he turns towards me
>he then sort of charges at me?
>I freeze
>at 5m/yds away he turns off the trail in semicircle at full speed to get back on the trail behind me where the turd is
>stepping in his own shit, he turns back on the trail and scampers off casually
Thus I learned 1. They have shit sight and hearing 2. They’re not shy 3. They’re not aggressive 4. They’re bigger than you think 5. They like their trails

>>2829640
that didnt happen
lol
LMAO
I've seen it myself the hog just runs away ive had multiple encounters

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>>2829640
Also since then I’ve went back a few times in the summer at dusk.

They’re always there. Not him though, but a family group. They run off when they see you but come back quickly. There’s also a herd of large deer that like that area. The boars get REALLY hostile if the deer get too close to them.

>>2829639
>cornered animal attacks person
>retard who’s never even seen a hog is shocked by the video
Yes, this board is lacking in experience. It’s why peoples go-to evidence is YouTube videos rather than things they’ve actually seen and done.

>>2829643
those arent real hogs
lol
LMAO

>>2829644
you're a fucking retard dude.

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>>2829641
It did. I think I got close because I was downwind from him. But it was weird that he’d rather run around me really close to me to get back to his trail rather than just run forwards. It was late dusk and snowing though so maybe he barely even saw me?

(Pic is not him this is a smaller female)

>>2829641
He got false charged. Pigs do that, though generally they just run off.

>>2829643
See: >>2829531
The big solitary one you saw is almost guaranteed to be a male. They usually travel solo.

I don’t know if they have feral hogs in your country, but they get bigger than wild boar. Most of the feral hogs in the US are a mixed breed of European wild boar and domesticated pigs. Domesticated pigs are way bigger than wild pigs, so the mixed breed ended up bigger as well. Plus everything is fatter in America.

>>2829646
Excellent contribution to the discussion, and a solid argument which proves your point as it relates to the subject at hand.

>>2829534
Based retard

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>>2829652
>false charge
Maybe, but he seemed kind ’too peaceful’? No aggressive noise, not that fast charge. I guess they do varying degrees and this was more ’I could charge’ and less ’I am charging’.

And the size is some local hunters estimating from a trail cam. It’s near the swedish hunting record so I dunno if/how much they exaggerate for a better story.

Boars were extinct in sweden and only recently became common again so they’re a danish/german type. Afaik they’re way less mixed with feral pigs than in the US and they’re usually much smaller here. And they move way more smoothly than the ones in the US hunting videos. It surprised me how much more deer-like than pig-like these boars move.

You are given a long sturdy spear and put in a closed arena with a wild boar. Who comes out alive?

>>2829798
Me (and butt-pregnant at that)

>>2829498
Yeah they're super common here (SW France) you can see them casually walking on the roadside at dusk, lots of them are mixed with pigs because of our retarded hunters who breed and feed them so they aren't afraid of humans
Closest I've seen was on a forest trail, there was a female with piglets just after a bend, she was staring at me so I walked back and went away

>>2829517
This. I tin across them on my land from time to time. Usually there's a while sounder, but every now and then I come across a loner. They always run. I've killed maybe half a dozen myself and my brother had killed a few a well. Unfortunately they breed like crazy, so it's damn near impossible to get rid of them. In terms of "not getting killed" just carry a gun or be good at climbing up a tree.

>>2829498
Yes, several times. Down to at least 3m (closest I've ever stumbled across one), they run. Well, the european ones, at least - some of the tiny asian ones in Japan just started oinking aggressively at first, and only ran when I took another step.

>>2829798
Make it a short spear, and I'd say me.
Hunting boars with short spears or swords isn't that hard, provided you can stop them from running away (usually with dogs, or other hunters - boars aren't interested in fighting). The classic "sidestep - stab through the lung at 45° and down - nail to the ground with the spear - wait the 30s or so until it's unconscious - open throat and bleed" works reliably.

>>2829640
>sweden
What you saw was a real wild boar, not the feral pigs that yanks see

>>2829652
>they get bigger than wild boar
That depends. Feral pigs shrink after a couple generations if they descend from enormous domestic pigs because that size becomes a disadvantage. They’re only bigger if they’re first or second generation

>>2829498
hehe
pige

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>>2829531
I wonder who could be behind this post.

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Kill first

>>2829634
Neither groups with babies nor single adults ever attacked me. They don't always run away either mostly they just ignore me.
However I know someone that was almost killed by a suprise attack by single pig out of nowhere.

>>2829498
make noise while approaching, don't scare them, don't run at their children and they will run away from you

>>2829652
>I don’t know if they have feral hogs in your country, but they get bigger than wild boar. Most of the feral hogs in the US are a mixed breed of European wild boar and domesticated pigs. Domesticated pigs are way bigger than wild pigs, so the mixed breed ended up bigger as well. Plus everything is fatter in America.
IS it true the feral hogs are too full of parasites to eat?

>>2829546
Javelinas will apparently attack horses,too. I was reading Teddy Roosevelt's book about his exploration of the Amazon, and one of the horses in his group had to be put down after a javelina slashed it's leg open. Their horses couldn't handle the thick vegetation very well, and the riders were in constant fear of the wild pigs.

>>2830072
that's a baby
>>2829652
most feral hogs are not a mix between european boar. they're just straight up feral farm hogs.the ones that are mixed with boar are heavily diluted anyways, maybe like 20% boar at most. this also depends on where you live obviously. most are nowhere near as aggressive as european boars, which will attack anything that comes near unless they are used to people from a young age. americans just love to LARP like with anything else.
> MUH wild boar charged me! had to shoot his ass!
this happens but it's rare. they usually run. most areas with hogs aren't even real "invasive habitats" anyways, it's motherfuckers with fish in a barrel hunting land they rent out, adn they intentionally let the invasive pigs breed for more money. lmao. they do the same shit with deer. this is why I hunt, but I don't have any friends that hunt. most of them are fucking fudds who ust like killing shit instead of actually eating meat.

>>2829498
Had a neighbour who kept them in his yard as sort of cattle, they're very aggressive creatures. Out in the wild I've seen them on holiday In France but they were skittish then. Over here where I live now I've never seen them, but we have a lot of bears and I think bears >boars

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>>2829498
They run away 99.99% percent of the time. In the case of an attack, just climb a tree, 2m from the ground is more than enough.

>last week
>been hammock camping, 4th night
>hanging kinda low to ground
>around 0100 almost asleep
>hear something big walking
>all else dead silent, no winds, stars above
>pitch dark
>comes closer
>fuck, i peak up from my hammock
>it noticed me
>starts to give loud af pig squeel scream, once
>oh fuck
>i have not even got shoes on, im in sleeping bag, hanging 1m above ground, got nothing
>it charges not towards me but 4m around me, squeels again
>charges again random direction, squeels
>still cant see it mind you, pitch dark
>get my phone light on, useless
>not sure if he's more scared or me
>keeps charging, stops, squeels
>maybe 20 times getting further and further away from me each time
>ones its way far away i just sit a bit
>decide to pack up my hammock switch place and hang it way higher up
>next day
>lookup boars sightings here (gotland, sweden)
>says there arent any on the entire island. only dead seen washed ashore
>get the chills
>wtf was it then

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>>2830943
there's plenty of vids out there of people getting charged. i imagine it's true 9/10 times the hogs just leg it but i'd like to have a game plan for the one time where it decides to charge me.

climbing a tree is a decent idea, but sometimes you might be shit out of luck with no (climbable) trees around. i like foraging for mushrooms and i'm always hog paranoid when i'm looking through areas that got a lot of brush. i can't have guns and i feel like with maces is super sketchy against a charging hog (or anything else that's charging you). appearently referee whistles are really effective, idk how true that is.

considering a lot of hog attacks are probably due to hogs getting startled at a point where you're pretty close already, would it be a good idea to wear something that makes noise? like a bell bracelet or something?

>>2831087
where does it say there's no wild boars in gotland? this is older https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/5330814 but they clearly had boars back then, and boars are notoriously hard to get rid of. i guess it could be a pig that broke out from a farm but it seems much more plausible to me that its just an actual boar

>>2831087
They're good swimmers.

>>2831883
>9/10
How the fuck can people just make dumbfuck claims like this? I’ve personally run into jogs maybe 50 times. They charged a total of 0/50, and ran off 50- out of 50.

>>2830773
No, it’s not true. Some carry zoonotic diseases like Brucellosis, so you need to be Blood Safe while cleaning and butchering them, and they tend to have some parasites, while farmed pigs have almost none, so it’s important to cook them to above 160°f (70°c), but the parasite load is generally less than bear or mountain lion and both of those are very good eating (assuming your bear didn’t live at the dump).
Feral hogs have a bad reputation as table fare for 3 main reasons.
The first is that since they are a “bad” invasive species, instead of a valuable game animal, many hunters aren’t careful about taking humane shots. Gutshot game much worse than cleanly killed game, not just because of contamination leading to spoilage, but because slowly dying animals have a ton of stress hormone dumped into their systems and a bunch of lactic acids buildup in the meat. This makes them taste more bitter. Lots of feral hogs get shot 2 or more at a time while on the run instead of being carefully singled out. It’s not impossible to get good hits doing this, just much harder.
The second is that because they don’t have a season, people tend to hunt them when other game is out of season, which means that the weather is hot and the cover is thick, so not only do you have less time to get the meat on ice before it turns, it’s harder to get the meat on ice fast.
Third, people compare it to grain raised young pork, which is basically tasteless, so any flavor is unusual and confronting.
Leave aside actual bad flavors from eating a hog that visits the dump or forgetting to take the scent glands out or whatever, they are excellent eating, even at large size or advanced age. Just cook them slow.

Don't be retarded. That's literally all it takes.

>>2829534
Boars have spread into Canada.

>>2829645
true, I don't see your mother there

>>2829824
>there was a female with piglets
This is about the only time you need to be careful, just back up slowly and wait for them to move on.

>>2830788
That was a young male, about 30 kg once gutted. Great size for eating. That's not a baby, its a wild boar. They're smaller than the farmyard piggies people shoot in America.
Pic rel is an adult male, 66 kg gutted. Large, but not a monster.

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>>2832590
Forgot pig

>>2829498
Blow that nigga head smoove off

The cattle ranch O worked on when I was young had feral hogs on it. The hogs would root the ground and create holes and furrows that could cause a cow to injure itself.
We would hunt hogs with dogs. The dogs would run the hog they picked up until the hog was exhausted. Once exhausted or cornered by the dogs we would ride up on horseback and rope the pig.
Rope the pig, hogtie it and drag it with our horse to a pick up truck.
We would put the pig in a pen and feed it corn we grew. After about a month of eating corn the pig would be ready for the bar B Que.
Hog hunting on horseback was one of my favorite things when I was young.

>>2829498
If they do attack (very fucking rare) just climb a tree. They're faster than you think but most of the time they'll run away.

>>2829498
yeah, in my city at night
they just mind their own business

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>>2831910
Interesting. I always thought of the passenger pigeon and buffalo as examples of how humanity could easily genocide species without trying so I was wondering what would keep people from mass murdering hogs, especially if they were an invasive species like you mentioned. I remember someone saying lots of parasites was a reason, but apparently it is not.

Also people eat fucking mountain lions? Damn. Or am I misreading it?

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bro mad. hes got fat balls and also has a pretty high chance of running into a tree.

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btw climbing is the correct answer

>>2836641
When I was living in Texas, I worked with a guy that went on a guided hog hunt. This wasn't unusual, but this wasn't a typical hog hunt. He wanted to do a dog hunt, where he'd make the killing blow with a knife. Dogs hold the hog down and he goes in and stabs it in the throat. He was successful.

>>2836642
I'm either not sure what you're implying or you don't really understand what's going on there.
None of those guys carries a firearm or bladed weapon and are not meant to nor allowed to kill a boar, other than in self defense and climbing is something you can try first and aparently it works.
But that's a strawman entirely. The thread is concerned with 'what to do if you encounter a boar' and not 'how to hunt for hog'.

>>2836644
Sorry for the confusion.. It wasn't about your post per se.. It just reminded me of that time.

>>2829498
Plenty. They don't care about humans in my experience. Like at all. The first few times, decades ago, I'd yell at them to let them know I was there/to scare them away. They just looked up with a face that said "Do you mind? We're eating here."

One time I was fishing for a few weeks in the South of France. One day hunting season started and dozens of hunters flocked to the lake area. Night fell, people got rowdy, drunk and partied. I could hear a bunch of hunting dogs coming near, they sounded bloody pissed off and massive (I have a German shepherd and these guys sounded like they were twice the size). Thinking it were drunk hunters looking for trouble, I grabbed my crowbar and got ready to storm out of my tent. The dogs became even more agitated and began brushing up against my tent - I shat my pants all through the night. At dawn I heard them go away in the water and I had a look: saw a momma boar and 4 almost-adult piglets swimming away from me.

>>2829498
>has anyone ever encountered one of these things?
dozens of times. The Japanese ones make a lot of noise, then run, while the German ones run immediately. My closest encounters with both were just above arm's reach.
>how do i avoid getting killed by one?
Don't go into the woods when the cityfags go hunting. Boars don't go looking for trouble normally, but if they're suffering heavy blodloss and can't run bcs some great white hunter shot off a rear leg while aiming for the head, they'll do their best to take you with them.

>>2836642
I had a redneck buddy that routinely did dog / Bowie knife hunts with boars.
He was from New Hampshire btw.

>>2836647
No worries. Just saying in before someone goes
'haha dumb looser tryna climb if that was me id just fuck it up with my bare hands easy as'
I thi k the video is valid in terms od that it perfectly demonstrates how gaining elevation if a perfectly viable strategy to get out of that situation without being stuck out with sepsis.

>>2829498
killed hundreds of hogs while working on a farm in OK. 308 or 7.62 soviet works well.
>how do i avoid being killed by one?
kill them first sows make good smoking meat.

>>2829531
Lots of posts bitching and crying about what you're saying. I've never been to a region where wild pigs were an issue, but I already recognize what you're saying is true because it's the exact same for every other predator animal in the woods I'm very familiar with. People who get spooked really easily/who don't know anything like to dramatically amplify the dangers that don't exist (animal attacks) and completely ignore the significant dangers that do exist (falling, breaking something when you're deep in the wild, losing your way, falling into cold water on the wrong day, etc). It is yet another instance of the man who can't swim fearing the shark.

>>2836711
Was his wife from Thailand?

>>2829498
Apparently theyre spreading really fast. They're creeping north in the US, and its getting increasingly difficult to control the birth and population boom.

They dont even taste to good either. Sucks.

>>2831910
Wooo I have hunted deer innadesert tracking through hills and mountains, the desert scrub cactus plains, bushwscking, reading tracks and poopys.
The closest human settlement was 30 miles away a small village with like 5 people, no pavement anywhere.
If I don't get close to a deer, I get a javelina on way back sometimes.
Usually I skin em on site if I'm far from vehicle or pick up spot.
I boil for two hours with garlic or generous amount of onions and salt.
A good hot rolling boil.
Add potatoes after to boil.
My uncle, rip, oven broiled the meat couple hours. Meat get soft.

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>>2829498
only once when I was 7 years old. there was a swamp at the bottom of our property and I was walking around down there and big snort came out of the cat tails. i looked over saw a boar about 20 yards away looking right at me. it squealed and then hauled ass out of there lol

theyre kind of scaredy cats anon

>>2829498
I love how fast rhey run. Also, anyone have the webm of the pig btfo 3 dogo argentinos?

>>2838145
No but it was funny.
I built traps for hog hunters (the drop cage type).
Its illegal to transport live wild hogs in my state. If you trap them, you have to kill them

>>2837968
>t. 5'2" squatamalon

>>2832590
Is the meat good? Is it hard compared to regular pork?

>>2830072
This thread makes me hungry

>>2836641
>climb trees
>sapling looking forest
what kind of pissant trees are those?

I had a pack come to my camp and try to drive me away. It was my fault for leaving food out, but still. My yelling and banging pots together was met with them grunting and coming closer.
Eventually they left but now I never take it for granted that boars will just run from me.

Saw one walking along the shoulder of the road last night.
Unfortunately I was in the car. If I had been in my truck I would have just smashed it with the ranch hand.
Little bastard disnt even flinch at traffic. Looked like a young male that recently got booted from a sounder.

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>>2832925
Every part of this sounds great