If you regularly eat bacon - they’ll know.
Well, I’ve never been to Spain...
Don't want that.
What about a wild bore?
“...a cracking sound like nuts being bitten...”
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Ouch!
Years ago I spoke with a park ranger in the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains national park. He’d run across a wild boar once that charged him. He emptied his Glock sidearm into it as it kept coming at him. It plowed up dirt onto his boots as it came to rest in front of him. He said he was composed while firing at it, but once it was over he was shaking so hard he could barely hang onto his gun.
Keep yelling “I didn’t vote for Trump!” until the wild bores leave you alone.
“...don’t touch or corner them.”
No kidding? I thought you were supposed to touch and corner them.
Okay. I'll help. If you're driving, you're safe. Period. (Unless you are an idiot, or unless the boar is driving a pickup or carrying a shotgun.)
Climate change?
Climate change?
Climate change?
Climate change?
Climate change?
My understanding is the feral pigs/wild boar in the US can actually have more piglets than that by having two litters per year.
Of the eight piglets born, ten survive.
Slowly back away with no sudden movements. Carry a larger caliber pistol or even better a rifle, oddly the AR-15 is effective. That 30 round magazine carries a lot of grief in it.
Most importantly never go into pig country without a firearm. Pigs are smart. They have seen and heard gunshots and their fellow pigs drop dead from such. They know it brings death. If you shoot and miss they will probably run away. If he every starts to charge you he will not stop. You must kill the pig to survive.
A big pig can kill you, their tusks are extremely sharp. You can not outrun a pig, they are fast.
Funny Story about one very bad ass army dude that lived in my house near Fort Hood, My house is isolated out in the woods some 20 miles southeast of Fort Hood. We have wild pigs. We were sitting outside at night having a drink as is normal. We heard the sounds of a pig in my woods. Ski said he wanted go down and look at it. I told him twice do not go down there without a gun. He went anyway without a gun.
A few minutes later I hear Ski’s running like hell footsteps. He said, “The F-—ing pig was 3 feet tall and just looked at me.” I informed him the pig was deciding to kill him or not. He got lucky.
Is that the boar or the person being attacked?
This might be one of the GREAT threads!
Unless I missed it in the article, it never told you what to do when attacked by a boar, and it didn’t give the slightest hint of any real plan to control their population.
Good to know you shouldn’t flash your car lights at it.