Posted on 11/03/2006 8:06:40 AM PST by Conservababe
if'n I see one, I'll shoot it fer yuh...
'kay!
Hog hunting can be dangerous. Need to shot from a distance. Need to have large handgun and knife as back up. They can kill a man and are knows to kill dogs that are used to hunt them. They are not nice and cute. Smart and mean and they can move faster than you think. Nasty critters. If you have children or animals around you need to get rid of the hogs.
That's why the west Texans refer to them as Great Plains Grizzly.
I haven't seen one since I was a child in Louisiana. We lived on a small acreage about five miles from town. One afternoon my mom and I went for a walk through the pine woods in the back.
Suddenly we heard movement and grunting nearby. I got a glimpse of a very scary animal and if I am not mistaken, it had curled tusks. My mother screamed at me to "run for the house". I did and she did. Thank goodness they didn't chase us and we made it safely.
My mother made a phone call and soon about five neighbors on horseback were in the back yard. They rode off and killed the whole lot of wild boars. I heard my father tell my mother that it was too hot to slaughter them, so they just left them for the vultures.
Nice description! I hadn't heard that one before. Are these the same as a javelina?
Oh, no Javalina are not true hogs, we are talking about domestic hogs that were allowed to get free and breed with old Spanish hogs, and Russian boar that was also turned loose by the Spanish for food. Javalina are native to the American southwest, but are a Collared Peccary, not a true hog.
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