Have you ever been charged?!

[Steve Walters]

Curious, if you have ever been charged at by a hog. Wounded or not? Ever been in a situation where the hunter became the hunted? If so, have you ever been hit by one?

I've been charged twice. First was on Santa Catalina Island back in the early 90's. A buddy shot a 100lbs sow, and she headed into a brush patch. We waited 30 minutes, and went in after her. I was coming in on the back side of the brush, when I came right up to her bedded by my feet. She got real grumpy real fast being disturbed, and then came at me. Luckily I had a machete with me (We all use them to get threw all the cactus that grows there). I hacked at her twice, and she turned and ran back to my buddy. He got another arrow into her as she bolted out of the brush patch. She got very close to me, but never got me.

Next was a large mainland hog I shot on the coast with my bow. He got real mad when I shot him in is bed while he was sleeping. He stood up, and saw me about 15 yards away. He started to pop his tusks, and came at me with his hackles up. I made a side step, and he ran pasted me by a few feet. He started to turn toward me, but decided it was probably best if he just got out of there. Found him dead about 100 yards in the canyon below.

If you have been charged also, post up with the story, and the outcome.....

 

[easymoney]

Charged but never touched... A nasty 300lb sow with little ones, after sneaking within bow range (10 yards)of the herd and she noticed me.

 

[Farmerdoug]

I was trying to kick a 250lb castrated boar out of my stock trailer at the slaughter house when the dirty S.O.B. turned around and bit me on my inner thigh.....Does that count? I swear he was aiming for my junk! Luckily I have quick reflexes or I'd be singing soprano in the boys choir.

 

[mtnsammy]

As kids in Catalina charged a lot. Back in the day so to speak,70's. Now I can only get close enough not to shoot. New rifle better distance should get one this year. That is shot not charged.

 

[jerryt]

I've charged a few but none have charged me.

 

[btrebil]

had one charge me, had to take him out though, he sure tasted good

 

[CAjackrabbitWCP]

Bow hunt, shot a 40lber quartering to me with a magnus 4 blade at 25 yards. Took out one lung, liver, and guts with a pass through shot. He ran into semi thick brush but not a hog tunnel or anything like that. We waited 30 min and went to look for the arrow and blood. We found both and started the track job. With the amount of blood we found and the size of the pig I figured he was dead. Well not so much. We followed it all the way to a point where we heard the pig still breathing. He was laying down and I knocked another arrow to put a finishing shot in him and made the mistake of getting to close, for the shot that is. If you've ever tried to take a shot at 10 feet on a steep downward angle you will probably miss every time if it's something you haven't practiced.

The shot was enough to spook the pig and he came right at my hunting buddy and I. The brush was thick enough that you couldn't move horizontally to get out of the way. I was in front and was able to get my right leg up in the air and landed on top of the pig. I tossed the bow aside and grabbed onto the pig. My intention was to hold him and have my buddy knife him. Well by buddy pussied out and ended up handing me the knife as I'm sitting on to the pig as he's going apeshit.
I was able to cut his throat with a 4.5 in Emerson that did the job. I couldn't imagine what it would have been like if that pig wasn't a 6 month and 40 lbs. Much less a 180+ lb boar with cutters.
We were impatient and it could have turned out a lot worse.

 

[myfriendis410]

My hunting partner and I saw a couple of smaller hogs, about 100 lbs. that we weren't interested in. Another hunter came along and plugged 'em both. He had no clue how to get down to 'em so we showed him how. I was the only one to take a rifle with me when we went in and when I walked up on the first one I could see it was breathing. No sooner than I pointed this out it came alive and took off, right at me. I leaned to the side and it hit me on the leg as it went by. My buddy, who saw it wasn't coming at him, stuck his fingers in his ears and said: "Don't shoot the truck!" I let it out about 20 yards and shot it through the shoulders as it was running off. Game over.

 

[map]

Never in California. These Spanish hogs are rather tame, but in Tennessee they are smaller, blacker, and meaner.


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[mezcan]

I charged one once at the butcher shop. Got the ribs, loins and hams . Cheapest hunt I've ever been on compliments of my Master Card !

 

[Deleted member 33033]

Twice!

 

[Mel Carter]

My buddy got charged, had a tusk go right through his hand. Pretty nasty.


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[radonsport]

The melee ensued following my wounding of the 180 pound boar in his front leg, sending him into some brush cover. After a cooling off period, I tiptoed around the edge of the brush cover in an attempt to locate him. I found him lying down on the edge of the brush at close range and quickly fired a round at his head, only to miss. He charged me at full speed, all the while snapping his pearly whites. It wasn’t long before his snout contacted the end of my shotgun barrel, at which time I discharged my last cartidge. The wise boar deflected the muzzle of the barrel a millisecond before the slug exited the barrel, causing the projectile to minimally graze his cheek. With that, he tore into me with fervor. My empty shotgun now became a defensive shield and a club. The lack of my health insurance holdings came to the forefront as I went to task at fending off the angry critter. He was doing his best at attempting to hook me with his tusks. Several square hits to his skull with my shotgun bat were mildly effective at slowing his resolve. After what seemed like an eternity, he broke off his attack and dove back into the brush.

Apparently unscathed, I breathed a sigh of relief that the scuffle had ended. All of a sudden the angry boar charged back out of the brush and headed towards the setting sun, only to holdup 100 feet from me. He then turned around and faced off with me. We were both standing in an open meadow as he started to feign false charges. I waited for him to commit to a charge, at which time we ran headlong towards each other at full speed. Right as we intersected, I lowered the shotgun atop his skull with full conviction. This blow lessened his determination as he broke off his attack and headed back into the brush.

It seemed like an opportune time to scramble to my backpack, which held some desperately needed ammunition, some 500 yards away and atop a hillside. After much contemplation and a thorough field stripping of my shotgun, it was evident the scope on my shotgun was seriously awry from the blunt force trauma it sustained during the donnybrook. I removed a 4 inch mud plug from the end of the barrel and affixed a makeshift bayonet to the end of the barrel.

It took me awhile to convince myself that it was a good idea to reenter the conflict, knowing I would have to fire the shotgun from the hip since the scope was useless. In the end, I felt a strong obligation to put the wounded pig to rest. A slow methodical search uncovered my nemesis on the edge of the brush. Again we were in close quarters as I commenced to firing from the hip…them cowboys make it look easy! After two missed shots, the now charging boar was about to bowl me over. I side stepped him at the last instant and fired at his head, as he presented a broadside posture. The shot entered and exited just rearward of his snout…a less than lethal wound. Once again, I found myself with an empty weapon as the boar went to task at giving me a piece of his mind. I slipped one of his headlong lunges, which gave me the chance to thrust my makeshift bayonet behind his front shoulder. The four inches of blade steel found its mark. The critter resisted and tore free from the blade and immediately charged me again. Taking aim at his forehead, he impacted into me as I thrust with all my might in order to stop his charge once and for all. In some ways it was sad to see him go…he was formidable, to say the least!

 

[spectr17]

Never really charged in the US, mostly teeth popping and bluff charging. When I lived in Germany I had a big boar almost tip my VW Squareback over in a charge. The locals had told us about a big hawg that lived in the forest near Ramstein Village and not to walk near there. Naturally my roomies and me wanted to see this big bad boar up close so we drove to the forest for a peek. We parked and walked in maybe 1/4 mile to the dark forest, they plant their trees really close and it's always dark in their timber. We could smell the pigs and just about that time we heard the big dude moving around and he popped out on the faint road we were walking on. One look at his big azz and we all took off for the VDub since none of us were armed.

We got to the car with the pig coming right behind us. Just as I got the VW started and jammed it into gear WHAM!!! the hog smacked my door and rocked the VW up on 2 wheels. Everyone was screaming to get the heck out of dodge so I gassed it. When we got back to our dorm we looked at the dent in the door, he creased it pretty good. The hogs over there are rounder in shape and get a lot bigger in the wild. This hawg was pushing 400+ and was shaped like a VW bug. I wanted to go kill that sucker after that but it was really expensive to hunt in Germany, I only knew officers that went through the hunting course and paid the big money to actually hunt while over there. YOu also have to pay the State and hire the local Jagermeister to take you on your hunt. I wish I had taken pics of some of the hawgs we saw over there, they look totally different then out hogs here.

 

[skark_burmer]

I spooked a 100 lb guy out of his mid-day sleep. Took off about 20 yards, turned around and came at me full speed. I was already at aim, pulled the trigger and got a head shot right at the base of the skull. Total lucky shot, neither myself or my buddy could believe it. Dropped in its tracks.

With their eyesight what it is I'm not sure he knew I was there and was charging, or just getting out of town and figured that was the best route to take. Either way, he was tasty.

 

[sancho]

never.

 

[henmar77]

Charged, but never convicted.

 

[flingem71]

Had one come out from under a rock at me while stalking another...full freezer...lol

 

[socalhuntr]

Not me but my son. We heard a noise up in the attic so he grabbed the pellet gun and went up the ladder with a flashlight . He spotted a rat and took aim and fired. The rat charged him and he he flew down the ladder screaming like a girl. I never laughed so hard in all my life.

 

[Deleted member 33033]

This little 200lb piggie went to market and charged after I shot her 400lb boyfriend at BHCR.



I yelled "Stop Pig!" and pointed to my left and the hog stopped 15 feet in front of me and walked off to my left. Mad Jedi Domestic Pig Mind Control Skills eh? She had me backing up!