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Don't believe anybody said a hog won't charge. But not every time a hog comes at someone means it is actually charging. Many times it is merely going in the direction its nose is pointed and sometimes that also happens to be where the hunter is standing. Flight doesn't equate to charge in every instance. And many charges are artificially caused. For instance:
I couldn't open the first and third links due to they are blocked at my work for some reason. But the second link clearly shows a game fence to the left which means the hog was restricted in where it could go. Also the hunter blows the first shot. The fourth clip is a driven hunt in Europe which means the hunter is positioned in the middle of known escape routes and the hogs are pushed by dogs which you can clearly hear at the end. Like the previous hunter, the first shot was blown. These are artificially cause charges since in neither case could the game move freely.
That second clip ALSO shows 3 other directions that hog could have taken to escape the hunter. That wasn't "tight" brush. Was fairly open. Hunter shot at hog, hog went after hunter. Happens all the time in the real world.
And you may want to look at that fourth clip again Flags. He didn't "blow" the first shot, the shot was from his rifle hitting the damn ground AFTER the hog hit him! Then it came BACK to bite him!
And when you can open that first clip, you will see a hog coming after a hunter standing point and not even LOOKING in the direction the hog is coming from! Pure, plain, easy to see and understand, ATTACK! Not a shot fired or ANYTHING to provoke. Just a hog protecting it's territory which MANY larger aggressive Boars will do. Especially if there are any sow's in estrus in close proximity.
The majority of hog hunters, the ones of us who do it more than a couple of times a year and on property that the owners have asked us to come in and eliminate hogs, will tell you that you are 100% wrong in your assessment of hog charges Flags. Most every one of us has been charged, REALLY charged, more times than we care to think about. You ask any of them who do it professionally, and have done it for more than a couple of years, and I would be willing to bet every single one of them would tell you the same thing I am. Hogs can and often do charge, hogs can and often do flat out attack, and hogs can be and often are just flat out mean SOB's. That can and often do have the same temperament of a Cape Buff. You say you have hunted Africa 5 times. Have you ever hunted Cape? I hear tell they are the Devil incarnate! They will absorb a round, run off and hide and wait till they can see the hunter and try with everything they have to kill a hunter. You saying that the hundreds of stories out there about the bloody Cape Buff are incorrect?
Now I myself have never had the inclination to hunt Africa. Can't bring the meat home and a preserved head does me absolutely no good whatsoever. But I have successfully hunted pretty much every huntable species on the North American Continent with the exception of Dall Sheep. I do know a little bit about what I am talking about.