Here farmers and forestry workers seem to be the most at risk. Often the forestry workers doing inspections and marking trees for harvest surprise a sleeping sounder or happen upon an aggressive Hog . They say getting trampled in a stampede is more likely than an out right attack. Getting between a 20 hog sounder and where they want to flee too, is to be avoided. Or the farmers injure a Boar with farm machinery and it attacks. Sometimes the Hogs just get ornery and go after anybody.

Here the forestry workers traditionally all had a Weimaraner that accompanied them on their inspection tours. Most of the old timers still have one, kind of like a Dalmatian for firefighters, a tradition.

I've watched the Italians hunt, I was underwhelmed by their methods. If it moves shoot at it, they wound a lot of game. Sure their are exceptions, but generally they are flat dangerous. I guess in Italy whomever takes the first shoot has a claim, here it is whomever takes the last (killing) shot. Lots of hand waving and arguing on an Italian hunt. Bird hunting in Italy is the exception, some of those guys can shoot.

Agriculture damage is extensive here. It is unbelievable how much damage a Sounder of Hogs can do in a single night. I mean acres of crops destroyed in a single night, most every night. What they don't eat they trample.

Many of the Sounders here have decided the safest places are right up next to industrial parks and towns. Which makes hunting them interesting. And human, Hog, conflicts inevitable.