Hey, on the "FOOD NETWORK" channel the chef named "Ming Tsai" has two shows. One called "East meets West" and I forgot the name of his other show.

ANYWAY...He was in Hawaii with a guide and they were hunting wild boar. Not Feral's, but the wild "Russian" looking boars. Now, Ming admitted that he is no hunter, period. But...He was with this guide and they were running down and chasing after a wild boar, like a pack of wolves! Ming and the guide cornered a tusker and Ming grabbed it and held onto the boar by the back legs!!!!

I was shocked and amazed by this! Especially from a "non-hunter" like Ming. I've always been led to believe that a wild boar would kick your a$$ if you got in it's way.

On the "Croc Hunter".

I saw this one show where he was paddling down a river looking for a crocodile when his dog sees a pig up on the bank. In a flash the dog is out of the boat up on the bank with the pig. Steve wasn't after pigs this day so he jumps out of the boat, pins the dog with one hand the pig with the other all the while chatting up to the camera like nothing's happening and telling the pig and the dog they're both alright. As soon as the dog is settled down he lets the pig go. It slashes his hand a good one and takes off into the brush. This guy either has n--- and guts to spare or a whole bucket of screws loose.

I don't watch his show anymore but when he eventually buys it (the farm that is) I'm getting the tape.

Edited by - DaNewf on 02/25/2002 20:17:34

My Uncle down in Mississippi has been doing this for years. He has real good catch dogs so your are really not in any harm.

I still want to try noodling first. Read about this guys who put hallow logs in prime catfish areas, then put rubber gloves on later, jump in, and let the catfish grab ahold of their arm and then wrestle those big ole flatheads to the surface, then to the shore.

I went down to a buddies last yeare to a little hog catchin and would't you know he was trying to show me how to do it and the pig got him in the upper leg and groin area and wrestled him around a bit.took almost 100 stitches to sew him up,so i never got to try it.i catch alot of coyotes by hand after the dogs get them bayed up against a creek bank or something,its quite an adrenaline rush.

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By the sound of it,coyote's buddy almost didn't have the ba//s AFTER he tried it!!!!!

OK...stupid question time....So you caught the pig...got him tied up.....now what? Seems almost anti-climatic.....

XTP,

Some hogs are used to train dogs others are sold to wild meat buyers for sluaghter(the hogs have to be alive and in very good condition) or sold to others who want hogs for various reasons. The hogs that go to slaughter then go, most of the time, to restaurants that serve very high priced wild pork dishes.

back when I wore green every day ,had a SC Cracker in my unit that took me home on leave to hunt hogs. Dogs brought them to bay and he or one of his kin would jump onto their backs and stick them in the throat with a 6" sheath knife. They caught water moccasins by hand and put them into a burlap bag flung over a shoulder. They never said what they did with those snakes...I've often wondered.

Hog wrestling is too much for me!! I'm afraid of those things even with a gun in my hand.