A wounded hog can be very dangerous and they can hurt you-bad. This hog weighed 192 pounds. The doctor lost three pints of blood and is a very lucky man.

http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2081&cid=84

And people look at me funny when I tell them I carry a .45 'just in case'.....

I had something similar happen a few years ago in that I had the stuff scared out of me. I had a big herd of hogs under my feeder and I picked out a smallish one and let rip with the 7Mag. She ran off a bit and died. The rest of them scattered and I picked another one off at a run from a pretty good distance. I waited a bit and got out of the blind. At the time, I carried a .38 but inexplicably, I left it in the blind and just had my 7Mag on my shoulder.

As I got up to the blind, I didn't get charged as such.....the hogs were coming back to the feeder. I guess they were hungry and the two dead ones didn't persuade them otherwise. I was in my camo gear but not exactly hiding. One big sow emerged from the brush 10 yds from me at a pretty good trot. I sighted down the barrel and missed point blank and I think that was finally enough for them. She wasn't coming at me per se, but she was going to go through me to get to that corn.

I get a little freaked out walking out of the woods late at night. I've never been attacked but I know what they can do... Georgia hogs are getting meaner each year, some of them have Eurasian blood in them.
Most of the pigs here in Texas are feral and try to run away, but if injured you could be in a pickle. I followed a blood trail into the woods at dusk, I was on my hands and knees the woods were too thick to walk through. I looked up and saw a heard about 20 yards away, I crawled backwards and told the pigs to enjoy the dying pig...lol

BTW, I only carry a bow and a knife... not too good in a pig fight!

A few years back here in California...I had to pump a few shots outta my 9mm into a mad one that wouldn't go down after a bow shot...

Had a few come at me this year. One after a crappy shot that I made with my .300, one that didn't like me and a friend checkin feeders, and one that we surprised while out spotlighting one night, all boars, luckily they weren't any bigger than 150 or so, but still, that last one got a little too close for comfort before I finally fired one from the hip and brought him down 5 yds away.

A .243 is not a good general pig gun, as the story shows and many people already knew. With the right shot placement, sure. But for all around, a lever gun in .44mag, 45-70 or .454 Casull will rock their world.

I know many pigs have been shot with .223 or even .22 mag , dogged or shot in the head/neck. I also know a lot of pigs have run off after getting shot with light bullets or poor shot placement.

Big hogs can take a licking and keep on coming!

I live in the midwest but go to Tx & Ok for some off season hog Bowhunting. It's great BUT in time, you will get more than you bargain for. Hogs are just plain unsociable with hunters..
My 1st hog ever I was going back to my truck through some brambles for a break from hog hunting-I surprised one from his bed. He stood @ 20 yds. quartered away when my arrow went through both his lungs. He spun around, raised all the hair on his back & charged-I had a 2o yd head start-No trees & he fell 10 feet from me. My knees & everything were shaking. Since then, I've been charged 7 other times & 2 of these have been by Hogs that have had an arrow put through their vitals. I have Archery killed Black Bears, Buffalo, Elk, Caribou to name some of the bigger animals I have taken & a HOG is the meanest & toughest to kill in my 53 years of Bowhunting.

It is tons of fun though & I am hoping to take my son & Daughter on such a trip next year... Pic is some of mine with my largest tusker shown also.

I've only had three incidents in 35+ years of hog hunting, but here they are:

When I was a kid, I was on a buggy hunting with my brother and his neighbors. One of the neighbors shot a big boar in the chest with a 44 Mag. He went down, and when we were about 20 yards away, he got back up - mad. He snorted, pawed the ground and chased all of us up pine trees. Lucky there were trees we could climb.

I was alone, walking thru thick palmetto scrub during archery season, and heard some grunting and blowing. Looked carefully around me and saw the back of a boar over the top of the palmettos. He knew I was around, and was making a lot of commotion trying to scent me. It was probably the biggest pig I've ever seen - a good 350 pounder - and that arrow looked mighty puny. I backed out as quickly and quietly as I could. I was lucky. If he would have got a sence of my direction he would've come at me like a train and I had nowhere to go.

Was walking around very slow and quiet in an area loaded with hog sign. I heard a bunch of racket in the scrubs, and six very small piglets ran out into an open area in front of me, followed by mama. She saw me and instantly turned and charged. I stepped to the side and ducked. She missed my legs by about five feet, sparayed mud everywhere turning around , and came back to try again. I didn't want to kill her because the piglets would have died, so I put a shotgun slug into the mud right in front of her. She backed off and so did I, we had a short standoff, then she grunted and went back to her babies. Get between a sow and her babies, and you're going to have problems.

I'm still hunting them, although not too much with a bow anymore. My wife bought me a Marlin 45/70 Guide Gun for my hog hunting. Puts them down with authority. Thats the kind of excitement that keeps us going back to the woods.

Sometimes you get the hog, and sometimes the hog gets you.

That a great example for why you give them some time to expire. Anyone who runs toward an animal they just shot seconds earlier deserves to be taught a hard lesson by that animal. I bet he'll give it some time next time.