Hog Alerts
 

Do hogs give warning sounds when spooked or they bust you? I don't know anything about them. I shot my first one while deer hunting a couple of weeks ago. I was hunting the same stand tonight and a little after dark when I got down I heard a sqeal or whatever come from the ridge where the hogs came down off of. I was just wondering if they give warnings such as a deer blowing or snorting.

It depends. Sometimes the only warning sound that a sounder of hogs give is a low grunt or two and they disappear. Other times they just scatter. Quite often the squealing that you hear is from pigs that are being shoved up to the front by the adults or it is from pigs being disciplined for some infraction of hog rules.

BTW: Wild boars have a distress call that is the equivalent of calling the cavalry. Every adult male hog that hears that call will come running. Saw it in action once from a tree stand when a big bobcat was hassling a sow and her 20 pound pigs. That sow let out a bloodcurdling scream. About one minute later a 250 pound boar came running out of the woods and disembowled the bobcat with one toss.

What falcon said. And when they bolt, it is not a subtle sound. They run through brush, sticks, leaves, etc. Sound like little tanks running. When they smell something funny but dont bolt, they will stop, snif, grunt with a low grunt, then walk away. All depends on how spooked they get.

Both forgot to tell you make sure you're not in the way, them boogers can run like a grey hound.

Thanks guys. I was pretty sure it was hogs making the noise. I had never heard anything like it before.

I was sneaking up on a sounder a little after sundown once. I could hear them moving through the brush but couldn't see them. I got close and apparently one of them sniffed me out. It gave a low, loud grunt that sounded somewhat like a large dog's WOOF! The whole bunch instantly made a break for it en masse.