Drahthaar is a fine dog, most of the Hunters around here have one. I ended up with a Weimaraner (just to be different :) ). He was just a youngster then, but turned into a fine dog. Me and him were fast friends for many years. He was locally famous for his nose.

That's him just left of center.




I have three Terriers now, one is eye and ear dominant, one has a decent nose and sings like a Beagle and the third just loves to dive down burrows. All three are pretty darned good at convincing the Hogs to vacate the corn patch.

We're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

A couple of villages over, two teenagers took a walk into the woods to make the beast with two backs. When they got finished, walking hand in hand down a forestry trail, a Boar charged out of the woods and opened up this youngsters leg from ankle to knee.

The mayor of the village insisted all on hands on deck and demanded that the offending Boar be hunted down and killed. We all went out, found a Hog and shot it and had a BBQ, everybody was happy except the poor dude just trying to get laid.

You can predict tendencies, but saying anything is a hard and fast rule is unlikely to prove true, all the time.

Flags is right about Hogs usually taking off in the direction they are pointed. They may circle around eventually towards an area they consider safe. Deer often/sometimes switch directions 180 degress and then take off. But like I said, animals can be notional and really no telling what is going to happen.

Many years ago I got a call late in the afternoon about a bunch of wounded Hogs that needed to be tracked down. The story was somebody hit a Hog with their car on the way home from work, which caused a traffic jam on this two lane highway. Cops show up and at about the same time the sounder comes back for their injured relative. Everybody panics and heads for the hoods of the cars, Cops open up with their Glocks. They managed to wound half a dozen Hogs and the Hogs finally left.

I don't have to go far to hunt hogs, we harvest 6-8 hogs a month out of the woods right around my town. People/Hog conflicts are rare, but then again so is lightening. I'm not going to stand under a tree on top of hill in a thunder storm. I'm not going to count on that Hog always running away from me. You bump into a twenty Hog sounder and they decide you are between them and where they want to go, the chances of being caught in a pork stampede are pretty darned high.

I put a road kill Deer out, just before dark, near where some Hogs root on occasion . When I came back the next morning, all I could find was a few tufts of fur and a couple of handfuls of bone splinters. I'm not going to call it fear, but my respect level for wild Hogs went up a few notches after that.

Mudpuppy, after seeing your posts I assure you, you would never have known me because I would have avoided you like the plague. I am particular about who I get to know I stay away from people who make things up to try to prove nonsense.

The feeling is mutual, I avoid people who try to build up their own self image, by trying to denigrate the people around them. I'm not real fond of their toadies either.

:lolabove: "I avoid people who try to build up their own self image " I suppose that means you can't look in the mirror.

Been forgetting to take our meds again have we? Alzheimers is a tragedy, especially if the victim hasn't clue what is happening to him. You have to realize you are grown man playing 14 year old girl games?

Your'e really stretching it when you say the shot would hit the jaw, as it would be way back from what most people would call the jaw area. Please tell me how if I aim where the reticle is placed on this pig picture how I'm going to shoot him in the jaw without being way off my mark. If I was that bad of a shot and hit the jaw I certainly wouldn't be aiming there, but shooting from a blind with a good rest it's like shooting at a paper target that doesn't move. The rifles I use also shoot under 1/2 MOA and in the type of scenario I'm describing it's much different than hunting from the ground doing spot/stalk like you're referring to.

Mudpuppy, from where I sit, you are the little girl playing games in order to have the grown ups pay atention to you.

I do believe that was my point. Some hunt from stands or blinds and have good solid rests so head shots are okay to take. But still hunting/spot and stalk is another world from that. DNS, many others, myself, very rarely stand or blind hunt hogs. Too much of a PITA with the ever changing wind directions and hogs will only SOMETIMES pattern where they come out.

Now, if you look on this one you will note that the rear of the lower jaw is not that far from a brain/brain stem shot (ear) and just a little raise of the head right when you start to squeeze off you will hit that instead of a brain. http://boarmasters.com/wp-content/up...placement1.jpg

I'm just saying, Top, that for me, I take the higher percentage shot opportunity for my own personal situations. If I have a firm rest and a "quiet" hog I will take a base of the skull shot but more often than not I don't have a firm rest so I'll take the largest target presented. Not to mention also I am usually hunting whole herds so I wait till there are around 20+ hogs before I start shooting. Trying to eliminate as many hogs as I can. Can't sit there and wait for a head shot when the shooting has started. Most of the places I go have brought us in to help eliminate hog problems. I get a ton of meat for Hunters Feeding The Hungry program and the land owner gets fewer hogs. Which is why I've taken so many hogs. Some of the fellas I go on these trips with have taken well over 5000.

Flags, you are correct, we will have to agree to disagree bud because I have seen my share of charges on my own personal self from hogs that haven't even been shot yet. Hunting thick bush, they will come out tusks shining trying to swipe anything in their path. Just seen it too many times to say that it doesn't happen. Is it simple escape? More than likely yes, but MOST charges from MOST animals are simply the animal trying to get away. Sometimes the hunter is in the way and the animal is going to clear a path one way or the other. That in itself does not negate the fact that it's a charge. You are trying to say that a "charge" is an actual attack when in fact, most "charges" are simply an animal clearing the escape route. There is a difference. Actual attacks are rare, you are correct in that fact but they do happen.