Keep the private messages private please--no need to air out disagreements on the open board.

Chad

Sorry about that. I just got hot headed because I HATE PETA with a vengance.

Getting close enough to slit a wounded pig's throat? Lordy, girl! NEVER DO THAT! Hogs are tough, aggressive, quick and dangerous critters and those sharp tusks are not to be taken lightly. People have gotten disfiguring wounds, even been killed, by 'dead' hogs that somehow had one last charge left in them.

On second thoughts maybe not lol

We have started to introduce wild pigs back to Scotland again (they were hunted to extiction many years ago) but never knew that about them.

Art is right as per usual, I have the scars on my legs from dead hogs and a couple of live ones

Never under estimate what a lowley hog can do and how fast they can do it.

They can run up to 45mph and get to top speed in a few strides.

If you haven't gotten acquainted with wild porkers yet, then here's a pic of a hog's lower jaw.

It doesn't take too much imagination to think what kind of damage they can do with tusks like that. The upper jaw has whetting teeth that keep those things razor sharp. They're for ripping and shredding. You can often find a group of hogs by hearing them squeal and grunt when there's a fight going on. They don't have a defined breeding season like deer and such do. They fight when a female goes into heat in their area. Or they fight over food. Or they just fight for no apparent reason. They're experts with their weapons.

Like I wrote in the very first post, it's on VHS. I'll have to hook up the computer back into the VHS player, record it to hard disk, edit out the other parts, re-record it to a saved file, download it to a posting site then post it here. Sooo...give me a little time, I have to go to work between all that too.

Ahh, sorry i missed that part. If its gonna be too much hassle don't worry about it, its cool.

Sorry, I will not hunt with a person who kicks his dogs. If the dog screws up that isn't the dogs fault, It'is the trainers. I would like to stick my foot up the so caled trainers a__. This is a clip that PETA is looking fore!! Just one more bit of amo for them!! Just my thoughts.

Yeah, well... I know why the handler kicked the dog. It was attacking from the side the broadhead was sticking out on and he was trying to get the dog away from it without getting too close to the hog himself. Kicked dog is better than dead dog or a humongous vet bill. That's a major drawback to using dogs on a bowhunt for hogs. If you don't get a clean pass through that gives the hog another weapon. Hounds can get hurt just as bad by running into a broadhead as they can by the hog's tusks.

Besides, it's not like he was trying a 60-yard field goal with the dog, for cryin' out loud. He was just getting the dog's attention and making him move. Those boar hounds get pretty excited and obedience goes to pot in the heat of battle. But try to explain that to PETA, especially when a hunter's knee jerk reaction is that negative.[&o]