Question re hunting hogs.

[HAT897]

I might/maybe be able to start hunting hogs. Without dogs. I've read on the internet how dangerous it can be. If it works out that I can start hunting hogs, it'll be from an elevated stand around tall grass. But, have any of you ever been in a precarious situation w/hogs?

Also, on a hog hunting thread (some internet source) an expert said if you place a feeder at your spot, and said feeder is set to go off a certain time of the day, that the hogs will arrive when they hear said feeder dispensing feed.

Dunno if that's true but the information was posted as an answer to "how to hunt hogs in daytime." I'm definitely a daytime hunter.

 

[Darkhorse]

Hog hunting on foot "CAN" be dangerous depending on the hog. 99.8% of the time, just as soon as the hog smells you they run away fast as possible. But not always. I've shot a lot of them, some good ones too, from the ground with bow and arrow, muzzleloader, pistol and centerfire rifle. One morning in archery season I was scouting through a grownup swamp along a creek looking for deer sign. When suddenly I broke through some thick stuff into a small clearing, and laying in the clearing were several big boars. Oftentimes a group (sounder) of females and young hogs will travel together, but shadowing them will be a group of larger boars staying just out of sight. And it was a group like this that I surprised that morning. They made no effort to run or get away, instead they got up and came at me forcing me to drop my bow and arrows and shinney up a tree. They walked back and forth a long time, trampling over my archery equipment, just wanting me to come down. After that I always carried my Super Blackhawk in a shoulder holster.
I've had a very few close calls like that over the years. Try to stay downwind they have a nose more sensitive than a deer and they don't wait around after smelling a human.
I've heard the same thing about hogs coming to a timed feeder but I've never seen them do it. They come to corn when they want to. Anytime day or night. I trapped them for several years and once had a lot of video. Most activity is at night.
They are very smart animals and can be hard to trap. We just have to be smarter.

 

[TexasLife]

We've had hogs in our property for nearly 50 years. Never had any charge at us. Doesn't mean it can't happen? With the farming we see them quite often, but they keep their distance and rarely see them in the day time. I've shot 2 bores at very close ranges (20-50'). All of these are black, but not sure if they're razorback? Killed only 1 with a handgun (40s/w) which was horrible when using he's. Didn't have my fmj's that day.

 

[xphunter]

I might/maybe be able to start hunting hogs. Without dogs. I've read on the internet how dangerous it can be. If it works out that I can start hunting hogs, it'll be from an elevated stand around tall grass. But, have any of you ever been in a precarious situation w/hogs?

Also, on a hog hunting thread (some internet source) an expert said if you place a feeder at your spot, and said feeder is set to go off a certain time of the day, that the hogs will arrive when they hear said feeder dispensing feed.

Dunno if that's true but the information was posted as an answer to "how to hunt hogs in daytime." I'm definitely a daytime hunter.

Don't worry about it.
I'm not saying saying it won't or can't happen, but hunting with a gun should be no problem.
I was much closer to getting run over with a mad cow whose little one was other other side of a fence one night. It was bawling for it's mama and we were close by (Hunting at night).
That in itself, was a freak circumstance. I have never run so quickly backwards with a bunch of gear on before

 

[TexasLife]

Don't worry about it.
I'm not saying saying it won't or can't happen, but hunting with a gun should be no problem.
I was much closer to getting run over with a mad cow whose little one was other other side of a fence one night. It was bawling for it's mama and we were close by (Hunting at night).
That in itself, was a freak circumstance. I have never run so quickly backwards with a bunch of gear on before

you must have limousine cross ! we've had brahma limousine cross and those moma cows (like there's moma steers or bulls) and they ARE crazy! we always said"there isn't enough fence between use and them

 

[xphunter]

We heard the little one bawling, and I thought/we thought the calf might be tangled up in the mesquite that was intertwined with the fence somehow. We were going to confirm if the calf was okay. That is when our night went crazy. We were looking at the fence via NVG's trying to see if the calf was tangled up or just on the other side of the fence, and mom came from our 9 O'clock.
It made for a good memory...But in those moments, I was thinking, "Oh No, this is going to hurt."
I think it was a Charolais.
I have dealt with Brahmas at sales before working gates in college during sale days. Some of them were crazy.

 

[PJGunner]

Back around 1967 when I lived in San Francisco, my next door neighbor was a black man who raised hunting dogs. he had Plotts and a couple of Redbones as I recall and he was breeding them for sale. He had a hog hunt set up and as I was doing some freelance photography back then agreed to tag along and do the pictures for the brochure he was planning to have printed up. The hunt took place in the Big Sur of California and the dogs were off and running. They had a pig bayed against a large tree trunk and I started shooting pictures. That pig heard the shutter slap of the mirron on that SLR and forgot the dogs and decided I was his real enemy. Back then my main handgun was a 4" S&W M28 .357 Magnum and I was a fair shot with it.The hog died and I needed a fresh pair of shorts. I got $200 cash for the finished pictures and my neighbor dug a big hole in his back yard and cooked that pig Hawaiian style and it was some very fine eating.
Paul B.

 

[Hunter26]

I've hunted hogs on and off for 30 years and killed them from stands, blinds and spot and stalk and never really felt afraid of them or had them come at me. Like others have said, they have an excellent nose and when they smell you, take off in the opposite direction. I've hunted them over feeders and have never seen them come to the sound of the feeder going off. They're like deer, they come when they want to. I've buried corn that I let essentially rot with jello mix for hogs so the deer wouldn't eat it. That was fun and they loved it, but they came when they wanted. It was fun watching them make a giant hole to get to it.