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Have a friend from Hawaii. If I understood him correctly they do similar there but minus the horse and the rifle!
Wot? Like he chases on foot, wrestles the hogs to the ground then rips their throat out with his teeth? That I gotta see…
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Wot? Like he chases on foot, wrestles the hogs to the ground then rips their throat out with his teeth? That I gotta see…
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His brother did it. Apparently they use dogs to chase and catch the hogs, the dogs pin the hogs for the hunter to finish with a knife. The best dogs are the ones which can properly pin the hog so the hunter can safely dispatch it. As far as I understood him it was done on foot (Edit: although quads/ATVs may have been mentioned come to think of it).
 
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His brother did it. Apparently they use dogs to chase and catch the hogs, the dogs pin the hogs for the hunter to finish with a knife. The best dogs are the ones which can properly pin the hog so the hunter can safely dispatch it. As far as I understood him it was done on foot.
I heard a story about someone who came badly unstuck at that game by inadvertently setting out on a hunt with two left-handed dogs.

Apparently you need a left-handed dog to grab and hold the pig's left ear, and a right-handed dog to grab and hold the pig's right ear, while you go in with the knife.

The two left-handed dogs obviously both went for the same ear, which left the pig with enough free movement of the head to be able to badly slash the hunter......
 
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I heard a story about someone who came badly unstuck at that game by inadvertently setting out on a hunt with two left-handed dogs.

Apparently you need a left-handed dog to grab and hold the pig's left ear, and a right-handed dog to grab and hold the pig's right ear, while you go in with the knife.

The two left-handed dogs obviously both went for the same ear, which left the pig with enough free movement of the head to be able to badly slash the hunter......
I don't know enough about it to know if that's realistic or a Haggis style anecdote!
 
I don't know enough about it to know if that's realistic or a Haggis style anecdote!

I'll let you decide!

I do know enough about training dogs to know that individuals do have a very strong left- or right-handed (pawed?) bias, so it's not completely beyond the realms of believability.
 
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Was, (is?) big in NZ. I’ve a book published in 1992 called The Grunter Hunters, lots of interesting ways to get your hog including dogs and a knife! If only I was 50 years younger! Paul
 
I heard a story about someone who came badly unstuck at that game by inadvertently setting out on a hunt with two left-handed dogs.

Apparently you need a left-handed dog to grab and hold the pig's left ear, and a right-handed dog to grab and hold the pig's right ear, while you go in with the knife.

The two left-handed dogs obviously both went for the same ear, which left the pig with enough free movement of the head to be able to badly slash the hunter......
Sounds very sinsiter to me
 
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