How to fight off a wild boar

[Foxyboy43]

Boar spears usually include some kind of crossguard in either the blade or the shaft.

Yep - apparently it makes it easier to extract the shaft from the hunter’s throat…..

 

[artschool]

i heard they are offering BSC 1.

the course will cover all elements of boar survival combat and teach you all the main techniques needed of such as climbing a tree, screaming like a girl and, of course, running away.

 

[jthyttin]

Are they saving for BSC2, the advanced technique of popping a 22LR to your friends knee cap, and calmly walking away? I've heard it works with grizzly and lion too...

"You don't need to run faster than the lion, it's enough if you run faster than your friend"

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Here is one that I found on the net.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Here is one that I found on the net.

A mere graze!
This chap however….


and the perp….

 

[Bavarianbrit]

A mere graze!
This chap however….
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and the perp….
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Ouch.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Ouch.

Ouch.

Of course you could always hide behind a nearby gate…… Oh! Wait a minute…
Click on the Youtube link)

 

[Tazz]

I think this guy wished he had invested in the Kevlar lined boar trousers. It does illustrate how much damage in a few seconds a boar can inflict

 

[Bavarianbrit]

There is also a material used in fencing sport against puncture wounding if the tip came off that a guy in Germany uses to make up dog protection vests for sale. He would not tell me where he sourced it but I searched and believe it came from Holland, all this was around ten years ago.

 

[cooksey]

I thought you just did like Eric Cartman did in South Park and hit them with a stick and tell the to respect your authority?

 

[Motard]

Boars can open your's leg lenghtwise from ankle to knee or your's belly with only one tooth hit, soars can chew Your's arms, foots or legs as easy as you can chew a gum. This is something that happen very rarely and just in case the pigs finds themeself without any other way to escape, and become furious. In Italy we have some badly wounded (and rarely) killed hunters every year during driving hunt period. Never hapened (in my memory) during stalking time. Lastly things are changing in worst becasue wolfes predation on herds. It started with hunter's dogs. They where charged by the whole suine pack that made no difference by the canine shapes. Cause the startegy did shows effective now in some Italian regions there are "armed" suine herds that reacts immediately charging at any danger, two or four legs.

 

[kingstonandy]

One of our domestic boars did this a few years ago in a single swipe past a pig board. I wouldn't want to face a determined attack.

 

[Foxyboy43]

I think this guy wished he had invested in the Kevlar lined boar trousers. It does illustrate how much damage in a few seconds a boar can inflict

See #25 above - this is how it happened…

 

[Sol]

So hardly surprising that for most British hunters, where the most dangerous part of a driven shoot is possibly getting scratched by an irate phaesant, or more likely to suffer a thumping hangover, there is absolutely no comprehension that something like a wild boar can be bloody dangerous and kill.

People forget how dangerous deer can be here too, I sort of agree with the americans in that aspect with bow hunting being 30 minutes minimum I think people in this country are a bit quick to approaching deer, Obviously we use rifles so there a tad more deadly but if your ever unsure of the shot WAIT! assuming the deer Is within sights its scary how still they can be whilst alive.

I once seen a video on Tiktok about a hunter in one of the western states shooting a mule deer for all intended purposes the deer acted like it was dead, the hunter was even able to pick the buck up by the antlers until It suddenly opened its eyes knocked him over and stotted off.

Wild boar are nuts though I remember a German friend mentioning she was chased and circled by a boar once, not a critter I'd want to be near! and I'm probably one of the most unfortunate folks being in galloway lol, one of the very *few* districts that have boar!

 

[CookM]

One of our domestic boars did this a few years ago in a single swipe past a pig board. I wouldn't want to face a determined attack.


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Not been had that badly yet in 35 years of farming them.
But,l have had to hold a couple of wounds together for other people.

Mostly l have had sows bite me and the crush pressure from that is...character building.

With less than comfortable puncture wounds.
Feet,hands,arms and one picked me off the ground by my right bum cheek.
Which bruised to a fetching purple colour.

No picture!!

 

[Jagare]

Not been had that badly yet in 35 years of farming them.
But,l have had to hold a couple of wounds together for other people.

Mostly l have had sows bite me and the crush pressure from that is...character building.

With less than comfortable puncture wounds.
Feet,hands,arms and one picked me off the ground by my right bum cheek.
Which bruised to a fetching purple colour.

No picture!!

When I was in hospital 50+ years ago the man in the next bed had been judging pigs when a sow ripped open his bum cheek. That incident left a last impression on him in several different ways.

 

[CookM]

When I was in hospital 50+ years ago the man in the next bed had been judging pigs when a sow ripped open his bumper cheek. That incident left a last impression on him in several different ways.

Not one to forget l reckon.
Ouch.
The one that bit me had right of the ground.
Strong as hell those girls.

 

[Jagare]

Not one to forget l reckon.
Ouch.
The one that bit me had right of the ground.
Strong as hell those girls.

Back in the 60s I worked on a small family farm, mainly dairy but we kept haft a dozen sows in pig sties. They were partly constructed of very heavy gauge corrugated metal sheet that was substantially heavy than the stuff you see today. It amazed me how a sow could peel that back once they could get their snouts under the edge. Amazing how fast a big sow can move when they want to.

 

[Tazz]

When I was in hospital 50+ years ago the man in the next bed had been judging pigs when a sow ripped open his bum cheek. That incident left a last impression on him in several different ways.

Did he mention if the Sow got a rosette?

 

[Jagare]

Did he mention if the Sow got a rosette?

I do remember that he had a inflatable rubber ring, a bit like a inner tube, that he used so he could sit comfortably in bed. We never made fun of the poor chap, honestly we didn't