dartmoordog
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Amazing animal.......But I think your wasting your breath!
Road traffic collisions with boar.
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Heym SR20
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I might be, but clearly i have seen 200kg plus boar on the hook innards out which were quite a bit smaller than the one above. But clearlyI am unable to read and german kg’s are different to the UK.
dartmoordog
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Heym SR20
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And the Kiwi pigs are mostly escaped domestic piggies.I am with you, it’s the NZ kgs that are different.
You don’t see many really large boar, but there are pockets where they are alone and do grow very big.
dartmoordog
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Yes, I agree. The term “Wild Boar” means little piggies in New Zealand, I found that out back in 2005.
dartmoordog
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Not as much as you made us laugh!
Hold the camera right up close to the head at an angle, makes the piggies look big.
Stalker62
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Yeah, your NZ rough and tough Boar are all well and good....
I was out last week in the south of England and this monster hoved into view...
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Jagare
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Pictures can be misleading, with people stepping back a few yards, giving the impression the animal is far bigger than it is.
I shot this boar in Hungary, it's around 150kg /330lbs. It was a good sized boar, and took 3 of us to get it into the back of the truck.
This was shot by one of the hunters, on a driven hunt in Turkey a couple of years ago. It is without doubt the biggest boar I have ever seen in the flesh.
Forget the guy standing in the background. Look at the size of the tire, and the angle/length of the boon, and then think how big the boar is !
To be honest, it really doesn't matter if people believe something or not. Knowledge is based on personal experience, and if that experience is limited, so is the knowledge !
Lastly, "dodgyknees", PAH, not seen them, don't believe you ! I want to see pictures to prove your name is justified !!!!!
SHOW E THE KNEES............................................
I shot this boar in Hungary, it's around 150kg /330lbs. It was a good sized boar, and took 3 of us to get it into the back of the truck.
This was shot by one of the hunters, on a driven hunt in Turkey a couple of years ago. It is without doubt the biggest boar I have ever seen in the flesh.
Forget the guy standing in the background. Look at the size of the tire, and the angle/length of the boon, and then think how big the boar is !
To be honest, it really doesn't matter if people believe something or not. Knowledge is based on personal experience, and if that experience is limited, so is the knowledge !
Lastly, "dodgyknees", PAH, not seen them, don't believe you ! I want to see pictures to prove your name is justified !!!!!
SHOW E THE KNEES............................................
I shall endeavour to find a photo of me in shorts and knee braces just for you @Lateral. It’s my summer hunting look, one that is undeniably attractive so I am told.Lastly, "dodgyknees", PAH, not seen them, don't believe you ! I want to see pictures to prove your name is justified !!!!!
SHOW E THE KNEES............................................
Anyway back to the original post. Now that we have confirmed that reports of 400kg gutted boar are the stuff of interweb fantasy, we can consider what is it that actually causes the damage in these road traffic accidents?
Over the years I’ve done several defensive driving courses for various tickets to enable me to work in remote areas of Australia. This has always been my most favourite kind of training as there’s always something to learn and some interesting stories to hear.
Driving remote outback tracks for hundreds of kms in a heavily laden LandCruiser can be very unforgiving. Once you’ve gotten used to the appalling road conditions and various hazards presented by washouts, creek crossings, dongas, corrugations, etc, you are faced with the very real hazard of running into a four-legged creature roughly the same size as your vehicle. Camels, cattle (including the worst case imaginable - the 10yr old feral bull), donkeys, pigs, brumbies and emus. But by far the most numerous problem is of course kangaroos. A large red or grey kangaroo can all too easily end up in your lap if you strike them mid bound, when they are at an elevation roughly level with your bonnet.
This is why we drive vehicles with very heavy duty front end protection in the form of bullbars, and mesh windscreen protection in very high risk areas (mostly on light trucks like the Hino 300s etc).
However, as has been hammered home to me numerous times, the injuries caused by animal related accidents are almost always caused by the driver trying to avoid the animal and losing control of the vehicle, hitting trees, rolling in drains, etc. There is a specific training regime that you go through to teach you to control the instinct to swerve and to maintain your trajectory, including striking the animal if necessary.
The Hilux I drive now has the subtle imprint of a wallaby’s tail vertebrae all the way along the bottom of the front door panel. I hit it on the driver-side corner of the bullbar, swinging it round violently so the tail strike on the door was really hard. That was in the north end of the Flinders ranges, on bitumen at some speed, and if I had swerved and fallen off the road I would’ve been in all sorts of trouble, with the wife and kids and 700kg of gear.
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Jagare
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We have deer fencing on a lot of our A road its good at stopping deer but the boar will just go under it. To be boar proof it needs to be buried half a mtr in the ground but thats not going to happen because of the cost. I would have thought that most boar collisions involve yearling pigs. Its reckoned that less than 10% of male wild boar make it to maturity . As stated in a earlier thread its what happens after a collision that causes the injury to the car occupants. If you collide with a moose the thing that is most likely to kill you is it sliding up the bonnet And coming through the wind screen and landing in you lap.
This is the scenario that frightens me half to death just thinking about it. The closest I ever came was with the wife and kids driving down the Dargo High Plains Road in the Vic High Country. A massive sambar stag lept off the embankment to our right and cleared the front end of the vehicle by millimetres at windscreen height, taking out my UHF aerial mounted on the bullbar. Serious, lifelong brown trousers moment. None of us will ever forget it.
Tragically, lots of folk have lost their lives to animal vs windscreen in Aus.
Bavarianbrit
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A work mate went on his first contract to Saab Trollhattan which 50 miles up country from Gothenburg. The old hands who had been there warned him of the moose danger on the roads "they can stop but never go backwards" so of course he is toodling along in his UK RHD Vauxhaul Astra when it happens, in the blink of an eye he reacts, aiming for the rear end of said moose. Wham the whole Astras upper body bent under the impact and he swerved to a halt shaken and very stirred the moose shook itself off and wandered away. His car was wrecked and there was a heap of moose poo on the left rear seat from the toothpaste tube effect of the A pillars impact on the mooses intestines. His comment was "thank god I was not in a LHD car". Nick Liddicut was his name.
Jagare
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I think you thinking about the, Moose swerve test. Google it and there's load about it on the interweb.
Jagare
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I've not seen a Sambar in real life but I understand they are a big deer. I nearly hit a yearling moose while driving my old Skoda pickup. I must say it does make you reflect on your mortality.
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