Wild Hog Attempts Home Ivasion After Encounter With Home Owner

[MechAg94]

http://montgomerycountypolicereporter.com/wild-hog-attempts-home-invasion-after-encounter-with-home-owner/

Looks like the wild hogs are getting more bold in that area.  Hopefully this was just an isolated incident.

There is a video in the link.  



A crossbow got the job done this time, but I think just about any firearm would be better.  If you can't own a firearm, even a spear or shovel would be better than going outside unarmed.  I don't think he even had a knife.

[charby]

Razor sharp tusks, nope, not leaving the house if it is my backyard.

[Ron]

Shouldn't the arrow have passed through that hog?

Even a recurve is powerful enough to blow an arrow through a small mammal I thought.

[charby]

Shouldn't the arrow have passed through that hog?

Even a recurve is powerful enough to blow an arrow through a small mammal I thought.

Probably hit the opposing shoulder and stopped. I've stuck deer with a bow and crossbow and didn't have complete pass through due to hitting a bone.

[Ron]

Probably hit the opposing shoulder and stopped. I've stuck deer with a bow and crossbow and didn't have complete pass through due to hitting a bone.

That guy just looks so small.

Thanks for the info. That's not my world.

[charby]

That guy just looks so small.

Thanks for the info. That's not my world.

It's no 200# porker, looks like a 35-50# piglet.

[230RN]

It's no 200# porker, looks like a 35-50# piglet.

See, no parental supervision.  Tsk-tsk, I don't know... piglets nowadays... whatchya gonna do?

Terry, 230RN

[Jim147]

Be tasty on the smoker

[charby]

Be tasty on the smoker

Freeze it for six months to kill the worms.

[230RN]

Wouldn't the smoking do that?

[charby]

Wouldn't the smoking do that?

Depends where your internal temp to the bone ends up. I hunt bears and they recommend you freeze it for six months before cooking it in a way it isn't well done due to worms.

[Jim147]

The trick is not to get sick. Hahahaha charby should get that joke.

[Viking]

Freeze it for six months to kill the worms.

Trichinosis? Can't you send a sample for testing, or are they all suffering from it? I know that hunters over here can send samples to a lab to be tested.

[MechAg94]

Trichinosis? Can't you send a sample for testing, or are they all suffering from it? I know that hunters over here can send samples to a lab to be tested.

If I wanted to know here, I would contact Texas Parks and Wildlife.  I know they have people who trap and test various game animals and I think they check hogs also.

[charby]

Trichinosis? Can't you send a sample for testing, or are they all suffering from it? I know that hunters over here can send samples to a lab to be tested.

Feral and wild populations of pig and bears, yes it's there in some places. Mostly pin or round worms is what you may get from the meat.

Sending samples to a lab? Going to cost a bit if you go to a private lab. In Iowa, we have some chronic wasting disease testing available for cervid species (deer/elk) for free for hunters, but that is ending this year for the most part due to reduction in federal money to wildlife departments.

[Viking]

Feral and wild populations of pig and bears, yes it's there in some places. Mostly pin or round worms is what you may get from the meat.

Sending samples to a lab? Going to cost a bit if you go to a private lab. In Iowa, we have some chronic wasting disease testing available for cervid species (deer/elk) for free for hunters, but that is ending this year for the most part due to reduction in federal money to wildlife departments.

Over here, if you are a member of one of the national hunters' associations, you can have each sample tested for 110 kronor each, so maybe 12 bucks. Testing is mandatory if you plan on serving the meat to anyone outside your household. Most/all that I speak to test every wild boar that they kill.