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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jlingle" data-source="post: 4344058" data-attributes="member: 51137">I’ve killed hundreds of hogs, most of them with dogs and a knife. 3 times in my life I’ve been spooked by hogs running at me, but none of those 3 times do I think the hogs were running my direction (or charging) on purpose. I think I just happened to be standing in the direction they were running. Probably the scariest (that’s a word, right? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="🤣" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" />) experience I had with hogs, is one evening deer hunt while walking out of a hay meadow, I had to cross 300 yards of tall grass before getting to wheat pasture, then I had a 1/2 mile walk to the truck. When I got to the edge of the tall grass and wheat, I basically walked into a group of hogs. We all froze. The majority of them were in a plum thicket directly north of me and straight downwind of me. They could smell me and weren’t happy. I had one large fence post I could climb, and that was it….. I didn’t have a very good plan. I could see one really big hog in front of me in the wheat with my binoculars but didn’t have a good enough scope on my rifle to find him in the scope. I was stuck. One of the hogs in the plum thicket began sorta growling at me. Thats the only way I can describe it, he was grunting low and long. It scared the crap out of me. After about a 20 second standoff, they all broke and ran. They were running on either side of me, racing by me. That was probably the only time I really got scared by pigs. Two other times while hunting with dogs, they came within feet of me. One time, I know for certain that I was standing on that boar’s lone escape route, and I stepped off the trail as he blazed by me. The other time, I was standing in front of the truck with a catch dog on a lead & the hog got away from some younger dogs and ran directly at me. There’s no way he could’ve seen me, he was staring directly into the headlights at night. They hog made it to about 5’ from me, to the end of the dog lead and the big bulldog I was holding locked him down. Again, I was just standing where the hog was running. All that being said, I heard of a guy in Texas who got wore out by a boar hog in a creek bed. The group of hogs ran by him, and one turned and came back to get him. It tore up his calves and legs pretty good. I saw pictures of the incident on a big hunting forum years ago. Those pictures always stuck in my mind’s memory bank.</blockquote>

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