Wild Boar...I got this email today. (1 Viewer)

[mikemiller1955]

Bacon forever.

Cut and Shoot Texas is about 100 miles from my house and about 40 miles north of Houston...

We shot a lot of these when we were kids...
but never anything this size...
he weighed as much as a small car...
we called them "javalina"...

According to one local legend, Cut and Shoot was named after a 1912 community confrontation that almost led to violence. According to differing versions of the story, the dispute was either over:

1) The design of a new steeple for the town's only church...
2) The issue of who should be allowed to preach there or...
3) The conflicting land claims among church members.

Whatever the circumstances were, a small boy at the scene reportedly declared "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" This statement apparently stayed in the residents' minds and was eventually adopted as the town's name.


This little Texas pig .......That was killed in the town of Cut-N-Shoot TX .
We call them Piney Wood Rooter's.

Over 1,800 lb. wild boar shot and killed in Conroe...
East of I-45 and near the community of Cut and Shoot.
Killed by a medical Radiology worker...

What would you do if this beast was coming at you?
Run for dear life? Climb a tree? or simply get run over ?

 

[lancer]

Someone get the barbeque sauce! And a backhoe to dig the pit.

 

[skeeterbuck]

Mike...what I would do would depend on several things.

If I were armed with something that I thought would take the beast down, I'd fire. If not, I get the heck out of his way.

 

[mikemiller1955]

We hunted a lot when we were kids...Kerrville...Three Rivers...Austin...we shot a lot of javalina...they just stood there...didn't even move...not much sport...

I remember my grandfather was a real "sportsman"...

probably one of the "fairest hunters" I ever knew of...if such a thing is posssible...

not meaning he hunted with a bow...or a knife...or a rock...

he used a gun...just like we did...but he was always proud that he only took one shell...

one shell only...

if you missed...you go home...about as fair as you can be with a high powered scoped rifle...

One day...after hours of sitting in his blind all day...seeing no deer...a group of javalina came by and started rooting under the tree he was in...

dusk was coming on...being close to time to return to the camp...when he used his one shell to shoot one of the javalina under his tree blind...

of course he killed it...but the others didn't leave...they just stood around his tree and he was too scared to come down with no more shells...hahahaha...

of course we heard the shot...and went to help him carry back his "deer"...but when we arrived we found him stuck in the tree...with one dead javalina below and the other 3 still snorting around...we had to "shoe off" the other javalinas so he could come down...

he always carried extra shells and a pistol after that day...

I have never seen a wild boar or javalina anywhere near the size of the one in this picture...

it's as big as a small car...1,800 pounds...

I still have my guns...all of them...I inherited my brother's, father's, grand father's guns also...

lots of good memories...

I bought a couple of assault rifles...an AK47 Chinese model...a Bushmaster 223...some pistol pump 18 gauge Mossebergs...I have fired them once or twice...I don't hunt anymore...I don't want to kill anything...but I still love to eat wild game...

 

[DMNamiot]

Hi Guys,

That was one big pig! Lot of BBQ to be had there. I have to say the only place I have seen pigs that big was when I was stationed in Germany. I had a couple of close encounters with them while driving. One of the pigs was almost as big as that and she didnt think I should drive my 1980 Mercedes 4 door sedan up to her babies... She was standing in the road eyeing me over the hood of my car while her little ones trooped across the road. It was a typical German Winter night and if I had been driving faster I would have had her in my lap. Needless to say she got her wish and won the stand off. The other time I saw some nearly this big was on maneuvers in Hohenfels where I had a large herd of them milling around my HMMWV. My driver was a city kid and was freaked out by them. It was comical to say the least of course that could have been because it was 2 am and we hadnt slept for a while...

I never got a chance at one while hunting in europe but maybe someday I will. As for the javalina I have seen in AZ they arent too big but they sure stink and I dont think I would want to have a fight with a group of them so I think your grand dad was wise to stay in the tree.

Great photos thanks for sharing

Dave

 

[theBaron]

You want a real test of manhood? Face one with only a spear. That would take some cold blood indeed.

That's where the one variety of spontoon or halfpike used in the 1600s through the 1700s got its name, Saufeder, "sow-blade", it resembled a weapon that huntsman and foresters used to spear a boar.

I've had ham made from wild boar, and smoked boar's tongue, very delicious!

Prost!
Brad

 

[mikemiller1955]

Brad...a spear...that's a little too strong for me...

remember Manute Bol...

the 7' 7" Sudanese native that played for a while in the NBA...

he claimed to have killed a lion with a spear...

he said the lion was sleeping...

but so what...

I would go near a live lion even if he was blind, crippled and sedated...

even a "zoo" lion scares me...

 

[theBaron]

I've wondered about trying that, hunting with a spear. I try to imagine what that must have been like for Stone Age hunters.

Like I said, a test of courage. The ancient Teutons considered that a test of manhood, to face a wild boar, or a bear, with a spear.

But forget the more ferocious animals. How tricky would it be to bring down a whitetail with only a spear? Probably very. But if you want to eat...

 

[gi546]

is that.... HOGZILLA?

 

[thebritfarmer]

Apparently this is also a hoax. Which is good I wouldn't want to face this thing

 

[mikemiller1955]

Brad...

the first scene in Apocolypto shows some ingenious methods of hearding, trapping and killing game in the jungles...

again...

I think you're right...

hunger probably outweighs fear...

certainly starvation does.