phillygunner, I'm sure glad you didn't get cut..... I hunt these on a ranch and use binoculars to spot for long range shots, when I'm alone....Now, on my hunting lease, its woods and brush,,,, so, my Son and grandsons call it "a walk on the wild side" Early one morning, my 18 yr old grandson and I were walking a pathway, to get to our deer stand.... We were almost to the clearing when we heard hogs and we stopped.... A sounder had crossed in front of us in the dark, but half of them had not crossed.
They were on both sides of us grunting and squealing....I told Dillon get to my back, and we went back- to- back up the path.... He asked me, "what happens , Grandpa if one gets between us?" I said , "don't shoot." I told him to do whatever he has to do in front of him, but stay back to back.... Poke a hog with your gun barrel if you have too..... So we side stepped like that for about 25 yds to the clearing.... , then one ran across the field close by and Dillon panicked ,, I grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him back to me,,,"Get to my back!" I said .... we made the stand and Dillon was almost hyperventilating . lol. He asked me, "Grandpa weren't you scared"? I said," hell no, there wasn't time to be scared. (and there wasn't)..." I use a Savage 308 with 165gr SST 's .... and a DPMS 308 with the same round...after that day The DPMS goes with me for the walk on the wild side, with a gun light on it.....
One time on the ranch I saw more than 40 of them together, that we pushed out of a Johnson grass field. When we got through shooting and chasing with the ATV and one of us in the truck, we had pigs dead and wounded all over that place, and the rest of them ran off the ranch, and they were too many to count that got away.
My son had an AR-15 and a 9mm pistol,,He had no choice., He got caught in the rush they made, and stood his ground in the open firing with both guns. I was 400 yds away and saw him and the hogs , scared hell out of me..He killed one in front of him, but never stopped the others he shot,,, they ran off wounded and dropped 300 to 500 yds afterwards about 8 or 10 of them... I had the DPMS and and was in the truck on high ground, and headed them off , and as they crossed over the hill , I jumped out 50 yds from them and hammered them; all the way into the brush for about 250 yds ....3 or 4 dropped in the field , couldn't find the rest because of the expanse of land and high grass.... They'll carry a lot of lead and it don't matter what caliber you have , but say bigger, is better and the bigger the hole the better that is... The SST is a 1" entry wound and a 2" plus wound channel for 20 inches through an animal.... I don't use the SP bullets anymore.
