Guys, if a 300lb wound hog goes into the brush the hunt is over! You have to have bronze nuts to go after him. He could be 2' away in the bushing and charge you he will grab leg and run like hell. by that time you are on the ground praying. Not a go idea, let it go. You don't want him use those teeth on you
If you'll read again what i said, I said," if you have, absolutely have, to go in after a wounded hog".
Sometimes there just isn't any choice! When a hog, shown below, absorbes a 300 WM round a litle back of where it should have been hit, and then starts terrorizing the ranch house to the point where the women folk have to grab the tied up dogs and get inside, it's got to be taken down. I agree, if your not hunting your backyard, let the sucker go, but in this case there were also young kids on the adjoining ranch (1/4 mile) and the owner had already been attacked once in his own yard.
You just do what you have to do, and in those days when in the brush, I wore a custom made pair of hardened leather chaps that would supposedly (Maybe) stop a slash! Won't tell you my pucker strings weren't sucked up too about my waist and was constipated for a week, but one good thing was that hogs don't shoot back, so it wasn't as bad as some places I have been. Also, I think the brush in Florida is a little bit thicker than at the ranch, with about 15 - 20 foot visibility and usually you can smell them before you see them. BTW, didn't have a scale to weigh him so don't know what he weighed.
Just for a little variety, and since DJones isn't here to comment, back when I was razzing him about writing his life story, I made up a fictious book cover, and used one of the few hogs he didn't photo shop as the picture on the cover. We do get a few big ones out here, but they are not all that common, at least down where we are South of San Antonio.
Later
Packrat
