One boar we had a tracking collar on to train young dogs . We turned him loose in a 12000 acre hunting club behind my house. You would be surprised on how far that boar would travel. We have found him as far away as 12 miles. Once we put dogs on him, he generally heads back to the hunting club. We have found him bedded up next to houses in a brush lot & one time I thought he was hit on the highway, he was bedded up in a overgrown ditch right next to the highway.
Talk about a educated hog, he would run threw cows, run down a dusty rd, or his favorite, run threw a herd of hogs to get rid of the dogs. but running was his specialty.
The only way I got my tracking collar back, a deer hunter shot him & called me.
We have put collars on barrs & they stick pretty close to home.
Educated hogs are slick tho & sounds like you have one there.
what you said about that boar hog laying up next to the hiway or next to subdivisions verifies what I have observed them do...I have noticed that some of these boars hang out where the average hog doggers don't hunt because it seems obvious to the hunters that hogs just don't hang out in those type of places...and the big boars know this so that is exactly why they do it...no hunters and no dogs...
