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« on: August 05, 2009, 08:29:02 pm » |
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Today I was checking out a place that hasnt had pigs on it in a while. I was hoping that the Big Rains brought them back and buddy did it ever. I heard pigs running through thick stuff over the motor of the fourwheeler. I killed and got real quite. I wanted to see if they had been going to their usual wallering hole. When I got there i was very surprised to see a 100 boar with nice teeth ( yes I was that close) laying there in the mud. He looked dead I couldnt see him breathing at all. I stood there and started to waving my arms trying to get him to move but nothing. As I started to him I remember Boardog almost get eaten by boar he thought was dead. So I stopped in my tracks and threw a big rock and hit him in the back. Turns out he wasnt dead just pissed because of a boulder being chunked at him. He spun a couple of times and let out some grunts and then took off up the bank. My question has anyone run across pigs doing this? Are they deaf? Are they just in a deep sleep? JUst not paying any attention? he didnt look sick. the fourwheeler was parked 30 yards from him and it is loud do to a broken muffle, which happened during a death roll last fall. Why cant they all be like that.
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« Last Edit: August 05, 2009, 08:32:05 pm by nosightsneeded »
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TJR89
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 08:33:09 pm » |
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i think pigs go into deep sleep, i used to have show pigs and every now and then would have one do that. you could hit them, kick them or whatever and they wouldnt move. then they would just stand up. i dnt know the for sure answer, id like to know it though
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bay em son!
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wcg89
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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 09:01:38 pm » |
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i pulled in to tjr89's house one time and drove right past the bay pen...there was one pig laying flat out on it's side looked dead with flies all over him...didn't get up when I drove past and didn't get up the whole time i was there or when i left, and my truck isn't very quiet.... i know he wasn't dead because i saw him the next day
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 10:53:31 pm » |
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i think they just stay still thinking you wont see them if they dont move. ive noticed the hogs i keep dont see me when i peek over the wall, they only know im there when they smell me
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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2009, 11:07:51 pm » |
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I was going to setup over a feeder on a lease we had in Runge a couple years back. It had been raining and everything was soaked and it made for quiet walking.
I had my rifle slung and walked up on a red spotted hog laying in some Johnson grass. It was laying down , but sitting up real tall. It's backbone was sticking up and it looked like a poor sucking sow.
I was maybe 10 feet away and I didnt really want to shoot a poor ass sow that close with a rifle so I just stood thee looking at it. Directly one eye popped open and it jumped up. It was a tall rangy boar that damn near came up to my belt. He took off and I was so surprised I didnt even get my rifle unslung.
I think they go into a sound sleep and dont pay attention to what's going on around them.
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" If you can't have no fun, ain't no use agoin' ! " - old man in a Sweetwater, TX cafe
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« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2009, 02:33:00 am » |
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I have come up on several that way...I think they just pass out and dream too hard about miss piggy or something  |
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may your life be free from trouble, like a slick catch and a double!!!
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smwilson
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« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2009, 03:22:21 am » |
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It is my opinion, right are wrong that hogs become condition to being hunted. They know the differance between hunting dogs and the border collies we use to work cattle. You go out with an atv and a bunch of cur dogs and that hog will break and run before you get within five hundred yards of them. I have gone out dozens of times to move cattle on horseback and the hogs just stand there with the cattle. Several times I have pened cattle and the hogs go right along with them into the pens. I have moved cattle from one pasture to another with five border collies and half a dozen large pigs stay right with the herd of cattle. we have several spring fed creeks that at anytime if you ride up on them,there will be 8 to 12 hogs, layed out in the water and mud. They don't run they will for the most part just wander around the horse.
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« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2009, 07:15:59 am » |
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SMwilson that's where I need to be huntin "where the hogs don't run" cause they sure get some yonder where I'm at..
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nosightsneeded
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« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2009, 08:14:04 am » |
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I know for a fact these suckers run. there is only one other time I have then and they werent on the way out of the country. Thats when a sow tried to eat me cause i got too close to some piglets in the grass .
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