Desert Eagle vs. Huge Wild Pig!

Was this video cruel?

  • No, it was a feral hog hunt. That's the way they go sometimes; no problem here!

    Votes: 62 48.4%

  • No, but it could have been handled better, and I’ve hunted hogs in dense scrub like this; I know!

    Votes: 29 22.7%

  • Yes, but only because the moments between life and death bother me!

    Votes: 17 13.3%

  • Yes, hunting is for Neanderthals, and this video is a prime example!

    Votes: 11 8.6%

  • I thought so at first, but upon closer inspection it was the best of an unusual situation!

    Votes: 9 7.0%
  • Total voters
    128
  • Poll closed .
First of all you don't know what in the h*ll you're talking about. This IS a FERREL HOG! I live in this area. I have hunted them. I KNOW! You're a CANADIAN and have probably never even seen one before. Don't speak unless you know what the heck you're talking about, and you obviously don't!

It was a bad hunt, but it was far from cruelty to animals. Ever not gotten a heart shot on a deer? It take you at least as long as it took that pig to die to run to the deer, and deliver a second shot. You guys who are commenting have never hunted these animals, and I'm starting to believe you've never hunted at all. What do you think hunting is? Having tea with animals? Yes, this hunt was a c*ck-up, but I've heard of far worse. And YES, all-in-all, it was FUNNY! Man, some of you Canadian (not all) live mild, sheltered lives!
 
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In Canada we're not allowed to hunt with handguns or other restricted firearms. Shooting something like that with a bolt action from a close range would be dangerous as the animal turned around and charged while you tried to reload. A 5-round semi-automatic would do the trick. Just hope it dies with 5 rounds.

Someone should add this as another argument in favor of keeping semi-automatics legal.
 
Corpus: I'm not a hunter but I for one am interested in the video and glad you took the time to post it.

Compared to how some domestic cattle is killed and processed, this was a mercy killing. I have no doubt whatsoever that hours after this video was taken, that pig was doing several RPM's over hot coals. This is hunting - just because it's with a handgun and we can't participate here in Canada, dosen't mean it's not legit.
 
K-2 said:
In Canada we're not allowed to hunt with handguns or other restricted firearms. Shooting something like that with a bolt action from a close range would be dangerous as the animal turned around and charged while you tried to reload. A 5-round semi-automatic would do the trick. Just hope it dies with 5 rounds.

Someone should add this as another argument in favor of keeping semi-automatics legal.
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Hear Here! Also, these animals run in packs. One of the reasons that it took probably 20-30 seconds longer that it should have to finish him off is because the guy was probably checking his surroundings to make sure another one didn't come charging out of the bush! These boys were young, inexperienced, and didn't handle this hunt well, but give some credence to the effects of adrenaline, and the fact that FERREL HOGS are about as dangerous as BEARS to hunt, only they are usually found in groups or packs! Most of all, however, this is supposed to be a funny video in the vein of "those boys didn't do it right, and they should be corrected, but there is inherent humor in a ####-up like that, and that pig too 7 rounds of 50 CALIBER ammo at POINT BLANK range! Who would have "thunk it!""
 
In areas that hogs are a problem its not hunting, its exterminating. I feel no more for a nuisance hog than i do for a mouse/rat/groundhog/gofer. If i was that close to a pig that big I wouldn't stop shooting till it fell either. As for waiting to be told to finish it off, that pig was already done.
 
Guy JR, as sad as it was, didn't you find it funny that the Hog laid down, was silent, and the kid tried to put a head shot on him--but probably because of adrenaline--missed and shot him through the jaw--then the Hog starts moaning again (even trying to get back up). It almost sounded like he was saying "YOU SHOT MEEEEE! (you sun'uf'a'b*tch!)LOL. It was like something out of Monte Python, or Princess Bride; he was only "mostly dead!" LMAO!

I'll tell you what, I've hunted Ferrel Hogs and Boars (never this big) and I was surprised at how many 50 cal. shot it took (I've only hunted them from a blind on one occasion, and a tree on the other, and used a .308 at about 120~150yds (Head shots both times). I would have been almost as "hopped up" after living through that scenario in the video too. I would have expected a .50 at that range to drop in in one, maybe 2 shots at most even without a head shot. It took 5 just to put him on his side!

I'm sure many here just want to make fun of their accents, but most of what went on was re-assuring nervous chatter. Anyone who has ever been in a life-threatening situation is familiar with that. Most of what is said in that situation is dumb; but chr*st guys, that PIG could have killed them if that guy hadn't followed up like he did. It was real danger present!
 
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Lots of people on here seem to not have a clue about this.

These are robust animals!

The one in this video was brough down relatively quickly.

Even ones on the farm have been know to run after getting hit with the air hammer.

And if this little timbit appauls you, try watching the videos of people hunting hogs with bows, or just a spear, or even, just a knife.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QZtqQjDPNFk

Its been done.

And its been feeding civilization since the dawn of time.

Cant stand the though of something taking 30 seconds to die?

The tofu isle is calling you.
 
It sounds like the guy who is heard saying "Do you want me to finish him off or what?" Is probably some person besides the hunter. He probably asked while the original shooter was reloading and checking around him for other hogs. So for those of you who think he was being callous; I don't think that was the case. It's just none of them ever imagined (could many of us) that you would have to re-load. It was the shooters kill, and he wanted to finish what he started. The hog was still dead in a humane amount of time.
 
Actually the animal was downed quite quickly. Sounds like a bunch of city folk on here that have never seen anything killed before. Ill bet most of the nay-sayers are frome the 'O' Province.
I get people like that that out fishing - Bring a big halibut to the boatside, harpoon it a couple times, drag it in, set upon it and club it HARD 10 times with a bat and tie it up to the gunnel so it can't hurt anyone and cut its gill to bleed it out.
A few minutes latter it will start to thrash and someone with a horrified look on thier face will say - "Its still ALIVE!" LOL
Its all good - I usually just comment, "You haven't seen too many things killed have you?"
 
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Corpus said:
WAY f**kING COOL!

I'm into shooting animal just to make them suffer (or whatever else pisses you're humorless, PC ___ off.)

For every animal that you don't shoot, just to watch suffer, I'm gonna' shoot 3! ;)

(God, lighten up people! That pig suffered for all of about 50 seconds; jeesh! It's not like they stood around and had beers and watched it bleed out.)
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I don't get it. It's just a ####ty example of how to hunt. Why do we HAVE to laugh? And if we don't laugh at it your going to shoot animals in spite....... Uhhh.. Ok. Brilliant.
 
I think it is the screams of that damn hog that people are finding the most disturbing... loud SOB.
Of course the first shot being in a complete and utter non-kill zone doesn't exactly make this a picture-perfect hunt.
The funny part for me was the South Park impersonation with the one guy saying: "He was coming right for you".

Then again I am from the 'O' province so what do I know... although I am a country boy and I have put a few aminals down. :yingyang:
 
I went back and re-watched it again, and the original 5 shots, from number 1 to number 5 were in the Hog in about 7 seconds. The original "cue de graw" was attempted 12 seconds later (they had to make sure he was down and advance on him, keep that in mind). The shooter missed, and put one through the Hogs jaw instead of it's brain-pan (probably because he was rattled after the encounter). The shooter then checked his surrounding, reloaded, and delivered the second "cue de graw", on a writhing target mind you, 41 seconds later (and we don't know if he had an extra loaded magazine on him, or did he have to feed in loose cartridges by hand into the existing mag?). The whole encounter from walking up on the Hog, to the last shot was about 1 minute. That is not "cruelty to animals" and considering the extreme danger that they were all in by surprising a 804lb. highly aggressive semi-top predator animal like that, they really didn't do too bad at all. It could have been better, but all things considered it wasn't even as bad as I originally thought. And once again, the talking that you are hearing is the chatter of nervous, highly adrenalinized men, who have quite possibly just escaped major injury or even death.

P.S. The first shot, if you look closely, was actually behind the left ear. He was making noises to him at the very beginning to get him to turn around, but the pig started to trot away, so he took the best shot he could. I originally though it was in the hind quarters, but look more closely. He didn't do too bad at all. He made the best of a bad situation, which is tracking a hog, then walking around a tree, and there he is, in all his 804lb. glory. A fear striking sight for anyone. They had no way of knowing, while tracking, that the pig was as big as he was until he was 10 feet in front of them all the sudden, and you can't just let the pig walk away, then possibly cut around on you and charge. And they have been known to do that. Hogs are dangerous prey folks. Plenty of hunters have been killed by them.
 
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Corpus didn't make the video... he just linked it.

It's disturbing, but seeing anything killed (especially as the size of the animal gets larger) usually is.

I think if anyone here eats meat they can't be too critical as farmed animals are not treated much better and as mentioned can be treated much worse.

The one thing I took from the video was "Whoa! The .50AE isn't the one-shot-stopper I was led to believe it was." ;)
 
I don't find the killing of the hog disturbing, and it really didn't take very long I agree. I just think the hunting part is weak.

I guess its just cause I don't like Americans. They disturb me and deserve pity.

P.s If you don't laugh at this post, I will gas some puppies.
 
G37 said:
Corpus didn't make the video... he just linked it.

It's disturbing, but seeing anything killed (especially as the size of the animal gets larger) usually is.

I think if anyone here eats meat they can't be too critical as farmed animals are not treated much better and as mentioned can be treated much worse.

The one thing I took from the video was "Whoa! The .50AE isn't the one-shot-stopper I was led to believe it was." ;)
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X2.

("Anything here not been brutally slaughtered?" " I think the veal may have died of loneliness"):D
 
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Stupid and funny. Though I'm from the "O" province, I've been to Texas. Those feral hogs are mean. If anyone has ever seen the tusks they can grow, you know you aren't hunting some cute little piglet. Don't necessarily agree with the manner of the hunt, but it's not as though they were intentionally torturing the critter. And, as Corpus said, those things come in herds. I'd rather let the animal lie and cry for a few extra seconds as I check my surrounding and make sure their are no other hogs, then quickly go and dispatch only to be gorged by a tusk.
 
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