Wild boars corner Italian woman ...

[Candocad]

I've been fortunate and shot driven boar in Germany and its quite the event.

You are positioned in 'high chairs' in the forest at the apex of a trail that zigs and zags. You cannot see the next hunter as the chairs are positioned on alternate zigs / zags. The boar are driven by hounds and beaters and the action is intense, with groups of boar running full tilt across the lines. Guns are normally drillings (rifle and shotgun over and unders) and vary in rifle calibre, but all are 12 gauge on the shotgun. All shots are taken on the move, and it's quite a sight to see a boar running at full speed be stopped with a 40 yard single rifle shot.

The high chairs are there for a reason, as boars can be incredibly aggressive in stress situations and those tusks are not ornaments. People and hounds have both been severely gored on such hunts and the time of most danger is when changing chair locations for another drive. Such hunts really do sharpen the senses!

Whilst the hunting is excellent, the wild boar population in parts of Europe are now out of control, particularly near urban locations. With no or few apex predators around, there is nothing to check the population growth. The damage to agriculture is significant, and with only farmers trapping and hunting boar, the boar have simply moved into safe urban locations.

Whenever I hear of boar sightings in Western Canada I get quite excited, but I'm not a farmer.


Candocad

 

[Brutus]

Has anyone used blackpowder 45-70 on wild boar?

curious

 

[Chumlee Bumsnag]

I thought I saw one near Swift Current on Friday but it was near a copse of trees about 500 yds south of the #1 and hard to see against the trees. Might have been a dog.

 

[Demonical]

Are we starting a wild boar defense / supermarket tactical awareness thread?

If not, then why not?

If you only had one firearm (as permitted by the enlightened laws of Canada) and found yourself in a feral Italian supermercato, which one would it be

Which one

Dueodde

Haha! Too funny!

 

[Tex Critter]

There are green spaces in and around Berlin too with herds of wild boars that come out at night and regularly plough up people's front yards.

There are many enthusiastic hunters in Germany but there are some places (like within city limits) that it is just not wise to allow hunting in.

Crossbows dammit! Crossbows!

 

[medvedqc]

Has anyone used blackpowder 45-70 on wild boar?

curious

no directly but we had one in the hunting group that was using one during our hunt. sucess was so so as the shooting distance was a longer than average.

 

[jethunter]

Italians make arguably the most beautiful and functional shotguns in all of Europe.

Yet they cannot fathom the final solution!?

Yet they can't design a train schedule.

 

[Nibe]

I was cornered by a cougar in a Safeway a few years back.

 

[jethunter]

I was cornered by a cougar in a Safeway a few years back.

Did the scratches heal clean, or did you need antibiotics? Cougars like to mark their territory.

 

[Chumlee Bumsnag]

Did the scratches heal clean, or did you need antibiotics? Cougars like to mark their territory.

Probably just gotta nasty rash. Happened to a friend of mine. True story.

 

[medvedqc]

Yet they can't design a train schedule.

it is because you did not take the italian way for the train ... maybe tomorrow maybe another day. qi va piano va sano ....

i took some trains in italia and they were always on schedule but for which day was the correct answer ...milano paris is the best example with the high speed train (only for the name lol) try a train on a strike day in france and you will love the italian schedule.

 

[cement head]

Italians make arguably the most beautiful and functional shotguns in all of Europe.

Yet they cannot fathom the final solution!?

If they have gun laws anything like Spain then that's why . I stayed on a farm in Spain and my friends EX didn't even own a shotgun . she told me that to be able to own a gun in their area and to hunt that you had to be a member of the local hunting group . there were a lot of hoops to jump through . they had wild boars on the property . big ones from what I had heard. and you had to get them checked out before you ate any of them because of some illness . I didn't speak Catalan so I couldn't ask many questions . beautiful place .

 

[Longwalker]

Wild boars are problematic in much of Europe, but are very beneficial to the public acceptance of hunting, since it's the only practical way to control them.
I have hunted wild boars several times in Germany, often those hunts were in city parks. The most recent time was October 2019. I was in Cologne, at midnight, stalking boars in the moonlight. We were searching with night vision binoculars while walking between housing developments on paved bicycle paths. We carried a .30-06 fitted with a suppressor. The Germans are quite sensible about hunting boar ( and deer ) in areas close to people. Because almost all areas are close to people's houses compared to Canada. And boars are very destructive of gardens, cemeteries, boulevards and fields.
Very rigorous safety training, well disciplined hunters, and the great privilege associated with the act of hunting in a populated area keep hunting activities orderly and controlled. The public also get to eat wild meat, since it is sold by the landowner to restaurants after veterinarian inspection and approval for health. A hunter may purchase the carcass of the animal he has shot, but the ownership is assumed to be the landowners. Quite a different system than Canada. Not better or worse, just different.