bringin' home the bacon...

[lagilman]

Does anyone know anything about wild pig/boar hunting? No, really. First-hand, not stuff you've read or seen on a docu.


In a different kind of wild bore, yesterday I got a spamming IM, informing me that my locked posts had been 'stolen' and were up at a url, which was displayed.

The person declined to identify themselves when asked, so I banned them. And no, I did not click on the offered link.

Dudes, anyone who wants to read my f-locked posts is more than welcome to. They show up every week or three, and I lock them mainly because they're filled with me doing terrible things like, oh, whining how tired I am. Or griping because someone pissed me off. Or muttering about things not working out properly and how the Universe hates me.

There are no deep dark secrets hidden in this LJ. I may say things that might hurt someone's feelings, were they to go digging, but that's what happens sometimes when you go digging where you shouldn't be, didn't your parents teach you that? And, truth is, I'm really not the quiet muttering type. If you've pissed me off enough for it to matter? I've probably let you know about it already. The rest is just fleeting annoyance.

*goes back to the writing stuff*

Comments

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

I know from personal observation that male wild boar have jaw-droppingly huge balls. Like speed bags boxers use. I don't see how they walk, let along run.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

I know all about building an imu pit and roasting the pig to perfection.

Hunting them? Especially spear hunting, no thanks--- I've seen enough local mokes (in Hawaii) with boar hunting scars. They are apparently very aggressive and won't back down. They generally find you and charge first.

I don't think your LJ posts were stolen per se, I think they were phishing to get you to click on the link to get login ID and PWd and such.

[lagilman]

Somehow, I just knew you'd be along with a useful fact like that....

[lagilman]

I don't think your LJ posts were stolen per se, I think they were phishing to get you to click on the link to get login ID and PWd and such.

Oh, absolutely. I was let loose into the Internet at night, but not last night -- I don't click stranger-offered links, and I change my passwords on a semi-irregular basis. But since I trust LJ's security about as much as I trust the stability of their TOS....

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

I once was part of a pig hunt in Alabama. I was there as first aid for the drunken idiots I called friends who were hunting. What do you need to know? It was a bow hunt for what that is worth.

[lagilman]

A bow hunt's good. Basically, if you want to e-mail me any of the physical or emotonal scraps you remember, so I can add them to my own stewpot of memories and hopefully make a useful scene out of them...

Thanks!

Re: IM about locked posts being stolen

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

You might want to look here (http://ionotter.livejournal.com/453391.html) to find out what would've happened if you'd clicked there.
Much of the annoying stuff and possibly bits of rather bad stuff.
Be glad that you didn't click on the link.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Alas, the closest I have come to wild pig/boar hunting is talking to my brother while he dressed the carcass of a boar he'd killed earlier, and then eating said boar for dinner later in the week.

If you're interested, I could always ask my brother if he minded me giving you his email. He's an avid hunter with both bow and gun.

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

No first hand experience, but I understand that if one hunts javelinas, one must be careful not to puncture the musk glands, or all the meat is spoiled...

[katfeete.livejournal.com]

I can offer you tons of information on the care, feeding, and self-defensive beating-the-crap-out-of domestic pigs, but I don't think that's what you have in mind.

I have never hunted them. Why, you say? Because I am not Mad.

[katfeete.livejournal.com]

One or two things that might be of use to you, actually -- a pig's jugular vein is buried very deeply in its neck, under a great many layers of fat, which is one of the reasons they are so exceedingly hard to kill. Another is that they're fast. Really, really fast. Not so much on the long-distance sprinter thing, but they can swap ends with surprising speed and if you are beside a pig you are in serious trouble -- their necks are super-strong. As in, I have been picked up and tossed five feet by a casually annoyed pig, and I never saw it coming. I had a scar on my hip for years from another casually annoyed side-swipe. That was with a sow, lucky for me: boars have tusks, and those are literally razor-sharp. A boar of ours once cut open our horse's face to the bone; once again, a side-swipe, and once again he moved so fast the horse never saw it coming. Looked like it had been cut by a razor.

If you're standing ahead of them, they're most likely to put their heads down and pick you up to toss you out of the way (if the person's short enough or the hog's tall enough, the crotch makes an EXCELLENT handle for this -- don't ask how I know). In closer quarters they'll bite. This is Bad. A hog's jaws are -- say it with me now -- enormously strong, and they can snap your leg like a twig.

Aside from that they're heavy as hell and built very low to the ground, so it's nearly impossible to knock them off balance, much less off their feet. They don't sweat, though, so it's not too hard to wear them out or overheat them; when they overheat their eyes go dull and they pant like a dog. Their noses are very sensitive; a blow or stab to the tip or bridge will make them back off quick, as well as causing some of the most ear-splitting screaming you could ever hope to hear.

Oh, noises. Pigs scream like nothing else on earth. Seriously, you'd have to hear it. They make a sort of squeal-growl noise when annoyed, and they huff at you when very annoyed or when they run. When they run at you roaring with their mouths open it is time to be somewhere else.

They are really, really smart.

Uh. Okay, super-long post, and like I said I don't hunt so this is probably all not too relevant. But some of it might make nice background. The pig-behavior detail girl, that's me. :D

[lagilman]

All very useful, thank you!

(I have been around full-grown sows before, but only when they were feeling mellow. I came away with a new appreciation for bacon, oh yes....)

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Hello

I just sent you an email with a friend's email addy. Her family has done boar hunting in Hawaii.