There are maybe 1/100 hogs that are actually trying to get you. The other 99 just want to get away, and if you happen to be in Their way the results are nearly the same. What we have is not exactly briars, the thorns are a lot bigger, but it's hands and knees stuff. I don't do that stuff any more. Someone younger can do it. Once all those boys got old enough to where I wasn't responsible for them any more they got to chase their own wounded hogs and deer into thick brush bottoms. Actually that alone cut out a lot of those snap shots at dusk.
My #1 son hunts hogs with dogs. Sticks them with a knife and in those situations a gun is a liability. It is amazing the lead a hog can soak up and still go, as opposed to one stick of a long knife behind the elbow. It is almost immediate. One second there is all this demonic screaming and dog barking/growling fight and the next, .... silence. But, then off they go again. That is truly a young man's game. All of them, dogs and humans, run the entire time.
This new shotgun (like most of the others) will likely get a few more rounds through it, cleaned and back in a safe. They'll pull it out when I'm gone and wonder why the Hell he got this thing. The answer will still be "Because I wanted it!"
Alan
