Treb,
I don't carry slugs, etc. Since the first incident with hogs several years ago, I pull the dogs out of the area. Both dogs are good about coming when I whistle. Fortunately the strain of wild hog here is feral domestic and not the Eurasian Wild Boar which is highly aggressive and reputed for dog killing where it resides. The vests offer protection for briars, barbed wire and other hazards such as stick-ups. A buddy lost his lab to a cut off sapling which impaled him when he came down on it while running during a hunt. Abby was saved from a coil of razor wire she hit running full speed in the woods on a military base. She went from 60 to 0 in a split second when she hit the abandoned wire. Gil