What in your opinion is the most aggresive, tough to take down, dangerous pig out there ?

In my opinion it the African BushPig. These pigs are real bad boys and you dont want be on the recieving end of one of them.

You Guys ??

I've never been charged, so I can't speak from that position, but where I have hunted pure European stock, the hogs were really agressive. When they were penned up, they would charge the fence if you came near, and these boys regularly went over 300 lbs. At the samehunting reserve, the hogs killed most of the goats on the property. They were very aggressive.

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Originally posted by F.C.Selous Stu:
What in your opinion is the most aggresive, tough to take down, dangerous pig out there ?

In my opinion it the African BushPig. These pigs are real bad boys and you dont want be on the recieving end of one of them.

You Guys ??

I have to agree with African Bush Pig.

The bush pig is an evil looking thing! How big do they get?

Having taken bushpigs, warthogs, Russians, and feral hogs, think I'll vote for the Russians.

YOU FORGOTTEN THE WATER HOG AS ITS CALLED HERE BY SOME NATIVES

Juan, do you have more pictures of this type of hog? Some close ups, perhaps?

If you get any of them cornered, they are all bad! In East Texas forests there are a lot of wild hogs that are closely related to the origenal Europian swine brought to Texas by the conquistadors, and explorers! Their piglets are still stripped when very young,till they are five or six months old. The parents have the stiff hackels, large shoulders, and small hindquarters,and brindle, to black color of the Eastern Europian boar, and bear no resemblence to domestic hogs at all. If you get too close to these boys, you are likely to get cut! They are all to be respected, IMO!

I love hunting wild hogs, of any breed, and would love to have a grand slam of them all in my trophy room!

does any one know how big the bush pig gets ?

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
Juan, do you have more pictures of this type of hog? Some close ups, perhaps?

That is a capibara.

I can't see it's head well in that photo. It's a rodent isn't it?

It's a rodent. Turn your head upside down and look at it.

Distant relatives to the ginnepigs, spelling, a bit larger though.

/C

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
I can't see it's head well in that photo. It's a rodent isn't it?

I obviously wasn't looking at it from the right perspective!!

Never been to Africa, never seen a bush pig, but the only time I was ever charged (and hit) was an Arkansas Razorback. Come to think of it, it looked like what MacD described. It was in SW Arkansas close to E. TX, could have been a European variety.He was big and ugly and hit mt in the shin hard enough for his tusk to go through my insulated Carhardt coveralls and my blue jeans and still have the scar today. I was deer hunting and had my .35 Rem with me. I was stalking down to the river bottoms when I noticed all these big "rocks" started to move. Well, I emptied the gun's 6 rounds and was trying to get my gloved hand into the coverall pocket to get more ammo when a 275-300 pounder hit me in the leg knocking me down. He was coming back for a second pass when my ole' Dingo/Heeler mix decided he wasn't gonna hit her master again. She grabbed him by his right ear pulling him hard enough to make him miss me. I put the 200 Grain Core-Lokt through his hind-quarter as he went by. I was afraid if I aimed at his vitals my dog might get it too. I can't remember if I had to change under wear or not.

Wow!! Great story .530! Glad to hear that you recovered and that your dog wasn't hurt! Do you have any photos?

No photos, this was a long time ago, the dog has been dead of old age for a few years now. That was in 1994 in SW Arkansas just a couple miles from my grandparents old place. Didn't take pics back then. LOL

when they get this big they all scare the crap out of me

I think I've seen this photo before, but that is the biggest damn wild boar I have ever seen -- wow! Look at the size of his head! Yeah, that would definitely scare me too!

My gunsmith, whose shop and house is down the Holler from me, told me about helping search for one of their hunting buddies years ago, and finding him dead and eviscerated by a razorback. The hog was also dead. I'm headed his way tomorrow, and will try to get details refreshed in my head.

I don't place hogs in the dangerous game catagory as they like deer and elk don't tend to be agressive, but on ocassion any animal will be agressive...

I have shot a lot of bush pigs, Javalina, Russians and Ferrel hogs and I suppose the Russian makes me pucker the most, but I have never been charged..

Pigs don't have good eyesight and they will run your way sometimes, if thats any consulation!! They will make you hurt yourself for sure!