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aloha jiggy,just learning about your prey helps alot,were the vitals are an how to get to them with a knife ,what pigs can an cant do,an learning how to handling a wild pig with out the dogs helps,we mostly let the dogs grab them then we go in for the kill,but sometimes you dont have dogs when snaring,bow , gun hunting or having to go in to save your dogs.remember always grab the tail or back legs an hold on for dear life hogs cant reach back to bite you,but be warned they are very very strong,practice in a pen with smaller hogs if you can,swipe the legs an take them down,sit on the pig an dispatch,never approach from the front,or near the head area,they charge,bite,mame,fight or run,you never know what they will do,very strong an dangerous animals,thats why its such a rush to hunt hogs.i like to hunt yearly morning,but at nite is when they are active.i am a 3rd generation hog hunter,i been bit,gored,trampled,attacked,i seen dogs fall like flies,,worst hunt ever maui 25 years ago,3 pits lost there lives to one pig an we didnt ever catch it that day.all we did was pack our dogs out to bury them at home,nasty boar,the next day we went back an killed that hog but 2 dogs were wounded bad ,the dogs lived, we couldnt hunt for awhile all our dogs were dead or hurt..the tusk on my avatar is that boar,an that knife took his life,my brother took 11 stitches to his calf he got gored when he went in to grab a dog that was cut..WE EAT THAT BOAR..
