Police in Germany say a hunter has died after being attacked by a wild boar he was trying to shoot.
The 50-year-old man was on a boar hunt with a dozen others near the north-eastern town of Greifswald on Sunday when he was attacked by the male boar.
Sometimes the boar wins.
In France or Italy you’re more likely to be shot by one of the other hunters, the day’s activities starting off with a few drinks.
…but usually the bore wins…
I think most people see the essential justice of that.
Although I think that there ought to be laws to make it even fairer. Perhaps you should only be allowed to hunt them with spears?
Don’t the pigs always shaft you?
“Experts say that is not enough to stop the population from growing.”
Sometimes the boar wins.
…but usually the bore wins…
but not before she bore twins
What Richard said!
Incidentally, there’s gobsmacking footage on YouTube of a hunter on a boar drive wearing ear defenders, for ‘H&S’.
Makes him almost oblivious to the shouts of his fellow hunters that a boar is charging him, unseen…
Wild boar are turning into a real plague in Germany. One has to be a licensed hunter in order to have a crack at them. They have invaded Berlin’s suburbs, whole platoons of the blighters dig up gardens, cemetaries and the grass verges. They are also a nuisance on the motorways as they hang around the verges by hard shoulders. And needless to say the males can be really big bastards, you hit one of them in your Dacia you’ll know about it.
The police have entered the fray on a few occasions, when the mobs have become too big, but using sub-machine guns on the boar is not an optimal solution.
“using sub-machine guns on the boar is not an optimal solution”: quite. Do Browning still make a 0.5″ machine gun?
Speak for yourself, sounds great fun to me. Doing a South Central driveby on a bunch of wild porkers!
@BnLiA, I should say it isn’t! Boar are thick skinned beasts, and ‘sub machine guns’ are designed to kill frail humans….
Just read in my home town newspaper that a prominent fox huntress died in an accident, “boots on, in the saddle, chasing the hounds.”
Sometimes the fox wins.
‘Although I think that there ought to be laws to make it even fairer.’
Why? Do you think your butcher shouldn’t have the odds in his favor?
Gamecock,
Butchers don’t go into work expecting risk from the dead animals attacking them. Hunters go into the woods expecting risk from the animals, so not a good comparison.
And because baby boars are so cute, all right-minded people will support the right of their adult kin to kill inconvenient humans (yes, I’m channeling David Attenborough today).
@SMfS
Truth is stranger than humorous comments. One does hunt pig with a spear.
Indeed, just make sure that if you hunt boar with a spear, you use a winged spear (with a crossbar below the tip). Otherwise it’s likely to just drive the spear through itself and kill you as well before it dies.
Tough buggers boars.
What is this? IRL Lord of the Flies?
From what I can tell, the rozzers use the Heckler and Koch MP5 9mm “Maschinenpistolen” which was the weapon of choice by the SAS amongst many others. They are receiving a whole batch of new pistols, bullet proof vests and machine guns for Christmas. Makes a change from socks I suppose.
Of course the warning always is “if you shoot him you’ll just make him mad.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwNJla8WvoY
Do Browning still make a 0.5″ machine gun?
Yup. The M2 “Ma Deuce” has been with us since 1918.
Where’s Obelix when you need him?
That’s why me and the boys hunt members of the gourd family. Pumpkins don’t move all that fast and are not known to charge.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/12/wild-boar-spotted-gloucester-city-centre-shows-beasts-growing/
Do Browning still make a 0.5″ machine gun?
Pedantry alert – Browning (as in the company) never made a single one.
Designed by JM Browning, but the company that bears his name was never involved in mfg.
I’m here all week. Try the fish…..
“Tough buggers boars.”
Which is why, when hunting pig, one carries a spear. They can soak up a lot of fire, can a pig.
Feral pigs are vermin and should be treated as such. And none of this idiotic shooting them with pistol rounds. Minimum calibre for hunting the boars should be .300 Weatherby Magnum or .300 Remington Ultra Mag, with .375 H&H Magnum for preference, so that even a peripheral wound will be eventually fatal. Concentrating on the sows and piglets would be the most efficient way to knock their numbers down (kill a nursing sow and the piglets starve). Once you’ve reducued the population by, say, 90% you can think about using them as a meat source but until then the most important thing is the cull.
In the grand tradition of Hans und Lieselotte, it’s mushroom hunting for me.
BiCR
the problem is, once you’ve given them the old
“this is a 375 magnum, the most pwerful handgun in the world and can blow your head clean off. Do you feel lucky, punk ?”
they’ve all legged it.
Just checked on YouTube, that should be 44 Magnum.
If boars are as nasty as warthogs, I wouldn’t be hunting them except from the safety of the back of a pickup like I did on a mate’s game farm in South Africa (used a Mauser 7.62 if anyone is interested).
Those bastards can’t half shift when disturbed. Great on the BBQ afterwards though.
@Henry Crun
Warthogs excel at destroying pickups & their occupants…
…burrrrrrrrrrrrupppppp