Wild boars (hogs) are dangerous. They have no fear. And they are fast. I got caught out in the woods once without a gun, foolish me. Had a German Shephard and my youngest with me. The dog, about 40 feet in front of us, stirred up a group of hogs shading under a tree and in some bushes. Two huge boars, between 250 and 300 pounds, jumped up after the dog, and she was running for all she was worth. At the same instant a sow with a litter jumped out and charged me and my youngest. We didn't have time to find a tree to climb and there really wasn't one around that was the size we could climb. If I had been alone I would have been running like crazy. But my youngest was behind me. And all I could do is stare at this beast charging.
But, God was with us. The sows litter raced after her and when she was aware of them she stopped her charge as she didn't want to bring them up to us. She began running in a circle, with her head up in the air snorting, till all the litter was accounted for and behind her and then shot off to my right in another area of the woods. Not knowing where the boars were and which way they were coming back, we went to the creek where a fallen tree was at an angle enough we could run up it if we had to. We waited quite a while before heading back to the house.
If you take to the woods and you have wild hogs, you better have a gun.
Stranger