Have been brutally attacked by a giant Hog in the middle of the cornfield today...

[Gemini Alpha]

Oh Boy, wanted to find some more awesome finds like earlier this week on the giant field im detecting. Instead i learnt a very scary lesson about being helpless in the middle of nowhere with nothing but what you cary on your body and nobody around that might be able to help you.
Well, the day started bad because i had problems with my hand from all of this weeks detecting. This morning, the Hand was suddenly swollen like baseball glove so my girlfriend wanted me to go see a doctor. Was kinda concerned about it being a Thrombosis from the latex gloves that im wearing. At that time, i was already prepped to go on the field again because i was pretty sure it was simply from all the digging that i did the day before. Well, long story short...did not go to the doctor and went to the field instead. Girlfriend was beyond pissed but i was still optimistic i made the right decision.

An hour later i was at the site. Soil was very muddy and i decided to go further away from the Road because the soil was dry there. At this point, the hand was killing me and i felt like kicking my own butt for not going to the doctor. Wasnt really in the right mood for detecting in wet mud so the whole search wasnt really great. Found a few neat things but nothing great. I was getting down on the ground to dig out a small coin that i just detected and when i wanted to get back on my feet again, i saw a Hog on the other side of the field. And it was running towards me. I was immedietly standing up to look bigger. At this point, i was already bringing the detector away from me because i knew this would gonna hurt. Put it a few meters away from me on the ground, took my knife and my shovel out of the backpack and screamed to scare it away. No Reaction at all....just a wild hog crazily running towards me. Cant tell you the terror i felt at this point...i was in the middle of nowhere...there were no trees, no people that heard me, nothing that was able to save me and fat pig trying to stamp me in the ground. I was like...this is it. It´ll kill me. Decided not to wuss out but stand my ground. Took the shovel like an axe and beat it with it as it hit me like a train. Was flying a few feet through the air and probably broke my rib when i hit the ground. Shovel was flying through the air and was gone at that point. When i saw it was attacking again, i was snapping. Pulled my knife and stabbed it once in the rib cage but couldnt really bring it in. At this point, it made a loud roar and finally decided its better to run away. For the first ten minutes i was just sitting there and staring. Had total horror in my eyes because i was concerned it would come back. Then i decided its time to go, packed my detector and left. Was really glad i´ve put the detector away when i still could because that monster whould have smashed it to pieces. Thats probably the only good thing that came out of this day. Not sure how to deal with this kind of stuff in the future. I was not a threat to the hog or anything like that. Saw them at least 20 times in the past months and none of them ever attacked. Until today. Not sure but i might get me a hunting license or something like that. Dont want to make this experience ever again...Take care guys. Good Hunting.

Will post some pics from my finds later today in this Thread btw. Just wanted to share this story with you guys.

 

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[Gemini Alpha]

If he broke your skin at all you should probably get rabies shots. He may have been rabid.

I was Vaccinated against Rabies when i was bitten by a Bat that flew into the house and got stuck behind my heater a few months ago. Now that im writing this, i kinda get the Impression that some Animals just dont like me. lol.

 

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[Peyton Manning]

yeah I didn't want to say anything, but they have told me so

 

[Peyton Manning]

just remember, guns don't kill wild hogs, people do. Hmm, you were a people without a gun and yet he lives. I'm missing something...
But don't expect us to be worried about you, we have sasquatches to worry about

 

[TiBorn]

I've never had a hunt as exciting as the one detailed here. Hope the finds were worth it. Story telling time will be kind to you from now on. Everybody will be telling the same old stories and that's when you'll be able to chime in with: "This one time when I was metal detecting and I had to shank a hog." Congratulations on surviving your wild encounter.

 

[ivan salis]

just have me come over there with my russian 91/30 (1935 hex tula) 7.62 x 54 R WW2 era "CN" MARKED iron sight company grade "sniper rifle" -TO BE YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL WHILE YOU DIG A BIT - all you gotta do is pay my plane fare both ways and set me up with room and board while I'm there and let me dig at the feild a bit --if I "smoke" yer hog we do a 3 way split 1/3 for the farmer -1/3 for you and I'll take the last 1/3rd.-- humm a free european boar hunting and metal detecting trip all rolled into one.

or you can sic the local jagermiester (hunt master) not the booze --on him --true jagermiester's are quite skilled at tracking game

 

[oldsalty19]

with wild hogs in your area......I'd apply for a carry permit for a handgun for personal protection.......better a dead feral hog than you.....they are dangerous

 

[Gimmie The Loot]

MMmmm bacon.

 

[drd777]

Given no firearm, I would surely buy a Cold Steel mini shovel, a Special Forces item, 18 inch heavy ash handle, with sharpened edges to use as a defensive weapon. There are you tubes of it used to chop down trees, cut through 2 by 4's etc; and its a nice 6 inch blade digger. only $20.

 

[Bum Luck]

Given no firearm, I would surely buy a Cold Steel mini shovel, a Special Forces item, 18 inch heavy ash handle, with sharpened edges to use as a defensive weapon. There are you tubes of it used to chop down trees, cut through 2 by 4's etc; and its a nice 6 inch blade digger. only $20.

The German Army model is far superior; I use one. It also folds and has a nasty pick.

 

[skool]

very scary

 

[Gemini Alpha]

lol, i had exactly this model when it happened. I think it truly is an amazing spate/shovel. Didnt get a chance to unfold the pick as it tends to jam when it is in wet mud though. It needs a lot of cleaning in field if you want to keep all the mechanisms going. If you dig something like 200 holes a day in wet mud, thats a lot of maintenance for a shovel. I´ve tried beating the hog with it like an axe when it first hit me but it was like i would be beating an elephant with a stick.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

You are extremely lucky! Our gun laws here in Germany are really tight and being able to carry concealed here is rare. The tazer sounds like an idea, I have a small and large crossbow, I do not think the hand held would penetrate the boar's skin and the large crossbow would not be practical to use although, the bolt would go completely through the boar. Westfront is also a well known name to me, I detected there along the wall where there are tank stoppers for hundreds of meters, used to live and work in Baumholder in 2007. Once I was outside of Idar-Oberstein deep in the woods, decided to take a short cut through some waist high bushes when I ran into a boar just a few meters away. Thank goodness, it just grunted and pushed away in the opposite direction. I would not have been able to defend myself due to the bushes and my legs were exposed to the boar. And like you, I was in the middle of nowhere alone and nobody knew where I was. We get ourselves into some scary positions and don't even realize it. Thanks for sharing the story, and next time, get some pictures, LOL. HH, Mike

 

[Bum Luck]

lol, i had exactly this model when it happened. I think it truly is an amazing spate/shovel. Didnt get a chance to unfold the pick as it tends to jam when it is in wet mud though. It needs a lot of cleaning in field if you want to keep all the mechanisms going. If you dig something like 200 holes a day in wet mud, thats a lot of maintenance for a shovel. I´ve tried beating the hog with it like an axe when it first hit me but it was like i would be beating an elephant with a stick.

Well, I didn't mean that the shovel would be an adequate weapon for your hog. It doesn't come sharpened, but mine is since I use it to chop roots and brush. Still, from my familiarity with even domestic hogs, it's really clear that it is not the weapon of choice to say the least. Sounds like you agree.

When I was in Germany, my family stayed in a Zimmer whose head of family was a government hunter. The concept is a difficult one for Americans since there is no counterpart here to understand it. My great great grandfather was a forester in Germany, and being the highest local agent of the Kaiser, technically supervised the hunters. Suffice it to say, they are highly skilled. Since I am an enthusiastic hunter, I really enjoyed the conversation about hunting in Germany (Bavaria in this case) and his guns. We talked about hogs, and I had then no experience with wild ones, but my father did when in WW2 in Germany. He killed a large boar that was terrorizing the local farmers and at that point, Germans could not have guns. So he went out with a local hunter and shot him. It was exciting, and resulted in enough meat for the whole village, welcome in the spring of 1945.

Here's a German boar spear, a lot handier than a mere shovel, but still a very exciting and dangerous prospect.



I understand the hogs are now radioactive, due to their despicable habit of eating truffles.

 

[hikeinmts]

Hey Mike, I was in Baumholder in 1967-68. Ran some in Idar-Oberstein. Wasn't into detecting at that time. We had wild hogs come up the valley into our motor pool and eat the rations that we had thrown away. I am in S. Korea now. Have you detected on Baumholder Army base? I often thought, after I began THing, what I could have found on the Army post in Baummholder. BTW, I was in 5th Missle/6th Art......a nike-herc unit.

 

[hikeinmts]

Gemni Alpha, Glad that you came out of the conflict in fairly good shape. I live/Treasure Hunt in South Korea, and we have kproblems with the wild pigs here. By we, I mean (usually) the farmers. They get into the fields and do great damage. But, for the past two years, there has been one report each year of a person/people being attacked and partially eaten by the monsters. (I guess it was revenge for the numbers of wild pigs that have been hunted and killed.) I was up in the mts.....heard some dogs barking, but coming up the hill towards me. I was afraid that it might be a pack of wild dogs, so was looking for some tree to climb into. About 15 minutes later (listening to the dogs getting closer), about 30 feet away came a wild pig being followed/worried by a pack of hunting dogs. The dogs saw me, but I don't know if the pig saw me or not. It was so exhausted from it's run up the mt. that I don't think it was seeing much of anything. In fact, when it got to me, it couldn't run anymore. Long story short, in about 15 more minutes, the hunter came into view, and I told him which way the pig and dogs had gone. I can't have a gun, here in S. Korea. So, I have a bayonet that I carry. But, I also carry the wasp and hornet spray. Always a plan - thank heavens I haven't had to try to use it - to try to get up a tree, or onto a large rock, figuring that the pigs couldn't climb, and then spraying the wasp spray into the pig's mouth and nose and eyes. I really don't know if that would stop the pig. Perhaps someone could comment. Anyway, glad that you are ok enough to post. I think that what I would suggest is always try to have something located as close to your position as possible, that would be climbable. A tree, or a large rock. If it was a bear, then that would be a bad suggestion. But, pigs just can't climb.