I Started Carrying Mace/Pepper Spray With Me While Hunting

[AusTexDude]

2 reasons... Dogs and Hogs

Last thing I need to to be gored by a wild hog while out hunting. I saw a huge sow, about 400 pounder, on the top of the hill with about 8 little piggies with her last year.

Chance favors the prepared and treasure hunters are often attracted to the same places as hogs, like water. I think big hogs are about as dangerous as a bear and they act like a hippo just attacking to attack. Very territorial.

 

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[AusTexDude]

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Neither mace or pepper spray would slow down much less stop a wild boar. I carry a .45.

 

[AusTexDude]

Neither mace or pepper spray would slow down much less stop a wild boar. I carry a .45.

I would carry a 357 but you can't in the park I hunt in even though I'm in Texas I'm still subject to the park rules.

I'll take what I can get, I do have the good stuff which is both mace and pepper it's better than nothing and with my giant screwdriver I'd like to think if I was attacked I would be having a pig roast later that week. I'm not a small guy.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I would carry a 357 but you can't in the park I hunt in even though I'm in Texas I'm still subject to the park rules.

I'll take what I can get, I do have the good stuff which is both mace and pepper it's better than nothing and with my giant screwdriver I'd like to think if I was attacked I would be having a pig roast later that week. I'm not a small guy.

Good luck, I use to hunt wild boar in Florida in my teens, I can attest to their aggression, how fierce they are, and also how hard they are to kill, especially at close range with their thick hides, and dense muscle structure.

 

[pepperj]

2 reasons... Dogs and Hogs

Last thing I need to to be gored by a wild hog while out hunting. I saw a huge sow, about 400 pounder, on the top of the hill with about 8 little piggies with her last year.

Chance favors the prepared and treasure hunters are often attracted to the same places as hogs, like water. I think big hogs are about as dangerous as a bear and they act like a hippo just attacking to attack. Very territorial.

Note that the 2 legged creatures are the ones one has to be aware of.
Dogs aren't generally an issue.
We don't have the wild pig issue here, but we do have bears.
I'm more concerned with a Fisher laying in a tree than a dog or bear.

The ugly screwdriver works on the 2 legged creatures.
One tried to kick me in the head while I was retrieving a target.
Didn't end well when I hit him squarely in the solar Plexus, he did the funky chicken on the ground.

Dog spray 12 to 15 ft generally 1% capsaicin
Bear spray 20 to 40 feet generally 2% capsaicin

 

[pepperj]

Good luck, I use to hunt wild boar in Florida in my teens, I can attest to their aggression, how fierce they are, and also how hard they are to kill, especially at close range with their thick hides, and dense muscle structure.

I never even knew that there were wild ones in Fl.
Detecting on a permission, and they had this bush area, looked like a backhoe or something disturbing all the area around the trees.
I asked the owner-hogs
Never went back there again, as I knew that a hand digger was useless.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I never even knew that there were wild ones in Fl.
Detecting on a permission, and they had this bush area, looked like a backhoe or something disturbing all the area around the trees.
I asked the owner-hogs
Never went back there again, as I knew that a hand digger was useless.

Oh we have them, the wild boar also breed with domestic hogs and become hybrid hogs, even larger and can be more aggressive than the wild boars. I hunted them when I was about 15-18 years old before enlisting. 12 gage slugs and always have a .45 pistol just in case there is no close tree.... We were hunting them in South Florida in the brush and saw grass.

 

[pepperj]

Oh we have them, the wild boar also breed with domestic hogs and become hybrid hogs, even larger and can be more aggressive than the wild boars. I hunted them when I was about 15-18 years old before enlisting. 12 gage slugs and always have a .45 pistol just in case there is no close tree.... We were hunting them in South Florida in the brush and saw grass.

Wild Boars, huge snakes, those other snap happy Gators and the Crocs.
Geez go in the ocean there's those sharks.
Man you have do some fancy foot work in your parts just to detect.
At least our cold takes care of most of those issues-especially the detecting.

 

[AusTexDude]

Boars kill more people than sharks, bears, and wolves combined.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Wild Boars, huge snakes, those other snap happy Gators and the Crocs.
Geez go in the ocean there's those sharks.
Man you have do some fancy foot work in your parts just to detect.
At least our cold takes care of most of those issues-especially the detecting.

It's the vipers you have to worry about. Rattlesnakes, Cottonmouth/water moccasins.

 

[newnan man]

It's the vipers you have to worry about. Rattlesnakes, Cottonmouth/water moccasins.

Yes, lots of wild pigs here in Florida. People trap or catch the small ones & feed them corn for a couple months. They are good eating. The big ones are mean & tough. The piglets are the # 1 food for panthers but the sows are vicious.

 

[The Rebel]

While this won't work on the animals, this will on the 2 legged ones.

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[Gare]

Lot of Lucky people in that video

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Yes, lots of wild pigs here in Florida. People trap or catch the small ones & feed them corn for a couple months. They are good eating. The big ones are mean & tough. The piglets are the # 1 food for panthers but the sows are vicious.

Yes the young ones are the best 40-60 lbs, just like beef, feed them corn.

 

[Nathan W]

I don't carry a gun so I have a disadvantage if someone came up on me to do harm, just hope my serrated edged shovel would cut them down

 

[Oregon Viking]

Damn Ferrel Swine!!

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/invasive_species/docs/Felal_Swine_Brochure.pdf

 

[newnan man]

I don't carry a gun so I have a disadvantage if someone came up on me to do harm, just hope my serrated edged shovel would cut them down

Carrying a weapon is a personal choice. That being said it is an excellent way to protect one's self from being a victim.

 

[Gare]

Around 2012 or 2013 I bought a new CTX 3030 I was hunting a park up near Akron Ohio. 4 young guys came over tp masking how much that Geiger counter cost? I was afraid to tell them how much i really paid for it. I said "$25 dollars" To which one guy replied let go not worth it. Did dare to tel.l them $2,800 NOPE When they left SO DID I !!!

 

[AusTexDude]

Carrying a weapon is a personal choice. That being said it is an excellent way to protect one's self from being a victim.

Rather have one and not ever need it rather than need it and not have it.