Thread: Large boar encounter - How dangerous is this really?

There is another situation that I dont see mentioned here to be wary of with pigs. Fighting boars. Ive had three incidents here. One was two boars fighting over a sow, and the biggest actually ran up and attacked the wheel of our tractor when we happened to drive onto the scene. The other two incidents were similar.
My partner and I were out doing possums to raise money for a europe trip, I had sub sonic .22 ammo. Was walking along a bush edge intently watching the trees for eyes, when movement about 30 meters in front of me turned out to be two boars fighting that somehow we had not seen or heard. The bigger boar turned and ran off. The smaller one, A boar of about 130lb, obviously had his dander up and hackles raised, started to advance on us. I got kathrin in behind me and started yelling at it as didnt want to try it on with subs. He just kept on advancing. Finally at 10 paces I closed the bolt handle and started to aim. Lucky right at that point he too stopped, slowly turned and walked back to bush.
The other was also a smaller boar that ws getting a toweling from a big guy over a mob of sows. We were after the big one as it was frankly, huge but as we crested a rise the smaller one, a boar of 150lb, saw our movement and decided to attack us. He was shot between the eyes at 10 meters at full run. Of course the big guy escaped and we were just in a fit of nervous laughter for a bit afterwards.
The tractor one was really weird, but the other two id explain by saying they were not aware of what we were. They were just worked up and looking for a fight.