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@Grumm man, if there's a lot of them, they're scared and the cage is small enough that you can't adequately fight, it's a matter of minutes that one of your larger veins gets punctured and you bleed out.
Wild boars are terrifying. We call them секач (sekach), where сек- means to cut, and -ач is the same thing as "-er" in English.
In Russian, if something is called after what it does, you know it does the thing really well. On top of that, if the thing being done well is cutting, you stay away from whatever was granted that name. -
@Grumm the wild boars mated with regular pigs in the USA. Now we have wild 900lb monstrosities running around in Georgia.
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@Grumm the problem with wild boars is that they're very fast WHILE being burly. That's the same formula as a hippo.
A pistol won't stop it — it's just too big and too powerful. You need a direct hit with buckshot, but those guns are long and unwieldy, they're hard to use when you're panicking.
Your best bet is to climb your nearest tree, and do it fast. Hogs can't climb bc they have hooves.
Not the case with bears though! Bears can climb very well when they need to. -
@kiki > "A pistol won't stop it"
My boss has a 454 Casull that might.
He calls it his "stupid" gun because when he shoots it, he says "I'm stupid for buying this stupid thing". Its a replica of a gun he saw in a western and thought he could use it as his fun conceal-n-carry (to show off at the range)
The shot volume, the recoil, he said is "just stupid". After about 3 shots he said his hand hurts and had to upgrade his hearing protection. I can imagine impact of hitting a boar at 50 yards with that thing. -
@PaperTrail this one might, yep
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@kiki Luckely there aren't many hippo's in europe :p
But a boar is always fun when I see one while hicking in the woods in France... Then you hope all the gods and religions that there aren't babies around. We see sometimes cars that hit one at night... They survive the hit, the car don't xD -
@Grumm oh yes. Seeing a bear cub is way more scary than seeing a grown up bear because it means there is a mother somewhere around. Bear mothers act very aggressive and irrational
I never encountered boar mothers, but I suspect they’re just as aggressive -
@kiki I have never seen a wild bear. Boars yes. Mothers will protect their babys like bears.
European hares and regular bunnies have nothing in common in terms of how they behave.
Hares will scream at you and attack you if you get too close. They're very fast and very agile, they even look like mini kangaroos. Sometimes they will open their mouth and jump at you full force, essentially using their body as a spear and their incisors as a spear tip. Their teeth are VERY sharp. Unlike carnivores' canines which are pointy, hare's incisors are flat like a razor's edge. They can totally bite your finger off.
They're big, strong and fierce enough to scare away foxes.
Just imagine dying of anaphylaxis all alone in the forest with no one to help you after getting bit by a not-even-rabid not-even-predator.
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