who says pigs aren't tough?

Yes, they are very tough. All you have to do to see how tough is take down an ol boar and try to skin him.
 
tough squealer indeed. once you skin a wild/feral hog like we have here in the states you can see how tough the 'shield' on the upper shoulders and neck is.
I shot a sow some years back (dressed out about 200 lbs) too far back to get the heart lung junction, it was moveing in a slow trot. the slug (from my Ruger Old Army) still put a hole through the end of both lungs and exited. I had my nephew with me packing a 20 ga with buckshot. we tracked that thing nearly 1/2 mile before it layed down in thicket. it was still blowing blood so I gave it another slug in back of head.
it was worth it though - good eating. had been raiding a cabbage & potato field.
 
That is an African bush pig; they are tougher than rocks and meaner than cobras. Had one come after me once. Glad I had a FAL.
 
I had always heard that pigs were tough. My wife yelled up the stairs one day that there was a pig in the yard. I asked if it was pig (I envisioned Babe) or a wild boar. "HELL, I DON'T KNOW!" was her response. When I came down and looked out the back door, a 200+ lb wild boar was nose to nose with my dog.

I shot it with a .270 and it rolled, got up and ran away. No blood trail and I never found it. I always heard they were bullet traps and now I know it's true.
 
i hope you guys realise this is two tamed animals. this looks like a wart-hog weener. never the less this thread is defnitly right. pigs are tough. i hunt wart-hogs at least twice a week. i shot a sow two weeks ago that had a bullet hole in her front leg. the wound was allmost healed. i shot a male about 3 months ago with with a 308 open sight. the pig was running(as they allways seems to do) i shot it 6times with fmj mill ammo before it went down.

i once saw a documentary about wart-hogs that showed a big male killing a lioness with one stab of his tusks.
 
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