Hunter almost shot as feral hog charges

Post by **Skiprr** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:09 pm

What do you call a group of hogs?

Close (http://daytonahog.com/). But I think you'd call it "Sturgis."

In one of those "huh?" experiences of the English language, I looked it up and a group of hogs is correctly called either a "drift of hogs," or a "parcel of hogs." Parcel I can maybe understand, but drift? Who came up with that...

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:04 pm

Skiprr wrote:
What do you call a group of hogs?
Close (http://daytonahog.com/). But I think you'd call it "Sturgis."

In one of those "huh?" experiences of the English language, I looked it up and a group of hogs is correctly called either a "drift of hogs," or a "parcel of hogs." Parcel I can maybe understand, but drift? Who came up with that...

Yer making me feel like I have to hold my pinky finger up when I say that now...

I believe you are correct, it is "parcel"...

Greybeard · Post by **Greybeard** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:35 pm

Quote: "Parcel I can maybe understand, but drift? Who came up with that... "

Maybe the same folks who determined that the individual critters are called "pigs" up until they reach 110 pounds.

Then after that weight, are "hogs". Or so my son said he learned in high skul ag class ...

flintknapper · Post by **flintknapper** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:12 pm

I always thought a group of hogs was a "Sounder".

But, having said that...East Texas colloquialism (what I use)... requires "A Bunch 'O".

So, usually you'll hear "I saw a herd of hogs" or "I saw/seen a Bunch 'O hogs". Either way, you got hogs, and hogs are bad!

Post by **Skiprr** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:39 pm

What I found was that if you have a group of piglets, you have a farrow. A group of pigs, a herd, litter, or sounder. A group of boars, a sounder or a singular. (Why does trying to exclaim a group of charging boars as a "singular" sound like a Monty Python skit waiting to happen?) And a group of hogs, a drift, passel, or parcel.

I vote that we deep-six all this minutiae and go with Flint: any group of animals is heretofore "a bunch o'" said animals. Would end the ambiguity. Would end stuff like:

"Look! A flock of hawks."
"Hawks don't flock. Is it a cast or a kettle?"
"A what? A kette of what?"
"Of hawks."
"No, it's a whole flock of 'em."
"Are they gliding in the air, riding thermals?"
"No. They're all up there on the cliffs."
"Then it's not a kettle."
"No, darnit. They're hawks."
"It's a cast."
"Oh, forget it..."

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:06 pm

stevie_d_64 wrote:What do you call a group of hogs???

"Multiple targets of opportunity."

Liberty · Post by **Liberty** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:51 am

flintknapper wrote:I always thought a group of hogs was a "Sounder".

But, having said that...East Texas colloquialism (what I use)... requires "A Bunch 'O".

So, usually you'll hear "I saw a herd of hogs" or "I saw/seen a Bunch 'O hogs". Either way, you got hogs, and hogs are bad!

I agree with ya, Flint but I usually hear it refered to as a "Whole bunch 'o hogs".

flintknapper · Post by **flintknapper** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:21 am

Liberty wrote:
flintknapper wrote:I always thought a group of hogs was a "Sounder".

But, having said that...East Texas colloquialism (what I use)... requires "A Bunch 'O".

So, usually you'll hear "I saw a herd of hogs" or "I saw/seen a Bunch 'O hogs". Either way, you got hogs, and hogs are bad!

I agree with ya, Flint but I usually hear it refered to as a "Whole bunch 'o hogs".

Yup,

Thats what my Father in Law calls 'em...except he inserts an expletive.

Greybeard · Post by **Greybeard** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:29 am

I'm still considering how to get that video up on TV screen to show in hunter ed. classes ...

That little clip did somewhat prompt me to actually "downsize" some hunting ammo for SRH .454. Ordered some more 45 Colt +Ps in 255 grain hardcast where recovery for follow-up shots is much easier than with current batches of full blown 454 300g XTPs ...

If lucky, I might could accurately get off about 2, max of 3 rounds out of the 454 in the same time frame that dude got off 4 shots - with whatever load was he was shooting ...

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:45 am

While we're talking about shooting hogs...

Appartently this was a different shooting:

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S= ... =menu410_3

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:02 pm

Paladin wrote:While we're talking about shooting hogs...

Appartently this was a different shooting:

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S= ... =menu410_3

He got lucky. A charging sow is a scary thing!

Skipper5 · Post by **Skipper5** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:28 pm

KBCraig wrote:
Paladin wrote:While we're talking about shooting hogs...

Appartently this was a different shooting:

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S= ... =menu410_3
He got lucky. A charging sow is a scary thing!

Lordy...I guess! Whata monster! Glad his first shot was his best shot.

Greybeard · Post by **Greybeard** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:53 pm

Good article - and definitely a bigger-than-normal sow.

But ... did anyone else notice that the text in article says the people who weigh 'em for a living estimated the weight at 600 to 650 pounds - and the caption under photograph already had it up to 750 ? Y'all watch, the way this internet-photo-storytellin'-thing works, by this time next month, that hog will have been shot by at least 3 other hunters and will be over 1,000 pounds.

Greybeard · Post by **Greybeard** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:30 pm

Coincidently, this one (evidently quite a stinker)
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=245782
was strung up (at 1,100 pounds) and on Georgia TV station within the last day or two.