A Tale of Pig Wrestling

By James Rummel

The previous post concerned how my defensive handgun would fare against javelina and wild boar. Long time reader augustr had a request.

“I seem to remember a story where you were hunting in a thicket and came up against a hog. NO link?”

I thought that the post had been lost, but our friend knirirr was kind enough to suggest web.archive.org, otherwise known as the Wayback Machine. It took some digging but I found an archived version dated November 30, 2006 10:16 PM.

There are some embarrassing mistakes in the essay. The one that is truly unforgivable is that I confuse javelina with wild boar, and even misspell the word. “…torn to shreds as the havelina furiously tried to throw me off.” My only excuse is that I had only been to Texas that once, and I had heard people mention javelina. I just never bothered to ask if they were different from wild boar.

At any rate, those who are interested can read about the day I used up all of the luck God allotted me for my entire life.

…Read the Rest

Source:: Hell In a Handbasket