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 MSP
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Saw a family of wild boar run across the track in front of me as I cycled to work this morning, first time I have seen some, so was feeling pretty good. Until about 20 seconds later when I hear the shots ring out, hunters must of got them, the bastards, ruined the moment.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:06 am
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Yum 8)


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:10 am
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lucky you weren't a victim of 'friendly' fire, really.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:11 am
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Where are you?

Maybe the Boar were the ones doing the shooting 😉


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:11 am
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Good eating for the shooters, just in time for Christmas


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:11 am
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"Wild" boar you say.

What country do you live in?


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:36 am
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Delicious. We have wild boar around here and this is the time of year for baby wild boar (the word boarlet just looks wrong for some reason) to be on restaurant menus. Slow cooked, loads of wine, the bones to thicken the sauce, served with red cabbage and spaetzle. Got my order in for a load for Xmas too.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:40 am
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And why were the shots not for deer?


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:56 am
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Marcassin sounds far more classy than boarlet, yummy too.

Theres nothing like looking down the barrel of a drunken idiot's rifle early on a Sunday morning to get the pulse racing. Two months of pig-killing season left. Can't wait.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 8:56 am
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I like to eat wild boar as much as anyone, but only when I know they have died naturally from an excess of love and happiness.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 9:10 am
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Now you're just being silly.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 9:30 am
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Very popular meat in the 80s. Duran Duran even did a tribute.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 9:33 am
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Duran duran! I think youre mixing up boars and bores.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 9:46 am
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Heard some rustling in the woods while cycling along, on the way back from Frankenstein's castle (about a year or so back). Family of 3 wild boar shot out right in front of me, maybe 5m in front of front wheel. Couple of seconds either way, and things could have been messy or painful.

Close encounters with Red Kite too (3 times so far), and some bambis.
edit: all on numbered bike paths too.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 10:07 am
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Ate some boar (chingali) stew in Italy - tasty. Saw some trotting about on the Freeminers' trail in FOD - cute.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 11:00 am
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I have yet to see any.. boo 🙁


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 11:05 am
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I've eaten it a few times, very tasty, but not seen any boar in the UK. Deer, on the other hand are great fun when running parallel to you. There were two great big beauties crashing past me on Follow the Dog, Cannock, yesterday.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 11:05 am
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Funny, I only saw what I thought was one of those on the way home last week, vaguely pig like, wandering around the Army camp, not likely to last long with all those ghurkas wandering about I thought.

Unusual enough to wind down the window and grab a picky

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Posted : 14/12/2012 12:29 pm
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There are too many sangliers and not enough hunters in this part of the world, MSP. Next time you see them please let them know: "Süd-Westlich Frankreich braucht dringend Jägern um eine menge Wildschweins zu erschiesen".


 
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Been lucky enough to See them a couple of times in the forest of Dean now. They are doing very well there. When they have young they are meant to be pretty evil, especially to dogs i've heard. You can easily pass them and not see them, they blend in so well. Came across a deer last time in the FOD too. Lovely place.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 2:58 pm
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Boar, deer, sheep.I see more of them than I do of my wife! :lol:Work is a bugger .


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 6:06 pm
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stop ****ing over deer micky 😆
my mates dog was killed by a wild boar, was pretty horrible. took us two hrs to get to a vet, to have her put down and she was in a right mess, massive internal bleeding, big puncture wounds. poor jolie 🙁


 
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Saw them in the FoD a month or so ago too, around the trails on a night ride with the dog. Was quite relieved that she stayed with me as she is an over-eager working dog with a habit of bringing everything to me! Father in law was working out in NZ when the Huntaways went tearing off into the forest, the 2 lead dogs were killed outright. Off to the FoD again next week and think the bitch will be staying at home.


 
Posted : 14/12/2012 7:12 pm