Might want to check out "Pig Bomb" airing now on Discovery

[alde]

Originally posted by tomhenry:
When you said "pig bomb" I thought somebody was thinking ill thoughts of certain female democrats.

I saw a show a while back on the history channel about seige warfare. One of the weapons they used to gain access to a walled castle was a "pig bomb". They would tunnel under the wall and place a large pig with all the opening sewed up tight. Over several weeks in would bloat up. The skin was tuff enough to hold together for quite a while. It would eventually blow up and take down the wall.

It must have had quite an order after a few weeks. They used some pretty inventive things put this one really stuck in my mind.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Originally posted by alde:

Originally posted by tomhenry:
When you said "pig bomb" I thought somebody was thinking ill thoughts of certain female democrats.

I saw a show a while back on the history channel about seige warfare. One of the weapons they used to gain access to a walled castle was a "pig bomb". They would tunnel under the wall and place a large pig with all the opening sewed up tight. Over several weeks in would bloat up. The skin was tuff enough to hold together for quite a while. It would eventually blow up and take down the wall.

It must have had quite an order after a few weeks. They used some pretty inventive things put this one really stuck in my mind.

What did the pig think about all of this

I would think the guy who held down the pig was the one to be really afraid of

 

[em-man]

I thought "pig bomb" was going to be a new weapon to use against those moslem bastards...

 

[zoom6zoom]

I was thinking a pig bomb was something we could use on places like Iran.

 

[Firehouse]

 

[murphman]

Although pretty well over the top with the projections at the end about pigs sort of topping out the evolutionary food chain (15 feet tall at the shoulder - yeah, right!), it was pretty entertaining.

From the perspective of someone who grew up on a farm, though, people really don't understand just how dangerous a hog can be. You get anything that weighs 400 plus pounds (and "domesticated" hogs will easily go over 600 to 700 pounds) hitting you at 30 mph, and you've got a major problem. Add in razor sharp tusks perfectly positioned to rip out a femoral artery, hamstring or gut a human. And then - they will eat you.

Oh, and I forgot - contrary to every stereotype - pigs are as quick as cats. No kidding. The only things I have seen that were as quick in a fight as hogs, were cats.

Also, the only real difference between a "feral hog" and a "domesticated hog" is that one isn't in the pen anymore.

 

[NoJoe]

I heard somewhere that it only takes two weeks in the wild for a domestic pig to start growing hair and tusks again.

203gr 7.62x54r out of my Romanian m44 did a nice job for me last spring.

 

[darmtn1917]

Funny this came up - just last week 3 large (3ft X 3ft.) hogs showed up in my front yard. Went out to check why dogs were going nuts and found myself under gunned (M6 22cal X 410). I have never seen one in the previous 30yrs I lived in the Sierra foothills. Neighbor and I are now plotting a hunt.