Flintknapper
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East Texas Zombie Hog.
East Texas Zombie Hog.
My friend gave it a .45 in the head and it dropped immediately. I drug it out of the trap and we threw it on the tailgate of my truck and went about our work on the trap. The hog had a twitch or two still in it, but I figured it was about done for. I heard a noise and looked over to see it standing up in the front of the bed staggering around and it proceeded to jump out over the side of the truck and hauled into the woods next to us....which are very thick and hard to negotiate. He took off after it with a rifle, and followed the signs for 60-80 yds. where he saw it laying down. As he tried to get in position to shoot it again, it got up and made it into a swamp where it made a clean get away. Maybe the coyotes will appreciate the hog, but was a strange experience for us. He lost a lot of blood in my truck before he ran off....I never would have thought he had it in him to run off like that. I even lifted up his lip to check out his teeth while he was laying in the truck and got no reaction from him.
The corneal reflex test is the best test I have found to assure that a downed hog is actually dead. I like to use the muzzle of my rifle in case the hog needs to be shot again. You simply touch a foreign object to the surface of the eye. If the eye or lid moves, then the involuntary corneal reflex has worked and this indicates that the animal is still alive.
Great story, none the less!
As long as that is not Poison Sumac you should be OK .
I hope you kill every hog you see.