whats the biggest land animal you guys think you can beat up with your bare hands, and you can't make weapons? We were talking while high, concesus was pigs.
I've been reading through this thread, doing lots of
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***WARNING*** Old man's ramblings ahead...
Back in the old days, when I worked in oil search as a jughound 'beyond the Black Stump', back in the days when you would drive into the closest town after work and and get a gutful of piss and drive home again...
...we would often see pigs or roos on the run home. If we saw roos we wouldn't bother stopping. But the pigs, they'd usually just sit there and wait for you to hit 'em...
...One night seven of us were in a (LandCruiser) troop carrier and we hit a mob of pigs. All but one bolted, so the driver reverses back over it, then drives over it again. He repeated this three times, then we all jump out the back to see that this thing is *standing*...
...and the first thing one of these crazy drunk blokes does is king hit this boar right between the eyes! The thing was probably only 60kg, but pigs being pigs have solid heads as you know. So, the pig, still stunned from being hit at 60mph and then repeatedly beaten about the head by a 4WD differential, doesn't feel the punch and just stands there. Meanwhile, one of the other blokes pulls a long handle shovel from under the troopie seats and proceeds to beat the pig across the head with the flat side of the shovel. He probably hit this pig ten times before it fell over.
A few years after this I was living in the rainforest in Far North Queensland. I knew three pig shooters and went with one of them on a hunt through the forest in Cedar bay, with his three dogs. This guy 'John', would take his dogs and a knife. He also had a 357 Magnum lever action rifle that he'd carry as an emergency back-up. It was just not possible to get a clean shot on a pig running at 40+ kilometres and hour through tree trunks. His dogs would run a pig down and hold it by the ears until he got to them. He'd then go in and slit the pigs throat.
Would I take on a pig barehanded? Not fucking likely!
...I could tell you the time I was drunk and tried to approach an otherwise docile Brahman cow...except this time she had a three day old calf...
...the King Brown that got cornered in a fallen tree...they can move quick...
...The feral cat and the goanna in the same tree hollow...
...the feral goat that had horns 24 inches long, enough to go through you and out the other side. When it reared, it stood around seven to eight feet...
...the mob of guerilla dingos that would raid our property at night, luring the dogs and picking them off one by one...sneakiest fuckers on the planet our dingos...
The biggest wild animal I'd take on? Who said a gerbil? Stoney! Is there anything smaller and less vicious? A baby mouse maybe?