| Wild boar hunting has been around for | | | | is to dig a hole of one or two feet |
| thousands of years, from the Persians' | | | | depth and one or two feet across, |
| first attempt of slaying these | | | | placing some bait in the bottom and |
| creatures, but it has really become | | | | cover it with a layer of dirt. A |
| known in the medieval times when royalty | | | | different way to tempt boars is to use a |
| and rich people used to hunt boars as a | | | | 10-13 cm pipe that will be cut into two |
| way of entertaining themselves and their | | | | or three foot pieces with caps on each |
| guests. Over the years, wild boar | | | | end. These are low-cost and efficient |
| hunting hasn't lost any of its appeal | | | | luring solutions which will make the |
| and is now just as popular as it was in | | | | whole hunting experience much easier. |
| Elizabethan England, almost five hundred | | | | Choosing the appropriate spot to place |
| years ago. So what is it that makes | | | | your bait can be delicate as the boars |
| hunting boars such timeless practice? | | | | have excellently developed senses and |
| A likely explanation could lie in the | | | | will probably detect your presence, thus |
| fact that the boar is a formidable | | | | making them suspicious of an easy meal. |
| opponent, which never can be brought | | | | That is why a baiting spot should be |
| down easily. Wild boar hunting is | | | | chosen someplace easy to get to, away |
| neither for the faint of heart nor for | | | | from any bedding areas and, if possible, |
| solo hunters, because this animal can | | | | right next to trails, flounders and |
| prove to be a vicious fighter that never | | | | other often used areas. The location you |
| surrenders without a fight. In spite of | | | | choose is extremely important to your |
| its aggressive nature, this omnivore is | | | | success (even more important than the |
| tranquil if not threatened, and almost | | | | method used), above all when there |
| never deliberately attacks humans. The | | | | aren't that many boars around. |
| sole situation in which you are strongly | | | | To put it briefly, wild boar hunting |
| advised to stay as far as possible from | | | | appears to stay with us throughout the |
| a boar is when it has cubs (piglets) and | | | | ages and it would seem to continue to be |
| they are beside their mother. She will | | | | a part of our hunting customs for years |
| do anything to protect her young from | | | | and years to come. Even though, hunting |
| any danger they may be facing and that | | | | for boars has radically changed its ways |
| is why, the boar being constantly a | | | | in comparison to the way it used to be |
| challenge and a threat, we are drown | | | | done centuries ago, it still maintains |
| towards hunting it over and over again. | | | | its essence and spirit, whether we |
| Resembling more or less any other form | | | | comprehend it or not. After all, the |
| of hunting, wild boar hunting involves | | | | beauty of something rests in what the |
| luring the unsuspecting creatures | | | | naked eye cannot see and in what the |
| towards you and not having to search for | | | | mind can. |
| them yourself. One way to bait for them | | | | |