[Sca-cooks] Boar vs. Pig

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear commented:
> Just to add a little to Phlip's answer, wild pig is sometimes used to 
> refer
> to the peccary (AKA javelina).  What they are hunting down south are
> probably feral pigs, but i could also be peccaries, which have had a 
> very
> wide range in North and South America.
The javelina is common in south Texas. I also seem to remember them 
being smaller than the wild pig but much meaner in temperament.

I remember some discussions on the bbs or Rialto shortly after I joined 
the SCA about the idea of organizing some hunting of javelina using 
period weapons. The ones who actually had experience with this were 
having nothing to do with it, or at least not without suitable, 
large-bore modern backup weapons. Some of them reported being treed by 
the javelina in the past.

Stefan
(yes, that discussion is probably in the Florilegium. Somewhere.)
--------
THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****