A “large 100 kg male” with “razor-sharp” canines: two hunters charged by a wild boar who had just received a bullet – Media7

Taken care of by firefighters, the two men were hospitalized.

Two men aged 52 and 66 came close to death during a hunt organized this Saturday, November 11 in the town of La Coquille, in Dodorgne. In the morning, these hunters were indeed charged by a wild boar who had just received a bullet. Still in shock, they spoke to France Bleu Périgord after being victims of a “big 100 kg male” with “razor-sharp” canines.

The fifty-year-old detailed the scene to our colleagues. “I was there to pick up the dogs. We thought he had passed by, but he was ten meters from me, waiting for the dogs to catch them. I shouted, he charged at me, it happened in five seconds. Then, the black hole.”

“It has phenomenal power, like a hippopotamus! »

Witnessing this charge, the sixty-year-old shouted before being attacked in turn. “The boar pounced on him. When I came to my senses, my colleague was in the middle of the road, the wild boar was dead,” he relates. According to his statements, a fierce face-to-face confrontation took place between the animal and himself: “The wild boar was on him, it was a struggle, my colleague stabbed him with a dagger. the heart to defend itself,” says his comrade.

Taken care of by firefighters, the two hunters were hospitalized. The 50-year-old escaped with seven stitches in his head. Victim of a torn calf, his friend had surgery and his wrist was sewn up. “It has phenomenal power, like a hippopotamus! We were lucky. The wild boar, when it was on me, it could have cut my artery,” one of them realizes.