Boar hunting

Boar hunting is the practice of hunting wild boar, feral pigs, warthogs, and peccaries. Boar hunting was historically a dangerous exercise due to the tusked animal's ambush tactics as well as its thick hide and dense bones rendering them difficult to kill with premodern weapons.

Quotes

• God gave the horse for man to ride,
    And steel wherewith to fight,
  And wine to swell his soul with pride
    And women for delight:
  But a better gift than these all four
  Was when He made the fighting boar.
  The horse is filled with spirit rare,
    His heart is bold and free;
  The bright steel flashes in the air,
    And glitters hungrily.
  But these were little use before
  The Lord He made the fighting boar.
  The ruby wine doth banish care,
    But it confounds the head;
  The fickle fair is light as air,
    And makes the heart bleed red;
  But wine nor love can tempt us more
  When we may hunt the fighting boar.
  • Julian Grenfell, "Hymn to the Wild Boar", sts. 1–3, in Muse in Arms, ed. E. D. Osborn (1917), p. 203