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In reply to the discussion: Ryan outfits 10 yr old daughter with deer-hunting gear (gave her rifle as gift at age 9) [View all]Didn't see your question, so I apologize for not replying sooner.
The hunting guide was right there, the tracking dogs helped keep the animal at bay, my husband was right there (with a gun to kill it with if necessary), the guide and my husband were both helping to restrain it, my daughter was wearing protective clothing, and she trained for a year to be both psychologically and physically ready to do it.
She also took a sow, not a boar and they are slightly less aggressive and also don't have the huge tusks the boars do (they taste better too).
(And before anyone freaks out about how unfair this was to the sow - remember these animals are a pest. They are destroying crops, wildlife, habitats. They eat anything they can. They breed like rabbits and they have NO natural predators. They do half a billion dollars in damage a year just in TX, and they destroy endangered sea turtle habitats as well as eating the eggs and babies. It was the introduction of pigs to an ecosystem that wiped out the dodo).