Weird noises in the field...

[Jaybo31]

Deer will make a growl sometimes

[Skinny]

Man I would have had too look

[ajm2nac]

im inclinded to believe hog

[jaker_cc]

Haha I'm sorry I had to say Bigfoot after reading that other thread

[hoythitman]

Big boar

No way it was a hog. I have pigs walk down there and they make all sorts of noise. Whatever it was had the absolute lightest walk I can imagine. I'm talking no dirt to walk in. I'm talking 100% small 1-3" flint rocks. Anything with hooves makes all sorts of racket walking there. I literally heard one footstep on the way down and 2 on the way out.

[hook-n-horns]

Bigfoot was my first thought.... would be a hell of a mount if you stuck him...

[hoythitman]

I guess I shouldn't say no way it was a hog. But highly unlikely.

[kacoach]

Definitely bigfoot.

[pblaetz]

No way it was a hog. I have pigs walk down there and they make all sorts of noise. Whatever it was had the absolute lightest walk I can imagine. I'm talking no dirt to walk in. I'm talking 100% small 1-3" flint rocks. Anything with hooves makes all sorts of racket walking there. I literally heard one footstep on the way down and 2 on the way out.

Big, mature boars can be amazingly quite. do you have a camera on the feeder?

[quarterback]

Bigfoot. Absolutely. I would never go back there. Ever.

[SaltwaterSlick]

You have described a big hog getting your wind and growling perfectly. This is especially true of an old sow with piglets, but if that had been the case, the piglets would have been ahead of her and you'd for sure have heard them and probably seen them. Boars will do it too, and for all the world it sounds like the meanest, baddest, monster in the woods. It is a very low pitched growl that often lasts several seconds... no grunting or other hog-sounding noises, just a mean-sounding gnarly growl. Don't care how big of a bad-A you are, that sound, especially in the dark will get your heart pumping.

Edit: They will also blow and sniff loudly when doing this as you described too.

[hoythitman]

You have described a big hog getting your wind and growling perfectly. This is especially true of an old sow with piglets, but if that had been the case, the piglets would have been ahead of her and you'd for sure have heard them and probably seen them. Boars will do it too, and for all the world it sounds like the meanest, baddest, monster in the woods. It is a very low pitched growl that often lasts several seconds... no grunting or other hog-sounding noises, just a mean-sounding gnarly growl. Don't care how big of a bad-A you are, that sound, especially in the dark will get your heart pumping.

Edit: They will also blow and sniff loudly when doing this as you described too.

Well that all sounds right so maybe it was just a pig. I'm use to them coming down in groups and its really loud. Maybe a single pig walking slow could have got in and out without much noise.

[Bruiser]

Big boar hog.

[Jspradley]

Probably a panther, more specifically a black one.

[BETTERLUCKYTHANGOOD]

I've sat out in S. Texas and listen to the loudest, lowest, meanest sounding hog make all kinds of noise....all the time thinking I'm bout to see a huge hog walk in, then in walks a little 20lber that thinks he owns the world. I always get a kick outta how big they make themselves sound.