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    Wild boar Sus scrofa

    May 01, 2019 3 minutes

    Were it not for the wild boar, it is possible that the bayonet would not have been invented. In the days before breech-loading firearms, a hunter armed with a muzzle-loading gun would take some time to reload, quite long enough for a wounded and enraged boar to take advantage of his helplessness. As a result, sportsmen took to carrying hunting daggers with handles shaped to be jammed into the muzzle of an empty musket to create a spear that they could use to defend

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