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Hog Hunting in Style
mateomasfeo
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This sure looks like fun!
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Comments
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
There was a lot of ground covered in that short clip. Doubt much time was spent looking for wounded piggies.
Brad Steele
Not very sporting. Looks more like just killing than hunting to me.
Sure it is sporting. Just move up a little higher. Just took this pic over the house a few minutes ago..
Not very sporting. Looks more like just killing than hunting to me.
How would you hunt them? With your bare hands? Anything else is just a degree of "not very sporting." However, I know what you are saying and basically you are correct. But I don't think you care if you give a cockroach a sporting chance...
Understand about hogs. In Texas they are considered a pest and varmit. They can literally tear up large areas of land in a very short period of time. They breed prolifically. They are large cockroaches.
There is no season, and no license required. Sporting really isn't part of the equation.
I believe this video is from the King Ranch in south Texas. They killed several hundred in a day.
The difference is that hogs don't have the good manners to just sit in one place and wait for you to kill them, like prairie dogs do.
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USA
519 Posts
Posted - 05/13/2009 : 3:41:02 PM
I'm no expert on the hog population in Texas,
they are worse then bad
a biologist said we need to shoot ever one we see and we still wont bring them in to check
when a sow can drop a litter ever 3 3 3 3months,3weeks and 3 days
then there choats start breeding in 6 months
we have a hog problem
better be dang careful to be hangin out a chopper,
or the last one you kill may be from falling on it.[:)]
GTR
a biologist said we need to shoot ever one we see and we still wont bring them in to check
when a sow can drop a litter ever 3 3 3 3months,3weeks and 3 days
then there choats start breeding in 6 months
we have a hog problem
this is true in a lot of states..!!
they are evan in Oregon,game department say's shoot them any time you see them.
Pardon my tree-hugging self, but it looks to me like someone getting his rocks off randomly shooting defenseless animals.
There was a lot of ground covered in that short clip. Doubt much time was spent looking for wounded piggies.
I believe you must differentiate between "hunting" and "pest control" In their area it is pest control. Also a lot of the clips were over farm fields, so going back to collect the dead pigs wouldn't be a problem. Leaving a lot of dead pigs out in the farm fields isn't a good idea.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
In the last two days, I was talking with two different (totally unrelated) people about their wild hog problem and both are ready to burn their ranch to kill as many as they can before they lose everything. The local rivers around here are out of their banks and pushing the hogs even more aggressively into the fields they don't normally run.
You own land here that you care anything about, i.e. other than just plain wild woods, never used for anything else, you want to kill some hogs. They are utterly devastating to the land and out of control.
that's my .02 worth and I am going to assist one of these two folks I talked with in the last two days with some serious hog killing. I'm taking my AR and a few 30 round mags and going to drop as many as I can while they can be found.
This method may be distasteful to some, but as fast as they run when you fire one shot, you only get to kill about 2-3 out of 50-100 or so when they come storming through, unless you have 10-20 guns aimed at them when the first shot is fired. Then, that's all you get. This method at least allows you to get a few of them down before they scatter too much or you run out of fuel or ammmo.
If they were destroying YOUR land, you'd want a helo to help you as well.
While I can see hunters taking exception to that kind of hunting, there are places where hog hunting is like prairie dog killing is here. They're great, big, voracious pests that farmers want eradicated because of the crop damage they cause.
The difference is that hogs don't have the good manners to just sit in one place and wait for you to kill them, like prairie dogs do.
[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] that's funny.
I can't see hitting them in the leg with a few pellets and having them living lame.
Hopefully they set down and finished them off.
I would liked to have been in that helicopter with my Marlin 336 in 35 Remington.
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saw on TX HOG HUNTER.com, one day a Polaris Ranger rigged with a mini gun on the roll cage, and twin SAW's used by a hog irradication company near San Antonio. They were taking 200-300 hogs in a couple hours on some infested properties. I wish I could find the photos it is an awesome ATV to say the least.
I would liked to have been in that helicopter with my Marlin 336 in 35 Remington.
I'm thinking M240B! It would be alot easier to hit with it.
When and where we could get ground control to pick them up, we gave them to needy families. recovery usually isn't very high.
If I recall the body count was 13-14 hogs and a lot of cleaning![:D] They were just the right size too.