Convoy c8 and javelina.

Meat from a source like what's represented, not having eaten it, makes me wonder what it "would" taste like. A wild taste, yes, but hard for me to imagine. I'm a fairly avid hunter.

They are range fed, but they eat literally everything. Not like corralled, farm fed at all.

All that I have had has been quite tasty. Sausage, bacon, & hams that were smoked…. it has all been very good.
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Edit: To be clear, I am referring to wild hogs/boars…. not Javelina.

glad I am not the only one who had to google “javelina”; those look quite nasty. Guess I am too acclimated to city life, the worst creatures I get to see are mosquitoes.

I was referring to wild hogs. If I do ever get the opportunity, I would like to try it.

What state are you in? If they are not there yet…… Their on the way…… :frowning:

I live in WA. I have heard of some hogs invading in the S.E., but not many. They have to be plants is my thought.

Well you are way behind the curve up there in the PNW…. but check this out….

And by S.E., if you are talking about the Southeast USA…. it is far, far beyond “plants” in many areas of many states. Texas is eat up with them…. a major problem. Here is a link that tells a bit more.

Here is more reading about Texas & porkers of the wild variety…

Your C8 is bright enough to blind a hog? :slight_smile:

Yep…. if you back up that bright beam with some well placed hot lead. :wink:

I am indeed out of the news curve. Until they become more newsworthy as a nuisance, I wouldn't waste the time to go where they are here in WA...yet. I should have been more clear. I do that sometimes and just start rattling thinking people just know. Sorry, I meant S.E. Washington. Some nights, on the weekends, I search Youtube for good hog hunt vids. I can sit and watch them for hours if there's enough excitement. The videos coming out from Texas, that part of the country IS infested bad. Some day I'd like to take a trip there and join in with a hunting party. That would be a kick! I like watching Coyote hunts too that are in other regions. Nothing like that where I am.

No, I meant you were behind the hog invasion curve in the PNW…… not the news curve. :slight_smile:

Yeah, I like watching those videos too. Lots of action.

Ok, SE WA… that does seem to be about the only part of your state they have been reported.

I know what you were meaning. You just experienced my lack of info fulfillment as I mentioned earlier. Not intentional, but I sometimes am the reverse to a speed-reader.

I was just summing the invasion up to, when it becomes more pronounced in the news, I might consider making a trip to go help provide the necessary injections ;) :D

:+1: …. I hear ya’ ARsee. :slight_smile: … “Injection Administration” is the fun part…… :wink:
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The real question is did you use the turbo mode or a blinky mode. Inquiring minds want to know.

I am glad that it turned out the way it did.

Inserting a lead tracking device in the right place will usually solve the problem. :smiley:

Bob

Being a Long Island, NY guy, I’ve never heard of a Javelina. We don’t have them here. I personally wouldn’t want to come across one.

You ain’t kidding.

You’d honest to God be amazed at the amount of destruction a sounder (family group) can accomplish in one night.

The state is trying to poison them, but the program was just paused until more study could be done. Many are worried about the effect of the poison on other animals, humans who eat the meat included.

ETA: I’m talking about feral hogs, who are larger, more destructive and much more widespread than the native javelina.

In Texas hogs are able to be taken year round no season on them. I don’t know if its still the same way in my state still in Mississippi. As far as I know you can trap them year round here. They tear up so much farmland and gardens and anything else they can get into. But I wouldn’t go in the woods without a pistol at least. At a plant I use to work at by honey island swamp I hit like 3 of them in under 2 years in my mustang. Just ran across the road out of nowhere. The industrial park was a nature preserve. But they hired a guy to trap them and move them.

On another note glad the light worked. I DD c8 can be very bright. I’ve strobed raccoons with 4k lumens and they just sit there. And other times take off. They take off now they know i mean business to an extent. In city limits now so a shot without a suppressor is a no go. They come to steal the cats food. Had a opossum get snarly when I hit it with a x6 triple strobe. Things get kinda intimidating when you corner one and it can’t see. Threw a can of beans at it made it jump off the deck. Deck is about 5 feet up (All I was willing to lose from the store trip)
I had a friend when we were much much younger get ran up a tree with his bb gun. And it was trying to uproot the tree to get to him. So he kept shoptojg it in the face with BBS and yelling for help. Someone was shooting way in the distance. When they guy got close enough it turned and charged him. And took about 4 shots with a 9mm before it stopped feet before getting him with the tusks. Wild pigs/hogs/javelina etc can be very dangerous. Anyone who has hunting dogs. Has had to stitch their dogs up more then one time with fishing line or had to put one down that got gutted by the hog. The dogs hold the hog down while you come up with a knife and slit the throat

I live right on the edge of the City Limits Speed4goal, but in the City Limits. We had a bunch of Coyotes around here several years ago.

One afternoon late a pack of 7 walked slowly out of the woods, stood and checked me out while I was mowing grass. They were big & healthy too…. not skinny & scraggly. I called the City animal control guy & asked him what I could & couldn’t do “legally”.

He answered…. “On the record…. not much unless they attack. Call us.”
Then he continued…. “Off the record, one shot is about impossible to trace”.

I simply said…. “thank you, I understand completely”. :wink:

The coyote population began to dwindle early the following morning. :wink:

He was right too…. one shot is hard to determine where it came from. :slight_smile:
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Y’know, up to this point (arrow), I thought you had the biggest-ass nastiest opossums over by you.

The one by me that visits every night to eat leftover catfood just kinda stares at me and waddles away when I open the back door, maybe goes sluggish and plays dead when I go to pet him.

Couldn’t imaging shooting him in the face with BBs and still have him uprooting a tree to get at me.

Jesus…

With those javelinas and hogs and boars and wotdahellever, it makes it sound like a 12ga is the only way to go.

Or just set up some claymores.

Texlite & Speed4goal

When I see a video (which I did) of someone with a private chopper, load guys up with full auto M4's and 249's, my reality, and eyes opened wide. I wouldn't have believed it otherwise. That's taking things to the serious extremes. After watching the chopper fly over the landscape, and the amount of hogs there, HOLY ****. The hogs were in herds, running. Well strap me in. Lets GO!! And I thought watching the night hunts were a rush.

Poisoning them, huh? They better REALLY rethink LONG and HARD before they cut loose something like that. As mentioned, lots to worry about as an aftermath for results. I can imagine a lot of out-of-state hunters want to get in on the fun spree. What the heck though, I can't imagine all the hogs get eaten.