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.
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
Youâd 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: Iâm 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 donât 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 wouldnât 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. Iâve 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 canât 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 tooâŚ. not skinny & scraggly. I called the City animal control guy & asked him what I could & couldnât do âlegallyâ.
He answeredâŚ. âOn the recordâŚ. not much unless they attack. Call us.â
Then he continuedâŚ. âOff the record, one shot is about impossible to traceâ.
I simply saidâŚ. âthank you, I understand completelyâ.
The coyote population began to dwindle early the following morning.
He was right tooâŚ. one shot is hard to determine where it came from.
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Yâknow, 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.
Couldnât imaging shooting him in the face with BBs and still have him uprooting a tree to get at me.
JesusâŚ
With those javelinas and hogs and boars and wotdahellever, it makes it sound like a 12ga is the only way to go.
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.
Wouldnât it just be easier to find the Mother Of All Herds, get âem into one big wide-open fieldâŚ
and get a Spectre gunship to do âem in? Send âem to <coff> Hawg Heaven.
I can just imagine a chopper full of yayhoos getting mechanical trouble and having to land right smack in the middle of one of those herds. âItâs game over, man! Game over!â
Poisoning? Nah. Sounds like a Good Idea âtil someoneâs favorite coon-hound gets a bellyful of poison and starts bleeding out his eyes and takes a half-hour of painful retching to finally croke. Then itâs no fun anymore. Or when little Jenny is on a camping trip and somehow manages to stick some colorful nuggets in her mouth, then ends up meeting olâ Zeke the coon-hound.
The state had these feeders built with weighted steel trap doors, hogs were supposed to be the only critters with a snout strong enough to open them. If youâve ever seen hogs eat though, Iâd imagine theyâd leave enough scattered around for another animal to pick up. Warfarin is what theyâre using, the blood thinner they give to heart patients, my dad was on it for years. In large doses the animal hemorrhages and dies. Many of these feral hogs that are trapped are sold to vendors who sell them overseas. I have a relative whoâs traps and sells to a buyer, they buy everything, even the old stinky boars. One of the concerns was that a poisoned animal would be killed and eaten by someone, or something else in the food chain after it died, like coyotes, buzzards or wolves. Wolves have been almost completely displaced by âyotes, havenât heard or seen any in years. According to the State wolves were hunted to extinction here, but the family land I was raised on borders National Forest, and we used to hear the wolves often, got a light on them many nights.
Maybe increase the âdoseâ but lessen the amount of the bait, so itâd be just 1-2 bites⌠then Hawg Heaven.
Yeh, standard rat-poison, too. They eat and just bleed out from, like, everywhere, even internally.
As food?
I remember an article about helicopter hunts, how most carcasses would just be left to rot, but some were scooped up to be used as food. Someone commented how just using those fresh carcasses could feed lots of starving people even right here in the States (eg, the Ozarks), let alone overseas.
Not a bad ideaâŚ
Hey, one place where I worked, there was a refrigerated vending machine that sold things like microwave pancakes, etc., and one of my weaknesses was the sausage patty on a bun. Really tasty. Main ingredient: âwhole boned hogâ.
Yeah, just take the skinned carcass, pull out the bones, and probably just grind up the rest into hog-paste.
Still was tastyâŚ
Unno, seems like plenty can be done, not just getting rid of big-ass mammalian locusts, but putting them to good use. Hell, do a Lawrence of Arabia and run the herd off into a canyon⌠Then back up the refrigerated trailers and haul âem off to the processing plant.
Hunters for the Hungry has chapters in most states and is a great way for hunters to donate meat to feed the hungry. Typically it is deer and in some areas they donate hogs as well.
Donât know for sure if theyâre used for food, I assumed they were. Iâll ask my relative the next time I see them, maybe they know.
The problem with a mass roundup is that Texas is almost entirely private property, and youâd have to have permission for access at each property. Whatever is done will have to be done piecemeal. Thatâs really one of my only gripes about Texas, we have very little (comparatively) publicly owned land. We have lots of National forest, but youâre limited in what you can do on it. That coupled with the size of the state makes any real solution for complete eradication a pipe dream IMHO.
Wild hogs - an annoyance and danger. Up here on LI they call it free range Boar and charge big $$$ for it, like it's some rare exquisitely tasting treat. I do really like it, just wish I could get it an easier way - it's bout as expensive as Alaskan king crab legs.