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.
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.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to find the Mother Of All Herds, get ’em into one big wide-open field…
and get a Spectre gunship to do ’em in? Send ’em 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. “It’s game over, man! Game over!”
Poisoning? Nah. Sounds like a Good Idea ‘til someone’s 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 it’s 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 ol’ 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 you’ve ever seen hogs eat though, I’d imagine they’d leave enough scattered around for another animal to pick up. Warfarin is what they’re 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 who’s 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 ’yotes, haven’t 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 “dose” but lessen the amount of the bait, so it’d 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 idea…
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: “whole boned hog”.
Yeah, just take the skinned carcass, pull out the bones, and probably just grind up the rest into hog-paste.
Still was tasty…
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 ’em 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.
Don’t know for sure if they’re used for food, I assumed they were. I’ll 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 you’d have to have permission for access at each property. Whatever is done will have to be done piecemeal. That’s really one of my only gripes about Texas, we have very little (comparatively) publicly owned land. We have lots of National forest, but you’re 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.
If you could somehow make the right Texas connection or connection in another select Southeastern state, make a pilgrimage once a year there for a few days…. rifle in hand; you could probably go home with enough to last you the rest of the year at least.
Plus you’d get to have the fun of ridding said sate of some more of the pesky critters… thus helping the environment too. :+1:
Its only one will NEVER feed the hungry
30 years ago UN start a program for a massive Somalia help, this inclues donations in money and food /goods /medicine for over 800 000 000 USD , every year!
You know what happened? Before a somalian woman had 2…3 children tops, now they have 7-8, many of them 10…and the starvation is even bigger
Same thing happens in Nigeria…
Back to the topic, here you got, some fresh average weighting hogs
I usualy make those from the best meat, its time consuming yet its worthy
Wonder what kind of logistics it’d take to set up a full-scale op like that. Eg, go and zero a bunch of hogs/whatever, load up the fridge trucks, process ’em, then distribute intrastate, interstate, and up to countrywide.
Hmm. Considering all the damage those beasties do, you’d think those PP owners would be glad to have someone come in for free vs having to pay for anything.
Wait… some idjit will probably snag a few couples from Texas and let ’em go hog-wild (haha) somewhere out east like Ridge, then just wait for their numbers to grow.
Then you’ll be able to snag a few right in your backyard.
Well, here is the procedure
Firtly, the fresh meat has to stay overnight( for the adrenaline to fade you know, its a wild boar and its body pumped into tonsa adrenaline before the end), then it soaks in a light white wine for a night , when its still wet i roll those meat pieces in a mixture of spices:
red pepper( some white pepper and red hot too inside), indian nuts, wild thyme, wild ralic, oregano, corn powder , thunder thorn( a.k.a Ononis spinosa, its latin name, dont know the english one) and ofc some salf too( CaHl is the best, from Black sea)
Then i put it in my hunting hut ceiling to dry out: its crusial for the cailing to have a good air flow
Since the whole hut is made of red oak it add an oak flavout too
And volia, with God Almighty`s helps its ready for 20 days
Its flavour is unique, the best it goes with a home made corn bread ( my wife still makes it) or as a vodka/red wine appetizer
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