OT-You thank we may be over run with feral hogs!!!!!!!

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Wed May 18, 2011 5:19 pm

Take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urY33QxtDWQ

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Wed May 18, 2011 5:38 pm

WOW! I've never seen so much bacon..

Wild Boar are making a come back in parts of Britain, doubt we will ever see anything like that here.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:10 pm

markinalpine · Post by **markinalpine** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:18 pm

Show this to the muzzie world. Ask if they really want to come here.

Bronco · Post by **Bronco** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:51 pm

Howdy,

I was kind of planning a trip to the Lone Star state next year to help the good citizens there with the problem.

Man, I think I had better start putting in more hours reloading!

John

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:11 pm

I'd be glad to come and help reduce the problem. But I expect to get paid for my labor. Not pay for doing it. Hmmmm, guess that's a problem then.

Joe

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:21 pm

Thats what ARs are for....
in 3 months that group will triple in size...

O.S.O.K. · Post by **O.S.O.K.** » Wed May 18, 2011 8:04 pm

Hogs breed three times a year and produce something like 12 shoats per drop IIRC. They are a huge burgeoning problem all through the south.

A wildlife biologist recently told me that major interstate highways are actually a barrier to them spreading though. Which is weird...

I've been that close to a large gang of some that looked just like that - from afar, they looked like goats.... there was a very large sow in the lead of the group.

piller · Post by **piller** » Wed May 18, 2011 8:07 pm

I would be willing to help reduce the numbers. By the way, here in Texas, wild pig may even be taken at night with spotlights legally. They are not a game animal, and may be taken by any legal means as long as the hunter has a valid hunting license.

markinalpine · Post by **markinalpine** » Wed May 18, 2011 8:12 pm

piller wrote:I would be willing to help reduce the numbers. By the way, here in Texas, wild pig may even be taken at night with spotlights legally. They are not a game animal, and may be taken by any legal means as long as the hunter has a valid hunting license.

And if it's your land, you don't need a license[

], although some communities prohibit using firearms or hunting inside the city limits[

].

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed May 18, 2011 8:35 pm

That's why they invented the .50 Beowulf...

Think ".45-70 in a Carbine, with easily-added night-vision optics..."

It's basically the same as a .500 S&W but set up to feed in a normal AR-15...

Post by **Hobie** » Wed May 18, 2011 9:58 pm

I believe those were FRENCH hogs. Here's a good one of a kill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ggjj9-okM&NR=1

Alan Wood · Post by **Alan Wood** » Wed May 18, 2011 10:41 pm

Yikes that was quite the crowd!
Alan Wood

model55 · Post by **model55** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:05 am

There should be some kind warning

ended up watching a hour or so of feral hog videos!

hayabusa · Post by **hayabusa** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:17 am

Today about six miles from my house an 18 wheeler hit a group of 15 feral hogs. This was in front of a fellas house. The man said everyone of the porkers ran in front of and under the truck ! He was in his front yard watching the hogs when this happened. My buddy arrived just after this happened. He went to the fellers house to buy a watermelon & crayfish. My buddy said it killed every hog. Squished, mashed in half. Quite the sight. From about 200 lbs. down to tiny. Fully loaded semi did not even slow down !!

hayabusa

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:26 am

Stampede!!!

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:26 am

Headed north on I-95 yesterday south of Ft.Pierce I saw a solid black boar that was in the 200-250 class. He was in the ditch next to the "wildlife" fence.

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:50 am

model55 wrote:There should be some kind warning ended up watching a hour or so of feral hog videos!

DITTO!!! Sheesh....

I dunno if machine guns are allowed for hunting, but that herd makes me want to lay down a big fat beaten zone with a 60 on full bark!

Oly

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:11 am

if you want to make some money, rig up some cage (live) traps and put out the bait. Then truck them to ranches like the one out here. I don't know what the costs would be, but they are fetching $350 or so from hunters. Probably a little room for profit there, and free to take.

Aussie Chris · Post by **Aussie Chris** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:03 am

Wow! Thats kinda yuk seeing soo many!

The model 94 here in Aus is know as one of the best pig guns, ive never hunted pigs.

Chris

pdawg.shooter · Post by **pdawg.shooter** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:29 am

I wanted to go to Texas to shoot hogs, but everyone there wanted $100.00 a day to help them with their problem! That aint happening. Hope the hogs take over down there. They get bad enough maybe they will pay us hunters to thin them out!

Bronco · Post by **Bronco** » Thu May 19, 2011 10:58 am

Yep, I ain't paying to help!!
If'n theys wants money

then I am movin on. I am willing to pay for my ammo and expenses to get there and that's it. Oh I forgot, my own food and libations.

I heard that there was a county in the north west part of Texas that payed a bounty for them! Don't know if that is true or not. Maybe some here can help out with that information??

John

mikld · Post by **mikld** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:56 pm

That many hogs could ruin a farmer overnight. A 6.5 AR w/20 round mag. and 20 extra mags. would make a good hour of shooting.

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:40 pm

Forget the AR here is what you need for those.

http://www.dillonaero.com/content/p/9/c ... ?viewImg=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PPcepFj ... re=related

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Thu May 19, 2011 4:56 pm

You can use an AR, but whatever you do, if you expect to hit more than one in an engagement you need to be mounted and mobile. Pigs tend to run when gunfire erupts.

An AR-10 can reach out and touch 'em but a sturdy pickup truck loaded with shotguns woofin out 00 is a good bet in the 100yd dash.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:17 pm

FWiedner wrote:An AR-10 can reach out and touch 'em but a sturdy pickup truck loaded with shotguns woofin out 00 is a good bet in the 100yd dash.

Ted Nugent shot them from a helicopter with a full-auto...

1886 · Post by **1886** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:24 pm

Where is the dude with helicopter?? 1886.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Fri May 20, 2011 4:06 pm

JReed wrote:Forget the AR here is what you need for those.
http://www.dillonaero.com/content/p/9/c ... ?viewImg=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PPcepFj ... re=related

point well taken....

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Sat May 21, 2011 5:19 am

I believe this video is shot France, and they are not feral pigs they are actual wild boars as in "Roosians".

Awesome video!

Makes me ALMOST want to visit my sis in France... ALMOST.

RichBMW · Post by **RichBMW** » Sat May 21, 2011 6:33 am

Lots of wild hogs here in FL. Some of the nature preserves have one-day hunts to thin them out. In Big Bend National Park in Texas, I nearly hit a very big javelina (like a wild hog) on my motorcycle.

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Sat May 21, 2011 11:08 am

RichBMW wrote:Lots of wild hogs here in FL. Some of the nature preserves have one-day hunts to thin them out. In Big Bend National Park in Texas, I nearly hit a very big javelina (like a wild hog) on my motorcycle.

Javelinas are native - most definitely not an introduced pest animal.

Oly

antilley · Post by **antilley** » Sat May 21, 2011 11:45 am

My boss goes from a "no gun household" to a FNH PS90 with a can to handle his hog problem South of Dallas .... he bought a cooker that can handle the entire hog.....

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