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Odd wild pig question but here goes
Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:08 pm
Ok, just watched a couple of hunters capture a huge boar, but they then castrated it and let it go. I was thinking some families were going to eat good tonight, but that didn't happen. I was shocked the pig was just castrated because it will slow down the producing of more wild pigs, but it is still going to destroy crops, gardens and yards.
I did a little research and my understanding is that each state regulates itself in controlling that state's wild pig population and fish and wildlife serves more as a secondary supporter. So is the goal to totally get rid of the wild pig population or is to get to a more manageable population in which states will begin having seasons, issuing tags or have a quota, like the fishing industry does, and stop the season once a number has been reached?
I was always under the impression that you continued to kill them until they were all gone. You could shoot them any time of day, with any type of gun, use any type of animal and you could kill them via land, airboat or even helicopter.
I'm not a hunter, but I several friends that are, and they pretty much share the same opinion - see, shoot, kill. So, what is the end goal in regards to hunting wild pigs where you hunt?
I did a little research and my understanding is that each state regulates itself in controlling that state's wild pig population and fish and wildlife serves more as a secondary supporter. So is the goal to totally get rid of the wild pig population or is to get to a more manageable population in which states will begin having seasons, issuing tags or have a quota, like the fishing industry does, and stop the season once a number has been reached?
I was always under the impression that you continued to kill them until they were all gone. You could shoot them any time of day, with any type of gun, use any type of animal and you could kill them via land, airboat or even helicopter.
I'm not a hunter, but I several friends that are, and they pretty much share the same opinion - see, shoot, kill. So, what is the end goal in regards to hunting wild pigs where you hunt?
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Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:11 pm to homemadeshine
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what is the end goal in regards to hunting wild pigs where you hunt?
Kill them all.
Eat what we want, buzzards get the rest.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:16 pm to homemadeshine
The theory goes that after he is castrated, he’ll fatten up more. We don’t do that as they destroy the pastures.
The state classifies them as outlaw quadrupeds. There is no season as they are destructive. Guys love hunting them, and we will never get rid of them all.
Those camera remote traps work great.
The state classifies them as outlaw quadrupeds. There is no season as they are destructive. Guys love hunting them, and we will never get rid of them all.
Those camera remote traps work great.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:52 pm to homemadeshine
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Ok, just watched a couple of hunters capture a huge boar, but they then castrated it and let it go.
Always said you gotta be a little sick in the head to do that. I would bet one of the hunters has a neck tattoo
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it will slow down the producing of more wild pigs, but it is still going to destroy crops, gardens and yards.
Correct they still do hog stuff
Hog doggers don’t want to kill them. They just want to catch them for sport
Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:53 pm to homemadeshine
It’s called a Barrow hog or something, they castrate the then let them go to eat and fatten up.
They will kill it and eat it later, it makes the meat better.
Is what I’ve heard
They will kill it and eat it later, it makes the meat better.
Is what I’ve heard
Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:57 pm to homemadeshine
Im guessing it was hog dog guys?
Posted on 8/2/25 at 7:59 pm to Ron Cheramie
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Hog doggers don’t want to kill them. They just want to catch them for sport
Hogs wouldn't be as big of a problem if there were no hog doggers. They've done more to spread them around than anybody else.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 8:11 pm to homemadeshine
I have killed two on my land that had been previously castrated and they were huge and fat best eating thing in the woods. One was 322 lbs and had so much fat I couldn’t see the meat once skinned. Sausage made from that one cooked up like Jimmy Dean.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 8:49 pm to homemadeshine
No mountain oysters?
Posted on 8/2/25 at 8:57 pm to The Torch
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It’s called a Barrow hog or something
We call them “Bar hogs”. A de-nutted male - a “bar” - killed in the woods in redneck areas will typically have an ear cut off or marked in some way or have its tail cut off.
Those are the fattest best eating wild pigs as all they do is eat, shite, and sleep. They aren’t using their muscles and energy to fight other males or to chase females.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 9:49 pm to Harald Ekernson
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Those are the fattest best eating wild pigs as all they do is eat, shite, and sleep. They aren’t using their muscles and energy to fight other males or to chase females.
I'm shocked, but I get what you are saying. I understand it might make a better tasting pig, but I always thought the biggest problem with wild hogs was the destruction they did on crops, fields and lawns. Castrating them seems like it would only make that problem worse.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 9:51 pm to homemadeshine
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So, what is the end goal in regards to hunting wild pigs where you hunt?
Eradicate them from the planet.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 10:02 pm to homemadeshine
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I always thought the biggest problem with wild hogs was the destruction they did on crops, fields and lawns. Castrating them seems like it would only make that problem worse.
Not in the woods where there are no crops, fields, or lawns, and where the next time they are caught or spotted they are stabbed in the jugular or shot with an AR-15.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 11:56 pm to homemadeshine
The plan is usually to kill every hog you get a shot at.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 4:45 am to homemadeshine
No prisoners, kill em all. Eat the little ones and to hell with the big ones.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 10:49 am to Koolazzkat
The hog doggers around us hate our trap. I kinda feel bad for them but on the flip side, they don’t deal with the failed crops, food plots, destroyed roads, poult and fawn predation etc.
So I say kill em all. I’ll let a hog dogger hunt on my land. I’ll even tell them where he is, and how to approach…..but I need a picture of a dead pig
So I say kill em all. I’ll let a hog dogger hunt on my land. I’ll even tell them where he is, and how to approach…..but I need a picture of a dead pig
Posted on 8/3/25 at 11:09 am to homemadeshine
Shoot every one I see. I do a guys weekend every year where we just go slaughter as many as we can find. We call it pigfest.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 2:56 pm to Harald Ekernson
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A de-nutted male - a “bar” - killed in the woods in redneck areas will typically have an ear cut off or marked in some way or have its tail cut off.
Both I killed had v notches in one ear
Posted on 8/3/25 at 3:54 pm to homemadeshine
It's a practice that predates the explosion of hogs we have now. It should probably end but unless it is outlawed, it won't.
I was doing some work up in the Cotton Valley area in north Louisiana in the mid-90s, and there were guys who would do that then, though they usually did it to younger hogs.
These were not neck tattoo type rednecks, but were certainly rednecks. Generally good people, very generous once you were accepted into their circle, but sometimes a bit standoffish at first. There are a lot of folks of Irish descent in that area, believe it or not.
I was doing some work up in the Cotton Valley area in north Louisiana in the mid-90s, and there were guys who would do that then, though they usually did it to younger hogs.
These were not neck tattoo type rednecks, but were certainly rednecks. Generally good people, very generous once you were accepted into their circle, but sometimes a bit standoffish at first. There are a lot of folks of Irish descent in that area, believe it or not.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 6:53 pm to bayoudude
quote:A pregnant sow is grocery store quality pork.
I have killed two on my land that had been previously castrated and they were huge and fat best eating thing in the woods. One was 322 lbs and had so much fat I couldn’t see the meat once skinned. Sausage made from that one cooked up like Jimmy Dean.
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