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re: Wild hogs are the biggest menace to nature in this country
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:16 pm to TIGRLEE
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:16 pm to TIGRLEE
I use to drop them dead and haul them to the gut pit. Then I graduated to shooting them in the gut so they would run off and die elsewhere. The yotes like dead hogs. Wild hogs need to die.
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Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:16 pm to mylsuhat
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why not purchase a cheap hunting license and help fund efforts by the state to thwart the pig population?
In some states you can kill them 24/7. Others daylight only. I believe all require a license though.
Hunting won't phase them. You need to trap the entire Sounder.
The world is in a Pork crisis due to Swine Flu in Asia. There should be some way to trap and use this meat.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:17 pm to boxcarbarney
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I know farmers will trap hogs, load the cages on a trailer and back the trailer into water to drown them. They are a nuisance animal and must be eradicated.
Wouldn't it be much less effort to just shoot them one by one?
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:18 pm to SSpaniel
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Did you see any alligators? I've heard that they now inhabit the Wolf Rivers in small numbers, but that may be mainly closer to the Mississippi river side of things.
TN Dept of Wildlife put up some videos of alligators swimming in the Wolf River last year, I'm not sure if it was Shelby or Fayette County, but I don't think it was that close to the Mississippi. There were also 2 gators caught in my friend's neighborhood in Byhalia. I live in Collierville, and this is the first I've heard of the hogs but I don't doubt they are there now
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:20 pm to Nawlens Gator
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shooting them in the gut so they would run off and die elsewhere
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:20 pm to hottub
Coyotes prey on hogs.
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Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:22 pm to White Bear
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Mainly because good ol' baws spread them so they can then hunt them.
I was talking to an older guy about them the other day and he admitted to spreading them in the marsh back in the 80s. said they had no idea what they were doing.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:23 pm to keakar
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it should be mandatory you have to kill 5 hogs before you can shoot a deer
Deer are pretty over populated in a lot of areas too.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:24 pm to TIGRLEE
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They are an absolute menace to humans and hunters in particular.
hunters kill/injure more hunters than black bears do.
This post was edited on 12/3/19 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:25 pm to Cosmo
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We need a limited bear season to cull the numbers IMO
I'm all for it. I'm not for wiping them out. If i remember correctly Louisiana has three different major populations of black bears that aren't connected. I think LDWF is waiting for the populations to connect to start draw hunts.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:26 pm to Rouge
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Population will not decrease until enough motivation ($$) put out there to hunt them down
Right now there is a lot of $$ motivation to keep them around. You have to ban paid hog hunts and cut out the economic benefits of having them around.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:26 pm to Eighteen
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In Texas you can get in a helicopter and slaughter them with a machine gun
Have a buddy who has instagrammed himself doing this a few times. Looks FUN AF.
Apparently the farmers put him and his buddies up for a weekend, cook them some good food, and let them go to town on the hogs on their property whenever they want. They do both ground and air assault on those things and just mow them the frick down. Dogs wear kevlar and the AR-15's are suppressed so they just go until they can't go no more
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:27 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Monroe
Tensas NWR is infested with them.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:28 pm to jchamil
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I live in Collierville, and this is the first I've heard of the hogs
I went to the Kroger on Houston Levee for my wife before Thanksgiving. The hogs... they are definitely in Collierville.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:29 pm to Limitlesstigers
Feral hogs are truly a scourge.They moved on my land about 5 years ago and have pretty much destroyed the enjoyment of my property.I don’t have near as many deer and wild turkeys as I did before,they root up all my wood roads,foodplots,etc.I don’t even have near the birds I used to.Only thing I can figure is the birds drink out of the hog wallows,get sick and die.I have hunted them(mostly at night),snared them and now have this big expensive( $8700.00) trap with camera that I operate remotely.I’ve had best success with the trap but it is a huge poa.The camera is very sensitive and sends me text photos all night long of coons and possums.To catch sounder of pigs takes a week to10 days.First you have to prebait a spot for 4-5 days,move the trap there and then it’s 4-5 nights before they all feel comfortable going in to catch them.Then I have to deal with all the dead hogs after I shoot them.After you kill the hogs the trap has to be moved because of all the stress pheromes left behind,that spot is unusable for about a year.
Trap takes a couple of hours for me and my wife to move,take it apart,load it on trailer and reassemble it at the next spot,I had to buy a trailer to load it on to move it.I sure as hell didn’t want to spend my retirement years and money to deal with all this crap.
It’s very discouraging,there are thousands of acres around me infested with hogs so I’ll never get rid of them.I’m thinking about probably just sell the trap and let the hogs have my property.
All that being said,it’s really bad for the farmers,cattleman,and pecan growers.They have enough problems without wild hogs.
I hear people talking about wanting to buy land in the country,when the wild hogs move in (and they will),they’ll curse the day they ever did it.I wish I had just bought a condo.
Trap takes a couple of hours for me and my wife to move,take it apart,load it on trailer and reassemble it at the next spot,I had to buy a trailer to load it on to move it.I sure as hell didn’t want to spend my retirement years and money to deal with all this crap.
It’s very discouraging,there are thousands of acres around me infested with hogs so I’ll never get rid of them.I’m thinking about probably just sell the trap and let the hogs have my property.
All that being said,it’s really bad for the farmers,cattleman,and pecan growers.They have enough problems without wild hogs.
I hear people talking about wanting to buy land in the country,when the wild hogs move in (and they will),they’ll curse the day they ever did it.I wish I had just bought a condo.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:30 pm to Rouge
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Feral hogs are not good eating unless piglets or small females
Population will not decrease until enough motivation ($$) put out there to hunt them down
A pregnant and/or nursing sow can- and will- rival pork from the grocery store if conditions (e.g. diet, climate, temperature, kill shot, handling, etc.) are viable for it.
Part of the ongoing problem that adds insult to injury of the adaptability and breeding rate of the invasive species is a faction of hunters who are/have been attempting to monetize their existence. As a result and almost by default, this leads to feral pigs being managed like native wildlife and having their population conserved in order to preserve their existence in a given area. This is a travesty. Worse than that, transporting and introducing them to new areas is a criminal offense, literally, and it indicates an individual who has reached the summit of ignorance.
Hence, one of the reasons why states are exploring the option to ban recreational hunting of feral pigs. They must be treated like cogon grass and kudzu: eradicate them on site if it's feasible- nothing else will do.
Luckily, per usual, alot of the same folks and their peers who do not hunt hogs, that is the American Outdoorsman, that is the greatest wildlife conservation proponent history ever will see, have once again come to the rescue by coupling a love of conserving the wild lands and creatures with technology in order to produce new trapping methods that are changing the game on eradicating hog populations.
When it comes to eradicating predators (or managing healthy native predator populations) no amount of hunting can rival the art and science of trapping. Hunting the hunter is a damned hard thing to do, and trapping is a #'s game where the eradication can be carried out in areas where the trapper- the human being- is not.
Trapping is where the war with feral pigs will be won or lost, and with new methods that don't allow the hogs to pattern a trapper's efforts and avoid his traps, the future looks a little brighter for folks on the frontline of the war. We shall see.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:31 pm to LSUA 75
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Feral hogs are truly a scourge.They moved on my land about 5 years ago and have pretty much destroyed the enjoyment of my property.I don’t have near as many deer and wild turkeys as I did before,they root up all my wood roads,foodplots,etc.I don’t even have near the birds I used to.Only thing I can figure is the birds drink out of the hog wallows,get sick and die.I have hunted them(mostly at night),snared them and now have this big expensive( $8700.00) trap with camera that I operate remotely.I’ve had best success with the trap but it is a huge poa.The camera is very sensitive and sends me text photos all night long of coons and possums.To catch sounder of pigs takes a week to10 days.First you have to prebait a spot for 4-5 days,move the trap there and then it’s 4-5 nights before they all feel comfortable going in to catch them.Then I have to deal with all the dead hogs after I shoot them.After you kill the hogs the trap has to be moved because of all the stress pheromes left behind,that spot is unusable for about a year.
Trap takes a couple of hours for me and my wife to move,take it apart,load it on trailer and reassemble it at the next spot,I had to buy a trailer to load it on to move it.I sure as hell didn’t want to spend my retirement years and money to deal with all this crap.
It’s very discouraging,there are thousands of acres around me infested with hogs so I’ll never get rid of them.I’m thinking about probably just sell the trap and let the hogs have my property.
All that being said,it’s really bad for the farmers,cattleman,and pecan growers.They have enough problems without wild hogs.
I hear people talking about wanting to buy land in the country,when the wild hogs move in (and they will),they’ll curse the day they ever did it.I wish I had just bought a condo.
Damn.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:32 pm to TheCaterpillar
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In Texas you can get in a helicopter and slaughter them with a machine gun
If they run, they're hogs.
If they stand still, they're well disciplined hogs.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:39 pm to LSUBoo
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Man shite, I thought the Asian carp was the worst menace.
Or maybe the kudzu vine.
Or all those god damn Florida pythons.
Hogs will eat kudzu. They would probably eat the python as well. And if they could figure out how to catch that carp they would eat it as well.
Hogs are horrible. I have killed over 300 this year. Some afternoons I feel like I am playing call of duty.
Bastards can eat a lot of soybeans and corn. They will walk down the rows eating. Like a live combine.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 1:39 pm to boxcarbarney
I blame the University of Arkansas for glorifying this scourge of an animal. I think they should pay reparations to those impacted.
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