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2024-06-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

How wild beast [hog] invasion is tearing up America

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 Place a bounty on them with no limit and problem solved

Posted by DarthVader 2024-06-10 00:17|| 2024-06-10 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Wild pork is much tastier than domestic.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-06-10 00:53|| 2024-06-10 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 That’s only meaningful to the 98% of Americans who don’t have religious objections to eating pork, Grom. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-06-10 00:56|| 2024-06-10 00:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ^😨

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-06-10 01:02|| 2024-06-10 01:02|| Front Page Top

#5
Here in Ga, we have found 100lbs of gutted and dressed out Pork for the cost of a few 12Ga slugs or 30# rifle rounds, has brought the cost of a pork BBQ way down.

I have seen more than a few neighbor cook-out parties sharing the meat.

Remember a 1,100+ lbs Hozillia was killed in Southern Ga.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-06-10 05:12|| 2024-06-10 05:12|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ who says we don't need anti-tank weapons?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-10 07:02|| 2024-06-10 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ see bank robber

Place a bounty on them with no limit and problem solved

Open season in TX, all year long.
No license on private land, no limits.
Buzzards/Coyotes will reduce body to bones in days.

They reproduce faster than you can buy bullets.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-10 07:51|| 2024-06-10 07:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Surprised how skittish the Floridians seem to be about it. Go to Kaua'i - the pua'a own the whole island... except for the feral chickens of course.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-06-10 08:47|| 2024-06-10 08:47|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ If you live in the country, no problem unless they are tearing up your crops and giving your livestock diseases. If you live in a built up are where local authorities frown on firearms discharge, you have a problem.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 08:51|| 2024-06-10 08:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Not necessarily just wild hogs. Domestic pigs will go feral quite quickly and grow tusks.
The rule around here is if it's not in a pen shoot it.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-06-10 09:11|| 2024-06-10 09:11|| Front Page Top

#11 ...Snowball and Napoleon could not be reached for comment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-10 10:37|| 2024-06-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Invasive species become a problem when no one eats them. The critters in this case are quite tasty. The problem seems to be harvesting them at scale. Perhaps we could hunt them with armed drones. Or machine gun them from helicopters.

Posted by SteveS 2024-06-10 11:05|| 2024-06-10 11:05|| Front Page Top

#13 In places where the law allows and the problem demands it, baiting them into corrals for a "shooting fish in a barrel" approach is sometimes used. Also shooting them from helicopters and using night vision.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 11:21|| 2024-06-10 11:21|| Front Page Top

#14 I can attest to the fact wild hog is very tasty. My tractor front end loader also serves as a fire pit digger. I once dated a lady who killed one with a Bowie knife. Growing up my father and uncle would hunt them. That's how I learned how to butcher one.

Posted by Deacon+Blues 2024-06-10 11:48|| 2024-06-10 11:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Potentially useful for disposal of evidence of attacks by criminals...

Posted by Glenmore 2024-06-10 12:15|| 2024-06-10 12:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Shooting wild hogs from a helicopter is an actual tourist industry. 'Merica.

Guide I know says bring the heaviest rifle you can safely operate. And make sure it is dead. He had set his rifle down and was beginning to go to work when he realized nobody told the pig it was dead, and had to run, blind firing a .45 behind him and got lucky.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-10 14:03|| 2024-06-10 14:03|| Front Page Top

#17 I have a friend who takes one every year in WV with a 1911 in 10mm Auto.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 14:11|| 2024-06-10 14:11|| Front Page Top

#18 That's some good eatin'.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-06-10 14:34|| 2024-06-10 14:34|| Front Page Top

#19 ...the 'good old days'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-10 17:28|| 2024-06-10 17:28|| Front Page Top

#20 A gun writer, now deceased, use to blog about killing hogs over bait as a form of pest removal. He said that even with night vision and semi-automatic rifles they could get maybe two shots off before the pack scattered. He also said that the pigs are fairly intelligent, are fast over short distances and had a good sense of smell and hearing.

Posted by Chantry 2024-06-10 19:23|| 2024-06-10 19:23|| Front Page Top

#21 Seen similar videos since suppressors became more common, hog drops in the middle of a crowd and the rest just kept feeding.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 19:40|| 2024-06-10 19:40|| Front Page Top

#22 the pigs are fairly intelligent, are fast over short distances and had a good sense of smell and hearing.

Then they shall make worthy adversaries for our swarms of autonomous kill-bots.

Posted by SteveS 2024-06-10 20:10|| 2024-06-10 20:10|| Front Page Top

#23 SSsssshhhh SkyNet awaits

Posted by Frank G 2024-06-10 20:21|| 2024-06-10 20:21|| Front Page Top

#24 I see opportunity for allies, and take a page from South Park, and propose Chimpanzees riding Wild Hogs.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-10 22:13|| 2024-06-10 22:13|| Front Page Top

#25

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-10 22:27|| 2024-06-10 22:27|| Front Page Top

#26 I have a friend who takes one every year in WV with a 1911 in 10mm Auto.

I get the challenge; That's wild.

Saw my dude get a coyote at full perpendicular trot at 50 yards with a snap shot. When he says he hit that hog at short range with a 6.5 Creed with a thermal scope, I know he had a good hit.

I guess there was a fight recently where one of the contenders let his guard down to talk to the ref and got thumped - lesson is, when in the ring don't let your guard down.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-10 22:41|| 2024-06-10 22:41|| Front Page Top

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