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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Timothy on May 01, 2009, 07:19:50 PM
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On right now in my network....
Pretty interesting! Suuueeeeeyyyyyy!
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Is that Will Ferrell Wild Pigs? ;D
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Heading to the corner . . . .
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;D
Actually, the focus was around Abbeville, GA (sp). I had no idea that the problem had grown so big over the last twenty years. The hog problem is getting serious with populations up in the 6 million nationally and spreading north...
Seems someone near Abbeville imported some european boars for sport and they've bred with the local populations and become a huge problem because of the aggresive nature of the species.
Nasty little critters for sure. I would never walk the woods around here without a sidearm because of rabid animals, down south it's really for self preservation against the pig populations. It's worth a look if they repeat the show...
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In my neck of the woods, we have a huge problem with hogs. You can actually make a living just going from rancher to rancher offering to trap or kill hogs on their place.
On the way to my family ranch, you are welcome to kill any hog you see on the trip there. Doesn't matter if you are shooting across fence lines, they just want them dead. They destroy the grazing fields rooting up the grass. It makes it murder on your back to have to shred down the weeds with the tractor. Beats you to death. Walking through the regrown grass isn't fun either. Break your ankle if you're not careful.
There is also a local guy that has some kind of deal with exporting the live hogs for Japan, wild boar is a delicacy I guess. You trap them live, take them to him and he will give you $0.25 a pound if it's over 100 lbs and $0.40 a pound if it's under (smaller hogs aren't so damn tough and chewy) Helped a friend haul some hogs over there and walked out the door with about $1500.
It's still easier (and more fun) to shoot'em though. Just have to trap a few every now and then so you can afford the ammo later.
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Where I hunt pigs, the farmers will gladly pay for your tags if you come and get rid of them.
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That's a great way to do it then. No money out of your pocket, place to hunt and get to have fun at the same time.
There are no tags required here. No season, no restrictions. Most of the time during deer season, hunters will shoot a hog or two at the end of the day. Damn things vacuum the corn off the ground at the feeders. Leaves nothing for the deer.
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I've seen this show twice and I can't believe the attitude of the professors and government types. "We don't know how to fix this problem". Hell...give everyone a night scoped rifle and ammo....pork for everyone. No more famines, no more problem.
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I've seen this show twice and I can't believe the attitude of the professors and government types. "We don't know how to fix this problem". Hell...give everyone a night scoped rifle and ammo....pork for everyone. No more famines, no more problem.
if it was only that easy. Many of the places pigs live its illegal to hunt or its just to hard for most poeple to get too. Very few people are hardcore enough to travel even a mile thru heavy brush, let alone 5.
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if it was only that easy. Many of the places pigs live its illegal to hunt or its just to hard for most poeple to get too. Very few people are hardcore enough to travel even a mile thru heavy brush, let alone 5.
There are enough people that are both willing and tough enough to make a major impact if they were allowed to ... and a bounty wouldn't hurt either. The bounty is the crucial part of the formula that keeps the hard core going (both financially and when initial interest has been satisfied) to finish the job.
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For the most part its free here, other then a hunt lic tags are really cheap $8/5 last time I bought them. No season no limit. Still they are very hard to find on public land. not all farmer will let you hunt on thier land, many will, but you have to know some one...
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Near the end of the report, they touched on how we, the human part of the equation are responsible in part for the rapid expansion and population explosion across the country.
They talked about the trapping and relocation of these animals to the "dude ranches" and "hunting lodges" that are littered all over the country. Now I have no problem with a well run lodge that manages a indigenous population of animals but I do have a problem with wealthy folks flying to Montana or Wyoming to shoot an animal that's led out of the barn on a rope and paraded around for a rich a$$hole to take shots at.
We all know this happens and with these animals, since they breed at 5-6 months and can drop 6-8 piglets in a litter, twice a year, that is gonna make a bad problem worse in a hurry...
Ask PhilW about the meek little bunny problem that exists in Australia.....once you get these things started, it's nearly impossible to stop..
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There are enough people that are both willing and tough enough to make a major impact if they were allowed to ... and a bounty wouldn't hurt either. The bounty is the crucial part of the formula that keeps the hard core going (both financially and when initial interest has been satisfied) to finish the job.
A bounty would be a great idea for this situation.
I remember years back we had a problem with coyotes over running everything. Wildlife department wanted to cut back on all the rabid coyotes out there so they did a project where they dropped chunks of meat from airplanes that had the a vaccine in it. Worked really well but the population exploded since there were less 'natural' deaths. This also affected the rabbit population, almost wiping them out completely leaving coyotes with less food choices which led to more farm animal attacks.
They then decided to fix that problem, they offered a bounty. It was $10 for each set of ears you brought in. It worked amazingly well to knock down the population. But so many people were shooting coyotes that their numbers decreased to the point that you almost never saw or even heard one. The rabbit population came roaring back and started to become a nuisance. Now everything has settled back into the way it was before people started to messing around with things.
But unlike those coyotes, I can't really think of downside to wiping them out. Except there would be less things to shoot at at the end of the day spent sitting in a hunting blind. ;D
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You guys have it all wrong. Sometimes you have to suffer for the greater good. I think our nation should be thoroughly infested with hogs. It would be a hoot to see a hog rooting around all the mosques that have sprung up here.
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You guys have it all wrong. Sometimes you have to suffer for the greater good. I think our nation should be thoroughly infested with hogs. It would be a hoot to see a hog rooting around all the mosques that have sprung up here.
How but some "Razorback" with your humus Abdul?
Good idea Rastus! ;D
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But unlike those coyotes, I can't really think of downside to wiping them out. Except there would be less things to shoot at at the end of the day spent sitting in a hunting blind. ;D
Coyotes belong in America, they get to stay because they serve a purpose in nature. ;D
These boars or ferrell hogs are not indigenous to North America so they serve no purpose other than to make little piggies. Their only other purpose is for the dinner table. Blast away boys....I hear a dinner bell ringing somewhere! ;D
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You guys have it all wrong. Sometimes you have to suffer for the greater good. I think our nation should be thoroughly infested with hogs. It would be a hoot to see a hog rooting around all the mosques that have sprung up here.
Ahhhhhhh Yes ... Another reason for catch and release ;D
Don't forget the potential for great Que on the Whitehouse lawn as well.
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These things really do breed like rabbits. They're all over the Carribean and Pacific Islands because sailors would put some ashore. They knew that on the return trip a few months later that would have bred. Same thing with feral goats, but they don't breed as rapidly. If anyone out ther si feeling threatened, or even sternly warned, by wild hogs, I will come to your rescue. Although I have to admit that my aim gets really, really bad if they're over about 80 ilbs. ;D
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