NUECES HELICOPTER PIG HUNTS - COOL

[twyacht]

I figure the buzzards were eating really well.. They couldn't have gotten all of them for BBQ.

[PegLeg45]

Dang, those were some healthy sized hogs......they'd been eating well.


Cool vid.

Here are some trail-cam pics from my son's camera....they've been killing three or four a weekend on his girlfriend's dad's property. They have folks on a list to take the meat.

[fightingquaker13]

Look, if its pest control not sport, I'm generally willing to keep my mouth shut becuse there is a difference between sport and work. But, I will point  out that this is the way we lost the bison and the passenger pigeon. I really do have pretty strong feelings about having a basic respect for the animal. This ain't it. I would however, cheerfully sign up to cull pigs on your property on foot. The pigs probably don't care, but I do. your mileage may vary.
FQ13

[PegLeg45]

Look, if its pest control not sport, I'm generally willing to keep my mouth shut becuse there is a difference between sport and work. But, I will point  out that this is the way we lost the bison and the passenger pigeon. I really do have pretty strong feelings about having a basic respect for the animal. This ain't it. I would however, cheerfully sign up to cull pigs on your property on foot. The pigs probably don't care, but I do. your mileage may vary.
FQ13

Bison and carrier pigeons didn't have a dozen babies per litter three times a year either.
They breed faster than we can kill them.

From the web page:

This feral hog eradication program is funded by a group of farmers who are taking progressive action to reduce the devastation done to their crops by these animals. Each and every feral hog is estimated to cause $1400 in crop damage during its lifetime. As you can see this data in combination with the extraordinarily high and ever expanding hog population proves to be a very big problem. Through the support of the farmers of Haskell Co. and the efforts of Nueces Helicopters, LLC. the hog population is on its way to a more controllable state as well as a much higher crop yield for the farmers. For more information see www.nueceshelicopters.com

[fightingquaker13]

Peg, I like bacon as much as the next guy and am all in favor of pest control. Hell, I live in Florida where I have to deal with everything from flying cockroaches to possums in the atic to fricking iguanas. Its just that this makes me uneasy and not because I've seen "Babe" one to many times. It just seems that too much of a good thing can become exactly that sooner rather than later. Plus, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't take my kid out to hunt from a helicopter. It wasn't how I was raised.
FQ13

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[PegLeg45]

You'd argue with a possum.

It's a quick way to cull the packs.

I guess you've never lost an entire crop (from which you derive your livelihood) from the rooting bastards, have you?

[fightingquaker13]

You'd argue with a possum.

It's a quick way to cull the packs.

I guess you've never lost an entire crop (from which you derive your livelihood) from the rooting bastards, have you?

I'm not condemning it, just saying its not for me, and urging caution that it doesn't go too far. I want to take my grandson hog hunting, not just say I remember when......
FQ13

[crusader rabbit]

From FQ"  "...not just say I remember when......"

Wouldja consider shooting rats from a chopper?  How 'bout if they carried plague?  What if they ate all your food and all your neighbor's food?  Would it be okay then?

Look, pigs start breeding at about 3-months and again every 3-months thereafter and they produce as many as a dozen piglets every time.  And they destroy vast amounts of the same food crops that feed that little grandson and you.  Here in Florida, they turn huge areas into "cleared" ground causing erosion and loss of habitat for the rest of God's creatures. 

Do a little math: 1 produces 12;  12 produce 12 each more in 3 months for 144;  144  produce 12 each for 1728;  that 1728 produce 20,736 and that's not to the end of the first year, yet.  Now, granted, some little piggies are not gunna make it and some are gunna be boars, so the equation is not absolute.  But the essentials are the same.  We just ain't gunna ever say I remember when... when it comes to feral pigs.  They are a plague here and in Texas.  But, they do taste pretty fine.

[m25operator]

Trapping, Night vision equipped hunting and this type of control are the only effective means, other than poisoning ( not a hog specific poison that I know of ) to reduce these  numbers. Once a hog reaches a hundred pounds, it has no real natural enemies to take them down. Feral hogs go nocturnal fast under any pressure during the daytime.

I think I posted some pics from here in Texas, that outfits jeeps with mini guns, it's like Rat Patrol style hunting, but they can kill 30-40 a day.

[Timothy]

Look, if its pest control not sport, I'm generally willing to keep my mouth shut becuse there is a difference between sport and work. But, I will point  out that this is the way we lost the bison and the passenger pigeon. I really do have pretty strong feelings about having a basic respect for the animal. This ain't it. I would however, cheerfully sign up to cull pigs on your property on foot. The pigs probably don't care, but I do. your mileage may vary.
FQ13

There is a reaon they're called 'Feral" and they're not an indigenous species, they don't belong here!  Like it or not, they are a plague on the southern states.  I don't like to see the meat go to waste but eradication of this particular species from the country is a worthwhile cause.