Feral Pig Hunters

[sixgunner455]

It used to be very common to be able to ask landowners for permission to hunt, and get on the dirt where the critters are in short order.

Sounds like it's not that way in many places anymore.

 

[FLAvalanche]

Somehow, announcing a challenge to animals rights activists in a pro-hunting gun forum using vague evaluative criteria seems awfully pointless.

It's there to make me feel better, not you.

 

[hsiehjohn]

I can understand why land owners would shy away from allowing strangers to shoot on their land, definitely a valid concern; but I think if everyone are willing to work together things can always be worked out. Here's a few options you might consider:

Get an umbrella insurance policy that go over your home owners policy, ask your agent about. You can get a few million dollars of coverage for a few hundred dollars a year I think. Now you can inturn pass that cost to people who want to help you with your hog problem. If you only charge $40 a person per day to hunt on your property, I'll bet you will have hundreds of people linning up trying to get in on the action. They are charging people $200 - $500 a day at some places.

Now designate specific areas that you will only allow people to hunt at, where hunters are taking shots from an elevated location and there are adequate back stops for the bullets, there by minimizing the chance of your neighbor getting shot. Maybe put up some makeshift tree stands.

I live in San Diego ..... we can't even shoot squirls out here. If you make it affordable for people that live outside of Texas to come over and shoot, I will bet the hogs would be endangered pretty quickly. I have 3 rifles, 2,000 rounds of ammo, and have nothing to shoot at.

 

[FTG-05]

Too bad the limit the resolution:

http://128.192.20.53/nfsms/

1982:

http://128.192.20.53/nfsms/information/maps/swineDistribution1982.jpg

1988:

http://128.192.20.53/nfsms/information/maps/swineDistribution1988.jpg

2004:

http://128.192.20.53/nfsms/information/maps/swineDistribution2004.jpg

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Things aren't quite jiving on the maps and data are missing on the National Feral Swine map that is supposed to show current distribution. Hogs obviously don't follow state or international borders, but that is shown in several places. Feral hogs are also not shown in several northern states where they do exist and are hunted.

Interesting maps, but incomplete or inconsistent in their representations.

 

[RB98SS]

You guys down south need some northern wolf packs. Maybe we can send a few down there, we have plenty.

 

[FTG-05]

Things aren't quite jiving on the maps and data are missing on the National Feral Swine map that is supposed to show current distribution. Hogs obviously don't follow state or international borders, but that is shown in several places. Feral hogs are also not shown in several northern states where they do exist and are hunted.

Interesting maps, but incomplete or inconsistent in their representations.

So tell them. I've reported hog sightings, it's not that hard.

 

[Flintknapper]

RB98SS wrote:

You guys down south need some northern wolf packs. Maybe we can send a few down there, we have plenty

How 'bout we meet you half way. We'll put the pigs on a bus...and drop 'em off somewhere in Kansas.

 

[Big Bad Bob]

I dont mind poppin Hogs, but i do not find this anything to celebrate. Hogs destroy so much and in my neck of the woods once you got em heavy they are not going away and they push out all other game except coyotes. My family has land managed alot of good deer land and it would be a shame for hogs to take over.

That being said, i will take on a herd of hogs, like a Woody Harleson on a pack of zombies

 

[FLAvalanche]

That being said, i will take on a herd of hogs, like a Woody Harleson on a pack of zombies

You should have said pack of Twinkies, it would have been much funnier.

 

[o Unforgiven o]

You guys down south need some northern wolf packs. Maybe we can send a few down there, we have plenty.

That would be great! How do they like umbrella drinks and the beach?

 

[RB98SS]

That would be great! How do they like umbrella drinks and the beach?

I think they'd be fine with that. It would help wash down the pork sandwich.

The way the hogs seem to be running around down there, I think it wouldn't be long until the wolves reached 200lbs. They stay thin by having to chase those swift whitetails and would absolutely love the slower moving hogs.

They say each wolf consumes about 25 deer per year to sustain themselves, so..... I figure if we transported all 3000 wolves here from Minnesota, each could consume about 3 or 4 times as many small piggies to equal a good sized whitetail. Thus lets see..... 3000 times 25 times 3.5........... that's 262,500 less hogs per year in your state. that might take a bite out the reproduction rate. See it's all elementary.

 

[tarosean]

Hence the reason I'm moving from a lever gun, to one of them there evil black guns.

 

[txhoghunter]

what is a good pig rifle ?

Anything if you can hit them right, up to and including this...



(for smaller calibers I would say the neck/head region if you can make the shot)

 

[xcgates]

TxHogHunter, between your handle and the pic, I think I can figure out what your opinion of hogs are...

 

[chas08]

lets see..... 3000 times 25 times 3.5........... that's 262,500 less hogs per year in your state.

Texas is home to an estimated 2 million feral hogs. That leaves 1,737,500 to keep breeding. Maybe 30,000 wolves would be more like it. But with our luck, the hogs would probably start eatin' wolves.

what is a good pig rifle ?

Anything if you can hit them right, up to and including this...

One things for certain. The impact zone, and where they've been rootin' would be hard to tell apart.