I'd like to see the State do a study in several counties implementing a 'Bounty' on hogs and see if that 'incentive' would bring about a noticeable decrease in numbers. Along with that...the possible 'cons' would need to be studied and considered.
You’d probably see the cost of hunting them on ranches go up the exact amount of the bounty. Texas is one thing. There’s not a lot of public land. But paying to hunt them in Oklahoma seems kinda foolish unless you don’t have the time to put in to finding them on all the public land we have. And two weeks ago a neighbor to one of the private lands that backs up to public land I hunt killed a 450lb boar we’ve been chasing. That land is overrun with feral hogs.I'd like to see the State do a study in several counties implementing a 'Bounty' on hogs and see if that 'incentive' would bring about a noticeable decrease in numbers. Along with that...the possible 'cons' would need to be studied and considered.
Well if they would research places where predators were treated similarly, they'd see GREAT decline (large cats, wolves, coyotes). Cons: drunken Bubba trying to cash in with the neighbor's blue ribbon Beau.I'd like to see the State do a study in several counties implementing a 'Bounty' on hogs and see if that 'incentive' would bring about a noticeable decrease in numbers. Along with that...the possible 'cons' would need to be studied and considered.
As an aside. Trappers and hog doggers are paid good money for feral hogs around here to be transported to hunting ranches. There’s a guy in Adair OK that has a “hunting ranch” (I use those words VERY loosely) and I know for a fact he pays people to trap feral hogs so he can have clients hunt them as they walk around his pasture with the bison, elk, wildebeest, Cape and water buffalo and other exotics on his 100 hundred acre high fence “ranch”.
What diseases do hogs carry? Surprisingly, not much different than what is carried by natural wildlife. People always worry about the disease hogs carry but you never hear about them being worried about all the diseases that deer carry, which includes about 90% or more of overlap and there are a lot more deer than hogs.. Pigs do definitely increases the nastiness of stuff carried in streams, however. This has been demonstrated in several states where increased contamination and sediment load has been correlated with hogs.
I'd like to see the State do a study in several counties implementing a 'Bounty' on hogs and see if that 'incentive' would bring about a noticeable decrease in numbers. Along with that...the possible 'cons' would need to be studied and considered.
This is not illegal. I have a relative who works for a company that processes feral hogs in Texas. It seems that the market (i.e. price) for 'wild boar' meat is better in Europe than in the U.S. so most of the product goes there. You can trap and sell live hogs today in Texas. The prices fluctuate but buyers are always active.Rather than another government program, my suggestion has long been a free-market solution, allow wild pork to be sold in supermarkets and restaurants, after it has been packaged by a reputable, inspected processor just like store-bought meat is today.
This is not illegal. I have a relative who works for a company that processes feral hogs in Texas. It seems that the market (i.e. price) for 'wild boar' meat is better in Europe than in the U.S. so most of the product goes there. You can trap and sell live hogs today in Texas. The prices fluctuate but buyers are always active.
Open it up from a distance. Pop it with a .22.
Nice shot. I’d open it up. But I’ve always been that type of person. Even when it backfires on me. Looks like you have a few flies down there in east Texas. I’ll trade you. Our mosquitos are the worst I’ve ever seen. The woods literally “hum” right now.
This thread is the reason I joined THR. I read every post too, now it's the first thread I check for new stories.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
Yea, that's one of the things that gets me too. Watched them lance a big one on a cow on TV and about lost it.
Don't say that....I feel like I am letting you down then.
I haven't stopped hitting the hogs (though I do hunt them less in the summer months) I just haven't been posting it here very much the last year or so. Seems there is much more interest in Videos with night vision (understandably). I'm just Old School, Low tech with an occasional story to tell. I'll have to do better.
Thank You for the well wishes (blessing)....and no less for you Sir.
Flint.
I’m not sure of a longer running thread with more interest than this one. Low tech or not. I do wish you posted more. Even if they’re just stories. I like stories. Especially since my stories right involve walking into the woods after bathing in OFF (helps some I guess) and using a Therma-Cel (helps tremendously when sitting still), and deciding I don’t like mosquitos in my eyeballs, nor do I like spending more time picking ticks off me when I get home than I spent in the woods (I was picking ticks off me 3 days after) It will change. But not for awhile.Don't say that....I feel like I am letting you down then.
I haven't stopped hitting the hogs (though I do hunt them less in the summer months) I just haven't been posting it here very much the last year or so. Seems there is much more interest in Videos with night vision (understandably). I'm just Old School, Low tech with an occasional story to tell. I'll have to do better.
Thank You for the well wishes (blessing)....and no less for you Sir.
Flint.
If you are into seriously disgusting (And I have a tough stomach), go for it. Nasty doesn't begin.....Nice shot. I’d open it up.
Yep. The greenhorns might lose it.Maybe just as well.