Resist Evil
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Good Luck and Happy New Year!
I hear ya. I don't hunt. I have not hunted anything since 1979 or so. I can smoke any part of a pig to the point of amazing. I have not read this thread. Feeders are cheating in my humble opinion. It is like using live bait when fishing. It is feeding.I was searching for hog trap info and stumbled across this thread. Read through about half of it and will definitely read the rest later.
Very cool pictures and stories.
Flint, your efforts and writings here in this thread have been helpful. Also amusing as well as amazing.Seriously though, if it helps anyone (even in a small way)..then it has been worth everybody's effort here.
Flint.
I guess I'm getting soft in my old age, and some people just won't agree with me.
A few days ago I had a boar, a sow, and 9 babies in a trap. I've killed more hogs in the last 5 yrs. than most guys will see in their lifetime and just do it for fun...I'm not worried about trying to destroy the species completely. Anyway, I just couldn't shoot the 9 babies and ended up turning them loose again.
I mentioned to the land owner what I had experienced, and he said he would have done the same thing. In all fairness, this is not agricultural land, just undeveloped heavy woods where pigs do minimal damage.
Something just seems morally wrong with killing babies of any species...and calling it sport.
The larger pair in the trap brought my total off of this property to 469 hogs I've killed in the past 5 yrs., and I doubt this has made a lot of diffference in the grand scheme of hog control anyway.
I do not understand how farmers who want to till the soil sit back while these pay to hunt operations are releasing hogs to keep their clients happy. If we had pay to hunt hog operations turning hogs loose livestock associations and farm groups would literally be up in arms. It is hard to loose a million dollar peanut crop because some guy is to lazy to work the land.
Texas is like a different country when it comes to hunting.
Farmers would rather suffer massive crop damage to defend that $7 an acre for hunting rights. You don't need a mathematician to figure out there is more money in farming.
I make a decent living just growing hay. I let my friends hunt for free because they kill game.
I have all these friends with farms and ranches and none of them let me hunt for free.
The hog spasmed off a small cliff and into the bone yard for the property.