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Wild Hogs or the reason for rifles.

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Bruce(OR)

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Well, it does have a green machine in the pic so it must be tractor related.
Tom in Idaho sent me this and I suspect I would be inviting over a whole bunch of folks with with whatever they wanted to bring if I had this problem.
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We have them in Texas. They can destroy a field over night. After planting corn they will go down the row and get every seed. You don't want them. We have meadows that you can't even bale after they root across it. You can't kill them as fast has they multiply. There's two type of land owners--The one that's got them and the ones that will get them.
 
I suppose I would be investing into a rifle or two with a starlight scope.
Then again, a smaller cal and they can go someplace else to expire.
 
Two machine guns positioned to deliver continuous bands of interlocking grazing fire with land mines and mortar fire to cover the gaps. Overwhelming firepower has always been the hall mark of the USA! So there.
 
Sofar we do not have that problem yet . but for many years i have carried a rifle and a pistol with me on the tractor . One farm i rented the owner told me that NEVER come down to the farm with out something . If your a decent shot with a pistol then that will work if not carry a shot gun . That place was polluted with copper heads ,then for a shot time i had a problem with shell we says SHARE CROPPERS and interlopers . along with over population of ground hogs. What and where i was usually farming was off the beaten path and had many encounters that could have ended badly for me . Since i did my farming mostly at night and off the beaten path in way out of the way locations you never knew what you were going to come across.
 
In Texas if you contact TP&W they will tell you the land owners own the hogs. Therefore it's the land owner's problem, at least that's what they told me. They won't do one thing even though Texas owns all running water and wildlife.

I've killed them in my front yard using a thermal scope at night. With that scope every thing that's warm will show up white even birds roosting in trees.
 
Here in Missouri the conservation dept want you to contact them so they can trap them. They don't want to to shoot them. They say shootign them spreads them since if you shoot one the rest go there own way and move to other places and spread more
 
Any idea where this was filmed?? Eastern Europe? They've had wild hogs forever. Given the European style forage wagons and the language spoken by the photographer, I doubt it was filmed in Idaho....
 
Good afternoon Old do you know what they do with them after trapping? It seems to me if they just relocate them it would cause the same problem. Or maybe they release them in Kansas, end of problem LOL.
 
Funny, I lived in Texas until 1998 and never heard of wild hog problems there. Had thousands of acres of woods behind the house and I was often in those woods (on foot) for most of the day. Never saw any signs of hogs.

Anyway, this thread had me pull up some videos on the subject. Here's a video that combines a wild hog with the subject from another post; a bear. Video was posted 9 months ago and happened in Gatlinburg, TN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfE_VVs1Bw
 
Kcm you just werent in the right place. Night hunting them
with a thermal scope on an AR helps control them a little but
in the daytime out of a helicopter is better. The weapon of
choice in a helicopter is a 12 gauge with buckshot. Tony
 
I absolutely despise those things. This pic was off my back porch last week. I shoot them a few times a week in my fields.

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So what is a good Hog Gun? I would think an 30-30 lever action, SKS or an AR15 in 300 blackout?

A while back my son used my 30-40 Krag 1898 that was sporterized about 80 years ago on a hunting trip. Nice heavy round to knock them down.
 
85 grain bullets and up are fine. I have killed them with a 22-250, a 375 H&H and many in between. My favorite at night is the 6.5 Grendel with the thermal on top. Daytime I just grab any bolt action, 7mm-08 is usually my go-to for everything around here.
 
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