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Feral Hogs?

There is some problem here in Missouri. So much so that the season is open on them ALL year with NO hunting permit needed. Basicly the state is saying if you see one SHOOT it.

Kent
 
No feral hogs here. Too cold for them.
Got our share of feral people here though. Inner city types raping, killing, stealing, robbing etc.
 
Are they hard to hunt and kill?

With an open-season on them it seems we could quickly solve the problem. Thay can't be that clever...?


Thanks,
Glenn
 
(quoted from post at 11:55:22 12/28/09) Are they hard to hunt and kill?

With an open-season on them it seems we could quickly solve the problem. Thay can't be that clever...?


Thanks,
Glenn
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new bunch every 113 days & most active at night & yes they are smart.
 
yes they are clever if you ever see them run and great sense of where they are and know you are around even before you see them. In a car they aint afraid just slow down or stop and see them run.
 
In my area of Missouri so far they are not a problem but if and when they do become a problem Missouri also has a shoot them NO MATTER what sort of thing so if you see one you can shot it and do what you want with it. Sort of like coons an opossums
 
Great video, sign me up for the next hunt. Last year I killed 14 hogs on my place. They are a major menace to crops, pastures, hay fields. A small group of them can ruin a 1-2 acres in 1-2 hours. They can be hunted easily but they will adapt to the pressure rapidly. a trap can only stay in the same place for one successful catch then you have to move it. If you shot some in one place they will avoid that place for a long time.
Females can have 2 litters a year of 6 to 12 and they have no natural predators. They are omnivores and as such are never too far from the next meal.
Come on down to S. Texas and shot all you want. I'll bet you won't make a dent in the population even if you bring a few thousand of your friends.
 
I live in south east Texas. Leon county. Down here it is shoot on site and leave them where they fall. And yes they are very smart.
 
My sister-in-law in north Texas hit one with her car and totaled it. Actually she totaled the pig and the car. Anyway, it was a big rear wheel drive Buick, took out the complete front end and the air bags deployed.
 
I used to live in Florida and Texas. Saw the results of wild hogs in Florida. After a bunch of them went over an area, it looked like it had been plowed. They are smart and dangerous. Better have a sizeable rifle with you if want ot irritate an old sow with little pigs or a boar. Most are just feral pigs who do a lot of damage and deserve no protection.
 
What would be the problem with Zoo having hunters going into these areas and harvesting these nusiance hog for meat , I sure it not just that easy, but it a thought
 
Many ranchers have cross bred them for hunters charging fees for a hunt but then have over ran their neighbors with a nuisance now that is out of control ! Government run wild game control is a joke too we are only allowed to hunt one antelope or one buck and they are doing damage to our yards and crops too. Stupid city people buy a ranch and want to let all the animals populate because it is inhumane to shoot one.
 
i wish them guys would do a couple fly-overs on my place...whole ranch is infested and theyre smarter than me MOST of the time...i do get lucky now and then.
traps are worthless
 
(quoted from post at 13:16:07 12/28/09) Slightly off topic of the thread...Are they good to eat? Do the boars have an off taste to them?

Christopher
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ome, but sausage spices work pretty well & some folks trap the small ones and pen feed them til slaughter & that helps with wild taste, too.
 
I just saw a show on these things, they said that there is a new breed of them around southern Georgia, someone bred them with Russian boars. They reproduce faster than rabbits. Jim
 
What do they do with all the carcases, are there enough scavengers to clean them up? In northern MN where we hunt deer I have never seen gut piles disappear as quickly as this year. Dead hogs sure would make for some happy eagles!
 
I don't think there is anybody in South Texas that doesn't have the problem. Attached pictures.
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The only plan in place is kill as many as you can and feed the Buzzards.
There are other problems also most of them carry disease. No way I would think of eating one.
I killed about 20 this year and didn't put a dent in them.
 
Here is a link to a story of a road kill about 20 miles South of my place last year.

I didn"t think they got this big...WI has open season year round on them....supposed to be a population in about 40 counties....

I know of only one that was killed in the area and very few people have seen any...this amazes me that they go unseen as they are pretty big here.

Tim
Big Feral Pig killed by semi
 
I agree with the sizable rifle, a 30-30 or 7.62X39 is about as small of round as I would want to use on a feral hog.

A couple years ago I read a story about a cop called out to shoot a feral hog that had been hit by a car. He arrived at the scene of the "accident" and shot the hog with his 9mm pistol. The hog got up and chased him on top of his car and he unloaded 14 more rounds into the hog (or at least he shot at it 14 times). The hog hooked a tusk under the front fender and ripped it off the car before he finally took off into the brush.

You need to hit them with a heavy slug that does lots of damage.
 
I have eaten wild hog and it was not too bad. However, it had been eating what a dairy farmer had been feeding his dairy cows and had not been ran. It was pretty good. Probably a lot depends on age, what they had been eating, and if ran or not. One of the few times would I take a heavy duty handgun with me, in addition to a big rifle, would be hog hunting. They are smart and not be taken lightly.
 
yeah i hunt feral hogs, we run them with dogs. we caught a few smallones the other day that weighed around 30 popunds and stuck them,skinned em and smoked them whole. they do not taste any different than a tame hog,take it from someone who knows cause i have eaten plenty of it my friend
 
I have not seen any , but this being an election year , we'll surely see some soon enough. And I do understand they are foul and good for nothing.
 
A few years ago we got a 150 lb gilt. It was the tastiest pork I have ever eaten. A real delicasy.
It was in February and it had been eating acorns. I guess it depends on what they have been eating. The neighbors bbq'd a big boar for a party once. It was not too good.
 
on utube look for jager hog hunting with a thermal scope ,he really put a hurting on the Georgia pigs with a 308 auto
 
I read a story in a hunting magazine in the last couple of years which stated that there are feral hogs in all fifty states. And anyone who thinks they can't be that clever, has never been around hogs of any kind. They are probably second only to humans in intelligence, and are smarter than some. :wink:
 
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