Posted on 09/20/2016 7:07:12 AM PDT by C19fan
Guns, Helicopters, And Now… Explosives. Heat Street and our partners at Free Media recently took a trip down south to see how Texans are dealing with their feral pig problem. There are currently more than 6 million wild hogs on the loose in America – tearing up crops and infecting waterways. With $1.5 million in damages each year, Texans are free to use almost anything to eradicate the pigs, including blowing them up.
The product of choice is Tannerite – a binary explosive you can pick up from your local outdoors store for $7.99 (single pack). Watch us hang out with Matt Barnett, a federally-licensed explosives expert. He uses something a little stronger.
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sounds like fun
“But I have a rule about not hunting anything I don’t intend to eat.”
“You are allowed to run them over in your car.”
Recommended? Not so much. Hitting a 250 lb. deer is bad enough, try hitting a 400 or 600 lb. hog. No thanks, I kind of like my car - and my health. Shooting is JUST FINE.
BTW, lots of guys are getting .300 Blackout uppers for their ARs, and then getting suppressors and night vision scopes. REALLY devastating - the hogs don’t figure out that you’re shooting their buddies so they stay grouped up, and they don’t expect it at night. FYI, hogs also can’t see in green, so lots of guys use very intense green lights at night to see them (if they don’t have the rather expensive night vision sights).
There is nothing wrong with killing pestilential animals.
‘There is nothing wrong with killing pestilential animals.”
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Didn’t mean to imply there was and they’s more than a few dead junkyard rats that’ll attest to that. But I’m not the hunter in the family, the younger bro is. Me, I go to a steak house.
Bump
[So. It’s going to be one of THOSE days.]
I was doing you a favor. I stopped using the term when I found what it meant.
bkmk
Anywhere, and I mean anywhere on the East side of Texas. I hunt the family farm mostly. Public lands are good, especially the E. Texas Nat. Forests. Corps of Engineer lakes offer hunting (Bardwell, Benbrook, Grapevine).
I have seen sounders running through the sand pits while driving 20 through s. Dallas County. I have seen them running next to the river in Dallas. Anywhere there is ample water supply, there will be hogs.
Tannerite was in the explosives in New York.
The only wild hog meat I have ever tasted was a big old boar! It was over 30 years ago and I can still taste it on my tongue. Gad it was awful!
Wow, I thought OMG meant Obama Must Go!!!
They are nuisance animals like coyotes. They do terrible damage here in the South. We shoot them 24/7. We are not talking about killing the last white buffalo here.
And nobody is criticizing you for it. The article made clear they are a transience. What my grandpa used to call “varmits”
My first thought too! I buy from a local farmer Heritage Hog pork, https://m.facebook.com/386308044799419/photos/a.387119478051609.85244.386308044799419/1084426521654231/?type=3&source=48
https://www.everfest.com/e/fall-feral-hog-festival-ben-wheeler-tx
Fun fall festival in Ben Wheeler, Van Zandt County TX.
The hogs would rip any number of pitbulls to pieces and eat em alive. Dogs are nothing against hogs.
[Wow, I thought OMG meant Obama Must Go!!!]
LOL
Fortunately I haven’t seen any this year, the last 2 years wild hogs half destroyed my garden. ate all the corn down to nubs, I think they got into the cantaloupes, ate half the other plants...
I found tracks a few times and spooked 3 in the back yard coming back from a neighbor’s house just at dark one day, I’m not sure if they didn’t spook me more.
This year no sign of them, last year I watched 3 cross the road a few blocks up, saw them in that same area 2 or 3 other times. Nuisance is putting it mildly. Oh, and I watched 2 swim across the lake 3 year ago too.
I try to always avoid pork of any kind, there’s a reason the Bible says do not eat the flesh of the pig and it’s not a religious one. Pigs are scavengers, carry a number of diseases and parasites, and their digestive system does not eliminate toxins like most animals do by sweating.
https://draxe.com/why-you-should-avoid-pork/
That is literally true. Hogs can be VERY dangerous.
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