A friend of mine has feral hogs running around on his ranch.It’s a big problem. He has hog traps scattered across the property and uses Big Red soda as bait. The high iron count in a hogs blood means blood will clot quicker. If the first shot isn’t a kill shot, all that happens is you piss the hog off.
It’s difficult to catch a glimpse of a European boar in NC unless one one is hunting.
My dad recalled to me that his father and others connected to the family would mount up on horses, rifles carried by servants, and head out to hunt boar with dogs. They’d come back with a boar, occasionally minus a servant and some dogs. WWII put an end to that.
Here in Culpeper county,Virginia, feral hogs are a problem to crops and a potential tragedy to humans, waiting to happen. I believe they can be hunted anytime, on Sundays, without license, day or night, with a night scope.
I shot one last night.
There are some feral hogs in this area. In our younger days my husband and a friend of his would rope (from horseback, very tricky) the baby boars and castrate them and turn them loose. Then after they grew he would rope one or two he castrated as a baby and we would pen up at the house and feed it good feed for about 45 days and we would butcher. That was the best pork, far better than what you can just buy at the grocer.
This time of the year I always think about that because as Fall would be on the way we would have a pig or two at the house feeding it out.
We had beef, pork, and deer after deer season. I grew a huge garden every year. It was a lot of work but we sure ate good.
Since today is 9/11 I will point out that muslims are alot like wild pigs except not as smart or brave.
All we need to do is tell the Chinese that feral pigs are an aphrodisiac. They’ll be hunted to extinction in no time.
I like using my Cetme’ .308 for hog hunting where I live.
Packs a punch.
I live on a private air park and it is dangerous as they tear up the runway and taxi ways.
Also do great damage to ones yard.
Officials say that from here to Palm Beach county there are over a million of them living and tearing things up.
Have captured up to 8 at one time in a trap but then what to do with them?
Better to shoot em and leave em for the buzzards.
Have seen em up to 600 pounds,,
Often look just like Rosie O’donnell.