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EXCLUSIVE On the road with the hunters chasing down America's deadliest beasts as numbers surge: 'Bring in the ears'
Daily Mail ^ | 8/31/24 | Laura Parnaby

Posted on 08/31/2024 1:46:17 PM PDT by Libloather

What has four legs, hails from Spain, is notoriously difficult to kill, multiplies by 10 each year, and causes an annual $2.5 billion damage to the economy?

If you guessed feral hogs, you are correct. An estimated nine million nomadic pigs currently roam America, destroying crops and properties which lay in their path, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

Hogs even cause the occasional fatality - either through a rare bloodthirsty attack on a human or by charging across a highway and triggering a road traffic accident.

In the most pig-dense states like Texas, law enforcement officials offer bounties of around $15 per hog ear to citizens who successfully shoot one down.

And the species is reproducing at an alarming rate, with the average hog birthing two litters of around five piglets per year. It is little wonder then that groups of self-styled 'hog hunters' are cropping up across the country, armed with 'hogcopters', bows-and-arrows and guns to wipe out thousands of the feral beasts each year.

'They're wildly out of control. They're uncontrollable,' said Andy Butler, who has shot thousands of hogs and runs a Texas-based company equipping law enforcement officials with the knowledge needed to safely shoot the beasts.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; History; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: banglist; beast; deadly; ears; hunters; pest; wildlife
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To: Racketeer
>>I have not ever felt comfortable killing…

I am very comfortable kill’n feral hogs and letting the ‘Yotes and buzzards eat them.

Killed four Thursday.

As for the posted excerpt, feral hogs breed three times a year and I have never heard of a bounty in Texas for kill’n hogs.

41 posted on 08/31/2024 8:09:06 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Openurmind

I have eaten several. The rule of thumb is that if you walk up on them and they stank from rutting, let it lay. I haven’t had a bad sow.


42 posted on 08/31/2024 9:29:58 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: wardaddy

I cut down the spine on both sides and take out the loins. Then, move back to the hams and be done. No need to gut them.


43 posted on 08/31/2024 9:31:59 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Flaming Conservative

I’ve heard people who do that and they castrate it and cut the tail off. That way, if they see one without a tail next time, they will know it is a barrow.


44 posted on 08/31/2024 9:34:02 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

He knows some guy who uses the meat for dog food.


45 posted on 08/31/2024 11:02:26 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Racketeer

You can get the works starting at $5,495.00 which includes 2 hours of flight time. LOL!


46 posted on 09/01/2024 2:43:46 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: crusty old prospector

I have heard some folks capture them and feed them domestic feed for awhile before butchering so they are cleaned out and better.


47 posted on 09/01/2024 2:55:21 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

Ture. The corn fed ones taste better.


48 posted on 09/01/2024 3:23:59 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s the border patrol in some countries but not here yet.


49 posted on 09/01/2024 7:23:55 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: crusty old prospector

Like I learned to carve out duck breast to avoid incessant plucking unless I desired whole birds for roasting

We killed A LOT of ducks

We had a surgical tubes on spindle plucker which did help a lot admittedly

The duck plucker

Made by magna corp in Mississippi on who’s duck camp I hunted on in the delta

My hog experience is Edward’s plateau where we had a huge deer lease nw of burnet


50 posted on 09/01/2024 1:33:20 PM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
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To: wardaddy

Same with dove. Just the breast.


51 posted on 09/01/2024 2:57:26 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Libloather

What’s the best buckshot for wild hog?


52 posted on 09/01/2024 3:38:16 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Buckshot For Boars

Recently, there seems to have been an influx of discussion on the use of shotguns for hog hunting.

https://wildboarusa.com/buckshot-for-boars/


53 posted on 09/01/2024 3:44:30 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

That was a good read. It reminds me I do have double ball 65 caliber ammo. Thanks.


54 posted on 09/01/2024 8:08:50 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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