Posted on 04/26/2011 6:36:04 PM PDT by wendy1946
Huge difference between that and what those guys at Jager Pro are doing. The Jager Pro people weren’t just shooting one hog and letting all 20 others run off scott free...
So are helicopter rides.
I kind of drool when I see the gamewarden with his FLIR on top of his truck.
I think they were mainly going after the bigger hogs. The Jager Pro guys seemed like they were trying to shoot as many as possible in one night.
Cheapest ticket is probably a good quality HK or FNAR and one of those green lasers. CDNN has had good prices on both kinds of rifles recently.
No kidding. A suppressor is not outrageously expensive though.
Not obvious a suppressor adds anything to the picture. Jager Pro is not using them. Even WITH a suppressor the impact and squeal of the first shot is going to put the remaining pigs on the move, and with a 308 rifle I’d rather have full power ammo. If I was going to use any sort of a silenced weapon on hogs it would be a 45/70 with 400 gr bullets moving at 1050 fps.
I think the suppressor is for the shooter, not the shootee.
Ping. I keep thinking I should save up for some night glass of some sort.
They are trying to kill as many as they can as often as they can. They are a pest control company. Feral hogs do a lot of damage to crops even attacking other livestock to get at the farmer/rancher provided feed.
Damage caused by feral hogs has been reported
in many Texas counties. Crops commonly damaged
by feral hogs include rice, sorghum, wheat,
corn, soybeans, peanuts, potatoes, watermelon and
cantaloupe. One of the most common types of
damage to these crops occurs when the hogs root in
the fields. Hogs not only consume, but also trample
the crops.
Hog predation on livestock is a serious problem
in some counties. Feral hogs kill and consume
lambs and kid goats, especially during lambing and
kidding seasons. Physical evidence of hog predation
may be hard to detect because the entire animal
may be consumed. Ewes and nannies with
swollen udders but no nursing lambs or kids may be
an indication of hog predation. Hog tracks and
droppings may aid in identifying the predator. If
hog predation occurs when kids and lambs are larger,
the entire carcass may be turned inside out, leaving
the hide with little or no flesh except on the
head, neck and hooves.
Feral hogs also will kill ground-nesting birds such
as quail and turkey and destroy their nesting sites.
On some management areas, feeders used to assist
native wildlife are damaged or destroyed by feral
hogs attempting to consume the feed.
In south Georgia...they use dogs...chase dogs and catch dogs. It’s a blast. But I could see the fun in this method.
I have to think these guys are doing a more effective job of pest control.
Oh yeah. Yotes do a pretty good job too...if they catch em when they’re still young.
The Jager Pro guys are definitely using high-end equipment...
Still it isn't obvious to me that you need all of that or that one of those Laser Genetics high-power green lasers wouldn't do the same job.
The biggest piece of the Jager Pro picture is not technology per se but rather a human skill which they're teaching hunters who go out with them, i.e. the technique of using shotgun techniques with the semiauto rifles. That plus the fact that they're doing their thing on big open fields where the hogs don't have any easy way to escape after the first shots are fired, again assuming they're still shootable after they start running.
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