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Texans Fight Hog Infestation With Bombs, Choppers, Automatic Weapons
Heatstreet ^ | September 19, 2016 | Heat Street Staff and Free Media

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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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: hunting; pigs; texas
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Pigs fly and swine flu.


61 posted on 09/21/2016 9:35:45 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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