Posted on 03/04/2017 3:22:51 PM PST by BBell
If you've ever wanted to live inside of a hunting video game, Ray Shinpaugh has done it.
A video of him shooting 70 feral hogs in one night in North Texas has been blowing up on YouTube. Posted on Feb. 8, it's already attracted nearly 225,000 views.
According to the video's description, Shinpaugh uses thermal optics in the nighttime hours to locate groups of hogs feeding in fields. He then moves quietly between the pigs and any adjacent woods before beginning the chase with a thermal monocular, laser, shotgun and 00 buck shot. Shinpaugh has perfected the art, and is a remarkably good shot, especially considering he's shooting running pigs from a moving vehicle.
Shinbaugh's technique is far more efficient and effective than other more passive methods of eradication, like trapping. Hogs are extremely intelligent, and quickly learn to avoid anything that looks like a trap. What they never avoid is the food available in fields.
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Insane Feral Hog Eradication Footage - 70 Hogs Down in One Night
Don’t waste that meat! Ship it to Guantanamo.
Better than the approved warfarin laced pesticide they want to use. Huge feral hog overpopulation issue in Texas
Club Gitmo??? when there are so many FReepers who want it??
Any chance he bagged, pelosi, fauxohauntus or hiLIARy in there?
Feral hog populations have exploded all over.
Awesome!
I love your suggestion.
Pork chops, bacon, bacon bits, bacon blankets, shredded bbq pork.... it’s what’s you gonna eat FOREVER.
Rats got in our attic for the 2nd time. First time pest guy used bait and killed them then closed up the attic. Boom! Done. This time he’s been using something close to warfarin. Makes them bleed out. Has taken a month now and I’m still hearing rats. Shaking my head.
“Bacon! Bacon! Bacon!”
Good start but it looks like he’s got a long way to go. That’s a lot of hogs.
He would have to have a big freezer.
He needs something like a Beretta Extrema semi auto. Wasting too much time racking that slide.
If this guy isn’t on a hell he’s riding a smooth riding 4wheeler.
My goodness, there must have been 500 hogs in that field.
Awful death from what I read. Just hunt.I’ve had wild boar sausage...good stuff and I love bacon
A Texas feral hog hunt is definitely on my list of things to do before I die..........
That’s a LOT of feral hogs!
Good on him.
Feral hogs are a real problem here in Texas. We even have them tearing up suburban lawns and golf courses here where I live in Georgetown.
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