Passenger pigeon:
Mourning dove:
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Posted on 11/26/2019 11:06:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
That is one fun video! Well worth the watch!
[Pigeons are actually one of the more intelligent birds, but even with the difficulty of hunting them and their vast numbers diligent hunters and trappers drove them into extinction.
I am confident we could do the same thing to feral pigs, where doing so might be a good thing, unlike the loss of the carrier pigeon. ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon
Whereas the passenger pigeon is long extinct, because of its lack of wariness with respect to human predators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Passenger pigeon:
Mourning dove:
You are correct, I was thinking of the passenger pigeon, which apparently was tasty enough to attract market hunters.
A few years ago a bunch of feral hogs messed up my property. Here are some photos of the damage they did. The one we got was gotten with a .22.
Now there’s a hunting outfitter down the road.
https://www.facebook.com/aliceofcitra/media_set?set=a.10208638109820383&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/pg/blacktineoutfitters/photos/?ref=page_internal
https://www.youtube.com/user/JAGERPRO
Watch their videos and read their methodology.
Trapping makes more sense.
You owe me a new iPad after reading that because my Tea went everywhere.
What made your post so funny is that it’s so accurate.
That’s pretty close to our timeline, here in W.MD.
When I was kid in the mid-70s, coon pelts brought good money, and I both checked live traps and brought home the coons to help my dad train his coonhounds.
He also leg-trapped and I went with him for that.
Neither of us felt the need to worry about rabies because coons just were not an issue, back then.
This chart is from 1945 until now with 1982 being the insane jump in raccoon cases
Things were compounded by the neighbor up the hill because he put 20 pound bags of cat food out every single day for the ferals he “loved”.
And everything else came at night to feast and our infamous local endemic began, part of which were the coons that my dad shot in my yard and the three my dogs and I encountered, that terrible day.
I now agree.
Gonna take a lot of traps, though.
Also, I swear I watched either that video, or another company like it, on some outdoor channel on DirecTv a while back.
If she stepped outside and saw them, maybe she could have gone back inside.
Look up the Jager Pro channel on YouTube.
I am the Chief yes.
Not sure how “gamey” these wild hogs will taste, but if they are OK, someone needs to start a chain of “Wild Boar BBQ” restaurants!
Make the “Deluxe Special of the Day” a rotisserie piglet complete with an apple stuffed in its mouth.
“Go Whole Hog” could be their motto!
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