Posted on 09/22/2020 5:55:34 AM PDT by C19fan
The United States is on the cusp of a huge pig 'time bomb' with the number feral hogs increasing in huge numbers.
Research scientist Dr. Jack Mayer, a zoologist who has been researching wild pigs for 40 years, has warned that the population could keep on growing unless there is a sudden swine flu epidemic.
'It's a crazy situation with everything that's happened in what I call the Pig Bomb, which has exploded in North America,' Jack Mayer told The Daily Beast about the wild population of six million and two million in Texas alone.
Florida, Georgia, and California also have vast populations.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Wild hog looks and tastes more like a combo of beef than the light porky/fatty taste of domestic hog.
Males are good when young, best when their nuts have been cut.
Depends on age of pig. Smaller ones are quite good. Big ones are bragging rights and dog food ;-)
Same as deer, right?
Over the years I have realized that book sense doesn’t necisarrilly translate to common sense (which ain’t so common any more). Something tells me you biologist would have to have one of ‘em bite her on the butt to wake her up.
Even 308 needs shot placement and a ‘hog load’ is preferable
You can bounce a 308 off the boney shoulder or head.
no... they are all killed.
Friend of mine catches them and kills the adults, then fattens up the babies to about 200 to 300 lbs...at which point they are delicious.
Seriously? 308 is a heavy load.
Yes.
A friend used to cut off a piece and cook and taste it before he invested anymore into a wild hog..
Please send some to Dearborn Michigan!
Yep. Even 308.
D@mn things are fast and tough, and if you don’t drop the hog with a good shot they can run wounded for a LONG distance. You won’t find it - others will eat it before you locate it the next day.
Always seek a merciful and fast kill.
The hogs have to be destroyed, either on site or at a meat packing plant.
They ate all the bait and then slept it off outside the trap.
It might have a different taste but in the end it’s still BACON!
Nope, They shoot them right in the trap. They used to pay people to hunt them but those same people were dropping off imported European Boars into the woods which is why the wild hogs get so big now. They were breeding the Euro hogs at home and dropping them off in the woods to keep the population up and keep the paycheck rolling in.
It's the 400 lb rats I'm worried about...
Indeed... They started running with the trap being tripped!
Most guys would feed them corn for a couple weeks before they let them nap.
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