Posted on 03/20/2021 10:59:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“I’m an outlaw,” Dimas “Pompi” Rodriguez told the Guardian of working as one of Florida’s feral hog poachers, a line of work which authorities and homeowners turn a blind eye to due to the animals’ massively destructive existence.
hough the topic became a laughing stock in 2019 after a viral tweet about assault weapons, the hogs have actually become America’s biggest wildlife challenge.
After pigs escaped from a Spanish explorer near Tampa in 1539, the animals grew into a 9 million strong population present in 39 states. The pests cause what the US Department of Agriculture estimates to be more than $2.5 billion in property damage annually, the Guardian reported.
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The answer to the feral hog problem is obvious: train them to eat kudzu and chase liberals, thus using one problem to remedy two others.
Feral hog poacher is a misnomer. There is no designated feral hog season. They are not considered game animals and as hunting them on private property is o.k. long as hunters have the property owner’s permission. There are some rules regarding hunting them on wildlife areas but a hunting license is not required.
So I am going to assume the author means people have found a way to cook the hogs in a small amount of simmering water.
It’s pretty much always open season on hogs in FL. And boars can seriously hurt you. Tasty when cooked right. My fav is wrapped in foil, buried, fire built on top, slow cooked underground for 6-10 hrs. Ten-der.
Let me guess. The explorer the hogs escaped from was Hernando De Soto, right? If so, it’s one more thing that went wrong on his expedition.
I am going to assume the author means people have found a way to cook the hogs in a small amount of simmering water.
Haven’t actually seen any hogs, but we’ve seen signs advertising hog hunts.
ONE solution to the “feral hog problem, which our family uses, is to hire a “hog hunter” who HAPPILY will work “on shares”.
“Our team” is MISTY & her husband THOMAS out of Southeastern OK, who trap the hogs, transport them to their farm, fatten the hogs & slaughter them for fresh pork.
Depending on the season, we then get a NICE-SIZED check for “our cut” 4-6 times each year.
(Our latest check for October thru January was about 700.oo.)
Note: I once said to my late mother, “I’d be happy if we got NO money, as long as the hogs are GONE.”
Mother said, “HUSH. You’re talking about my Christmas fund.”
(Being at least “HALF-smart”, I quickly HUSHED. = CHUCKLE.)
Yours, ex-cadet
The young females to about 60 pounds dressed go onto the BBQ pit whole for 6 hours or so. = GREAT eating, too.
(I once fed an entire Baptist church “all you can hold” BBQ pork from 3 young sows.= Cost me nothing but the split green hickory “stove wood”.)
Yours, ex-cadet
With her share she was living high on the... nevermind.
“ train them to eat kudzu and chase liberals, thus using one problem to remedy two others”
By Jove! What a novel idea.
Good one. = CHUCKLE.
Yours, ex-cadet
The Spanish also brought the greyhound/whippet and mastiff which interbred and became the Catahoula dog.
The mental picture of Biden and Pelosi being chased by feral hogs is both comic and soothing. We live and hope.
My uncle in law hunts them from a chopper, with a suppressed .300 Blackout AR.
We’ve been battling hogs for many years here on the ranch, they’re on the shoot on sight, shoot as many as you can list. The days of the old 30-30 riding shotgun in the cowboys truck are over, now it’s AR platform rifles and 10 + round mags. I carry an AR 10 platform and 10 rd mag’s. Trying to a get an AR-10 quickly out the window or out of the truck is much easier with the short mag’s.
Went hog hunting near Cleburne last year. Great time! We got 12 overnight using night vision scopes and AR’s. The biggest was a boar the weighed in at 175 lbs dressed and the smallest was a sow that was about 15 lbs dressed. We have a standing invite from the landowner to come back and hunt anytime we want.
Hogs and goats were two staples the Spanish placed everywhere they went, including islands in the sea for future shipwrecked sailors.
Where I live, Arkan-saw, the wild hogs are infected with psudo-rabies, so it is shoot and leave them for the vultures.
I've been told by one friend who went on a feral hog hunt that there's very little if any edible meat on them because it's mostly/all sinew so the hogs are killed and left to rot.
I've also been told the feral hogs are very aggressive so I'm curious to know how farming and fattening these hogs for fresh pork is profitable?
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