Wild hogs move into Mid-South, Fayette County officer kills 600-pound boar

The Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 12/23/06 | Shirley Downing

[umgud]

All over the country people and agencies complain about wild pigs, but generally won't let us common folk hunt them or charge us when they do. The best pig hunting usually isn't on public land.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Nuthin' like a Christmas BBQ!!!

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I think that hog is what we in Louisiana call Russian Boar
Strain,,,"hair on his back",,They have Bristles that a feral
hog does not have,,,Like you ,I got one on a deer hunt many years ago,,a tad over 300lbs. ,,,yes it was "strong", Still got his "Tusk"...;0)

[dfwgator]

More like 600-pound bore.

[sgtbono2002]

LOL when I saw the headline I thought someone had shot Michael Moore.

[RightWhale]

What was the load on that 12 gauge? Three shots into 600 pounds wouldn't be at all certain if it were buckshot.

[Recon Dad]

They probably just shot the University of Arkansas's mascot.

[doug from upland]

[GSlob]

a .338 with a good fragmentation or expanding bullet ought to suffice nicely. Say, Lapua magnum.

[LouD]

On the other hand, there are guys that hunt them with knives:

http://www.a-wild-boar-hog-hunting-florida-guide-service.com/boar-hunting-12-18-06.htm

[PzLdr]

They also use spears.

[PzLdr]

I assume he used slugs or double aught buckshot.

[freedomlover]

HOGZILLA

[RunningWolf]

They are just moving back into areas they formally inhabited.

That of course does mean it wont be a problem for the areas where the hogs and other wildlife make a resurgence now that they have learned to adapt.

[capt. norm]

"You can clump armadillos, alligators and fire ants together," said Gary Cook, regional manager for the Jackson office of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. "Some of those are temperature dependent. The warmer it is, the farther north they will expand their territories. Because we have had relatively warm temperatures for the past 10 years, those animals tend to expand their territories north.

What a blooming moron!

The fire ants came in on ships unloading cargo from South America...temperature had nothing to do with it. And it happened in the 50's or at least was noticed then...coulda' been earlier. They stay in their holes in cold weather just like the regular ants, but sub-freezing temps do not discourage them at all.

There were alligators in the Mississippi river back in the days of Mark Twain and who knows how long before that.

Armadillos have been slowly migrating this way for nearly a hundred years....they must have known Global Warming was coming way back then.

The "Warmist" religion requires that everything be blamed on climate change and all climate change must be blamed on humans....especially those evil capitalists.

[Phsstpok]

I've got a solution. Round them up, cart them over to Iran and other troublesome muslim areas and dump 'em on the Jihadists.

Preferably into their homes and mosques.

It might be nice to drop a few from a C-17 over Mecca with "no visible means of support," but that would be insensitive to the poor dumb animals. The hogs, I mean.

[Farmer Dean]

Aim right between the eyes,sometimes they charge when wounded.

[Grizzled Bear]

"You can clump armadillos, alligators and fire ants together"
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Sounds like a meal I had once in Louisiana.

[Shooter 2.5]

There is no difference between the 45-70 and the 450 Marlin if you reload and have the right firearm. The factory 45-70's are downloaded in case they're chambered in something like an old trapdoor Springfield.

If you reload like I do, and have a modern firearm the ballistics can be exactly the same.

[Redbob]

Ammo is important: I shot one in East Tennessee a few years back, a cross between a feral hog and a Russian boar.
Using a .44 mag,it took me three shots; I'd made the mistake of using jacketed 180-gr hollow-points, when I should have been using 240-gr solids, or cast lead semi-wadcutters.
The hollow-points just blew up on impact without penetrating.