Well, I'm certainly willing to do my part to solve the problem... one succulent morsel at a time.
*smacks lips*
Posted on 01/01/2011 2:49:31 PM PST by EveningStar
About 50 miles east of Waco, Texas, a 70-acre field is cratered with holes up to five feet wide and three feet deep. The roots below a huge oak tree shading a creek have been dug out and exposed. Grass has been trampled into paths. Where the grass has been stripped, saplings crowd out the pecan trees that provide food for deer, opossums and other wildlife. A farmer wanting to cut his hay could barely run a tractor through here. There’s no mistaking what has happened—this field has gone to the hogs.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
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Them ain’t hogs. They’s muslim repellent.
not gonna say a word!
Hogzilla!!!!!
Reminds me of a certain Australian horror film.
This is an opportunity: hogs and asteroids. Both can be exploited in these situations.
The hogs hunted down, killed, and eaten. It’s easy.
The next one ain’t so easy. The asteroids can be hunted down, too. Then mined and smelted (by robots), the valuable metal returned to the moon for manufacturing. This is the Third Industrial Revolution I’m talking about here, the path to U.S. future success.
One average-sized near earth asteroid that contains platinum-group metals is equal in value to the entire Global economic output for one year!
Well, I'm certainly willing to do my part to solve the problem... one succulent morsel at a time.
*smacks lips*
With China sitting on oodles of rare-earth minerals and hogging it all for themselves and their commie friends I think that its well past time that the USA ramp up asteroid mining since I'd bet that they have mega-oodles of the precious rare-earth minerals that American industries need.
Howbeit, I'd guess that the moment that we start doing it then the commie United Nations will step in and say that the USA has no rights to it since it really belongs to the entire earth!!
Easy, you say.
Problem is that it’s not easy.
They’re nocturnal, wrapped in a thick layer of cartilege that bullets often don’t pierce, mean as the dickens, and they breed like rabbits.
I personally saw one survive a razor-tipped arrow that went all the way through him back in October. Ran off, showed back up on the game cam a week later. We recovered the bloody arrow.
I’ve got a couple of cousins who own a 2K acre
ranch in the NorCal coastal range. One of them
told me he watched from a distance as a group
of wild pigs were feeding on one side of a cow
carcass while coyotes were feeding on the other
side. Sounded like something you would see on
a Discovery Channel program set in Africa.
As an avid hunter, I always get a kick out of folks who whine about being overrun by wild hogs. If they let you hunt them at all, they charge a hefty fee for the opportunity to rid them of a problem. About 40 miles from me is a huge area where you can do unguided day hunts for about $300.
It is easier to kill a hog than an asteroid, or didn’t you read that far? /sarc
“Them ain’t hogs. They’s muslim repellent.”
ROFLMAO you win the best comment!
Saw two dead this morning down in Aransas Pass. I hit a deer a couple years back and it did $4500.00 worth of damage to my truck. Hate to see what damage one of these big pigs do.
Trap and air drop em in Afghanistan and Iran.
Yes, I read that far.
My problem is that I’m not easily amused by the subject of wild hogs at the moment. As the owner of 400 acres of rolling Texas prairie bisected by wooded creeks, they are a threat to my crops and hay meadows. Interesting but truly nasty creatures.
And folks on this thread seem to think it’s funny and obviously haven’t read the Smithsonian article.
Just grumpy today. Please don’t take offense.
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