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Posted on 01/19/2012 10:11:39 AM PST by Carry_Okie
HOUSTON — Texas has been messed with, and now it’s sending in the helicopters.
Starting today, Texans are taking their ceaseless fight against feral pigs to the skies, thanks to the Texas “Pork Chopper” bill, signed by Gov. Rick Perry. Once limited to killing invasive swine on the ground, licensed hunters can now shoot them from helicopters — for a price.
“I’m ready to book a hunt today!” said David Fason, 48, who drove nine hours and paid $350 on a recent weekend to attend a class in Houston — the first of its kind — on how to safely shoot assault rifles at pigs from the air.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedaily.com ...
Dozens Of Donkeys Killed At Texas State Park For Being Threat To Ecosystem
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/dozens-of-donkeys-killed-at-texas-state-park-for-being-threat-to-ecosystem/
??? That’s the same thing to you?
Hell, Red, that’d be half the fun!
What do you mean by "same"? When one gets into subjective definitions there is always trouble, particularly as regards set membership versus intersection. What I said was the result of consulting a dictionary.
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they hog-tie them instead of disposing of them with a well-placed shot behind the ear
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My understanding is the commercial slaughter houses accepting feral hogs in Texas only accept live hogs. There are several businesses set up to buy live feral hogs.
http://agrilife.org/today/2011/03/17/trapping-transporting-feral-hogs/
http://www.noble.org/ag/Wildlife/feral-hog-control-resources/index.html
From what I heard a few years ago, Asians have a hankering for any kind of wild game. There was a place I believe in Devine that had signs up all over at feed stores, etc. It said they wanted live feral hogs. Someone told me that as soon as the Asian buyer saw them as “live” wild game, they shot them and slaughtered them on the spot. That way, he could guarantee that there were “wild” and get the higher price than if he would have gone up to Iowa and bought the corn-fed variety.
My partner hunts hogs with a bow. He shot 5 last year. All dropped dead within 10 ft of the hit. I don't hunt with a bow, I think it is too iffy and the animal bleeds to death internally instead of the shock and exploding internal organs caused by a quick, clean bullet.
BTW, they are just as good, if not better, to eat and much leaner than domestic pigs as long as they are under about 200 lbs. All they eat is clean acorns, corn, and wheat shoots.
C'mon Rick, if those pigs are such a big problem make it open season on them. Trying to make a buck out of the issue just stinks.
“BTW, they are just as good, if not better, to eat and much leaner than domestic pigs as long as they are under about 200 lbs. All they eat is clean acorns, corn, and wheat shoots.”
The 50 to 150ish pounders are great eating.
Part of the problem re killing the big hog with and arrow is their outer fat and muscle layers act like compresses to minimize the bleeding if the arrow goes through the hog and no vital internal organ is hit by the arrow.
The arrows my son uses are the expanding razor blade like arrow, and they leave a massive exit hole when they pass through. He has had deer and antelope drop within a few feet after they are hit. Unlike the old days when your target was the rear end of the critter, and they bled to death after running away. The meat is better with the new arrows as there is minimal lactic acid build up.
“One thing that you definitely don’t want to do is to hit one with your car. They are so low to the ground that they go under the bumper and tear everything up. There have been several people killed in Texas by hitting them while on motorcycles.”
I can just imagine some of the so called gas savers made of aluminum and plastic hitting a 300-+400 pound hog. A motorcycle would even be worse.
Fortunately, in N California, they usually stay away from the hiways. I have never seen one at night near or on the road.
Bambi is different. They herd up in the fall and do a lot of their roaming at night. One of our younger relatives has a friend in the hospital with severe injuries. She rounded a curve in the foothills late at night and a herd was all over the road. She apparently avoided all but one and hit it and swerved before or after hitting it and ran into a big tree.
“C’mon Rick, if those pigs are such a big problem make it open season on them. Trying to make a buck out of the issue just stinks.”
WOuld being able to legally shot wild pigs with any legal weapon you choose, and shoot as many pigs, of either sex, at any hour, 365 days a year qualify as an “open season” to you?
If so, Texas has such a season on pigs.
PS What’s wrong with making money while hunting?
The article states, "licensed hunters". That implies management, which implies that one cannot shoot as many as you want, whenever you want.
What’s wrong with making money while hunting?
The state is making a buck. If they really want to get rid of feral hogs, make it open season/ no license, period.
“Is it really a ‘hunt’, when you do it from a helo?”
It’s crop dusting for vermin with lead.
As Alton Brown sayz... Good Eats
Sounds like fun
Wrong! In Texas there is no limit nor closed season on feral hogs. Peccary/javalina not included because they are not feral hogs. The license gives a person the legal right to hunt. It does not imply game management. Feral hogs can be hunted day or night, with lights, no restrictions on choice of weapon, 365 days a year (well, 366 this year) and no restrictions on number of kills or sex at any time. This same is true of any animal not considered to be indigenous to Texas. Feral hogs and many other species of "game" animals were introduced by man. They are not indigenous therefore, they are not regulated.
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