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.
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Good move by Governor Perry.
As close as it gets to when pigs fly.
(Pig-hide!)
I bet there is money to be made creating a video game that allows folks without the dough to rid the state of feral hogs in virtual reality. Coming soon - a reality show on the Discovery Channel. “Hog Wars.”
Eaker, this one has your name written all over it!!!!
Flying Machines, High Powered Rifles, and Hog Meat.
LOL
MMMmmm, bacon.....
Selling time on UAV choppers with weapons over the Internet? Now THAT would be a Predator Drone!
Now they should just do this along and within inches of the border and we might a a two-fer solution.
Now they should just do this along and within inches of the border and we might just have a two-fer solution.
I was stunned to learn that there are approximately 2 MILLION feral hogs in Texas, with a large number of them around the Ft Worth/Granbury area. They’re incredibly destructive and mighty tasty - great combo!
Wrong gun!
.223 is too light, should be .308, 30-06, 8mm, etc.
Get Mike Dillon to send over some mini-guns.
M-60’s, ANM2’s, 1919’s, stop messing around if you truly want to reduce the population of porcine vermin.
How about approaching a Silicon Valley gaming company for the control software? I'd bet the military could use it. Nothing could stand a chance against an army of fourteen year-old geeks armed with joysticks and X-Boxes!
Agreed. It takes a lot of mo to do damage after getting through 2" of gristle and bone on a 400# hog.
Is it really a ‘hunt’, when you do it from a helo?
Search YouTube for videos of the hog hunts from helos... there are some AWESOME videos. :-) It looks like serious fun! :-)
Sure it is. An eagle hunts its prey exactly the same way. This is just a new dimension for people wherein one can learn to hunt like a wolf or raptor.
HAWG WILD! ! !
Down in the Swamp of Socialism (AKA “The Everglades”), the Armed and Rangerous almost went full Hawg Wild. Assorted, sordid, ParcPersons found a new taxpayer supplied trough into which they stuck their snouts. This trough is labelled “Exotic Species Control”. It is exotic, but no species are really controlled - least of all Ranger Randy’s behavior.
The helicopter borne gunner had managed to wound a large sow, but she made it into a hammock. Having more fuel and ammo than brains, they brought the airborne PigMobile Gunship to a hover in a small clear space in the dwarf cypress. Said clear spot was alongside the hammock (tree island). That’s when it happened, as the sow decided to out go in a cloud of glory, and charged. She bit the skid, and managed to push hard enough to where ParcMan heard the horrid sound of tail rotor blades chopping dwarf cypress branches.
Allow me to here inform those unfamiliar with dwarf cypress that these trees are less than 20 feet high, with scrawny branches.
The trunk is made of stouter stuff, stout enough to destroy the tail rotor. If that happened, the situation which would occur is known to pilots as “Screwing the pooch.”. That means one has left in an expensive plane and returned without it. It is not a career building moment.
That is what scared the stuffing out of the Rambo wannabe’s in their ‘Death from above’ Pig Terminator. Ranger Randy was nearly exterminated by a wild sow.
SOUEEEEEEE!
As in all cases of ‘single species management’ letting goobers in a gooberment agency do anything not specifically authorized in the Constitution is a bad idea. It’s also unconstitutional.
Nice that Texas allows the citizens to deal with their own problems and doesn’t put regulatory barriers in the way of non-goober based ideas.
When I saw the title, I thought this was another “Newt for President” thread!
My land is about 90 miles NW of Ft. Worth, Tex. Killed 7 wild hogs last year and have a picture taken later with 9 more visible in the frame! Great fun!
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