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CNN Examines Using ARs for Hog Hunting
Petersons ^ | March 26, 2013 | Eric Conn

Posted on 04/04/2013 5:55:29 PM PDT by SJackson

If you had to pick the single most controversial issue in America the past few months, the AR would no doubt be at the top of that list. And if you had to characterize the media’s position on the subject, it would without hesitation be unfavorable.

Given those facts, it was surprising when CNN ran an exclusive online video on March 22 with a semi-positive focus on the use of ARs for hog hunting in agrarian Georgia. The segment ran on Anderson Cooper 360 and featured interviews with Jim Pritchard, a Georgia farmer, and Hal Shouse, owner operator of hogSWAT, a local hog hunting outfitter that utilizes ARs and night vision optics.

As the segment points out, feral hogs number around 5 million in the U.S. and do an estimated $1.5 billion in damage each year. Farmers encourage outfitters like Shouse to host hunters on their property to help alleviate crop damage done by the rapidly multiplying hordes of wild hogs. With nightly hog hunting excursions for paying customers, Shouse said the use of ARs and standard 30-round magazines are a practically useful tool.

Victor Blackwell, the host of the segment, asked Shouse why the AR is at the center of such a heated issue: “When you say AR and 30-round magazine, that’s a political hot button.”

“Sure it is, because people have decided to make it [an issue],” Shouse explained. “Tragedies happen, but the weapon didn’t create these tragedies. Sick individuals used this weapon, this tool, and they did something destructive with it, something ugly. That’s all you can say about it.”

Blackwell also asked, “Who needs this weapon outside of the military or someone who wants to kill someone else?”

“You know ‘need’ is a big word. You don’t need a lot of things that you choose to use because they make your job easier. I could do this with a single shot weapon, sure, I just wouldn’t be nearly as effective. But I don’t want to. I’m a legal, responsible gun owner, I’ve evaluated all the different weapons out there and I decided this weapon is what makes sense for me and my company,” Shouse said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guncontrol; need; secondamendment
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To: mylife
Because getting rid of the hair is a pain in the democrat.

You can dunk 'em in boiling water, yeah 250lb dead pig in boiling water, or you can use the burning straw method which stinks badly. And then scrape. And probably either use a brand or a torch to get rid of the hard-to-get-rid-of hairs.

You gotta leave the skin on for bacon or hams. And not cook it in the process of releasing the hairs.

It takes screwing up a few times to gain those skillsets.

/johnny

21 posted on 04/04/2013 6:37:31 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SJackson
  Coincidentally, I just made a web video for some wild hog hunters here. There are some pics showing the guns used.

http://animoto.com/play/IHo55ORGEMHKQsvs00wb4w
22 posted on 04/04/2013 6:39:29 PM PDT by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I guess I would expect them to be gamey - not that that’s always a bad thing depending on what the critters eat...


23 posted on 04/04/2013 6:42:12 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: andyk
Depends on how you handle them. I have professional training. The hand that touches the hide never touches the meat.

/johnny

24 posted on 04/04/2013 6:43:52 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Do you eat the “oysters”? They’re gooooood!


25 posted on 04/04/2013 6:44:24 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: SJackson

My son got his first hog off a .223 and over 30 hogs later that’s all he uses.


26 posted on 04/04/2013 6:47:16 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: JRandomFreeper

When I was a kid there was an old couple across the street that had a hog killin’. My daddy dropped them with one .22 shot between the eyes. They had 55 gallon drums of boiling water sitting under three poles tied at the top. At the top of the poles they had a wench, what we called a “come-a-long”, to pick them up with then ease them down into the water. Once pulled out the hair was easy to scrape off. It was a fun day.


27 posted on 04/04/2013 6:48:09 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: Terry Mross
Mostly, brother brings them to me packed with ice, internal/external, and very little of the vicera left, regardless of how much I ask him to leave the lungs, heart, etc.....I have to buy sausage casings. So no huevos y huevos rancheros for breakfast for me.

I'm lucky if I get the liver.

/johnny

28 posted on 04/04/2013 6:49:22 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: mylife
Would curing feral hog meat make it safe to eat?

No. But they are already healthier than most tame hogs fed in SPF barn. They are free range, few have diseases and don't walk around in their own crap.

We trapped them for years and at times fed them out before slaughtering them. They are very lean, not bred for quick growth. No hormones. Made some really good whole hog sausage. Barely enough fat to keep from sticking in the pan. EXCEPT: if they have been feeding on peanuts. If so, avoid. You cannot get the oil off of you or the equipment.

29 posted on 04/04/2013 6:57:39 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

No peanuts around here.


30 posted on 04/04/2013 7:03:56 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: SJackson

***If you had to pick the single most controversial issue in America the past few months, the AR would no doubt be at the top of that list.****

The AR-15 first went on the market back around 1965. That is 58 years ago. They did not become a problem till the anti-gunners needed a new schtik to get their anti-gun platform moving again, and started beating the drums against those”evil” AWs.


31 posted on 04/04/2013 7:13:05 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The murals in OKC are destroyed.)
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To: mylife

Here in Arkansas feral hogs are shot and left to rot as most have psudo-rabies.


32 posted on 04/04/2013 7:15:17 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The murals in OKC are destroyed.)
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To: mylife

Was recently in north central Texas hog hunting and one gentleman had a an AR with .458 SOCOM upper. Similar to shotgun slug, heavy, but lots more velocity..developed from spec ops. Used frangible rounds or barnes bullets with devastating effect. Took down 320 pound boar from one shot in the back. Eviscerated interior and broke like 7 ribs.


33 posted on 04/04/2013 7:18:34 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: TheBigJ

.300 blackout wasn’t good enough?


34 posted on 04/04/2013 7:19:57 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Close.


35 posted on 04/04/2013 7:20:47 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Terry Mross

interesting I’d always heard hogs/pigs had an extra bone in their forehead that deflected lower powered cartridges. So I wouldn’t have expected a .22 to do the trick. Especially after a young lady when I was in high school a long time ago tried to commit suicide with a .22 to the temple and lived when the bone deflected it enough.


36 posted on 04/04/2013 7:56:21 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: SJackson

They why do cops “need” 30-round magazines? Are they planning to engage in massacres?

Why do the overlords automatically rate 3X the ammunition as the peasants?

That was NOT the intent of the 2A.


37 posted on 04/04/2013 8:05:37 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Exactly. The grabboids libtards are pretending that AR-15s are some new death ray just dropped out of UFOs from Planet Evil.


38 posted on 04/04/2013 8:07:39 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mylife

Just a warning. Have slaughtered some that were brought in by friends who had killed them on their peanut fields. Will never do that again.

We helped them butcher them. Glad I did not have to eat it.


39 posted on 04/04/2013 8:09:15 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: reed13k

My dad put three hogs down with three shots. I’ve seen on Swamp People that aligators have a hard head and you have to hit them at the right angle or it bounces off. Of course on that show they also say the kill spot is the size of a quarter.


40 posted on 04/04/2013 9:16:11 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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