Texas Reforms Feral Pig Law – No State License Required to Hunt

Ammoland ^ | 10 June, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[gov_bean_ counter]

That’s why God made gumbo...

[Rebelbase]

” or capture them alive to take to slaughterhouses to be processed and sold to restaurants as exotic meat.”

That’s gonna be a huge market.

[Rebelbase]

[dsrtsage]

Should make cock fighting legal too

[vetvetdoug]

Feral hogs carry Leptospirosis and Brucellosis and several other serious infectious diseases. When cleaning them it is important to wear gloves and clean any body fluids off oneself as rapidly as possible. Use disinfectants liberally. The older boars aren't good for anything as the meat stinks and the meat is almost inedible due to the rank taste. Sows and young boars are edible if prepared well and carefully. Never eat wild hog meat where an internal temperature hasn't reached 161 degrees or greater for at least 15 seconds. A meat thermometer is helpful to discern this. The meat still has a taste and BBQ sauce or some other spice is desired.

Wild hogs are an unfortunate reservoir for disease and since their hygiene is less than desirable they contaminate ponds and water with the serious bacteria they carry. The environment is also being destroyed as well as other desirable species of wildlife. If African Swine Fever ever gets into the US this reservoir will affect swine production in the US forever.

[Big Red Badger]

That Is Amazing!
Thanks!

[DMZFrank]

My supersonic 125 grain .300 Blackout works just fine down here in SW Georgia....

[Lurker51]

Silencers, my friend, silencers. Heck, we can even shoot ‘em with machine guns here in Texas.

[ConservativeMind]

I have had mature wild boar.

I had trouble even with sauce, but that fact really did make me chuckle.

[mfish13]

I do not think if you live in Texas you need a license, but I do not know about out-of-state.

[mfish13]

OK to eat, but do not eat one larger than 150 lbs before gutting/cleaning.

[mfish13]

Whatever ya got.

[TMN78247]

Because I hate chasing wounded hogs in our VERY thick brush, I prefer my 180 grain bullets for all game over 100#. = I think that there’s NO question that the 180 grain HITS HARDER & makes a MORE severe wound at .300SAV velocities.
(Presuming that I do my part, shot hogs are GYD & SOON after taking a round through the thorax.)

That said, I have a 2nd cousin who shoots a 6mm Remington 700BDL with GOOD results on even BIG hogs, so maybe I’m wrong.

Yours, TMN78247

[skimbell]

I still think that they should have considered updating the F-14.

Hard to argue with the success that plane had.

[Clay Moore]

I eat feral hog or deer sausage biscuits most mornings. My rule on hogs is if they stink, let them lay otherwise I eat them.

Biggest I have shot was about #400 and it was good. Made 176(?) dozen tamales out of it.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Rosie O. better stay out ot Texas then.

[metmom]

Is that what Missouri is trying to do?

Great idea!

Get the parents and offspring all at once and you’ve just prevented thousands of hogs within a year or two.

[Rebelbase]

I’d love to be able to trap some and feed them corn for a couple of weeks to clean them out before they’re dinner.

[Myrddin]

300BLK is ideal for feral hogs. Just fine when suppressed too.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, I thought I had something else loaded in the paste buffer, but it was this note for another thread. Oops...

I pasted and posted before I noticed.