It’s the same as getting your first liberal in your neighborhood. The subsequent damage and turmoil to come are beyond your comprehension.
I find it strange they didn’t post a picture.
jOY BEHAR? WOOPIE? HILLARY?
Heavy, fat, slow does the trick again.
That’s why my woods gun is a P220 45 with extended mag.
Tame pigs revert back to the wild rather easily and take on a physical transformation in the process. They start growing hair and tusks, they will also become more aggressive. Give a couple of generations (That’s not long for a hog) their coloration changes to a more standard color. Most of the hogs we have on the ranch go from black to gray to a dark reddish color. A spotted hog will show up from time to time but that’s usually within the first to second generation.
Did they eat it?
Stacy Abrams maybe?
Investigation? Apparently Idaho doesn't have a feral hog problem YET......
This wouldn't even have been a story in other states such as Texas.....
Tusks up, don't shoot!
In Florida, you can hunt them all year long at any time of the day and kill as many as you would like....
I want to get thru a local outfitter, they have a 900 acre farm with feeding stations and blinds already setup...
You can bring your own rifle, but I would like to do a night hunt, they have 10 AR-10s with night vision scopes you can use...to me that would be pretty cool to nail one at night with a night vision scope...
They also have a guy who will cut up and package the hog for you.......
The cost is like $325 and given the number of hogs they say there is a 99% chance of you bagging one....
Good grief. What a wimp of a man. Cancel his man card immediately. He called the LE?!?
Wild hogs keep many freezers full in this neighborhood.
Not a Javelina that wandered very far from home?
In all honesty, I never imagined that wild, feral hogs were anywhere outside of Texas. And in Idaho? Call me shocked.
Off topic but this sentence reminded me of a sign for a restaurant in a town near where I grew up..."Come on in! Full Coarse Meals!"
This book will teach you about the various wild hogs. stilyard, Razorback, Sawback, Clawfoot, and many others.
THREE YEARS IN ARKANSAW by Marion Hughes. Cover illustration is a Sawback.
We have a lot of feral hogs nearby, I’m in the process of fixing a bunch of broken water pipes now, because a very large female got under the other house and destroyed all the pvc pipes. Probably 300-350lbs, huge, grey with reddish tinted black spots. I’m guessing female, but not positive, I didn’t see tusks though. Usually just the boars grow those. Half done with pipes, had to get a few more fittings I didn’t know I’d need. Nobody lives there, running water not critical.
Texas has more feral hogs than anywhere else in the country, and they are a big problem here, destroying crops in many cases. I’ve seen them tear up spots the size of about 8 parking spaces square in a night, everything dug up a foot deep. About 2 or 3 years ago I watched 3 various sized feral hogs roam through the yard next door and tear up a space big enough to park 3 pickup trucks in 5 minutes. All the grass and dirt dug up a foot deep in no time at all. Gone before I could get back outside with the .243.
Right up the street a block or two, I saw a group of 4 adults and 6 youngsters about 100 yards away, and that was 2 years ago. We can’t kill them fast as they multiply. It’s a big problem all over the state. A friend 2 miles away has the same problem, they tear up peoples’ yards and gardens nightly. My garden has been destroyed several times, and I spooked 3 rooting in my yard just before dark one evening. I was 50 yards from the house and the guns were all IN THERE...not one in my hand...and 3 hogs between me and the house...one of them at least 200 lbs. I got lucky, they ran the other direction into the woods.
And that’s before you consider the Javelina, not actually hogs at all, but absolutely vicious if surprised or cornered. Fortunately not anywhere near as overpopulated as feral hogs. And they tend to range far south of where I live.
If I were to go after them, I’d take my .243, or maybe get some loads for the .50 cal muzzle loader. Thinking about selling it actually, I’ve never decided to shell out the money to get all the bullets, primers and powder to fire the thing. Only down side is one shot...better make it count, you won’t get a chance to reload...
If you can get a good shot, there is a method used in meat packing plants. Trace imaginary lines from each ear to the other eye. (right eye to left ear) Where those lines cross on the forehead is where they would hit hogs and cattle with a hammer years ago to kill them. I’m not sure what is used today, but 30 years ago a friend worked at a slaughterhouse, that was his job at times. Theoretically, if you can hit that specific spot, a .22 rifle will do the trick.
On the other hand, I once shot a domestic hog about 250lbs with a .41 cal revolver, 5 shots in the face and it was still standing. (We wanted to butcher it) Didn’t know about the ear to eye thing then, just put my 1st shot in the corner of the left eye against the nose. Should be an open hole there, straight to the brain. Still standing and grunting at us, and pissed. 4 more shots before he finally dropped. In a pen, 10 feet away. No way I could miss, at that time I could easily hold a one inch group at that distance, 2 inch group at 20 yards every time. (I was using playing cards for target practice) These days I’m lucky to hold a group twice that size...still, I can keep 12 shots in a group the size of a softball at 20 yards with the 9mm semi, about a baseball size group with the .22 revolver. I haven’t gone downhill with age that bad...but I’d want some real firepower to go against feral hogs, not sure I’d want to rely on the 9mm...those guys are tough to kill.
IF there is ONE, there are at least 100.
Watch “Hogs Gone Wild” on TV.
Those beasts are NASTY!!!
