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Wild Hogs Roam Streets, Scare People Near Atlanta
atlanta.cbslocal.com ^ | 9/24/2013

Posted on 09/24/2013 1:38:54 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

Police have enlisted the help of a trapper to round up a group of feral hogs scaring residents of a subdivision in suburban Atlanta.

Some parents fear sending their children to a school bus stop in the Lithonia area, where up to four of the hogs are roaming the streets and eating trash in front yards.

Authorities hope the hogs can be trapped in cages by Wednesday morning, DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said.

“They’re causing quite a stir to say the least,” Parish said shortly before noon Tuesday, as she headed out to the neighborhood, about 17 miles east of downtown Atlanta.

The police department’s animal control officers were at the scene, but the plan was for a volunteer trapper to actually capture the animals.

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To: Paladin2

1. Cartridges for average size feral hogs at short to medium range. Included in this group are the 6.5x54, .30-30 Winchester, .300 Savage, .32 Winchester Special, .35 Remington, .375 Winchester, .44 Remington Magnum, .444 Marlin, .45-70 and similar cartridges. Suitable bullet weights would include 125-140 grain in 6.5mm, 150-180 grain in .30 caliber, 170 grain in .32 caliber, 200 grain in .35 caliber, 200-250 grain in .375 caliber, 240-265 grain in .44 Magnum, 240-265 grain in .444, and 300-405 grain in .45-70. Choose the same bullet designs that you’d use for deer hunting.

2. Cartridges for average size feral hogs at medium to long range. Here such calibers as the .243 Winchester, 6mm Remington, .240 Weatherby Magnum, .257 Roberts, .25-06, .257 Magnum, .260 Remington, 6.5x55, 6.5mm Remington Magnum, 6.5x68, .264 Winchester Magnum, .270 Winchester, .270 Magnum, 7x57, 7mm-08, 7x64, .280 Remington, 7mm Magnum, .308 Winchester, and .30-06 come into their own. Controlled expansion bullets suitable for deer hunting such as the Sierra GameKing, Hornady Interlock, Remington Core-Lokt, Federal Soft Point, Nosler Solid Base, Speer HotCor, and Winchester Power Point are commonly recommended. Examples of suitable bullet weights would be 100 grain in .243, 115-120 grain in .25 caliber, 120-140 grain in 6.5mm (.26) caliber, 130-150 grain in .270, 139-162 grain in 7mm (.28) caliber, and 150-180 grain in .30 caliber.

http://www.chuckhawks.com/feral_hog_cartridges.htm


41 posted on 09/24/2013 2:05:54 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: RoosterRedux
We have a hog problem here also.


42 posted on 09/24/2013 2:07:19 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: NEMDF

That would just make them mad.


43 posted on 09/24/2013 2:07:30 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: petitfour
"Let some free in Detroit Mecca and Medina [ish?]."
44 posted on 09/24/2013 2:09:12 PM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: Paladin2
If 22LRs can penetrate the skull, would 4 or 5 do the job?

Do you think he is going to stand still after the first one?

45 posted on 09/24/2013 2:09:50 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Those all should work but they are in a residential area and all have a long “carry” even after going clean through the hog. Might be a job for an expert archer.


46 posted on 09/24/2013 2:12:13 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: thackney

So, the kids that can’t get a .40-70 1894 Winchester have to carry a 12 ga?


47 posted on 09/24/2013 2:12:59 PM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: thackney

When I wuz a kid we had ~10 at the bus stop. Of course no one had guns with them until we started driving vehicles to school.....


48 posted on 09/24/2013 2:14:57 PM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: Paladin2

30-30 is fairly reasonable.


49 posted on 09/24/2013 2:15:45 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: RoosterRedux

Progressives march against common sense?


50 posted on 09/24/2013 2:16:49 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Excessive numbers of coincidences are known as patterns.)
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To: thackney
Those we got.

Not so much at school anymore.

(30-30 ammo is becoming available again even).

51 posted on 09/24/2013 2:17:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: thackney

People around here buy pigs and then cut them loose near the Appalachian Trail so they can hunt them. There is no hog season in Va.


52 posted on 09/24/2013 2:17:31 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: RoosterRedux

Guess congress has declared a holiday and let itself out early.


53 posted on 09/24/2013 2:19:22 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: AppyPappy

In Texas we are so over run with hogs I think the farmers would shoot anyone doing this.


54 posted on 09/24/2013 2:19:43 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
"Choot em, den we'll cook em up, Lizzie Baby!"


55 posted on 09/24/2013 2:23:13 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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To: Calamari

Not to mention, the children would be expelled from school for looking at a gun while enrolled in school or whatever the new zero tolerance rule is.


56 posted on 09/24/2013 2:28:16 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: RoosterRedux


They just need to get the right people involved in the clean-up of the swine infestation... Plenty of good sausage awaits...
57 posted on 09/24/2013 2:44:16 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: NEMDF

They would.


58 posted on 09/24/2013 2:45:26 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: RoosterRedux

just ban the pigs. if that don’t work, have the people move.


59 posted on 09/24/2013 2:57:07 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: RoosterRedux

Have people forgotten how to make bacon?


60 posted on 09/24/2013 3:11:05 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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