Funny, we've had them in California just as long, the seasons are the same as are all the other conditions except I guess we must shoot better because I never heard of one taking 20 bullets to kill. What a lot of jerkwater panic! Eat more pork.
Posts: 2690 | Location: Lakewood, CA. USA | Registered: 07 January 2001
quote:It's kind of like Walker, Texas Ranger out there," Loven said. "I've seen it take 15 to 20 bullets to kill one of those boars -- bullets will sometimes just bounce off of them
What a bunch of malarky! Shoot straight, it works wonders. I wont even comment on the bullets bouncing off them statement.
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Posts: 4106 | Location: USA | Registered: 06 March 2002
There is a row crop farm over here in my county that was having feral hog problems. Corn, sugar beets and other crops being destroyed every nite. The farm employed the deep -pit method. A back hoe would dig out a deep pit and then fill it with bait, cantelope, watermelons etc. Long flimsey boards would be placed as ramps into the pit. After a couple nites, the pit would be full of pigs which slipped into the pit on the boards but could not get out. The back-hoe would return, fill up the pit with dirt and the whole process was repeated over again. In a mos, they killed well over a few hundred pigs. The public and media were never alerted, heck I'm not even suppose to know about it but a little bird.............
Posts: 254 | Location: USA | Registered: 30 May 2002
While an interesting and mostly factual story, it should be noted that a liscense IS required to hunt them in Texas.
The best line of the article:
quote: They can revert from a domestic hog to their ancestral wild state in just a few generations, and if they're big enough and tough enough, they can become a boar.
I was pretty sure the only requisit to "becoming a boar" was being male and living past puberty with your boarhood intact?
Having hunted hogs and javelina when I lived in Texas, all I will say is that the writer must be a couchbound "outdoor writer" and that he does not have any actual outdoor / hunting experience. Someone local may want to suggest to this fellow that he research his topic a bit more before writing such nonsense. Now, if anyone knows where such a "superhog" exists (and no, I'm not referring to anyones last girlfriend, I've travelled that path ) please let me know 'cause I'd like to hunt a "superhog" - KMule
Posts: 1300 | Location: Alaska.USA | Registered: 15 January 2002
quote:Originally posted by MtnHtr: There is a row crop farm over here in my county that was having feral hog problems. Corn, sugar beets and other crops being destroyed every nite. The farm employed the deep -pit method. A back hoe would dig out a deep pit and then fill it with bait, cantelope, watermelons etc. Long flimsey boards would be placed as ramps into the pit. After a couple nites, the pit would be full of pigs which slipped into the pit on the boards but could not get out. The back-hoe would return, fill up the pit with dirt and the whole process was repeated over again. In a mos, they killed well over a few hundred pigs. The public and media were never alerted, heck I'm not even suppose to know about it but a little bird.............
Criminy! What a waste of good protein. He could probably recouped his losses charging people to hunt them. The meat could even have gone to Hunters for the Hungry. We got depredation tags, but the meat either went in the freezer or needy folks in town. To me this is a sickening waste. Other remedies could have been persued. Sorry, this chaps my hide.
Posts: 403 | Location: PRK | Registered: 20 April 2003
Hey Joe, I feel the same way. It does seem like a horrible waste. The only thing I was wondering is how bad is the red tape to get tags for that many hogs in California? The farmer probably just didn't want to deal with it. Still it is an awful waste.
Carl
Posts: 153 | Location: Ann Arbor MI USA | Registered: 30 May 2003
quote:Origirong>While an interesting and mostly factual story, it should be noted that a liscense IS required to hunt them in Texas.
Actually, this past June the legislature passed a bill into law allowing hog hunting without a license. And, from the wording of the law, it appears as if this even appies to out-of-staters.
RSY
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Posts: 785 | Location: Central Texas | Registered: 01 October 2001
quote:Originally posted by TrademarkTexan: While an interesting and mostly factual story, it should be noted that a liscense IS required to hunt them in Texas.
Actually, this past June the legislature passed a bill into law allowing hog hunting without a license. And, from the wording of the law, it appears as if this even appies to out-of-staters.
RSY
Only if you are hunting them on your own property and they are causing damage to the property. You have to possess a valid hunting license to hunt them on someone else's property.
A bit more clarification on the hunting license requirement.
A landowner (resident or non resident) can hunt feral hogs on his property if they are causing damage without a license. His agent (similar to a ranch hand) or leasee can also hunt them without a license. The leasee does not mean a "hunting lease." This is to mean someone that is leasing the property to farm or ranch.
This doesn't extend to someone being invited onto the property to hunt. They must possess a valid hunting license and all hunter safety regulations apply.
jeffeosso, I just got into a pissin' match with a poster on another forum that swears he shot a close range 110lbs doe with a 45-70 and the deer was "picked up and thrown back 10 feet by the bullet". Me thinks many "shooters" believe what they see in the "flicks", when those shot bodies fly all over the place when hit by bullets or a shotgun blast. Never happen not on this earth under our laws of physics.
Posts: 218 | Location: Sand Hills of NC | Registered: 21 May 2002
ask the bloke of a shotgun with bird shot could do it?
then take him to the range....
shot a skeet leaning on a post, with a pellet rifle...
then shoot one with a shotgun...
funny, the skeet BREAKS!!!! but the dust more or less continues on it's merry way.... (there is a slight change in vector, but that might be just because the skeet and shot weigh about the same)
jiminey christmas, I can't believe it when folks "see-ed it" happen, that they believe a shoulder fired rifle can "flip" big game over....
In responce to Anvil63 , hear in CA tags are avalible no red tape . After 1995s winter storms we experienced a huge population increase , then 1998 more rain more pigs . In areas that traditionally did not hold pigs there are now . Game laws were changed reguarding bag limits . Previously 1 a day 2 in possesion , now unlimited as long as you have tags . The only problem is access to lands hunt . While pigs do inhabit public lands privatly held ag property produces the majority of feral hogs in my area.
Posts: 200 | Location: CA,U.S.A. | Registered: 14 March 2002
Actually, wild hogs can grow to weigh well in excess of 600 pounds here. And while there is no hog season and no "hog liscens", one must have a current state-issued hunting liscens to hunt hogs in the state of Texas. I saw a few other statements that were slightly off, but the fact is that we do have lots of hogs to hunt here. 15-20 bullets to kill one??? What are they hunting with, a .22LR? A .30-30, .35Rem. or any similar caliber is adequate for even the big critters. I know a few people who had the nads to go out with SKS's and .223's. those calibers are fine until you run across the 300+ pounders, then you need a real gun to stop them as fast as possible. A hog, no matter what you hit him with takes a little time to bleed-out, so on the huge ones I prefer to immobilize him first with a through shot on the front shoulders.
Posts: 4 | Location: TX | Registered: 17 November 2003
quote:Originally posted by Longbob: ... A landowner (resident or non resident) can hunt feral hogs on his property if they are causing damage without a license.
How does one go about getting a license to cause damage in Texas? I'd like to do it properly, not get shot at.
HAVING LIVED IN TEXAS ALL MY LIFE, I CAN ONLY AGREE WITH ONE THING IN THAT ARTICLE....THE HOGS ARE GROWING IN POPULATION STATEWIDE. OTHER THAN THAT, IT WAS A LOAD OF CRAP. I HAVE HUNTED WILD HOGS WITH A 22 MAGNUM RIFLE, AND TAKEN SEVERAL WITH IT. I USUALLY USE A CENTERFIRE RIFLE BECAUSE I AM DEER HUNTING WHEN I RUN ACROSS THEM. I USUALLY HOLD FOR A SPOT IN FRONT OF THE SHOULDERS, AS THEY ARE NO PUSHOVER, BUT FAR FROM BULLLETPROOF. MY HUNTING BUDDY SHOT A BIG 250 POUND BOAR LAST TUESDAY WITH HIS 243, ONE SHOT, ONE HOG ON THE GROUND. MADE ABOUT 60 POUNDS OF SAUSAGE, POLISH AND GERMAN, AND SOME NICE PORK CHOPS. I HAD SOME SAUSAGE FOR LUNCH. ANYONE WHO SAYS BULLETS BOUNCE OFF HOGS IS CREATING FICTION, IT JUST AINT SO. BTW, YOU DO NEED A LICENSE TO HUNT ANYTHING IN TEXAS, UNLESS YOU OWN THE LAND AND ARE SUFERING PREDATION FROM THE ANIMALS.
GOOD LUCK AND GOOD SHOOTING ETERRY
Posts: 839 | Location: Between Doan's Crossing and Red River Station | Registered: 22 July 2001
Glad Wichita Hunter redeemed the Lone Star State. I was thinkin' "Gee, only 400#?" They hit 600+ in the Southeast and a well placed .22 rf will kill any of them. Hogs aren't THAT hard to kill. I've had to shoot 2 out of 78 more than once, and that only because I didn't really want to track them. Killed one with a load of #8 shot once, range about 15 yds. Wonder if I can get some of that stuff that clown's been smokin'?
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) please let me know 'cause I'd like to hunt a "superhog" - KMule
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