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Yes, very strong safe and securely bolted down. Been a dealer much of my life. No firearms lay around, one I carry and the rest always locked. ATF agents regularly spot check me (called compliance check) and the security of my lockup. Ammo is locked separate. Theft from a dealer is not investigated by the local yokel buy the ATF and feds with a 10 year sentence and or $250K fine. Fed sentencing is not a guideline, it's set and it's imposed.

I know there is a terrible wild hog problem in TX. I wouldn't hesitate to reduce the population either. Back in the days of row crop (tricycle tractors) woodchuck mounds hidden in hay frequently tipped tractors. The farmers welcomed me to hunt their fields in New England. 81 chucks one summer and many went to these 2 ole hermits in the woods who ate them (me too)

We have literally filled the back of trucks up with hogs. There's no end in sight of getting rid of hogs.
 
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Why do people dump cats and dogs off in neighborhoods? Too much PC, too much tree hugging, not enough taking care of business or taking responsibility, un-educated in game management, don't know spay and nueter? I dunno! To each his own I guess.
 
I've never lived anywhere where there were many hogs. Here in KY guess there are a few places but not overrun. I sympathize, it's a problem for sure. Shoot, shoot and shoot some more.
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I think the drought this year is making it worse. I'll use grasshoppers as an example. All the grass here is brown. The only green stuff is in my garden where I water. Guess where all the grasshoppers are. That may be what's making 7L's hog problem worse.

I'm not sure where you are in Kentucky, but if you are having this dry season, expect the acorn crop to fail and the squirrels to be roaming everywhere looking for food. You'll probably see a lot more than usual smashed on the road. It will probaly make squirrel hunting easier this fall but it will probably take a couple of years for the numbers to come back.

I don't feel live relocation is the answer in most instances. Game wardens ticketing people is proof of that, there is a reason they don't want people doing that. Game management is best left to the professionals. Most areas are to populated with humans and you only dump your problem on someone else, like dropping off unwanted cats and dogs. If you go to a large state park, wilderness or whatever, the local resident animals already have their staked out area. Introducing more animals causes fights, mutilation, death, starvation, over population, disease. Fish and wildlife do a good job, why undermine them and just dump your problem elsewhere.

Well said.
 
I swear these things need to mind their own dang buisiness........ Do they really thing they are going to get my chickens???We have coyotes worse. We have a little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, he costs more than our whole family put together, and was nearly snatched up by this Big coyote if it weren't for our hound, an cattle hound beagle mix. He fought with that coyote forever and eventually killed it himself. The thing was bigger than him. We go predator hunting just about twice every week because this county is just crawling with predators!
 
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Thank you but how many actually understand the balance of nature, fish and game. Take the billions of people who only throw out ONE soda can, "hey, it's just ONE"

Good point on the dry. Last year I moved here from Maine Sept 8th. 1/8 inch rain in 2 months. Then it snowed and rained till the end of May. It's been pretty dry, grass is dying, some foliage but there has been intermittent rain. Maybe 1/2" last night so hopefully not as bad as it can be. I'm overrun with tree rats, hope the acorns do OK. I prefer a balance. Black walnuts are falling but not ripe at all.
 
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They do mind their business; which is the business of thievery and murder! I have 2 ea Chinese hairless Cresteds. One is papered as far back as Columbus on both sides, $2k dog. I understand. Besides, it's a family member and a coon or coyote can make quick work of a 13-15# dog. Plenty coyote here but they don't show themselves often. KY offers night coon hunting with a 22 but that's all. Maine had a $2 permit to night hunt coyote with anything.
 
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My current resident raccoon is not very aggressive in trying to get int to the chickens' pens. I'm quite happy to keep him around since I don't know what attitude the next one will have. My neighbor did have her son remove a couple aggressive coons right before this one, so I think you find one that respects your property and let him stay.
 
The hogs are becoming a problem here as well. Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency has an ingenious new plan to combat the problem though. It will now be illegal on almost all management areas to hunt them because in their words" killing them doesn't reduce their numbers." Just think, the guy who came up with that brilliant deduction probably went to college for at least four if not five or six years. I realize I am just a dumb country hick here but if you kill some don't their numbers reduce by the amount killed? Is this new math? I had six tophats in a pen last night. A coon killed one which left five if I am doing this subtraction correctly. It would seem to me the coon reduced their numbers, right?
 
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it kina depends on when you are killing them the more you kill them when they are having babies the better the results are year round control is best you will start to see results when you kill 75% + for 4-6 years depending on the density in your area not sure if snares are allowed where you live but they are a valuable tool for management purposes we have open season no limit here in VA they were classified as a nuisance animal we are getting ready to hunt a refuge in NC again because we have so many here
 
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