Pig Bomb - On the Discovery Channel

[chickenlittle32]

I think there is no limit anywhere for them. We go hunting and never see them...but have seem ppl with their harvests and they are very big! I am just glad we don't see them bc my boys go with us...and I don't want anything happening to them.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Is that the one where they also go to Russia? (I've seen two different docs on wild pigs).

I love how on the Russia one they give Captions for what the Texans are saying (so you can read and understand) but NOT for the Russians

are they implying that Texans speak worse english than Russians?

meri

 

[Buckguy20]

I live just outside of Oklahoma City in a rural suburban neighborhood and we have them here. They root up around our driveway. My son and I have tried to hunt them. We saw four yesterday but they were too close to a neighbors house to shoot.
They do millions of $$ damage to crops. They are getting more and more populated and there is really no good way to stop them.

 

[the4heathernsmom]

omg they are everywhere here and they destroy pasture in one night's time. we have traps out and actually have three in the freezer. You can treat the meat and mix it for great sausage etc. I will have to take some pics. The neighbor has opened his property for dh and ds to hunt because of the damage. You have to have a regular hunting license in the state of texas but there is no season and no limit.
People advertise here for hunters to come and kill them. We have sat on the back porch and counted them in the late evening with binoculars off of the neighbors place and there no kidding here have been groups of 40-50 or more. They travel through here frequently almost looks like cows in the pasture some of the sows and old boars are so big and piglets running everywhere. It is a sight to see. A boar can kill a dog easily and the wild ones we have seen are interbred with domesticvs but have russian boar in them and they get enormous. The meat is good but you have to know what you are doing and killing and processing during the summer is a little tricky because it has to be cooled quickly or you risk tainting it and also it can be parasitic during summer months. We have them on our game cameras coming across our place occasionally. They can jump and also burrow under a fence easily even field fencing. The neighbor here shot two of them last week and the boar was easily 800 lbs had to move it with a tractor it was so heavy. Once you have seen these herds of them it makes you think twice going outside after dark without a gun in hand.

 

[redhen]

You ever read the old civil war stories where after the battles some men that were still alive but wounded pretty badly were laid up in the woods and stuff by the battlefields and at night the hogs would come and eat them alive.. they said you could hear the men screaming and the hogs just munching away...

I'll never look at Hammie the same again...

 

[Rebel Rooster]

They are a big problem here in SC! Right now I'm licensed through our DNR office to hunt them after dark on our local farms because the are sooo destructive to our local farmers..

 

[saddina]

Missed that one, but Mr Saddi went hunting boar a few times when he was single, the pig wasn't as bad as his bud who shot him

Dummy forgot the check the chamber then starting doing sake shots.

Luckly it tore off skin to the fat layer, but went thru clean. I told him they had to stop the playdates once we had kids.

 

[emvickrey]

This is a little of the sugject but still about wild boar.

One of my friends that lives in Florida is an animal lover but is illiterate when it comes to breeds and care. Somebody brought her a piglet and asked if she wanted it and told her it was a Bot Belly Pig. Well the thing grew up and grew tusks and was always breaking its way into the house and we would have to get it out but it was aggressive. What was just as bad, the thing thought it had to breed everything it could mount on. So inside the house was a very bad bad thing. It broke in one day when they where all gone on thanksgiving and I was at work. I came home to a broken in house with that pig inside and my dog was hiding in my room.

One look at it and I told her it was a wild boar. Her friend must have stolen it from its mother. Brave soul, or stupid.

Anyway, this thread reminded me of that awful time in my life when I had to briefly live with one of those pigs.

He went to a zoo.

 

[gritsar]

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Snort snort, sleep well tonight Miz Red.

 

[redhen]

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Snort snort, sleep well tonight Miz Red.