Pig Bomb - On the Discovery Channel

[Boyd]

think a .45 as a backup gun would be ok? The hunting shows I'm watching has everyone wearing smiths in a magnum of some sort.

 

[StupidBird]

On the one hand, I think, yummy; one the other I get the willies really bad.
My uncle ran hogs on the river bottom woods on his farm up north and rounded them up in the fall to fatten. I was 12 or so when I watched these penned up wild hogs attack him; he beat off the boar with a sledge hammer. It tore him up, but died later (the hog not uncle). Scary. I still remember the sounds.
The park rangers at the Hard Labor State Park and golf course have lots of stories about their feral hog problems. Those sows will tree somebody in a heartbeat, tear up vehicles trying to get to people...

 

[ijon1]

Yea hogies Boyd. Let hunt some hogs.

 

[Boyd]

There's supposed to be quite a bit in our area John

Shiawasee County that is.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Need any help!?!?!

Our freezer is empty! We made sausage out of hubby's first 130# sow and it was gone within a couple of weeks. Been craving it since! Problem is, you can't find a place to hunt them around here unless you pay someone for it. Guess they aren't causing too much damage if the hunt clubs and land owners are making you pay them to hunt the hogs.

I'm in Fayetteville, NC. We'd be more than willing to take the pickup for a weekend hunting trip and stock the freezer. A hunting buddy from church has been tantalizing us with a story about going to Georgia for a few days and getting paid to shoot free food on some of the farms. I'd love to, just have to find out when and where!

-Kim

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Live near Fayetteville, North Carolina.

A friend of ours with a membership to a hunt club took my hubby hunting them once. I asked hubby if they were hard to hunt and he said "No, we talked and moved(pointing at them) to each other the whole time they were scrounging under the stand." ((Bothy hubby and the hunt club member were sitting in the stand)). Hubby was so proud, it was his first large animal taken. Dropped that 130# sow like a rock. I heard the shot go off after it had gotten a bit darker(I was sitting in the truck) and though "Oh dear, now they have to chase this wounded black hog through the black swamp mud in the dark of night" Then when they came skipping down the trail(Yes, skipping, they're big goofballs) swinging the gallon corn bucket, I thought they missed.

Hubby dropped that sucker on the spot, 5' from the stand and 15' from the access road. They grabbed her threw her in the truck and off we went, hubby just a grinnin'.

We'd have taken more, but our buddy can only take a friend as a "visiter" to his hunt club only so often. With the hunt clubs so expensive, it takes the majority of the reason hubby and I want to hunt, out of hunting. We don't look at hunting as the sport of killing an animal, simply cheap food! I just can't get by the costs of license, then the costs of a hunt club membership fee, just to shoot some animals we have to clean and store. Seems a bit overkill to me.

I'd love to be able to hunt them on a regular basis, even trap them. We know of a family near us that hunt the hogs with dogs and once the dogs have the pigs penned down they "stick" the pigs with a knife to finish the job. They also have live traps to capture the pigs. I believe last Christmas they checked the trap to find a grand total of 12 sitting in one trap. Merry Christmas to you! This family hunts hogs year round and makes sausage out of them, they sell the sausage by the pound and never have leftovers people like it so much.

 

[ijon1]

I won't mind trying that Boyd. I remember the hogs from Old Yeller. They need to be cleaned up. A pig can revert to the wild in one year. Out of all the animals we had on the farm. Pigs were the one I did not trust. I have seen a Yorkshire mamma pig come over a five foot board fence after my dad and I. We were fixing the baby boars. Mean set of teeth.

 

[deb1]

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Need any help!?!?!

Our freezer is empty! We made sausage out of hubby's first 130# sow and it was gone within a couple of weeks. Been craving it since! Problem is, you can't find a place to hunt them around here unless you pay someone for it. Guess they aren't causing too much damage if the hunt clubs and land owners are making you pay them to hunt the hogs.

I'm in Fayetteville, NC. We'd be more than willing to take the pickup for a weekend hunting trip and stock the freezer. A hunting buddy from church has been tantalizing us with a story about going to Georgia for a few days and getting paid to shoot free food on some of the farms. I'd love to, just have to find out when and where!

-Kim

I live in Spring Lake! For some reason, I thought that you were closer to the mountains.

 

[BoJak]

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Actually Boyd, I would prefer to hunt hogs with something resembling a harpoon sized for Moby Dick but I suspect it would be more awkward than using a rifle. Plus it would tend to tear the meat up. I think you're right about a magnum though, with hollow points. I don't care how fast the round travels, I just want to knock something that dangerous on its butt before it gets anywhere near me. I never expected a deer or rabbit or wild turkey to try and even the score so my old .38 was plenty of firepower.

When I first started reading this thread I thought it was insane to hunt wild hogs outside of an armored vehicle. Apparently people are successfully hunting those things and best of all eating them without attending a funeral first. I was even talking to a friend last night about going on a hunt, so if y'all are crazy, then it's catching.

 

[ruby]

A feral hog moved into our neighborhood (rural). It came to my chicken house walked though the chicken wire, and killed, and ate all but two of my chickens. I contacted my neighbors who are all avid hunters, their response was "I won't kill it, unless I can eat it" this hog was way too big and not cut. It was very scary because it came back, that's when we shot it and let it rot in the steamy August sun. They will eat the tires off your car, hurt your kids. It's a real problem. I wish I saw the program.