September 10, 20241 yr I can shoot them on my property, but they come around randomly throughout the night, and I do have a day job. I've gotten quotes to trap at about $3k. Anyone have luck with "persuading" feral pigs to leave your property?
September 10, 20241 yr You aren't persuading a hog, if you can you're about to be a very busy person.
September 10, 20241 yr They will be there forever, you must bow to your new pig overlords. I kill as many as I can every chance I get and I have 3x as many as before. They are impossible to control with traps, hunting or any other method. Learn to deal with them. We were laughing at how absurd it is the other night. I killed a sow with babies that were the size of small rabbits. There is no way they will survive right? Over the next two months I saw those little fuckers on game cams just growing up on their own. Now they are medium sized terrorists running around at 2am eating everything they can find. Edited September 10, 20241 yr by HOOKEM4 ousux
September 10, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, MIkeHoncho said: around randomly throughout the night Claymore mines?
September 10, 20241 yr are they one of those critters that killing them just makes them have more piglets?
September 10, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Parliament said: Kill every one you see, every way you can. Good luck. You're fooked. this is the way. ^^ Option B, make your neighbors far more attractive to root around in.
September 11, 20241 yr All I've heard is you can't shoot them under control, they just multiple too quickly and are smart enough to start avoiding you. Trapping is the only way to actually have a chance to get rid of them.
September 11, 20241 yr Some think shooting them one at a time is making the problem worse. Spreads them out and then they multiple over larger areas. https://www.kut.org/2022-04-07/texas-has-a-feral-hog-problem-hunting-them-makes-it-worse
September 11, 20241 yr 19 hours ago, Mother mopar said: You aren't persuading a hog, if you can you're about to be a very busy person. Paging @Vic Mackey to the white courtesy phone...
September 11, 20241 yr The only place I have seen that actually defeated them buried a predator apron in the ground around the perimeter when they high-fenced their place. Then brought in a helicopter to kill off every one of them inside the fence. Expensive, but it worked.
September 11, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Native Horn said: Paging @Vic Mackey to the white courtesy phone... Took way too long to get to this answer
September 12, 20241 yr Use this as an excuse to upgrade your kit to include thermal scopes, night vision goggles and suppressed firearms.
September 12, 20241 yr 14 hours ago, ScottS said: While funny, I’m guessing those dots aren’t just ferrel pigs, but hog farms accounted for as well? Only way it makes sense.
September 12, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, MIkeHoncho said: Travis SW? Toss up a zip code. While we can't get em all, I know of some from this BBS (+me) who would come out to hunt them. I'm Hays. How many acres?
September 12, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, thunderlounge said: While funny, I’m guessing those dots aren’t just ferrel pigs, but hog farms accounted for as well? Only way it makes sense. Hell if I know. For whatever reason I saw this image online the other day, then this thread popped up. I have no idea where I saw it originally. I searched Google and found the image on a reddit thread. My completely uneducated and wild-assed guess would be that you are correct about the hog farms. Too many dots in Iowa and surrounding area. But for all I know there used to be a huge hog problem in the corn fields.
September 13, 20241 yr That’s what made me think that. In some places there “can’t” be that many ferrel, else it would be all over the news about our new bacon overlords.
September 13, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, thunderlounge said: That’s what made me think that. In some places there “can’t” be that many ferrel, else it would be all over the news about our new bacon overlords. Correct. That’s a USDA map showing hog farm density in the year of our lord 1948.
September 13, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, RPM said: Loved the shot of them all shot dead in the trap. We aint relocating these fuckers. Nuking from orbit is the only way.
September 13, 20241 yr On 9/11/2024 at 11:55 AM, Da Fino said: The only place I have seen that actually defeated them buried a predator apron in the ground around the perimeter when they high-fenced their place. Then brought in a helicopter to kill off every one of them inside the fence. Expensive, but it worked. Our place in Coleman County has hogs, but not as bad as we used to. Some of our neighbors went this route with high fencing and a helicopter shoot.
September 13, 20241 yr https://www.ebay.com/itm/174980484312 My folks also had a guy for a while that set up this kind of system on their place, trapped them, then hauled them off and shipped them over to China/Asia when the swine flu was real bad over there a while back. but yeah, in general, you (and Texas) are fooked https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-feral-hog-problem-swine-country/ Edited September 13, 20241 yr by UTexasFight
September 13, 20241 yr On 9/10/2024 at 5:14 PM, Incredulity said: Claymore mines? tannerite is more fun
September 13, 20241 yr On 9/12/2024 at 8:26 AM, Lat22 said: Use this as an excuse to upgrade your kit to include thermal scopes, night vision goggles and suppressed firearms. bump stocks?
September 14, 20241 yr Author On 9/12/2024 at 1:35 PM, ROFL BOX said: SW? Toss up a zip code. While we can't get em all, I know of some from this BBS (+me) who would come out to hunt them. I'm Hays. How many acres? only 5.5 acres. Not sure the neighbors would appreciate a group hunt I'm as far northwest as you can get in Travis county.
September 14, 20241 yr only 5.5 acres. Not sure the neighbors would appreciate a group hunt [emoji4] I'm as far northwest as you can get in Travis county. Gun = minimum 10 acres. Archery or crossbow will legally get 'er done. [mention=1107]gsoda3[/mention], are you in? [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention] will make some cabeza soup.
September 15, 20241 yr 16 hours ago, gsoda3 said: That sounds fun but me and a bow at night? I'll be lucky to hit the hog.
September 15, 20241 yr On 9/10/2024 at 6:56 PM, elfenix said: are they one of those critters that killing them just makes them have more piglets?
September 16, 20241 yr On 9/13/2024 at 4:42 PM, Bevo&Pevo said: bump stocks? Forced Reset Trigger if you can find. The fifth circuit just slapped the ATF's hand down with those.
September 16, 20241 yr On 9/12/2024 at 11:10 AM, thunderlounge said: While funny, I’m guessing those dots aren’t just ferrel pigs, but hog farms accounted for as well? Only way it makes sense. Since the post says the graphic is from 1948, they are probably all hog farms.
September 17, 20241 yr On 9/13/2024 at 4:42 PM, Bevo&Pevo said: bump stocks? If you want to miss the bastards.....sure.
September 18, 20241 yr On 9/15/2024 at 8:32 PM, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Forced Reset Trigger if you can find. The fifth circuit just slapped the ATF's hand down with those. Well....I know a guy with a machine shop so...
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