feral hogs

2cockers

2cockers

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Any of you guys ever encounter any feral pigs? There used to be alot of news about em 4-5 years ago. I havent heard much since. Id actually like to try and kill one or two. Whats everyone heard?
 
Don't know whether you are referring only to WI (can't speak anything about that) or nationwide (which I happen to know a lot about down south)...I have "encountered" them out the wazoo down in TX!!! When I lived there just a couple years back, I & all my neighbors for several counties all across eastern TX killed so many the numbers are staggering & unbelievable to an outsider - it soon surpassed the joys of hunting & became an all-out war of attempted population-control which mankind will NEVER win, now that the beasts have been unwittingly unleashed by someone with no foresight in mind!!! If it is not too late, DO NOT ever make the unreversible mistake of getting them started in your state! :mad:

All that said, I still love offering my services to help try & keep the population in check a little, now that they are are already here to stay anyway. One of my favorite methods is hunting with night-vision over a post-hole dug bait pile. I also love to stalk up on a herd point-blank with an unplugged shotgun & see how many I can cut down in the ensuing ruckus/melee before the rest run helter-skelter away in every direction (my personal best is 4 in a single barrage before the gun jammed)!...The archery thing was way cool, but when you're seriously trying to make a dent in the population killing one hog at a time just educates the rest in a hurry - the little devils are incredibly smart, they learn quickly & are not soon to forget - they soon learn to avoid a trap & will abandon an area where they have been recently slaughtered for weeks or months on end (though once present they will ALWAYS be back--& being the little piggies they are, their tummy is their one chink in the armor)!

Even as a hunter I have a deep respect & love for all wildlife and have even been known to shed a tear as I patted a newly-downed buck on the back & said a prayer of thanks to God for the meat/harvest. Not so with nasty, incredibly DESTRUCTIVE, and way overpopulated & spiraling/skyrocketing by the minute hogs - I HATE the little demons with everything in me & they bring out the only sadistic side of me - there is nothing quite like the death-squeal of a hog freshly lit-up full of hot lead, Ahh Sweetness!!! :D
 
@moellermd--LOL, I'm not quite as bad a person as that clip from my previous post might indicate! Please pray for me, I just happen to HATE feral hogs-gone-wild & can't find much sympathy for them like the rest of God's creation...it's kinda hard when almost every farming & ranching neighbor I had for miles around killed 100-200 per year EACH & all we could collectively do at best was just hope to keep them whittled back for a while (they are more prolific than rabbits with 3 litters per year & the first litter already dropping litters of their own by the end of that year--the problem is staggering). One friend I grew up with killed almost 600 of them on his place alone in a single year (he was actually mass poisoning them due to extensive crop damage). I am not exaggerating - the problem is so bad throughout many parts of the southern U.S. that Game Dept's & County Agricultural Extensions have started putting on day-long county-by-county joint-seminars to try & help landowners utilize every means possible to deal with with the massive problem. Speaking of a biblical analogy - the newly discovered "Judas Pig" method has proven to be among the most effective tactics in the arsenal (which consists of releasing a live radio-collared pig that has been trapped to go pack up with the wild herd & then follow him in to the slaughter - with everyone in the group taking great care not to shoot the orange-collared Judas pig, so he can lead them to a successful repeat over & over again). :D People who have never lived around it cannot possibly imagine the scope & nature of the EXPLOSIVE problem which has been irreversibly unleashed by for-pay hunting ranches & clueless hunters wanting a chance to chase wild hogs! Total eradication/reversal has now become an impossibility & wild-hogs have long since proven to be absolutely uncontainable for long within the parameters of wherever they happen to be turned loose!!!...All of this in the exact same area where wild hogs were a rarity at best & for the most part unheard of during my childhood & teen years growing up there!

With your kindred dry sense of humor, not exactly sure the connection or what you mean by your desire to hear one of my sermons - is that a good thing or a bad thing??? ;) Though not too many of my sermons have ever been recorded, guess I do have to admit I'm not exactly some people's prim-&-proper idea of what-all a minister or preacher is expected to be, nor is my "congregation" the typical one that everyone usually thinks of...A large part of my life in ministry has been spent reaching out to societal misfits & outsiders and the non-churchy crowd (from street people & juvenile delinquents to foul-mouthed fishermen & hunters--Ha-Ha) & I love every minute of it! I am convinced that God loves sinners!!!...One of my sermons from the past that I did happen to preach to a bunch of religious/church-folks might possibly set you gasping for air or at least make you scratch your head for a minute (which it was meant to do) - it was entitled "Jesus Died For Me & I Don't Give A Damn"!!! After people got over all their hyperventilating, I simply pointed out that although many of them would NEVER dare say such a thing outright & were quite upset with me for doing so, they live out that statement every day! Guess you could say I'm not exactly a conventionalist who is always into just coddling/schmoozing people with what they want to hear & keeping up the status quo - but I do have a very deep love for both people & God!!! Hope I haven't just managed to fall a notch or two further in your books!!! :)
 
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it was entitled "Jesus Died For Me & I Don't Give A Damn"!!! After people got over all their hyperventilating, I simply pointed out that although many of them would NEVER dare say such a thing outright & were quite upset with me for doing so, they live out that statement every day! :
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How very true sometimes, including me :(. I do appreciate a little fire and brimstone.
 
hen said:
@moellermd--LOL, I'm not quite as bad a person as that clip from my previous post might indicate! Please pray for me, I just happen to HATE feral hogs-gone-wild & can't find much sympathy for them like the rest of God's creation...it's kinda hard when almost every farming & ranching neighbor I had for miles around killed 100-200 per year EACH & all we could collectively do at best was just hope to keep them whittled back for a while (they are more prolific than rabbits with 3 litters per year & the first litter already dropping litters of their own by the end of that year--the problem is staggering). One friend I grew up with killed almost 600 of them on his place alone in a single year (he was actually mass poisoning them due to extensive crop damage). I am not exaggerating - the problem is so bad throughout many parts of the southern U.S. that Game Dept's & County Agricultural Extensions have started putting on day-long county-by-county joint-seminars to try & help landowners utilize every means possible to deal with with the massive problem. Speaking of a biblical analogy - the newly discovered "Judas Pig" method has proven to be among the most effective tactics in the arsenal (which consists of releasing a live radio-collared pig that has been trapped to go pack up with the wild herd & then follow him in to the slaughter - with everyone in the group taking great care not to shoot the orange-collared Judas pig, so he can lead them to a successful repeat over & over again). :D People who have never lived around it cannot possibly imagine the scope & nature of the EXPLOSIVE problem which has been irreversibly unleashed by for-pay hunting ranches & clueless hunters wanting a chance to chase wild hogs! Total eradication/reversal has now become an impossibility & wild-hogs have long since proven to be absolutely uncontainable for long within the parameters of wherever they happen to be turned loose!!!...All of this in the exact same area where wild hogs were a rarity at best & for the most part unheard of during my childhood & teen years growing up there!

With your kindred dry sense of humor, not exactly sure the connection or what you mean by your desire to hear one of my sermons - is that a good thing or a bad thing??? ;) Though not too many of my sermons have ever been recorded, guess I do have to admit I'm not exactly some people's prim-&-proper idea of what-all a minister or preacher is expected to be, nor is my "congregation" the typical one that everyone usually thinks of...A large part of my life in ministry has been spent reaching out to societal misfits & outsiders and the non-churchy crowd (from street people & juvenile delinquents to foul-mouthed fishermen & hunters--Ha-Ha) & I love every minute of it! I am convinced that God loves sinners!!!...One of my sermons from the past that I did happen to preach to a bunch of religious/church-folks might possibly set you gasping for air or at least make you scratch your head for a minute (which it was meant to do) - it was entitled "Jesus Died For Me & I Don't Give A Damn"!!! After people got over all their hyperventilating, I simply pointed out that although many of them would NEVER dare say such a thing outright & were quite upset with me for doing so, they live out that statement every day! Guess you could say I'm not exactly a conventionalist who is always into just coddling/schmoozing people with what they want to hear & keeping up the status quo - but I do have a very deep love for both people & God!!! Hope I haven't just managed to fall a notch or two further in your books!!! :)
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I gotta meet this guy!!!
 
mmkay, so I see padre's not a pig fan, thats cool. Im just wondering if anyone has really heard anything lately on their spread through WI. I hope it dosnt end up like TX or FL. So far I dont think it looks like it will. Like I said I havent heard boo about it in several years. There hasnt been any chages on the dnr website about em either. Im sure they arent gone. Anybody from western WI seen any, know of anyone who has? What about eastern MN any chance of them there?
 
2cockers said:
mmkay, so I see padre's not a pig fan, thats cool. Im just wondering if anyone has really heard anything lately on their spread through WI. I hope it dosnt end up like TX or FL. So far I dont think it looks like it will. Like I said I havent heard boo about it in several years. There hasnt been any chages on the dnr website about em either. Im sure they arent gone. Anybody from western WI seen any, know of anyone who has? What about eastern MN any chance of them there?
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you are right about it quieting down significantly over the past few years and I am not sure why.
 
@2cockers--If you really wanna know the answer to your question, go spend a day or two scouting hard & covering a lot of ground for hogs just like you would do for roosters, deer, turkeys or whatever (and make sure you carry a gun along with you just in case - so you don't miss out on a live opportunity if it happens to present itself)...

If pigs are ANYWHERE in the area, you won't have any problem locating plenty of sign - there will be unmistakable rooting craters, tracks (wider & rounder than deer), wallows in or near riparian areas & low-lying thickets + knee-to-thigh-high mud rubs with hair on trees somewhere nearby...if you listen while looking, you may even hear nearby or faraway squeals or grunts (make the mistake of accidentally getting a little too close in the thick stuff & you just might get to hear one growl like a dog & pop it's jaws like a bear - actually, it's quite the rush).

You might do best to start your search in Crawford County around Gays Mills where the nut-job from TX released them out of spite at the game dept & started whatever problems WI has or had in the first place...If you do find fresh evidence & want to kill one (or more), reply back here or PM me & I'll give you a few pointers to help make sure you close the deal. Now you went & made ME wanna go kill another pig!!! :D

Oh and by the way, one other thing that has been quietly kicked around behind-the-scenes/under-the-radar in TX by the Game & Agricultural Dept's because the problem has become so serious there - is purposefully introducing a special strain of the Swine Flu into the herd (YIKES!!! I sure hope not - I know they are DESPERATE to find a way to eradicate or get them under control, but it seems to me the potential problems with that kind of remedy far outweigh any possible benefits)...I sure hope someday they don't find out that's where the Swine Flu scare secretly got started! :) LOL...Who knows what the WI game commission might have done to nip the problem in the bud before it had a chance to get started? From the looks of their website & other google sources, they and many others very wisely took the potential problem very seriously!
 
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Who else would buy a DVD featuring hen,hen, Rooster on a Texas hog hunt? It would make Rambo look like a puppy.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go get em Rooster!!!!!!!!:10sign:
 
@BleuBijou--I'm not really the guy you wanna see for entertainment, although I have always wanted to kill one with a spear and do have the proper equipment & have practiced with it (there have been more than a few jokes in the fam & friend circles about "what's next, a loincloth?")...But when push came to shove I never seemed to get around to it, because I was far more into working together with a "hoginator" buddy or two to waylay as many as we possibly could in a day and/or better-yet nite! A hog hunt with friends for old times sake is always on the menu at any time of year whenever I go back to TX to visit - we don't come up empty-handed very often & I do have to admit that a victory/celebratory b-b-cued wild-pork backstrap or two on the grill afterward is simply delicious!!! :D

If you want some serious entertainment though, that would be some of my ex-neighbors down there who hunt them on horseback with dogs (hounds to do the tracking & pit bulls reserved for the "catch" & hold) & then they wade right into to the middle of the ruckus and grab em' by the hind legs & hog-tie em' to be trailered and sold (this is no BS, they really do it) - seems you can always find a few psycos just about anywhere on earth who are addicted to high-adrenaline thrills & this one brings a whole new meaning to the term "xtreme-sports"!!! Both dogs & men have to get sewed up once in a while... :eek:
 
Not Pyscho's, just Redneck's having a good time.LOL Let's make sure we get out at least once this year!!!!!!! Thanks, Chad
 
@BB--You got it! :thumbsup:

For now just got in from shreddin the slopes & makin the powder fly with my older son...Gotta get back out on the sunny deck & finish workin that phez & sweet potato on slow-sizzle on the grill. :cheers:
 
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