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Texas Hog Control - Ted Nugent Style

meh - they are pests and destroy the land. These guys are invited onto the land by the owners to kill the pigs. I think its a great idea and if you got a better idea on how to kill 200+ pigs in 4 hours I am all ears.

200 tigers rorr
 
This is mainly directed at those interested in "more humane/effective" ways of eradicating a pest problem. Bold emphasis mine. Weigh your options carefully...is shooting them from the air really the least humane? The argument could be made there are more effective methods, but it seems to me that shooting them is the most beneficial to all parties involved. Also, keep in mind these are rabbits, which don't attack livestock, humans, pets, etc. Just crops and such and cause indirect damage through burrowing which can maim animals that step in them, erode the soil, and kill plant species.

Personally, I'd rather not go the genetic engineering/biological warfare route if we can avoid it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia

Shooting rabbits is one of the most common control methods and can successfully be used to keep already low populations in check whilst providing food for people or pets, though large scale eradication requires different means.

Destroying warrens through ripping (a procedure where rabbits are dismembered or buried alive as a bulldozer dragging sharp tines is driven over their warrens/burrows),[9] ploughing, blasting, and fumigating is widely used, especially on large farms (known as "stations"). The sandy soil in many parts of Australia makes ripping and ploughing a viable method of control, and both tractors and bulldozers are used for this operation.

Poisoning is probably the most widely used of the conventional techniques, as it requires the least effort. The disadvantage is that the rabbit cannot be used as food for either humans or pets afterward. Two commonly used poisons for rabbit control are sodium fluoroacetate ("1080") and pindone.[10]

Another technique is hunting using ferrets, where ferrets are deployed to chase the rabbits out to be shot or into nets set over the burrows. Since ferrets are limited in the number of rabbits they can kill,[citation needed] this is more a hunting activity than a serious control method.

Historically, trapping was also frequently used; steel-jawed leg-holding traps were banned in most states in the 1980s on animal cruelty grounds, though trapping continues at a lower level using rubber-jawed traps. All of these techniques are limited to working only in settled areas and are quite labour-intensive.

Releasing rabbit-borne diseases has proven somewhat successful in controlling the population of rabbits in Australia. In 1950, after research carried out by Frank Fenner, myxoma virus was deliberately released into the rabbit population, causing it to drop from an estimated 600 million[11] to around 100 million. Genetic resistance in the remaining rabbits allowed the population to recover to 200-300 million by 1991.

To combat this trend, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) comprehensively tested, over three years from June 1991, the release of calicivirus to cause rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD).

[12] The virus escaped from a quarantine compound on Wardang Island, South Australia, where field tests were being carried out on the potential of the virus for biological control of wild rabbits, and by late October 1995 it was recorded in rabbits at Yunta and Gum Creek, in northeastern South Australia.

[13] By the winter of 1996, the virus was established in Victoria, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The success of the virus was found to be higher in extreme heat, because it appears there is another calicivirus in the colder, wetter areas of Australia, and that this virus was immunising rabbits against the more virulent form.

A legal vaccine exists in Australia for RHD. There is no cure for either myxomatosis or RHD, and many affected pets are euthanised. In Europe, where rabbits are farmed on a large scale, they are protected against myxomatosis and calicivirus with a genetically modified virus.[14] The vaccine was developed in Spain.
 
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Watched a couple episodes. Crazy bastids lol.

[youtube]%3Fv%3DS06nIz4scvI[/youtube]
 
I know I'm on the right side of an argument when lester disagrees.
 
pfft, you could trap them for a lot less money, and then dispatch them with one shot to the melon...

You people suggesting the "bait, trap, kill" method--have you even watched the video that I posted? It is NOT an effective means to eradicate feral hogs because they are SMART creatures and trapping methods have to continuously be switched up.
 
You people suggesting the "bait, trap, kill" method--have you even watched the video that I posted? It is NOT an effective means to eradicate feral hogs because they are SMART creatures and trapping methods have to continuously be switched up.

just curious. Have you ever trapped a hog?

I have. I have some family property in Mexia, Texas and we trap hogs. in fact we we're so good at it that we have (sadly, because we eat them) pretty much eradicated the hog problem we had on our property. We've shot up to eight hogs at a time in one trap. they're easy to trap if you know what bait to use. also in Texas yo can hunt and trap at night when hogs are active (nocturnal animals).

btw, you can't hunt at night or use bait in PRK. We probably have just as many feral pigs here.
 
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just curious. Have you ever trapped a hog?

I have. I have some family property in Mexia, Texas and we trap hogs. in fact we we're so good at it that we have (sadly, because we eat them) pretty much eradicated the hog problem we had on our property. We've shot up to eight hogs at a time in one trap. they're easy to trap if you know what bait to use. also in Texas yo can hunt and trap at night when hogs are active (nocturnal animals).

btw, you can't hunt at night or use bait in PRK. We probably have just as many feral pigs here.

Well, you should drop a line to the Missouri Department of Conservation. I'm sure they could use your expertise.

And to answer your question, no, I've not trapped a hog.
 
1) Have Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi (sp? :teeth), Louisiana, and any other hog-heaven state hire all the illegals to build Lester's traps.

2) Have all furloughed Federal & State employees place them, shoot the oinkers thus trapped, and cook up all teh yummy porkers to the illegals until they're stuffed.

3) Herd all the over-stuffed illegals back over the Messican border.

4) Put all the empty traps onto the border as part of the fence/illegal trapping mechanism.

Win. :teeth
 
The hogs are pretty bad. :thumbdown This is one nights damage and that used to be a road/trail.
 

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just curious. Have you ever trapped a hog?

I have. I have some family property in Mexia, Texas and we trap hogs. in fact we we're so good at it that we have (sadly, because we eat them) pretty much eradicated the hog problem we had on our property. We've shot up to eight hogs at a time in one trap. they're easy to trap if you know what bait to use. also in Texas yo can hunt and trap at night when hogs are active (nocturnal animals).

btw, you can't hunt at night or use bait in PRK. We probably have just as many feral pigs here.

:facepalm


Please take your ACTUAL experience out of here and keep it to yourself :twofinger
 
baying them by hand is fun! The dogs can get hurt though. But it keeps the hog alive long enough to calm down. Then the meat isn't as gamey! :cool
 
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