Wild Hog Eradication

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trapping them and having to sell them or transport to hunt somewhere else is not cost/time effective.

hogs over 150lbs taste like poopoo

the living hogs will eat the dead hogs...they are omnivores (sp) they eat anything and everything

 

x2 and they are very smart animals often when they are caught they escape and it is harder to trap them again. They remeber what the traps do.

 

Most folks don't have any idea what these hogs are doing to the county!!!! And soon they well be in every state if there not now!!!

 

people who dont agree with it are the ones who have never had to deal with it.

where my great grandparents live they have massive dear overpopulation. they destroy their gardens and fruit trees. but since there are no predators (animals or humans) they just keep reproducing


just noticed I broke 5,000 posts while in this thread

 

i got invited to help an old lady out with some "lawn deer". she is so happy i'm bringing a bow. i wont even wake up anyone...the deer are destroying her garden.

just looking for a meat deer. season opens in JULY!!

 

x2 but congrats!

 

yea, this year is JULY 15th..i think. my deer tag (AO=archery only) isnt even here yet. it is a love hate thing..hot as hades, grass is brittle and loud. difficult to get the meat to cool. but fun as hell.

with archery gear, i can hunt year round..

 

Where do I sign up for this job?

 

Question: I've always wanted to go hog hunting. We don't have many feral ones in Utah though. Does the meat taste like a domestic pig? If it did then I might me more motivated to take a trip out of state. My dream is to go hog hunting with my S&W 460 12" Hunter w/scope.

 

Those bastards are fast!! Cool vid, I'd like to do something like that seems like a rush and the fact that it would be helping out the farmers and what not.

 

i can also testify to this- i shot a hog in the face from about15 yards with a 30-30(overcompensated with a scoped rifle). the bitch ran about 75 yards with half a face.
9 out of 10 times a head shot will put them down instantly.
i like 60 to 80lb pigs myself

 

Thats a lot of bacon!

Oh snap!!! Never mind hogs over 150 lbs taste bad.

 

For those that don't know. Feral hogs are an epidemic, a plauge to farmers and land owners. The discovery channel made a show about it. The domestic hogs bread with Russian boars and the fuse was lit, after a few years it was totally out of control.

Pig Bomb: Hog Hunting


http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/pig-bomb-hog-hunting.html

 

the best hog bait you can use is strawberry or cherry coolaid. Get a 5 gallon bucket and mix 3 or 4 boxes of jello mix into it. dig a hole about a foot deep and poor about half the bucket into it and a little bit of deer corn. then fill the hole with dirt, then poor the rest of the mix over the top and around the area and a little more corn. wait a few hours and the little 1 foot hole will turn into a 3 foot deep 4 foot wide hole!

 

i think they taste exactly like domestic pork.. but the pork flavor is more concentrated. kind of the same feeling i get when i eat an egg from one of my chickens versus a store bought. wild hog is less fatty by a decent margin. for instance, you kill one..you will not be able to make bacon from the belly meat. you would have half inch thick bacon. not worth the effort.

UTAH? you have any elk contacts? big mulies? if so, i know california landowners that have pigs. i know one old lady, that lost her peach orchard to hogs. the trees still fruit naturally, but she puts zero effort into it anymore. peaches pull in pigs for sure. i would look into TEJON ranch hog hunting. relatively cheap, and the success it high.

 

I do the same thing when I go to my Pop's ranch in TX for leave (minus the bird). Those Javelina Hogs tear up everything and 500 acres covered in mesquite is a lot of area to cover.

Unless you have a feeder out for the sole purpose of hunting them for food then I wouldn't touch them. They taste like crap and the amount of parasites in them aren't worth the effort. Like the video says, it's an "eradication."

 

I am pretty sure it is illegal to release them back into the wild once you have captured them. There is a slaughter house here that processes wild hogs. People capture them, and sell them for $0.40/lb. They even have to bring in the babies, they cannot release them, or they will get fined. At least that's how it is in Texas.

 

thats a great video