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Post by Dennis J on Dec 25, 2018 5:15:05 GMT -5
Without weapons, the US would soon be over-run by wild pigs! Unbelievable propigation rate! Reportedly worse than rabbits! Been watching hunters attempt to control them, and failing...
Solutions?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2018 5:16:24 GMT -5
gotta hunt them down and put them down....
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Dec 26, 2018 1:01:06 GMT -5
If they are in open or scrubby country I have used a 12 gauge with buckshot and puttered around in a Helicopter popping them off. No problem to go through cartons of ammo a day. Not boxes, but cartons. Also get a damn sore shoulder. In bush, dogs are the answer. Dogs and a knife.
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Post by dmmichgood on Dec 26, 2018 1:32:37 GMT -5
If they are in open or scrubby country I have used a 12 gauge with buckshot and puttered around in a Helicopter popping them off. No problem to go through cartons of ammo a day. Not boxes, but cartons. Also get a damn sore shoulder. In bush, dogs are the answer. Dogs and a knife. Strange. I knew about the rabbit problem you have but never heard of the "wild pig" problem that we have in the US!
Never to old to learn something new!
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Dec 26, 2018 2:06:28 GMT -5
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Post by Gene on Dec 29, 2018 3:00:48 GMT -5
If they are in open or scrubby country I have used a 12 gauge with buckshot and puttered around in a Helicopter popping them off. No problem to go through cartons of ammo a day. Not boxes, but cartons. Also get a damn sore shoulder. In bush, dogs are the answer. Dogs and a knife. Was the harvest used for food?
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Post by xna on Dec 29, 2018 3:30:40 GMT -5
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Dec 29, 2018 12:37:53 GMT -5
If they are in open or scrubby country I have used a 12 gauge with buckshot and puttered around in a Helicopter popping them off. No problem to go through cartons of ammo a day. Not boxes, but cartons. Also get a damn sore shoulder. In bush, dogs are the answer. Dogs and a knife. Was the harvest used for food? Generally not, Time is money and a helicopter costs around $2000 an hour maybe more now. A few might be taken for home consumption. We used to shoot hundreds in a day. It is pest control. A lot of pigs cause a lot of damage to pasture and other plant life as they root up the ground looking for worms and grubs. Boars have been known to kill lambs for a bit of lamb chop.
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Post by Gene on Dec 29, 2018 19:55:42 GMT -5
Was the harvest used for food? Generally not, Time is money and a helicopter costs around $2000 an hour maybe more now. A few might be taken for home consumption. We used to shoot hundreds in a day. It is pest control. A lot of pigs cause a lot of damage to pasture and other plant life as they root up the ground looking for worms and grubs. Boars have been known to kill lambs for a bit of lamb chop. Too bad to see all that pulled pork go to waste, but I understand the logistical and economic issues -- it would take a lot of time and manpower to convert a porcine corpse to edible protein. Gotta be a way, though. Mobile butchery units or some such, but the problem would be the economics of it, I suppose. One would need to up-market it: "Free Range Organic Pig" -- charge twice the price...
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Dec 29, 2018 21:17:53 GMT -5
Generally not, Time is money and a helicopter costs around $2000 an hour maybe more now. A few might be taken for home consumption. We used to shoot hundreds in a day. It is pest control. A lot of pigs cause a lot of damage to pasture and other plant life as they root up the ground looking for worms and grubs. Boars have been known to kill lambs for a bit of lamb chop. Too bad to see all that pulled pork go to waste, but I understand the logistical and economic issues -- it would take a lot of time and manpower to convert a porcine corpse to edible protein. Gotta be a way, though. Mobile butchery units or some such, but the problem would be the economics of it, I suppose. One would need to up-market it: "Free Range Organic Pig" -- charge twice the price... Yep, there is nothing like a bit of wild pork taken home, a fire lit and the beast singed and then butchered.
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Post by Dennis J on Dec 29, 2018 21:46:06 GMT -5
Actually I thought it very good/delicious! Made a great sauce!
A woman once asked her Red Cross First Aid instructor what could be used instead of applesauce if you don’t have any to offset the pork toxin? As a public master instructor, some times the military straight face training comes in handy!
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Dec 29, 2018 23:24:38 GMT -5
Actually I thought it very good/delicious! Made a great sauce!
A woman once asked her Red Cross First Aid instructor what could be used instead of applesauce if you don’t have any to offset the pork toxin? As a public master instructor, some times the military straight face training comes in handy!
Recently a whole family got extremely sick in NZ after a feed of wild pork. www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/344025/vet-calls-for-investigation-after-family-hospitalised-from-eating-wild-porkTests for butlism and secondary 1080 poisoning were done and came back negative. I am not aware if they ever got to the bottom of it.
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Post by Dennis J on Dec 30, 2018 0:20:50 GMT -5
Musta forgot the applesauce...’spose?
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Post by Gene on Dec 30, 2018 13:16:22 GMT -5
Wonder why it is that when I see this thread pop up entitled “Feral Swine” I imagine it to be about the president?
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Post by snow on Dec 30, 2018 13:45:00 GMT -5
Wonder why it is that when I see this thread pop up entitled “Feral Swine” I imagine it to be about the president? Well after all the things he's done and said it's just natural I suppose. Now he's paying the Congress but not his federal employees and has frozen their wages. How many people make it through Christmas without needing their paycheck in January. I feel for the thousands out there that must have a lot of anxiety about how they will pay their bills. Especially if it lasts for any length of time like Trump is threatening. But having said that, pigs at least are intelligent.
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Post by sharingtheriches on Jun 22, 2019 15:32:50 GMT -5
Generally not, Time is money and a helicopter costs around $2000 an hour maybe more now. A few might be taken for home consumption. We used to shoot hundreds in a day. It is pest control. A lot of pigs cause a lot of damage to pasture and other plant life as they root up the ground looking for worms and grubs. Boars have been known to kill lambs for a bit of lamb chop. Too bad to see all that pulled pork go to waste, but I understand the logistical and economic issues -- it would take a lot of time and manpower to convert a porcine corpse to edible protein. Gotta be a way, though. Mobile butchery units or some such, but the problem would be the economics of it, I suppose. One would need to up-market it: "Free Range Organic Pig" -- charge twice the price... I see you’ve never been introduced to pork from a boar pig, especially an older boar pig!
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Post by sharingtheriches on Jun 22, 2019 15:34:26 GMT -5
Musta forgot the applesauce...’spose? Better to use pepper jelly, Serrano style! 😁
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Post by rational on Jul 16, 2019 19:34:56 GMT -5
Musta forgot the applesauce...’spose? I heard that Trichinella and Toxoplasma consider applesauce to be dessert.
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