Not sure where this is but it's probably here in Texas, we have way more than our share.
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Stephen Newell
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I live east of Dallas and a month or two ago noticed some different tracks on my place so I started putting out deer corn thinking it was a deer. Latter there were more and clearer tracks so I posted a picture here and found out it was hog tracks so I stopped the deer corn. Their still around but I've never seen them.
James Howell
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We've gotten recent "pig damage" last week on two of our hay fields here on the farm in NE Texas.
Get disgusted every time I see it.
Yes we've got a real problem here in Texas and it's only getting worse.
Get disgusted every time I see it.
Yes we've got a real problem here in Texas and it's only getting worse.
Texasmark1
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Just a matter of time before we have to contend with them. I'm NE of Dallas so they can't be far away. Been following the advancement of the Russian hogs brought over here for sport to Florida or Georgia or somewhere over there. Not something you want to be messing with, not me anyway.
When I was a kid we had wild hogs down around Houston that were domestics that got away. Then there was the Javalina down in S and W Texas. Domestics were docile, Javalina's had the tusks to contend with, usually rather small, but neither had the size or attitude of the Russian hogs.
Get your ammo and get ready.
Mark
When I was a kid we had wild hogs down around Houston that were domestics that got away. Then there was the Javalina down in S and W Texas. Domestics were docile, Javalina's had the tusks to contend with, usually rather small, but neither had the size or attitude of the Russian hogs.
Get your ammo and get ready.
Mark
Texasmark1
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You know they are putting in Bois D'Arc lake NE of Bonham and when they flood that we are really going to have a problem. Then there will be the Ralph Hall lake near Ladonia that will just add to the problem.
Too close for comfort.
Mark
Too close for comfort.
Mark
WAYNE-N-TX
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Put the 100lb and less on a pit, slow cook for about 8 hours and invite your friends over. Nothing like a party ever so often.
The larger ones, sell those and they go overseas as "WILD TEXAS BOAR" and they just eat that up.
The biggest problem, everybody wants you to pay them to get rid of their problem.
The larger ones, sell those and they go overseas as "WILD TEXAS BOAR" and they just eat that up.
The biggest problem, everybody wants you to pay them to get rid of their problem.
Just about all of the public wildlife management areas are open to hog hunting right now. Usually all of March and April with modern firearms.
I've introduced a few friends to some public lands and they've all enjoyed it, but when it comes to eradicating them, we hunting them at night.
...and here's one that charged my daughter and I.
James Howell
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You'd certainly be welcome here in Morris County in NE Texas.
Heard last week that a local farmer had approximately $3,000 damage to his <a href="http://www.zoysias.com/">Zoysia grass</a> around his home.
Heard he put up a $10,000 "hog wire" fence to keep them out.
Heard last week that a local farmer had approximately $3,000 damage to his <a href="http://www.zoysias.com/">Zoysia grass</a> around his home.
Heard he put up a $10,000 "hog wire" fence to keep them out.
Throw some corn out and wait and when you see them, shoot them right below the ear hole.
You do need a hunting license to hunt anything in Texas, and if you're from out of state you can get a $45 out of state license for a 5 day "nuisance species" permit. ...then if you want to hunt public land, a $48 annual public permit is required. So without hunting on private land you could hunt on public for about $100.
If you hunt private, you should invest in some good scope lights and get yourself familiar with pulling the trigger in the dark.
Nancy Howell
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Wild pigs are a serious problem across the US. They are even in Canada.
They were the main topic for the second year in a row at our Ag seminar in January.
According to the stats they gave, females generally have 2 litters a year of 4 to 6. The population doubles every 5 years. I don"t remember whether there are 1.5 million or 2.5 million in Tx. Herds, called sounders, generally consist of two or more sows and their young. The boars are solitary except when breeding. Both the boars and sows can be agressive and won"t hesitate to attack.
Wild pigs eat anything they can get their lips on. Grasses, roots, insects, birds, even fawns.
Wild pigs carry diseases like brucellosis which can be transmitted to people and pseudorabies which can be transmitted to livestock and is fatal.
Wild pigs cause over $56 million in agricultural damage in Tx annually.
It is open season on wild pigs. No limits, but hunting is not an effective method of control or eradication. Trapping using methods which take most or all of the herd is encouraged. There are now procssors which will take all the animals.
Currently there isn"t any licensed poison that can be used because there isn"t anything that will kill only pigs. BUT,(this is the good news) in 2015 there"s supposed to be a bait licensed that kills only pigs. You can bet there will be a huge back log of orders. Our name will definitely be on the list.
One of the places they tore up recently was our new hay field that between the dirt work, seed, time and fuel expense, we"ve spent around $6,000 bringing it online.
Another field they tore up was out in the open and where we"ve never seen any activity or even tracks.
They are a threat to the environment, livestock and people.
From my experience, they don"t seem to like the fields I"ve sprayed with herbicide. As soon as it is dry enough, I"ll spray the new field and maybe that will keep it from further damage.
They were the main topic for the second year in a row at our Ag seminar in January.
According to the stats they gave, females generally have 2 litters a year of 4 to 6. The population doubles every 5 years. I don"t remember whether there are 1.5 million or 2.5 million in Tx. Herds, called sounders, generally consist of two or more sows and their young. The boars are solitary except when breeding. Both the boars and sows can be agressive and won"t hesitate to attack.
Wild pigs eat anything they can get their lips on. Grasses, roots, insects, birds, even fawns.
Wild pigs carry diseases like brucellosis which can be transmitted to people and pseudorabies which can be transmitted to livestock and is fatal.
Wild pigs cause over $56 million in agricultural damage in Tx annually.
It is open season on wild pigs. No limits, but hunting is not an effective method of control or eradication. Trapping using methods which take most or all of the herd is encouraged. There are now procssors which will take all the animals.
Currently there isn"t any licensed poison that can be used because there isn"t anything that will kill only pigs. BUT,(this is the good news) in 2015 there"s supposed to be a bait licensed that kills only pigs. You can bet there will be a huge back log of orders. Our name will definitely be on the list.
One of the places they tore up recently was our new hay field that between the dirt work, seed, time and fuel expense, we"ve spent around $6,000 bringing it online.
Another field they tore up was out in the open and where we"ve never seen any activity or even tracks.
They are a threat to the environment, livestock and people.
From my experience, they don"t seem to like the fields I"ve sprayed with herbicide. As soon as it is dry enough, I"ll spray the new field and maybe that will keep it from further damage.
Unless the law has changed, you best have a license here in Texas if you're caught with a Field mouse in your possession, thats if it has a bullet hole in it. This is straight from the Game Warden. I'll look it up after my doctors apointment and I'll post another hog picture.
elmersooner
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we have trapped around three hundred this last 4-5 months. last day of rifle season I ran out of rounds-they were traveling on the river and 6 of them didn't make it (close to 500 yard range, but I have shot targets from that stand and was sighted in). invest in some traps, some corn-(a little sugar and water and let it get a little ripe), also night vision scopes or green lights help, but you better check with your game warden before you go sneaking around in the dark. If you want some adrenaline, invest in a couple of black mouth curs and some pits a little risky and dangerous-but fun.
elmer we use night vision as well. We've got 800 nano infrared lens on our q-beams and use it to locate the herds. Once we locate we'll swing down wind of them and approach. I'll line up the shooters and orient them to the herd if they don't have night vision and then once we have things in place I'll pull the infrared lens off the q-beam and light them up. For the hunter that doesn't have night vision on, they tend to get adrenaline pumping when they're trusting me to position them with the sound of hogs rooting around 30 yards away in sometimes pitch black.
By the way, if that picture of us on the jeep looks like "a bunch of drunken yahoos", consider being up all night and putting in about 6 miles in dark, skinning 6-7 hogs already and keeping track of two groups of hunters on hogs on a windy forty degree night. :wink:
We don't mix rifles with alcohol in our camp.
By the way, if that picture of us on the jeep looks like "a bunch of drunken yahoos", consider being up all night and putting in about 6 miles in dark, skinning 6-7 hogs already and keeping track of two groups of hunters on hogs on a windy forty degree night. :wink:
We don't mix rifles with alcohol in our camp.
elmersooner
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we only skin the 100 pound and under hogs--have a tall a-frame with mounted winch, cables attached to the ground as well--hook the hog to a gambrel-make a few cuts and attch the cables with the welded on wide vise grips and just winch the hide right off. the night vision works well, though I just have two scopes-sounds like I might hafta upgrade. I have a few hunters I would feel comfortable with letting loose at night without having to worry about them--the beer around here is only for noodling-helps steady the nerves 
Bill in Colo
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Nancy, one local East Texas rancher told me that sodium nitrate will kill hogs in bait.
Guys, Time for a legally obtained silencer, If possible and gut shoot all you can. Forget shooting them under the ear, the nasty males are are not worth shooting cleanly if over 20/30 lbs, the young females to take cleanly up to 120 lbs the rest waste them all. They are as Mrs Howell said causing more damage than they are worth.
Personally, I think,, poison the H--- out of them! Temmic and 5 gal of corn and a back-hoe is all you need!!! run the trap 2 times/day, bury all the dead, let nothing eat on them or they will die too. when you are done bury the corn and temmic too! don't handle with bare hands or with out a respirator.
A herd as large as in that video, you are not safe in your own pasture. On a downhill shot as in that video maybe with an Armor Piercing round you could get 2 or 3 hog on most any shot!
Anyway a couple of thoughts on a large herd like that.
Later,
John A.
Personally, I think,, poison the H--- out of them! Temmic and 5 gal of corn and a back-hoe is all you need!!! run the trap 2 times/day, bury all the dead, let nothing eat on them or they will die too. when you are done bury the corn and temmic too! don't handle with bare hands or with out a respirator.
A herd as large as in that video, you are not safe in your own pasture. On a downhill shot as in that video maybe with an Armor Piercing round you could get 2 or 3 hog on most any shot!
Anyway a couple of thoughts on a large herd like that.
Later,
John A.
Nancy Howell
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That is correct, but it won"t be legal until 2015.
Right now, there is no legal way to poison them. Lots of chemicals will kill them (along with anything else that eats the bait), but if you get caught its jail and very large fines.
Sodium nitrite is in lots of foods, but is harmless unless eaten in huge quantities. It would take 183lbs of salami at one time to be lethal to a person.
Pigs are super sensitive to it. It only takes a very small amount to kill a pig, but the same amount won"t harm even a small squirrel if it eats the bait.
Sodium Nitrite blocks the blood from absorbing oxygen. The lack of oxygen in the blood causes sleepiness. The pig lays down, goes to sleep and never wakes up. End of pig and pig damage.
Right now, there is no legal way to poison them. Lots of chemicals will kill them (along with anything else that eats the bait), but if you get caught its jail and very large fines.
Sodium nitrite is in lots of foods, but is harmless unless eaten in huge quantities. It would take 183lbs of salami at one time to be lethal to a person.
Pigs are super sensitive to it. It only takes a very small amount to kill a pig, but the same amount won"t harm even a small squirrel if it eats the bait.
Sodium Nitrite blocks the blood from absorbing oxygen. The lack of oxygen in the blood causes sleepiness. The pig lays down, goes to sleep and never wakes up. End of pig and pig damage.
Anonymous-0
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Rifles won't do the job with that mob, need napalm.
pat sublett
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Another term & a few more "O" Czars and we'll be eating them old boars.
BrianJasper co. Ia
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I got pics of feral hogs during the day in Myakka St Park in Florida last month. They were saying they have a trapper that takes 100 hogs a month there alone.
Texasmark1
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Really glad you clarified that. For a minute I thought they were
just a bunch of thrill seekers looking for some action.
So, bein as it may, now that they have their overweight "prizes",
pretty much too large for decent human consumption, what do
they plan to do with them?
I don't have my shorts in a knot ( to paraphraze Dave2
again..........), but we have a serious problem heading our way at
warp speed and it's serious business for me, not a game of sport.
Mark
just a bunch of thrill seekers looking for some action.
So, bein as it may, now that they have their overweight "prizes",
pretty much too large for decent human consumption, what do
they plan to do with them?
I don't have my shorts in a knot ( to paraphraze Dave2
again..........), but we have a serious problem heading our way at
warp speed and it's serious business for me, not a game of sport.
Mark
Texasmark1
Well-known Member
Naw. A 105 Howitzer backed up by a couple of M1-A1 Tanks.
Mark
Mark
Stephen Newell
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The only story I had heard about wild hogs was from a friend of mine who was a hunter. He told me he spent three days in a tree when a wild hog got after him when he was away from his guns. After finding out I might have some on my place I was really afraid for my family. Then I saw a story on the news about the Kaufman County Sheriff’s office had trapped some of the wild hogs live and showed them on TV. They showed about 20 hogs they had in a makeshift pen. Then they showed one of their deputies in the pen herding them so these hogs will run from a person. This makes me feel a little better.
Texasmark1
Well-known Member
The Russians won't. I have been very concerned about the subject as they may make to my place any day. They will attack. I picked this up from numerous sources. One was some video's referenced on this forum. Folks were hunting them and had their movie camera. All the hogs didn't run and a couple of the shots showed what looked like a hog ready to attack the camera person. You could tell the Russian hogs with tusks, long snouts and body, huge, and lots of hair along their back.
May be great for hunters, but I too am uncomfortable thinking about having them on the property...family, livestock, crops.
My 2c,
Mark
May be great for hunters, but I too am uncomfortable thinking about having them on the property...family, livestock, crops.
My 2c,
Mark
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