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Einsiedler
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I will not shoot a pig unless I can pick it up and pack it with one hand. Period. I’ve been shooting em for decades. Most all were trad muzzleloader kills. With everything from rifled to smoothbores. .36 to .62 cal. Round ball or buckshot. Back in the day, My late wife and I have shot several behemoths off the back porch of the house. But That was predator control.
That being said, my favorite pig killing rifle is a little .36 cal Ohio rifle. Round ball and 35 grns FFFG. AS i said I steer clear of big pigs. But I have shot many before. I’ll let those interested in getting a tush hog get em. I spent a great deal of time in the woods. And I personally do not consider them a nuisance. I realize some do. But they don’t seen to bother the livestock here on the place as bad as city folks loose dogs do. Milage will definitely vary
That being said, my favorite pig killing rifle is a little .36 cal Ohio rifle. Round ball and 35 grns FFFG. AS i said I steer clear of big pigs. But I have shot many before. I’ll let those interested in getting a tush hog get em. I spent a great deal of time in the woods. And I personally do not consider them a nuisance. I realize some do. But they don’t seen to bother the livestock here on the place as bad as city folks loose dogs do. Milage will definitely vary
Talk about primitive weapon hunting!
Einsiedler
40 Cal.
Way before all this hog hunting got so popular, and they started making TV shows about it all, I knew some German boys upcountry that hunted em with dogs and butcher knives.
This was over 40 years ago.
I’ve hunted places and ranches up in the hill country where there have been wild hogs for over 150 years. They even survived the hog cholera epidemics 60 years ago.
This was over 40 years ago.
I’ve hunted places and ranches up in the hill country where there have been wild hogs for over 150 years. They even survived the hog cholera epidemics 60 years ago.
look's like that they were the first ROROTILLERS!? NO PETROL TO BUY!
As long as it’s considered “eradication” and not “Hunting” then it’s fine but as soon as it’s hunting there are different ethics involved.
Cotton
Eradication means killing off 100%.I don't think that has ever happened, to Hogs I mean.
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DixieTexian
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The word hunting describes the act of lagally finding and capturing or killing them. Something doesn't have to be sporting for the word hunting to apply.
Ninering62
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I moved from Md to north Fl a few yrs ago & I can tell you this first hand from what I've personally seen & heard myself that you just bein from north, you're not at all likely to find anyone to let you come on their private land & hunt anything for any reason. Between them considering me a yankee & the fact that I have zero tolerance for listening to their religious lunacy while hunting, its finding my own way around on WMA & public land or nothing here. Good luck with that. I can't wait to be able to move from here.
woodsnwater
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Well, Bye.
You still have time to leave today
And don’t stop in Georgia
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As a Florida native could you please carry a couple of people from New Jersey with you
doubleset
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We don't have wild hogs right around here, but I feel the same way about the squirrel population when it gets out of hand and they start trying to (and on occasion have succeeded in) getting into the house. But just out of curiousity, I wonder what you do with the hog carcasses of the ones you kill as a matter of pest control. Just leave them where you shoot them and let the buzzards take care of it? I'm thinking there probably isn't any value in skinning them out for the skins, etc.
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That’s correct - the carcasses stay where they lay. When they shoot by helicopter they just leave them.
As an aside,we have always had hogs in our area. “Back in the day” most ranch land was operated and owned by a local resident. All the landowners shot and killed hogs keeping the population in check.
As ranching became less profitable and land more valuable, locals sold to folks from urban areas. Most of these new owners were absentee - and did not operate or tend the land personally. The result was that fewer hogs were killed. Some landowners allowed hogs to proliferate so they could “hunt all year.”
Clearly these things combined led to a bloom in the wild hog population. Once the genie is out of the bottle it’s hard to put it back in. So now hogs are a bigger nuisance issue and do more damage to crops, fences, and pasture - not to mention the wildlife they disrupt through predation or habitat destruction.
It’s my opinion that, at least locally, this tipping point was in the late 80’s to early 90’s.
TrapperDude
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We lived in Florida for several years and saw the character of the place change pretty drastically over the last few because of all of the New England migrants. It got more crowded, and the people became less southern in demeanor. That was our impetus for leaving. The problem with having a nice state is that it draws in more people who collectively end up making it less nice.
We'll miss the unique things to see and do out there, as well as being near the good friends we made, but the changes were just too much, and we didn't want to be there to watch it possible become New Yorsey.
We are sort of experiencing that "shift" in Texas as well. You really can't fault people wanting move to a differant state but why do they have to bring their politics with them? The wide open spaces aren't that wide anymore.
woodsnwater
40 Cal
"Zero tolerance for that religious lunacy" that was the basis of everything good this country was founded on and rules we lived by for hundreds of productive years.
Now there is a new thread on this forum about hunting grizzlies with 50 roundball.
Rock Home Isle
54 Cal.
Yeah…that didn’t work out so well for the Corps of Discovery…and they were even using a larger calibre than .50
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