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Want to Join a Tactical Wild Hog Hunt? Meet This Group of Texans

Aug. 19, 2011 11:15am Buck Sexton

Many consider feral pigs a menace to farmers and their communities across the United States, but a number of high-tech hunters are taking a Commando-style approach to controlling the beasts.

Equipped with gear more befitting a black ops mission than a hunting expedition, a growing group of sportsmen use modern tactical firearms and gear to track and kill wily feral pigs.

The Wall Street Journal reported today on the first of these anti-hog outfitters in Texas called Tactical Hog Control. The equipment listed on their website reads like a page from a Tom Clancy novel: thermal imaging, nightvision goggles, and AR-15 rifles with laser sights, all utilized to track and kill a species of pig. Of the hunting guide’s history and basic methods of operation, the journal writes that:

“Tactical Hog Control, started in 2009 by Texas ranchers Clark Osborne and Mr. Dreher, is among a handful of next-generation outfitters across the South offering a new style of hog hunting designed to appeal to hunters’ inner commando. Each client on a nocturnal hunt with the two men suits up with roughly $40,000 of military-grade gear, including semiautomatic rifles like the DPMS AR-10. The men prowl bumpy pastures and farmland in off-road vehicles bristling with gun racks and infrared headlights.”

But the hunter’s prey is also formidable. Feral pigs — also called ‘razorbacks’ or wild boars — average about 150 pounds. One monster shot in Alabama, however, weighed over 1,000 lbs. Estimated to number a few million animals across the U.S., the pigs voraciously eat crops, are considered a major threat to livestock, and are known to carry a wide variety of diseases.

Of course, the campaign to limit the feral pig population is not without its detractors. Some environmentalists and activists believe the anti-pig sentiment have been used in part to justify the loose hunting laws on the animals Fox News reported back in February that Don Anthony, of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida wanted state lawmakers to:

“Leave them alone or find a way to neuter them to keep their population down…we should be used to them by now. Killing them is barbaric and unnecessary.”

At present, the laws in many states are very favorable for hunting these animals, and public sentiment in Texas appears to favor continued attempts to cull the feral hog population.

Watch this video, courtesy of Tactical Hog, to get a sense of what a real feral hog hunt is like (Content Warning: Lots of hog shooting):

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A MERICAN
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:06pm
1 – Hog huntin is fun.
2 – Hogs damage crops.
3 – Hog huntin is fun.
4 – Hogs are very dangerous to other animals.
5 – Hog huntin is fun.
6 – Hogs dammage fences.
7 – Hog huntin is fun.
8 – Hogs rip up ground cover plants to get their food – leading to erosion of top soil.
9 – Hog huntin is fun.
10 – Hogs carry and move seeds in their hooves spreading weeds.
11 – Hog huntin is fun.
12 – Hogs taste good.
13 – OH YEAH – DID I SAY – HOG HUNTING IS FUN !!!

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- AlmostaCowboy
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:27pm
  14. Hogs have no natural predators.
  15. Hogs taste good.
  16. Hogs are fun to hunt!
  
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- countryclipper
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:40pm
  about says it all :)
  
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- rangerp
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:49pm
  Texas aint the only place to tactically smoke the old root eater.
  
  Come down to my neck of the woods, and you can do the same in south central Georgia. Retired Master Sergeant Rod Pinkston runs an outstanding outfit that helps the local farmers rid themselves of the pesky hogs. Rod is an outstanding fellow, and has thermal hog hunting down to a science. I used to shoot skeet with him when he was at Fort Benning.
  
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- Melvin Spittle
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 2:20pm
  17. Overpopulation of hogs throughout the US is detrimentally competing with other species for forage and also breeding disease.
  
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- chazman
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 3:20pm
  Hey! We got all these commies gonna congregate on Wall Street Sept. 14th. Let’s round up a couple semi trailers full of feral hogs and loose them on these stinkin’ Liberal Marxist’!! Manhatten, infested with feral hogs. Gawd what a sight that would be! What say ye?? Film at 11:00 …
  
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- Bonesaw
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 4:20pm
  They also forget to mention that wild hogs are dangerous to humans.
  Lived in TN for a few years, whenever hikers got lost in the Smoky Mountain Natl park there was always a large rescue effort within the first 24 hours, ESPECIALLY if the missing party had children. Why? Well among other things it was because of the wild hogs. If hogs get the scent of blood they go CRAZY! Wild hogs are dangerous. Every wild hog hunter I know always carry a sidearm with them because they are so dangerous.
  
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- bruce_baker
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 4:58pm
  No one could say it any better!
  
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- jespasinthru
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 6:53pm
  A Merican, you forgot to mention that wild hogs are an invasive species that don’t belong here (like kudzu, giant pythons, and bird-killing feral cats). Hunting wild hogs is fun, and they don’t taste bad at all. Can’t say the same for kudzu, cats and snake monsters, though.
  
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- swampbuck
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 7:05pm
  @A MERICAN ditto
  
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- brntout
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:13pm
  @ almost Almost right except you forgot the enemy.they hate pigs period
  
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- Armed Patriot
  Posted on August 20, 2011 at 8:58am
  A MERICAN…
  
  17. If you do ever happen to shoot jihad johnny with a bullet dipped in pig grease or blood, derka-derka doesnt get his 72 virgins or to meet mohamed.
  
  18. the blood is also good to dribble around the local mosque.
  
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- weeblewacker1
  Posted on August 20, 2011 at 5:02pm
  although there is a explosion of hogs out west and other parts of the country,these guys are not what i call hunters. these dudes just wanna play army,except with something that don’t shoot back.if ya want a challenge,try using a bow or black powder.ya kinda look like a idiot using military weapons on pigs.
  
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- ScratInTheHat
  Posted on August 20, 2011 at 6:32pm
  @ weeblewacker1
  Doing public service and getting in moving target night sight practice is a problem for you? What did you have to say about the fishing tournament they had with those in invasive carp? Man pick better targets, this is not a good one!
  
  http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/08/10/invasive-species-catchin-some-asian-carp/
  
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- RedneckJim
  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:42am
  @jwspasinthru – Kudzu is supposedly completely edible. Instead of spraying it with herbicide, we should be harvesting it for human or animal feed.
  
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- Aegis
  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:31am
  Amen Brudda! Hog hunting is FUN! Invite a PETA member, not to convert them but it would fun to make them very upset and even more angry!
  
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theamericanvision
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:04pm
Sign me up!

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- The Voice of Libertarian Reason
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:56pm
  Me too!
  
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- chazman
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:04pm
  … I love Texas. I use to live in Houston back in the mid-eighties, and with Tactical Hog hunting now available, I’m seriously thinking about moving back! I don’t sleep well at night anyway …
  
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- Sheepdog911
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 4:07pm
  Me too.
  
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- Rice Water
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 6:06pm
  Is the Viagra & penis pump included in the registration price?
  
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waresite
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:00pm
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; Round up as many as possible and drop them off in Afganistan! Operation Feral Hog will drive the muslims nuts as them multiply out of control

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- Dustyluv
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:13pm
  Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Keep the meat it’s delicious. Dump the blood and guts all over the Middle east (share the wealth program) and use the grease to clean our military weapons.
  
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- JFC3
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:15pm
  I love it! From now on the US Military should make it known that every bullet, bomb, and grenade will be laced with pig blood. One would think that may grab the attention from muslim cowards.
  
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- loadingmyclips
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:01pm
  that is just TOO freakin’ logical for our goverment.
  
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db321
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:52am
Feral Pigs, or Turkeys – it really is just practice shooting for when the Arab Spring comes to Texas

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- TexasHunter
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 3:26pm
  Amen to that brother :)
  
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jkendal
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:50am
Don Anthony, of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida wanted state lawmakers to:

“Leave them alone or find a way to neuter them to keep their population down…we should be used to them by now. Killing them is barbaric and unnecessary.”

Never underestimate the stupidity of a leftist.

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- Uncurable wound
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:06pm
  I think we should nueter Don…OOOPS to late.
  How do people get this dumb?
  
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- Docrow
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:15pm
  Lets give Don a sharp knife and turn him loose fixing hogs.
  
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- danenut6
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:23pm
  Own a farm/yard/garden and have them come through one night. . . the amount of damage a pack can do is unbelievable. I am so SICK AND TIRED of these pansy animal rights nuts.
  
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- snidley-whiplash
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:23pm
  @waresite
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:00pm
  I‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again; Round up as many as possible and drop them off in Afganistan! Operation Feral Hog will drive the muslims nuts as them multiply out of control
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  Agreed, but also send the liberal enviromentalists along as pig hearders.
  
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txdavo
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:48am
Suburbanites and city dwellers will be familiar with the soon. The feral hogs are moving into their environments. Keep your dogs and cats inside.

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Rickfromillinois
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:48am
I, my son, my brother, and his son are going to Tennessee for a hunt in October. Hogs are omnivores which means they also eat meat. They are known to kill fawns (baby deer), calves, birds, and have attacked people. Their population is growing at an uncontrolled rate and they are appearing in states where they have never been seen before. To somehow believe that all that needs to be done is to start a program where the government captures, neuters, then releases them is naive if not outright stupid.

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- Jethro212
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:05pm
  High five on that.
  
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Centralsville
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:48am
Typical left-wing crazies. They have such a problem with killing and eating animals. Pretend they are babies in the womb then it won’t bother you. Pretend it is some old person who is going to cost the government healthcare system a lot to keep alive, then it won’t bother you. These Godless lefties can’t accept the facts of the life and death cycle on the earth. It is the way God made it. Animals live, then they die, then they get eaten. I think the Godless left can’t deal with reality because they can’t deal with their own death. Funny, they see no meaning to life but can’t deal with death. Someday even the earth and sun will be gone. Deal with that you stupid liberals.

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constitutionaldirective
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:46am
Those guys are wussies!

Around here we hunt hogs with a dog and a POCKET KNIFE!

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- 1chancey1
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:07pm
  But it’s good practice…
  
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- duhwut
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:09pm
  yea. i’m sure you do…
  
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- Uncurable wound
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:09pm
  Way to much time on your hands brother.
  You must have some INTERSETING parties…
  TEA.
  
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- constitutionaldirective
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:14pm
  Yes Sir, we DO!
  
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- constitutionaldirective
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:28pm
  @duhwut: My buddies 180lb. Pit Bull/Blue Tick would love to “maul” it over with ya’! …;)
  
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- PeachyinGA
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 3:12pm
  I saw a tv show last month showing hog-hunters using dogs and knives. Some where catching them and caging them for the land owner. Dogs wore protective vests. Was that you? :-)
  
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- GOTT-EM-MAUSER
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:13pm
  Here in South Texas lots of the hunting is done with dogs and nothing more than a knife. Especially the younger folks that can still play rough and tumble. Now the Old Farts do use rifles and whatever else we can conjure up to make it easier, but sure wish there had been Feral Hogs when I was young!!
  
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Steamtrains
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:41am
They are also known to hunt the hunter if you are not careful. yes they can be good eating if cleaned and prepared correctly.

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- sWampy
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:29pm
  Only if killed young, they quickly get tough and aren’t good for anything but dog food.
  
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- PeachyinGA
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 3:17pm
  Deer processing plants around us claim they need to have a special permit to process hog. They claim hog contains a dangerous bacteria on their blood (safe if cooked well). But for them to clean hog they have to shut down deer processing to do it, then facility has to be re-sterilized before continuing with deer.
  
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spirited
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:38am
Snipers hired for Fall deer hunting in Forest Preserves is what, less “barbaric”?

>It’s not like feral pigs are senselessly slaughted buffalos … only to later be farmed.

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ZAP
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:36am
Sounds like a job for Planned Parenthood

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- db321
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:02pm
  Yea – maybe we can get Planned Parenthood to pass out few condoms to the Hogs. The Left has all the answers. I vote for the Texas Team 6 to keep doing what your doing.
  
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ravinginfidel
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:35am
I wish my wife would let me have some 3rd gen night vision or thermal imaging hunting equipment. It would also be useful should you have any feral humans threatening ones family.
Semper Paratus

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:09pm
  Also good for catching union thugs painting your car :-)
  
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- ConstitutionalPartier
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:27pm
  Who brings in the money? You or your wife? If you make the money, she shouldn’t be telling you waht you can and can’t buy with what YOU’VE earned.
  
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- blindpig
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 2:32pm
  You just say “Woman! I’m buying some stuff that you can’t understand so don’t question me. When it get’s delivered I’m gonna let you cook us some steaks to celebrate. Get me a beer now honey. I sure like it when you’re sweet.” There’s no way to find our identity on this website is there?
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:35am
I have hunted these feral boars before; bow hunting is the real challenge, and not necessarily for the suicidally inclined either, just make sure your plan is well prepared.

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WestTexasCountryBoy
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:34am
Environmentalists have no idea what these hogs do to fields and fencing, and how difficult they are to hunt, they are like ghosts in the night and do not hit one in your car, they will do more damage than a deer or an elk, I know. They also migrate as they feed and not many fences are able to stand in their way. The ‘sweety do gooders’ need to find something that they know something about and get the hell out of other people’s business. It is not loose hunting laws, it is LOOSE feral hogs, like a ‘flash mob’ only more intelligent. ID-10Ts
Suggestion: Catch all the feral hogs and ship them to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq and cut them loose and problem solved and you won’t be able to recognize the poppy fields in a few months.

Help end political correctness – it is fundamentally a lie
God Bless

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- Rightallalong
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:13pm
  From WestTexasCountryBoy “…it is LOOSE feral hogs, like a ‘flash mob’ only more intelligent. ID-10Ts”
  
  That maybe one of the funniest things I have heard this year – and accurate as the damn pigs are a LOT smarter than the human pigs that love the flash mob looting.
  
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- NC1
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:31pm
  It’s hard for the environmentalist to see the actual impact what feral hogs can do from a city or suburb. They damage crops thus ultimately affecting food prices. I’m all for a clean environment, after all a clean environment means the game I hunt will be clean too.
  
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- GOTT-EM-MAUSER
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:33pm
  You are so right. In the little town I’m in, the City Folks decided to build a Golf Retirement Community, close to the San Antonio river. EVERYBODY tried to tell them what the Feral Hogs would do to their Golf Course, but Oh No they would “Handle” it. WE the “Bumpkins” just didn’t appreciate what Modern Technology was capable of handling nowadays. Well the back 9 was summarily “Re-Taken” by the hogs, the front 9 only gets partially raided, since it is mostly next to the highway and the constant traffic spooks the hogs. But it’s been a hoot watching this thing go broke a half dozen times now, and be bought out over and over again, by new sets of “Metro-Sexual” Experts that think they can beat the hogs.
  
  The article states that there a “Few Million” nationwide. What a joke!! The Texas Game and Wildlife folks said there were 2 million in Texas last year and now they peg it at 3 million, JUST in Texas, where, WE DO KILL them by the droves, with out MERCY. This country is so Full of really Stupid Clueless people, no wonder the Feral-Semi-Humans are going on the rampage now.
  
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hauschild
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:33am
Cool!

These things any good to eat?

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- jb.kibs
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:38am
  yes.
  
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- J.C. McGlynn
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:45am
  I believe better because they don’t eat junk and exercise more.
  
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- Rightallalong
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:00pm
  They are excellent to eat. They don’t get shot up with growth hormones and antibiotics. They are free range pork … The old bores can be a little gamey, the little ones (3 to 6 months) are so amazingly good when put on a smoker … oh my melt in your mouth goodness.
  
  The city people who still think meat is somehow magically grown on Styrofoam plates and wrapped in plastic wrap need to get some real world exposure to what it means to put meat in the freezer the old fashion way. Then maybe they would appreciate what it means to be real, to be human and to be connected to Mother nature. Every good ol’ country boy I have met has far greater respect for nature than these do-gooder idiots that think its fashionable to talk about how we are ruining the planet.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:02pm
  Tasty, huh? I think pork is pretty unbeatable, especially when grilled, so the wild version I’d love to try. Does it have a gamey tinge like venison?
  
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- RA0725
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:09pm
  The little ones are best. Put half on the BBQ, baste, done when the kneecaps fall off. Tasty. And lean.
  
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- mtonepa
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:14pm
  Think of how many Homeless people could be feed at the same time these hogs are being culled
  
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- ghayes649
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:16pm
  taste like chicken…
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:53pm
  Hunting them – are they real cagey like turkeys? I’d like to go on a hunt, but not one of those where you basically shoot one in a fenced field and made to feel like the great white hunter.
  
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- Airb0rne4325
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 1:33pm
  70lb sow is the best to eat. Shoats can go straight on the grill or smoked with apple wood. If you get a boar thats got some age on him you can blanche him. Skin or scrape him (you can burn the **** off too with those propane torches) put him in an icechest and cover with ice. Next day pour off the water and re-ice. Do this for a week and it will blanche out the blood and hormones from the meat and make it taste better.
  
  Here we catch small male hogs and cut their testes off and release them back into the wild. Does two things, 1)Population control and 2)Taste better when they get bigger without the testosterone.
  
  If you catch a big one then you can pin him and cornfeed it. Get ready to slaughter it. The 3 days prior to the slaughter feed him nothing but beer, old bread and old milk, he will love it and he will fatten up nicely.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 3:32pm
  @Airb0rne4325
  
  Sir, you sound like the culinary connoisseur of wild game. That’s good info!
  
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- TXWildfire
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 4:08pm
  There are programs in East Texas that have annual hog hunts and all the meat goes to charity and food banks. I forget what they’re called, but it was super fun! And yes. Wild hog is the best meat I have ever tasted.
  
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angelcat
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:31am
One of our neighbors who lives on the next block has a similar business. We see his truck with the hogcage parked in the driveway. These hogs are not cute and cuddly by any stretch of the imagination. I have heard stories about them from friends who are hunters here in Texas. They are ugly, dangerous beasts.

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- jb.kibs
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:38am
  these hogs will slaughter a hippie so fast… go on, give the little pig a hug… ;)
  
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sbmmomma
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:31am
and think of the bacon you bring home for the table. with hot buttered biscuits and fresh sliced tomatoes. Fine eats.
environmentalist only what humans dead. These animals are destructive to other animals [eat them or take their food] and to the plants [they destroy not just eat fields of food crops]
Wack-os don’t care but us Southerners do. It is our life and livelihood.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:31am
“Leave them alone or find a way to neuter them to keep their population down…we should be used to them by now. Killing them is barbaric and unnecessary.”
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Even Animal Planet says they are a danger to people, are breeding rapidly, and needed to be culled every year. I think they should capture a few of the meanest ones and put them in Don Anthony’s back yard.

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crazeeMAN
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:31am
Good clean fun. Puts meat on someones table, cleans up farm land and cattleman’s property, and ****** off PETA. A three fold reason to do it. Amen

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J.C. McGlynn
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:30am
Hunt the feral hog. Turn them into beacon and it to your nearest mooslim.

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freeweever
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:26am
I’m in are we hunting feral or commy pigs. Either way sign me up.

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- jb.kibs
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:40am
  LOL. nice
  
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- GOTT-EM-MAUSER
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:43pm
  Right on the Money!! But we have been dicussing a potential dilema here in Texas lately. The Ferals will eat ANYTHING, so sometimes they beat the Buzzards and Coyotes to the punch, suppose they get to the Communist Corpses first as well. Can COMMUNISM be transmitted to Normal Human Beings by eating an animal that has previously eaten a Dead COMMUNST?
  
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BIGJAYINPA
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:26am
Hey all you tree-hugging Bambi lovers. These are not a native species. They are called FERAL Hogs because they are escapees from the farm. They are the decendants of domestic pigs that early farmers and ranchers allowed to range free and they were HARVESTED as needed for FOOD. They are not endangered, they are not(unfortunately) rare on their home range and they are very destructive if allowed to continue breeding unchecked. Stay safe in your suburban home, continue to get your meat from the store wrapped in cellophane and leave the rest of us alone…..Just sayin’

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- Rightallalong
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:40am
  @BigJay
  You are right on target (best target is right behind their ear…that way they don’t run at all). Feral hogs are very invasive and rapidly multiply (a sow can have 2 litters of over 8 piggies) each year. They do terrible damage to crops and crowd out all the native species of animals and plants. You wacko animal lovers SHOULD want them deader than a hammer for all the damage they do.
  
  And besides, when you pop one of the little piggies and smoke it for about 12 hours you have about the best eating you are going to find. You hear me pigs…Don’t Mess with Texas
  
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- jb.kibs
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:44am
  also, watch Monster Quest. Domestic Hogs can get to be a thousand (1000) lbs or more.
  normal “wild” hogs never get that big, we have been genetically selecting the largest pigs for so long, that our domestic pigs get HUGE.
  
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- WestTexasCountryBoy
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:47am
  @BIGJAYINPA
  My Brother spends a lot of money on fence repairs because of these feral hogs. They are intelligent and stealth and are probably one of the most difficult animals in North America to hunt. My wife is an environmental biologist and understands and is amazed at the ENVIRONMENTAL damage these pigs do to pastures and fields. The people b!tching about hunting them are not environmentalist, the are pc and 2nd amendment ‘attack dogs’ and could care less about our country. Never let a crisis go to waste.
  God Bless
  
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- BIGJAYINPA
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 12:03pm
  I hunted true wild boar when I was in Germany. These things take a lot of killing, you don’t hug them or play with them, but they can be real good eating when cooked properly. It is a little trickier than cooking store-bought pork….Just sayin’
  
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burr99
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:24am
lol sign me up!

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marhee9
Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:22am
The animal rights people are too funny. Find a way to neuter them. Maybe we could spend trillions of dolars to give them sex education courses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnX8Z713U0M

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- jb.kibs
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:41am
  rofl. if we sit down and talk to them, they will understand how much they are hurting others and stop. /nodding yes, sarcastically
  
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- normbal
  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:50am
  “The animal rights people are too funny. Find a way to neuter them.”
  
  Couldn’t agree more. Sterilizing animal rights activists sounds like good, ethical medicine and
  politics to me.
  
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- glassaudioguy
  Posted on August 20, 2011 at 6:43pm
  I’ve got a better idea- let’s neuter the enviro-weenies instead.
  
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