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Central New York Under Siege — by Wild Boars

Farms in central New York are being invaded by wild boars — of the pseudorabid, bullet-resistant variety.

Central New York Under Siege — by Wild Boars

Wild boars in central New York, which can weigh up to 400 pounds, are posing threats to livestock and to residents. (Photo via Flickr user Savio DSouza)

Suspected of escaping from local game farms, the feral creatures are attacking livestock, killing family pets and chasing people in the state, Reuters reported. And they’re multiplying — officials don’t have a handle on the exact population figure, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture said they’re successfully breeding in three counties, averaging four to six piglets per litter.

Of the 27 boars trapped or shot last year and tested for disease, two tested positive for pseudorabies virus, or PRV. While there have been no reports of actual attacks on humans, experts say the animals can be aggressive, weighing up to 400 pounds with sharp, four-inch tusks.

New York’s Invasive Species Council issued a $230,000 grant last year to try to curb the boar population, but that’s been difficult because the swine are hard to kill.

Peter Anderson, a third-generation farmer, told Reuters he’s probably shot 15 or 20 of the animals over the last three years:

“We‘ve shot them right square in the head and the bullet will glance off and they’ll get up and go. Their skulls are so thick in the front, if you don’t happen to hit it at a perfect 90 degrees, with the way their heads have that kind of curved shape, the bullet will glance right off,” he said.

In a report, the Department of Agriculture said left unchecked, the boar population could potentially devastate the area’s natural resources, agriculture and human health and safety. But because the traps used to capture the animals are expensive, funding remains an obstacle. An application for new grant money is pending.

In the meantime, residents report sightings to one another and rely on their rifle-owning neighbors for protection.

We have a lot of older retired folks who don’t have guns,” Andersen said. “They call us and hopefully we get there in time to take care of the matter.”

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  • warhorse_03826
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:46pm

    simple solution.

    24/7/365 hunting season on them, and a $100 bounty on each tail.

    with enough people unemployed, who probably already are hunters, the problem will be solved.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:00pm

      Feature wild boar in game restaurants! Yum! Seriously, http://www.marxfoods.com/wild-boar-recipes , for example! (I have no relation to this website–found it on Google.) I remember visiting Germany and the wild game served in restaurants was delicious!

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    • pschlentz
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:02pm

      Amen!

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    • aesaac
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:04pm

      Wild bores; that would be the Left

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    • 10percenter
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:08pm

      ok, so let’s think about this…we could kill this wild boar and bury him where they intend to build the mosque….take care of two problems at once…!!!

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    • vtxphantom
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:51pm

      Sounds like it’s time to pull out that 50cal. Fill up the food banks with wild boar

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    • GOTT-EM-MAUSER
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:44pm

      Won’t do a bit of good unfortunately. Here in Texas it is legal to kill them as many as possible, as fast as possible, and by ANY METHOD you can devise. The result is that in the last couple of years the Feral Hog population in Texas has gone from 2 million to just over three Million head. The sows can begin breeding at six months of age, and ONE SOW will ultimately cause over 800 Piglets to be born in a years time. They are far worse than Feral Cats when it comes to their population pyramid. They have NO natural predatory enemies, other than man. They are routinely hunted from helicopters here, and as many a 4or 5 hundred killed in a day of shooting. Doesn’t make a dent. Lots of folks hunt them at night with feeders, cameras and night vision equipped guns, even a few use belt fed full auto guns to hammer them with. They will kill 30 to 40 in a few minutes, but by morning there are more than there were the night before.

      The Feral Hog is here to stay, unless/until someone can come up with a sterilization scheme that works. Lots of folks working on that, but so far NOTHING even looks a little promising. that’s the BAD NEWS, but like in all things, there is some GOOD NEWS as well.

      The imminent collapse of this country/society will unleash an exponential demand for meat of any kind to eat. The Old Hogs are almost inedible, by anything except other Feral Hogs and Buzzards/Coyotes. But the younger small ones, are great tasting pork. Pass the BACON plea

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:51pm

      I think the bounty idea is a really good one. As is the ‘feed the poor’ or homeless. Cheap protein would be GREAT for the present market.

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    • Two Rivers
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:55pm

      Completely agree. Let us loose on ‘em. They’ll all be gone in a couple years. Not to mention the feasting.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:00pm

      Get a bigger gun or use deer shot.

      I agree — put a bounty on them and see them disappear in a jiffy!

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:09pm

      @Salamader — If it’s Central New York, I’m thinking the Dinosaur in Syracuse! For those of you who are not familiar w/the Dinosaur, it’s a biker bar and grill that serves just the best pulled pork — yum, yum! They were in heavy demand fm the workers on the Pile at Ground Zero. So the good folks at the Dinosaur drove down plenty of the good stuff!

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    • Consentiondum
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:11pm

      Mmm… Local free range bacon. And addressing an invasive species problem. Pose this the right way and I think we found something the left and right can agree on. Delicious.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:13pm

      @10percenter

      I like the way you think. We should combine the 2, bounty for $100 to help the unemployed, and have them dragged downtown…..

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:15pm

      A caller in to The Wells Report (here in the Dallas area) said to kill the momma boar, then when all the piglets come in to nurse, kill them.. He said they’re real good dressed and roasted over a spit.

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    • BeardedDog
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:41pm

      Hmmmm……My 45 Glock and my AR-15 will not penetrate the skull? This I have to see! I say a mix of hollow points and FMJ’s (every other round in the mag) should do the trick. Say when and where and I’ll be there!
      Gotta get some more BBQ sauce!
      :-)

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    • 912er
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:46pm

      Well, they were the one who voted for Kirsten Gillabrand in the first place… Huh? Oh, not that wild boar? Sorry….

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    • texasfarmer
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:54pm

      What are they taking them down with a .22? Here we have enough fire power to stop anything. Try 7.62×54, my portable canon, or a 6.8 on a AR platform. Oh you have gun laws in New York? Sorry.

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    • IanWright
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:58pm

      Brilliant

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:19pm

      I can’t think of anything else more fun to shoot at. Have fun in NY!

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    • SIXGUNWEST
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:50pm

      “Dude”, you stole my thunder!. That is the perfect answer, but do you think any of those empty headed leaders would give their OK on that?

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:53pm

      We have a little boar problem ourselves here in Oklahoma south of Muskogee. Some gamers were trapping the boars for farmers at about $80-$100 a head, then selling them at $80-$100 a head out in western Oklahoma to game ranches for guided hunts. 

      The problem with their skulls is density and angle, not power in the round. Just like an alligator only has one sweet spot so does a boar. 

      These boars will tear you up and get after you. They are no joke and are mean. Enjoy the hunting. 

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    • LIBERALSBEDAMNED
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:01pm

      The boy in the white house wont allow that

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    • NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:20pm

      If one likes pork, nothing wrong with this, a little on the lean side, but pork none the less.
      As far as the comment on the mosque, you want to wait to gut, bleed out and skin them, wait until you are there. Then you need to take the hide, sew it around your favorite terrorist, after you have cut off his genitals, stuffed them into his mouth, hanged him and buried him face down pointing west. That should do it according to the koran.

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    • Tankertony
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:38pm

      A perfect job for Sarah. After shes annihilates them all, she can have peta remove the corpses.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 12:59am

      Why let these animals go to waste. Do you know how many muslims there are in this country? I’m sure the whitehouse has some extra room. I would bet that Israel would like to adopt them as there state mascot.

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    • grumpyt
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 6:47am

      No bounty is necessary…remember the story of street people being fined for eating pigeons, tree rats, and such? Call Uncle Ted and cut him loose. It will feed the “homeless” and allow hunters to practice.
      Really folks, these hogs need to be taken out.

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    • palmettopalflorida
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 7:27am

      This is for BEARDEDDOG: Here in Florida, feral hogs are often captured young and pen raised. My friend had to be out of state on business for weeks running and called and asked if I’d help his father-in-law slaughter several hogs. Okay, says I, and invited my Daughter’s boyfriend along to learn the procedures. Well, he brought along his new Glock 45, to try out. I had a 9mm. The slower moving 45 JHP’s used by the young man, would not penetrate the skull. After several tries, and a desire for humane kills, I used my 9mm JPH’s, and dropped all three like the proverbial sack o’crap, one shot each. My assumption is that the velocity of the faster 9mm overcame the hardness of the beast’s skull. I won’t say a 45 will never penetrate somewhere on the skull, or some hogs, but I do think that a 45 is best left for putting down other types of predators when a body shot is the most reasonable target.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 7:40am

      Ah, yes, great ideas, but GOTT-EM-MAUSER has a great point, there needs to be a sterilization method created if they reproduce that quickly. PETA will go “hog-wild” if they declare open season on these wild boars; they will be screaming from the roof tops! I say GO FOR IT! LET ‘EM SCREAM! Meat from the young boars is very tasty, I’ve ate it a bunch of times!!!

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    • tgp42rhr
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 9:11am

      Shot one in the head in Germany with my .45 and it didn’t even slow it down. First mistake was shooting a wuld boar in the head…they use the front plate as a weapon, second was not carrying my M-16, which would be doable as a side chest shot. I think my 30-06 with 180 to 220 grain should do the trick if they ever arrive in the catskills!

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    • billingsmt
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 9:56am

      Something that the Feds rammed down our throat has been to reintroduce wolves. My guess is that 25 packs of wolves running around the eastern sea board would put a serious dent in the population. Also, it would be great to have all of the opinion / decision makers on this come from the Mountain West on how is will apply for the atlantic coast. We would only be following what was done to us by the candy a##ed population back east. Enjoy!!

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    • sWampy
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 10:02am

      Amen, they should do the same with deer, they cause more property damage each year, and almost as many highway deaths as long haul trucking and drunk drivers.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 10:29am

      Their skulls are so thick in the front, if you don’t happen to hit it at a perfect 90 degrees, with the way their heads have that kind of curved shape, the bullet will glance right off,” he said.

      Geez !!, then shoot them in the side with a 30/06, that will drop them EVERYTIME , trust me..

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 1:40pm

      Reply to SWAMPY: About your crack concerning long-haul truckers…..maybe you should keep you ignorant comments to yourself since being an over-the-road driver is on average, five times more dangerous than being a POLICE OFFICER and not for the reasons you would assume. The main problem with being a trucker is the STUPID CAR DRIVERS, not the truck drivers who are much better trained than most everyone else out there on the road. The average accident rate of an OTR driver is less than HALF that of the average motorist…last figures I saw were about 2.5 accidents per million miles of driving……
      Now, as for the pig problem, has anyone thought that this is merely God opening up the larder for the hard times ahead? If this country becomes the hell-hole that the progressives want, a couple of free pigs in the pantry could be a Godsend….literally! I say let the little porkers breed all they want…and if all else fails, New York will be able to make some money off of a nice long, pig hunting season!!!

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    • JohnSig1984
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 2:33pm

      no no no.. that would be too easy, why use private people and money when we can use grant money, i mean its free right?? silly goose trix are kids.

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:17pm

      Elena, George Soros is a major shareholder in the Dinosaur unfortunately. On the other hand, feral hogs are wormy, so they would fit right in at Soros’ little rib joint.

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    • Thomas Paine
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:43pm

      I agree

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  • freeweever
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:45pm

    These must be progressive boars because like their human counterparts, all they know how to do is destroy all the things that real protector of freedom humans built up, and say its social justice. Thats why they are called “communist pigs” like progressives they destroy all the good and freedom that has been built up by positive people. Thats right you are all progressive communist pigs, so dig with it.

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    • Excomunicatedmarine
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:33pm

      Did I die and go to paradise?

      Shoot a progressive pig, get a$100 bounty, sell the meat to a specialty restaurant, bury the rest of the remains at the proposed ****** abomination near ground zero…….

      Now that would make my day……over and over.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:42pm

    I wonder when the Boar lobby will put the Ribs on the Endangered Species list? Then Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Andrew Cuomo ) can shut down the Boar hunting season. No more hunting in the Newyorkham Forest.

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  • sbenard
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:38pm

    IF they have a disease named “pseudorables” (tongue-in-cheek), how could anyone ever want to kill them? LOL!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:32pm

      No problem here, I have hunted boars in the past with bow and arrow; reckless I know, yet the hunt is one you will never forget — either in making the killing shot or the chase that follows until the boar dies, or it dies after chasing you all over the place…good exercise either way.

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    • BeardedDog
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:20pm

      SNOWLEOPARD – LOFL!!! If they make it here to western NY state I’ll be ready.
      When you have a chance read “Undaunted Courage”, the part about “collecting a Grizzly Bear speciman” in particular.

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    • RugerHoyt
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 10:03am

      @Snowleopard

      Archery tackle is my prefered choice for going after any kind of game (deer, turkey, elk, hogs etc…) It may not allow me to take out at many animals as a gun with a full clip, but a well placed T3 out of my compound or a ***** Phantom out of my recurve sure does the trick on a wiley old boar. Ive put an 800 grain arrow right through a hogs shield on a broadside shot with no problem.

      You Texas boys/girls are lucky (through a hunters eyes) to have the capability to shoot them whenever and where ever you want.

      If your freezer is full donate it. Contact your local game and parks there are usually lists of people who are in need of meat, and many people will take a field dresses animal, so there is not extra work for the hunter!

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  • huck555
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:37pm

    Good eating. You have to have a pair to kill them. 357 mag (minimum), Stand tall and let the boar attack. At about 3 to 4 yards, one square in the head.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:01pm

      You have to be a good hunter to be able to brag about it! Those of lesser skills get the Darwin award!

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:04pm

      4 yds 357, 3 yds 44, 2yds 50 !

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    • Firebrand
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:38pm

      I agree, good eating. Marinate the ribs, shoulder, and ham in rice wine vinegar, chopped green onions, salt, pepper, fresh chopped garlic, honey, and hoisin sauce over night. Then, put them in the smoker. Cook low and slow for 8-12 hours over apple juice soaked hickory. Delicious.

      I have a picture of a friend that took a huge one down with a .38. It can be done. Best bet is crossbow, Ticks ‘em off, but they bleed out pretty quick.

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    • palmettopalflorida
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 7:44am

      Whoa, LESBIAN PACKING HOLLOW POINTS! I want to be invited over to watch you put rope to the hindquarters of a LIVE wild boar. Heck, I’d probably BUY a ticket. Followed by your hoisting this thrashing beast, and then cutting its throat. What, did you read this somewhere?

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 7:04pm

      @Palmetto Pal Florida:
      First, way to click Reply in the right thread.

      Second, I’m not saying I would be doing these things ALONE.

      Third, I‘m not talking about doing anything I haven’t seen done on TV. … Why are you laughing?

      Fourth, a descent come-along is like a Colt Peacemaker, makes all men equal.

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    • trashtocash
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:58pm

      357 point blank range would do –if your that brave–up here in Maine we take down deer/moose/bear with high powered rifles at much greater distances-those pigs wouldn’t pose any great challenge up here.

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  • Crotchetyman
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:36pm

    @LESBIAN..:

    We shoot ‘em in Texas. In fact some people pay good money to hunt in a helicopter or to be taken on guided hunts on foot.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:48pm

      Personally, I like the idea of building a snare trap with my own hands to outwit the dimwitted beasty, or failing that, a compound bow would make me feel like I’m actually hunting. `Course, there would always be a Bowie and a .45ACP for close quarters if I ever shoot and miss.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:55pm

      But basicly, I want the pig alive when I get it back home for dressing. Hang it up by the hind legs, slash the jugular, catch all the blood for disposal. Saw off the top of the cranium and let the brain and spinal column fall out under gravity. THEN slid the underbelly to get rid of the organs. All that’s left is bones, meat, and skin. Get it dressed up, vacuum sealed, and in the freezer, pronto.

      Better yet, have the whole hog rotisserie already fired up upon return from the woods. From on the hoof to on the spit in under an hour.

      Only thing I can’t figure is how to economicly dispose of the blood, guts, and disease-ridden brain. I’m leaning toward a dedicated large sausage grinder to turn it into paste and broadcast it into a section of my own woods specificly for that purpose.

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    • Dudley Do-Right
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:10pm

      I don‘t see how you’re going to get a live boar home from the field where you intend to trap it? Why not just field dress it where you shoot it and leave the gut pile for the other critters to feed on? Get a few feet up a tree in a tree stand and let your broadhead fly. Beauty is in the eye of the bowholder!

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    • aesaac
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:16pm

      @lesbian packing:

      Sounds like a metaphor for the reeducation of the Progressive Leftist Liberal.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:25pm

      @AESAAC:
      Can’t remove the brain from something that already removed its own.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:42pm

      @Dudley Do-Right:
      I’m a little OCD. If I’m gonna dress a hog myself, it’s going to be under conditions I control.

      As to transport, there are many forms of ATV that could pack out a hog-tied hog safely, or pull a small trailer that could do same. That is, of course, assuming if it’s small enough to pack out of the woods to the ATV with a pole and a buddy. If it’s another Hogzilla, I’d have to call someone and give it to them.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:00pm

      @Lesbian Packing Hollow Points

      This is off topic for this post but I need your advice on the Debt Ceiling Bill post.
      What’s wrong with this picture? Look at the time, date and Bill name.

      http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00122

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:43pm

      If you click on the Measure Number, S. 627, it goes to a page that reports the title as Budget Control Act of 2011. I’d say that data on the page you linked to is in error.

      *gasp* Information on the Internet is wrong!

      I suspect a page directly from Congress will get corrected sooner than most, but until it does, I wouldn’t trust any data on that page.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:33pm

      Thanks LPH-P’s, I did that too and it says this ,”Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 3/17/2011)” and is still not the Harry Reid Debt Ceiling Bill. I’ve been checking who-voted-how for many years and I’ve never seen an error like this. AND, why would Harry Reid vote NO on his own Bill? It think we might have been hood-winked today. And no, I’m not paraniod. Thanks.

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:55pm

      Come to think of it . . . I think I’d be awful skittish of eating anything that was diseased, especially something with “rabies” in the name, pseudo- or not.

      Practical application: .44 mag carbine, Henry sells a beautiful lever action model. Ignore the head, take the center of mass, as we all know, and blow its heart and lungs into hot dog filling.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:36pm

    Let’s see… the New York Progressives without guns have to rely on their Gun-toting (probably Tea-Party/Republican) neighboors for safety? This is another good reason for gun ownership… attack of the wild boars! You can’t make this stuff up. Thank you wild boars! Maybe when these anti-gun people realize the proper use of guns is for protection and not criminal activity they might wake up.

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    • ledbythnose
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:35pm

      At first glance I thought they meant wild Bores. LOL. It does apply though. Here in Texas we shoot , trap , hunt and eat the little Fellas. They are extry tasty on the BBQ Pit , and have half the fatty acids of Beef. You Dumb asses up there in New York keep trying tho. Just try shootin em somewhere other than the head.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:35pm

    Lets armor our troops in boar hides. Won’t that just drive the ragheads crazy!

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:35pm

    Damn, Maria Shriver has let herself go downhill since breaking up with Arnold.

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  • Crotchetyman
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:34pm

    ‘Em pigs is goooood eatin’. You jes hav‘ta hunt’em like ev’ry thang es. Put a bullet in the eye is all.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:33pm

    mmmmmmmmmmmm B-B-Q pork ribs. time to open pig season. and i don’t mean in Washington DC. although……

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  • Dudley Do-Right
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:33pm

    I was given a Wild Russian Boar Roast in a Raspberry Sauce that was out of this world.

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  • TAKE_NO_PRISONERS
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:31pm

    One more case for the 2nd amendment, guns are owned for protection of life and property,thats a necessity on the farm.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:04pm

      Anyone living in the country, where services are limited, knows that the Fire Extinguisher is their local fire department and the Rifle is their local police department! City slickers wouldn’t know how to use either one (but they are so good on the cell phone that they had to make up a 3-digit number, 9-1-1, so they could freeze in fear, call for help and wait for rescue by others), nor would they appreciate the value of a good fire extinguisher (A, B or C) or a good firearm!

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:30pm

    There are at least two TV shows about dealing with feral hogs. They generally don’t shoot them. They use leg snare traps, trapdoor pens build on spot, bows and arrows, and when they have a particularly large or unwieldy hog, a nice, sharp Bowie knife to the heart. Up close and personal.

    I’d like to have the ability to hunt feral hogs where I want to live permanently. Free pork chops. Pseudo-rabies isn’t as problematic as rabies is. With rabies, you basicly have to chuck the whole animal. Pseudo-rabies is almost exclusively in the brain and spinal column. Get rid of that properly in the butchering process and cook the meat thoroughly, and it’s just fine.

    And why is that yahoo aiming for the pig’s head? Center of mass, ya moron!

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:57pm

      My, you seem to be expert on everything……………………….except maybe your sexuality!

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:04pm

      We know our sexuality as revelation. There really isn’t anything more to know than that.

      And yes, I do know a lot. I’m a polymath. I have multiple higher degrees, and I’m widely read. But by your tone, I surmise that none of that impresses you. You seem to have a streak of anti-intellectualism that I’m incompetent to help you address.

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    • Bowmaster
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:16pm

      You’ve never done this before have you?
      Here in Florida I have taken hogs well over 500lbs.
      Most are in the 150-225lb range and I’ve taken them with a traditional bow, rifle, and handguns.
      For the best eating we use dogs and capture them, put them in a pen and grain feed them for a month or so before slaughtering them.
      With a bow and a good hit, if the hog doesn’t realize what happened, it will usually only go 50 yards or less to lay down, and will bleed out. Give these hogs several hours before you even begin to look for them.
      A hog shot center mass as you advocate can go 150 yards or more through the thickest brush or palmetto heads imaginable, which will lessen your chance of recovery.
      The best method I have found is a heavy caliber handgun w/ 300 grain lead bullets.
      (yes, I load my own for my Ruger hunter in .45 long colt)
      Center mass sucks…shoot to break their front shoulder and they will drop in their tracks, then do the “Curley shuffle”, until you casually walk over to finish them.
      Shoot center mass if you need the exercise, and have several hours to spare.
      And, forget the hollow points…they just fragment and won’t penetrate reliably.
      I only use them in my concealed carry guns for two legged pigs.

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    • eddvoss
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:18pm

      I had the same question about aiming for the head. If that isn’t working time to adjust to a heart or lung shot.

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    • Bowmaster
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:06pm

      If you are as intelligent as you claim to be you would also tell your followers that center mass misses the vitals on a hog.
      It’s obvious that you have never done a post mortem on one, thus have never really shot, or dressed one.
      The vitals are MUCH MUCH lower than you would ever imagine.
      Center mass misses everything!
      If you ever came down here we would agree that “center mass” is a really good idea just so we could have a chuckle when the pig ran your lesbian ass up a tree.
      We like to have a little fun with rank amateurs such as yourself.
      No offense…that’s just the way us southern boys (and girls) roll!

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    • NoGlobalism
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:28pm

      RIght! .45 Long Colt with heaviest HP you can get and into the shoulder is the ticket. It also does internal damage as it breaks up and spins around inside like a group of .22 slugs. He/she struggles a couple of minutes and then goes under for good. Then you can move in.

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    • Bowmaster
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:13pm

      “In the meantime, residents report sightings to one another and rely on their rifle-owning neighbors for protection.”
      WRONG….the Peoples Republic Of New York, only allows rifle barreled shotguns for hunting big game.
      Look it up.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 1:25am

      @BowMaster:
      You’re right. This is something I’ve never actually done, nor do I think I ever represented that I had. I‘ve said it’s something I want to do, and this is how I learn. I put out what I know and get corrected by the experts in the subject, such as yourself.

      I now know to aim just behind the front leg at the shoulder, not CoM. This is something I did not know yesterday. Ergo, today has been a good day for me. I learned something new.

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    • Bowmaster
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 2:56am

      You can shoot them head on too.
      The GOAL is to break that shoulder, and they drop right there period.
      I will finish them with a .22, or a .32 h&r mag behind the ear, but the meat is tough and gamey, especially on boars.
      We prefer sows in the smaller range.
      If you can trap a piglet, just put it in a sack and poke it with something sharp to make it squeal.
      Momma pigs will come if within ear shot…doesn’t have to be their piglet, either.
      If a pig sees a human it will haul ass, not attack. (unless you wound it first)
      We get a great laugh from the shows on TV and how they sensationalize the danger hogs represent.
      (kinda like the libs describing conservatives)
      They like to use phrases and words like “terrorize”, and “hold hostage”, but, that is a huge load of crap. Hogs are nasty smelly animals, usually covered with ticks, and very gamey tasting unless grain fed.
      Hope you get your chance to hunt one soon, and if you do what I say, you’ll be dressing yours while the people who shot one through the heart are still trying to find theirs.
      Good luck…hogs are great fun!!!

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  • sodun
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:29pm

    “bullet-resistant variety” LOL!

    ALL boars are bullet resistant.

    If go you after one with anything less than a 30-30 loaded HEAVY or a 44 mag also loaded HEAVY your just ASKING for trouble.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:06pm

      Great idea! How about a bow season for the anti-gun crowd? Want to abolish the 2nd amendment? Well, come on down for a bow-hunt on wild boar! Added bonus, you can take home anything you can kill!

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    • TXMarko
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 9:57am

      I have yet to meet a “bullet-resistant variety” of hog here in Texas. If they appear to be resistant to bullets, the bullets you are using are too small and light.

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  • Daniel4
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:26pm

    Quick… Let’s sent the PETA nuts out to corral the boars humanely.

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  • toto
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:26pm

    They can catch them if they just do the socialist/marxist trick of feeding them, them then incrementally adding one fence side at a time until all that is necessary to close the trap is to ad the gate.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:25pm

    well,there is some meat that they could help feed people with, they are good eating, we have them here in Texas, we trap and sell them to a buyer who sells them to a processing plant that butcher them and sells them in europe,where the eat them like we eat beef or chicken, so why not build a area where trappers can bring them and the state could build a processing plant and sell or give the meat a way, or put a bounty on them. they have tore my place several time this year and man they can rip up a yard, if you will gut shot them several times, they will die, let the ants and buzzard have them, and yes you can kill them ,but if you do shoot one, make sure you are not close to them ,they will charge you and they can run fast so you better run faster.

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  • YepImaConservative
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:25pm

    Lol, I thought this story was about the left… [wild "bores" in Central NY] until I actually read it.

    “…left unchecked, the [bore] population could potentially devastate the area’s natural resources, agriculture and human health and safety.”

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  • vennoye
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:23pm

    And we thought New York was going to the DOGS…………….just goes to show how wrong we were….it’s going to the HOGS!! :-).

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:30pm

      When I first read this I thought the DC pork projects had escaped.

      The fact is these bloody boars are dangerous to people and very hard to kill indeed; not impossible, just very hard. There needs to be a systematic campaign to not just seek to ‘control’ the numbers, up and wipe the lot of them out before they really do a massive amount of damage…have the hunters come in and declare an unlimited count for a specific time period of the hunts.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:51pm

      Snow, you are right of course…….and then, they have PRV too. Do find it a little ironic that New York, that is not real friendly to gun owners and NRA must say: “residents report sightings to one another and rely on their rifle-owning neighbors for protection.”
      We do have the wild boars in Texas and they are “wild and tough”.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:35pm

      Understood I used to hunt the javalina here in AZ, and have taken boars with bow and arrow in parts of the country; never thought of the Texan boars and not too sure I would want too either — having heard some stories of those things in TX, though if they had open season on the ones in NY I might go there for the time to get back into the hunt once again.

      And bury the bloody carcasses on the sight of the ground zero mosque so it wont be built.

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  • shotzie52
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:23pm

    wow, I live in CNY and haven’t heard any of this, where are these farms exactly?

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    • BeardedDog
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:42pm

      Good question. I’m in WNY and have only recently heard of them. I’m guessing they are between Olean and Elmira and as far north as Bath? But that is a pure guess. I try to carry my 45 when walking the dogs in our field and woods.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:22pm

    Oh not to worry. I thought a bunch of Washington politicians had decended on central park.

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  • Hephzibah
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:21pm

    The lib kooks will probably call for arresting the seniors and protecting the little piggies.

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  • Bumr50
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:20pm

    “Free-Range NY Bacon!!”

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  • audiemurphy
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:17pm

    “looks like meat
    is back on the menu boys!”
    -Orc in lord of the rings trilogy

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