Super Hog Killing

I thought the video was great. Now if the post I just read is correct and they just left the hogs lay that is not good.

I mentioned in an earlier post about some of those hogs just folding up. Also if you watch some of those shots you see hit the ground. I don't have any idea as to how many rounds of 5.56 I have sent down range but I don't remember any hitting the ground with enough force to throw that much dirt. I have a good feeling they were shooting something bigger.

Still disappointed if they were letting the hogs lay and not retreiving them.
 
Still disappointed if they were letting the hogs lay and not retreiving them.
Don't fret it... Most folks don't eat coyotes or rats and these feral hogs are not considered any more than those... They are strictly vermin. It would be unwise to go looking for them if they lay long enuff to even possibly start spoilage.

This is a commercial enterprise so he cannot risk a lawsuit for donating to the needy as these hogs could carry disease as well as the possible spoilage cooties.

If an individual donates thru a program it is usually basically anonymous, not so for a business owner I reckon.

Using dogs allows a guy to pen the hogs and either out of his pocket or someone else's, he can have the live hogs inspected and inoculated then run thru a slaughter house as fresh live animal.
Brent
 
Double Naught Spy wrote:

I must have missed the paper on the thermal properties of camoflage. How does camo keep people warmer?

As near as I can tell, it would just make you harder to find after the chopper crashes.


Did you read any of the comments that normally appear beneath the videos?

The guy hosting the video stated as much in that comments section when someone there asked about the camo.
 
Did you read any of the comments that normally appear beneath the videos?

Yep. Stopped reading after the first few that involved name calling and stupid comments. So the guy on the comments stated as much. I stand by my query as to the thermal properties of camo.
 
Double Naught Spy,

I hear ya on reading the comments. Sometimes the juvenile crappola is tough to wade through to get to a nugget of useful info or two.

However, weren't those camo coats?
Perhaps that's what they had available for hunting.

Or, perhaps they were wealthy posers out for a little irregular shooting fun and, as we all know, camo is the civilian poser uniform du jour, is it not?:barf:
Not slammin' you hunters who legitimately wear camo for the hunt, so don't get ruffled feathers out there now, ya hear?

Whatever the case may be, I'm throwing in the towel on the camo question.
A man has to know his limitations.:rolleyes:;)




I'd still like to make that trip though. Sans camo, of course.:p
 
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the earlier posts were saying was left. I can see that cause like they said it was an eradication effort not a regular hog hunt. They are getting bad all over. I live in Missouri and we have new rules pertaing to muzzle loader and bow hunting. It used to be that you absolutly did not have a modern fireamr any where near you when hunting iwth a bow or frontstuffer, now if your in the southern part of the state around where the hogs are worst, they say make sure you do. They aren't considered game animals ere so we have free rain to hunt when ever nad how eveer we feel like. I'm thinking an AR-10 or FN L1A1??? I'd bet those guys were using some kind of AR 308 with a suppressor stuck on the end or something cause that wasn't a normal sounding 5.56 or .223 report either.

I shot a hog in Arkansas several years ago with .357 Mag, I think 185 gr jacked soft pint (can't remmeber the wieght but do the bullet) buy remington. Didn't penetrate the skull at 20 yards. Might ahve been the angle or something but it punched through the hide and meat, and was lodged in the skull. He was down and still moving so I got closer and finished him off behind the head into the brain pan and it penetrated perfectly that time, lol
 
to the .223 na sayers

These were close shots.
cheap .223 ammo...steel core ...is going straight out the bottom at that range.
the report was muffed due to recorded cutting out due to increased decibels.
just like electronic ear muffs.
They were wearing camo because the thick warm coats they owned were camo. Camo is not always a statement. We are talking about rural Texas.

The carcass if not recovered were probably removed from the farmers fields.
the pigs were not killed for sport(although it looked damn fun) or meat.
Those hogs demolish fields. I never would have believed how much damage they could do until I witnessed it myself.
One field l saw looked as if it had been plowed.
Hogs leave mud wallows that are not easily tilled away. They feed at night when hunted and travel in packs concentrating devastating.

Until you have walked their feeding ground it is hard to believe.

I say shoot them if you can every time you can and dress them if and when you want.
 
I think (although dont agree with this) that they cant legally take the meat. It would turn their program into a hunt. It was stated that helicopter HUNTING was illegal in texas.
this video would have been way cooler if the guy dressed up as rambo, or the grim reaper
 
There using both an AK and an AR

From what I've heard this is one of the few ways to truly reduce the population. Think about it; when ground or stand hunting you may get a few at best in one sitting. I've heard of 6 in one night while spotlighting and running across a large group. This team took out many times that in the video, which appears to be one day. While hunting them is fun (and gives us something to do after the deer tag is punched), ground hunters cannot kill enough to really thin them down.

As far as the camouflaged clothes, it’s the warmest outfit they have per their comments. I’m the same way; my 20 degree outfit is camo. After nearly freezing on my first hunting trip, I purchased cold weather wear and all I could find was camo. I’ve stayed warm ever since, even if I did look somewhat dim sitting in a tin, wood and rusted pipe stand with green and brown camo overalls and coat.

Last, I’ve tried to do the proper hunting practice of eating what I kill. I shot my first hog, a young 60ish pounder, at near dusk in cold temperature and had him quartered and on ice before he was cool. That pig made some of the worst sausage I could image and was eventually thrown out. No one, not even fellow hungry college friends, would eat it.
 
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