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"shoot them from quads" Can you elaborate? I'm only aware of the traditional helicopters.
ATVs, something like this https://www.amazon.com/X-PRO-110cc-Youth-Wheeler-Wheelers/dp... (never buy an ATV from Amazon, obviously)
Bit of a pain to get titled, though.
pigs are arguably smarter than dogs and as many can attest, these pigs will avoid traps and hunters rather adeptly - this is a situation where we need to repopulate wolves - hobby hunting will never outpace their population growth, we need full-time allies
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic…
> Maybe the middle ground is to make it a military privilege to hunt feral hogs where you need to be a reservist, and if you join you get a lifetime rural open carry and hunting permit. I can't make out whether you're in the US or Canada, but where I live (Washington State) if you're out in the sticks, not only can you open carry but if you're hiking, fishing, hunting, etc. you can have a concealed weapon without a p…
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When I was younger my friends and I used to trap and kill dozens of them at a time. The sheer number of hogs and the rate at which they breed down in the river bottoms is insane. Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them, they are pretty clever and once you use a trick unsuccessfully on them they tend to avoid it.
Biological warfare, in one form or another, might be the only way, but that comes with risks that are probably unacceptable, even in light of the amount of damage they cause.
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic…
Ah here is the issue, feral pig meat isn’t really pork the way most people know it. It’s gamey and often parasite ridden.
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Ah here is the issue, feral pig meat isn’t really pork the way most people know it. It’s gamey and often parasite ridden.
Gamey me I can handle. But parasites? Count me out.
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic…
> Maybe the middle ground is to make it a military privilege to hunt feral hogs where you need to be a reservist, and if you join you get a lifetime rural open carry and hunting permit. I can't make out whether you're in the US or Canada, but where I live (Washington State) if you're out in the sticks, not only can you open carry but if you're hiking, fishing, hunting, etc. you can have a concealed weapon without a p…
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic…
Just hunt them. You can't eat them all without going to huge expense having all-terrain refrigerator trucks to pick them up with. Vultures and other animals and just nature will take care of the carcasses. That's what people do here in Texas, where we have the largest wild pig population in the U.S., and it's a big big deal. There are hog hunting festivals. I've only ever seen videos of this, but this is one of those…
https://projectvulture.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Lea...
In Texas we trap them, blow them up, shoot them from helicopters, and shoot them from quads while chasing them at 50mph. They're too smart to shoot them from a standing position. I've seen packs of 15-20 running along together while riding my motorcycle along county roads in the middle of nowhere, San Saba County. But they normally stay out of sight; they're super smart. Good luck.
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I wonder if you can shoot them from drones? That could be interesting.
IIRC flying a reaper drone and firing hellfire missiles is insanely expensive, so unless those pigs are terrorists, fly spy balloons, have massive oil reserves or made up weapons of mass destructions, it'll never come to drone strikes. Maybe we can get them to the negotiations table and broker a peace deal with the super pig regime and turn them into an ally.
Mass production can change that! The more we use on pigs, the less per unit!