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Two words: Helicopter Chaingun
Progressives should support a boar hunting program, along with offering assistance for moving, dismantling, and inspecting game. People who learn how to hunt, know how to shoot. That might be a very valuable skill in the times ahead.
We kill two boars with one bullet.
The parties in control are not the type to regulate or fund programs, so no, not really.
I say we cede the country to the pigs. They might do a better job.
Some animals are more equal than others!
“Legit question for rural Americans – How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?"
You actually have to lure the hogs into a pen with multiple exits, drop the gates, and gun them down before they can manage an escape. You also should be very vigilant and listen well for any nearby hogs, the adult females tend to be smarter and more cautious but they're the targets you NEED to kill.
Failure to catch all of the hogs will allow the others to learn and adapt to the traps, and failure to kill the females will result in their population continuing to grow.
Other effective methods are clap traps and spike pits but those don't work well when you have children or other animals. There is also the M44 cyanide pill shooting trap made for Coyotes but idk if it works on Hogs.
Give the kids guns too.
That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)
While I can't change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.
Shit, reply all lives on.
I miss that show. PJ is good on Search Engine, but I miss Alex. Both of them.
I went hog hunting a few times back in my redneck days. There’s virtually no regulations and we had no idea what to do. Me and my friends went out with a full arsenal. I had a 9mm, SKS, and a 30-06.
I used every gun. It was crazy.
A 9mm would just piss them off.
Possibly not even that. A mere irritation.
It’s still gonna fuck you up- they’re just ornery like that.
Why the hell wasn't this an answer to my question a while back about RPG quests in real life? I can kill wild pigs. They're only level 1 so it should be easy to grind.
I can kill wild pigs. They're only level 1
These aren't. Most animals that you get to hunt in the US will run away if you take a shot and miss. Hogs just might decide to turn around and fucking disembowel you.
Ever play as a level 1 adventurer in a tabletop game?
Getting gored by a pig is just how the game goes sometimes.
I'm not seeing anything said here that doesn't differ from how wild hogs in video games work.
It's not like they're big, or on fire, like in a Fromsoft game.
Are they delicious?
I've only have wild boar jerky before and it was pretty tasty, but you gotta get the meat tested first bc they can carry some serious diseases.
Sorta fun fact from my organizmal bio teacher: the reason you never hear about pork being cooking medium rare is that we are fairly closely related to pigs and so we are susceptible to many of the diseases that can infect pigs.
Hogs are big business here in Texas, where you can pay a couple thousand bucks to shoot them with a machine gun from a helicopter all day, so.. what's the problem? :P
The problem is that there are not nearly enough people that hunt to even keep the population stable through hunting. The fact that hog hunting has become a business is the reason that real solutions to wiping out feral populations aren't making headway.
This right here. I fell down the "wild boar problem" rabbit hole a couple years ago. I was curious about what controls have been tried and what could be done to bring things back into balance. The statistic I read said that 75000 boars must be killed per year in Texas just to keep their numbers stable there. Holy hell. That's a lot of dangerous game hunting.
If I was going to guess, the actual numbers killed are far, far lower than that. Especially since there are a lot of very large private hunting preserves that intentionally try to keep their feral pig population high so that they can attract paying hunters.
Bring back predators...the good kind. Wolves have a purpose.
Wild hogs would destroy a wolf. These creatures are no joke.
That's probably why wolves prefer to live in packs. Just to be more evenly matched.
Wild boars are an invasive species, they don't have natural predators.
They are the same picture
But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don't have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?
