Posted on 08/31/2011 10:46:40 AM PDT by waterhill
Friday, October 21st through Saturday, October 22nd in Ben Wheeler Ben Wheeler, TX to Celebrate 4th Annual Fall Feral Hog Festival in October Downtown Ben Wheeler & Festival Grounds Ben Wheeler Development Company P.O. Box 7 13814 State Highway 64 Ben Wheeler, TX 75754 visit web site call 903.833.1070
Ben Wheeler Arts & Historic District Foundation (BWA & HDF) is gearing up for its town to host the fourth annual 2011 Fall Feral Hog Festival, World Championship Wild Hog Cook-Off and Fall Feral Follies Oct. 21-22.
Since 2008, BWA & HDF a non-profit, 501 c (3) organization has been putting on the Fall Feral Hog Festival, which includes a morning parade, an afternoon cook-off and a follies show the night prior to the festival.
The feral hog theme of Ben Wheeler’s weekend festival is meant to poke fun at the expanding, state-wide-population of wild hogs. Feral (wild) hogs are a large problem in Van Zandt County (the county Ben Wheeler resides in) and much of Texas, and North America. Additionally, the omnivores – they eat plants and other animals – are a multi-million-dollar problem because they can disrupt both livestock and farming operations by damaging facilities and fences, and trampling and eating crops. They also are popular table fare and, in some areas, compete with the white-tailed deer as an animal to hunt.
The festival is a way for the community to a make a little lemonade out of lemons for a day.
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You are all over the hogs today!
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Someone involved with this event should extend an invitation to Mike Dillon and ask him to bring along some of his miniguns with helicopter door mounts. For the “exhibition” helicopter hog hunts, of course. He could sell the videos in his “Blue Press” catalog.
That and sell tickets to be the trigger man. I am in Michigan, but would make the trip for that.
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