"May I at least kill the King's deer?"
Posted on 02/16/2016 7:38:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
Hunters could help reduce the population of destructive and dangerous feral hogs in Missouri if they would stop shooting them, according to officials who are considering banning feral hog hunting on land owned or managed by the state conservation department.
The ban's goal is to completely eradicate the feral hogs, which multiply rapidly and do extensive damage to land, water and habitat, conservation officials said.
Past efforts to control the feral hog population failed, in part because some hunters took hogs to new sites to set up hunting opportunities. Five years ago, state and federal agencies committed to eradication rather than control, and in 2014, Missouri received $235,000 as part of $20 million in federal funds appropriated for eradication efforts in several states.
Conservation agents bait traps with feed to attract hogs to the traps, in a process that can take several weeks. When the animals are comfortable in the corral-like traps, the trap is sprung and most of a herd - called a sounder - is caught.
If a hunter shoots one or two of the hogs around the traps, the rest will scatter to another site, where they breed quickly and damage land and natural resources, conservation agents said.
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"Much of my life has been dedicated to protecting the rights of hunters," Butler said. "But we need to eliminate these animals rather than developing a culture of hog hunters in the state."
Some people are skeptical about the efforts, though.
J.D. Caperton, a hunter from rural Naylor in southeast Missouri, said he thinks the state is "kidding itself" if it thinks feral hogs will be eradicated or that all hunters will abide by the ban.
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"May I at least kill the King's deer?"
Butt ... Butt... They taste good.
Last three years our sausage has been Bambi and feral.
There was a family who lived near us in NW Florida, who caught wild hogs for the meat. They had a pack of dogs who would bay the hogs and they would go in and grab them by the hind legs.
After they got hold of them they would put them in pens in their pickup. They would then pen feed them for a few months, kill and eat them.
https://jagerpro.com/media/videos/
Very entertaining videos. IIRC, this company was started by a group of retired Special Forces NCOs to apply their operation planning knowledge and experience to the problem of Feral Hogs.
They do a very good job of explaining both the Why and the How of their operations.
These are great eating and you get a lot. Makes me wonder why I have been chasing deer all these years.
Wait till them folks Gardens and Flowerbeds have been visited and their Front yard is now a muck yard with divots the size of bath tubs...
And then... Hogs seem to really enjoy coming back after the repairs to re visit and return their form of landscape expertise.
Those same folks will be shooting them from the porch inside City Limits and wondering WHY would anyone try to stop them from protecting their own property.
Personally I will only harvest Pig on purpose in the Fall... rest of the time the majority of the fallen feed buzzards... sometimes I like the little ones just cause the coals are still hot on the BBQ.
Missouri never had a feral hog problem until a few years ago when people started releasing them to create a hog hunting industry.
jihad repellant.
If there not promoting “shoot em if you see em”then the state is losing the battle against them.
“they would go in and grab them by the hind legs”
Know it well ... in Louisiana and Texas it is normal
Knew a guy in Louisiana that was going to stab a 400-500lb size Boar ... instead he sheathed his knife and all 130 lbs of him jumped on the Boar, steered him into the swamp and drowned him.
Don’t mess with skinny lil Cajun Coon Asses
It's about time! Let the damn pigs starve to death! Serves them right!
Because nobody have visions of themselves riding a wild pig like they do a horse.
Sounds like a plan to me. GA is lousy with hogs and deer. You can shoot hogs all year round here.
Several years ago, I ate some bacon from a wild boar. It was really pretty but I didn’t like the taste. Really gamey.
Yep. I like eating them here in Florida but they’re trouble enough here where the vegetation grows rank enough year round to support them. In Missouri they would quickly overwhelm and consume the best vegetation. They’d wipe out morel mushrooms, devour wild turkey eggs, woodcock nests, and so on. They’d also do damage to any species that depends on acorns- turkey, deer, squirrels. And every little spring of crystal clear water for which Missouri is known will become a putrid hog wallow.
“Hunters could help reduce the population of destructive and dangerous feral hogs in Missouri if they would stop shooting them”
Liberalism 101: if you want to exterminate a pest, don’t kill it. Hug it and sodomize it instead!
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