[xcamel]

600-pound boar:

[MinuteGal]

There oughta be a whole lot o' huntin' goin' on out there.

Leni

[Battle Axe]

Hogzilla.

Genetic analysis showed that he had some Hampshire in him.

[billhilly]

No sooner do you get back from Reelfoot than you find out you could have been et by a hog.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Hey, I live in Tennessee and maybe I can use this to justify moving up to that .50 caliber handgun I've been wanting.

[digger48]

A 600 pound Tennessee Bore

[mewzilla]

Son of Hogzilla....

[Dallas59]

Yum. 600 pounds of Pork Chops and Bacon! Enough to keep the muzzies away ...for a while.

[LibWhacker]

Wow, a place where dinner walks onto your property. Sounds like heaven. Think I'll move there.

[TXnMA]

"Cocke's nephew carved the beast into slabs of bacon and mounds of pork chops."

Let's hope he soaked those cuts in a big cooler filled with changes of ice and icecream salt until the water ran clear. Otherwise, that meat was rank!

I shot one many years ago while deer hunting in the Suwannee river bottoms. Cooking the meat stank up the house -- and you could forget about eating it...

We trap the young ones here in the Texas Piney Woods, (and treat as above) and they are good eatin'! We just shoot the big'uns...

FWIW, if you think hitting a deer messes up a vehicle, you ought to see what hitting one of these feral hogs does -- total destruction!

[umgud]

All over the country people and agencies complain about wild pigs, but generally won't let us common folk hunt them or charge us when they do. The best pig hunting usually isn't on public land.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Nuthin' like a Christmas BBQ!!!

[RightWhale]

What was the load on that 12 gauge? Three shots into 600 pounds wouldn't be at all certain if it were buckshot.

[doug from upland]

[RunningWolf]

They are just moving back into areas they formally inhabited.

That of course does mean it wont be a problem for the areas where the hogs and other wildlife make a resurgence now that they have learned to adapt.

[capt. norm]

"You can clump armadillos, alligators and fire ants together," said Gary Cook, regional manager for the Jackson office of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. "Some of those are temperature dependent. The warmer it is, the farther north they will expand their territories. Because we have had relatively warm temperatures for the past 10 years, those animals tend to expand their territories north.

What a blooming moron!

The fire ants came in on ships unloading cargo from South America...temperature had nothing to do with it. And it happened in the 50's or at least was noticed then...coulda' been earlier. They stay in their holes in cold weather just like the regular ants, but sub-freezing temps do not discourage them at all.

There were alligators in the Mississippi river back in the days of Mark Twain and who knows how long before that.

Armadillos have been slowly migrating this way for nearly a hundred years....they must have known Global Warming was coming way back then.

The "Warmist" religion requires that everything be blamed on climate change and all climate change must be blamed on humans....especially those evil capitalists.

[Phsstpok]

I've got a solution. Round them up, cart them over to Iran and other troublesome muslim areas and dump 'em on the Jihadists.

Preferably into their homes and mosques.

It might be nice to drop a few from a C-17 over Mecca with "no visible means of support," but that would be insensitive to the poor dumb animals. The hogs, I mean.

[Grizzled Bear]

"You can clump armadillos, alligators and fire ants together"
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Sounds like a meal I had once in Louisiana.

[mrmargaritaville]

Hey it happened in NY-Donald Trump was attacked this week by a 600 lb pig!

[kms61]

misleading headline. Feral hogs have been in North America ever since the earliest European settlers brought them here.