Posted on 08/07/2017 2:04:50 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
It would be fun to see.
Google 50 caliber air rifle. Sound like it would be about what you are talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFXhGoDnW0&t=18s
A lot of it had to do with their habitat and roosting behavior. Passenger pigeons required vast areas of uninterrupted forest. They would take over a section of it, utterly destroying that patch with their roosting. Then they'd move on. That behavior also made them easy prey for men with nets, poles, guns, etc.
The last large nesting was in Michigan.
We use IR and silencers and they still run, the impact of the bullet hitting meat makes a loud pop and the bullet breaking the sound barrier cracks also.
Passenger pigeons fed heavily on chestnuts. When chestnuts went, so did they.
Never be allowed. The greenies are already arguing about "hormone-mimicking" chemicals in the water. I think putting actual hormones directly into the environment will be looked upon favorably.
They are a very cheap private security vehicle for Muslim clerics to use, as they will most assuredly prevent errant Muslims who pretend to inflict hate crimes on their own congregations from doing so!
Feral hogs are full of parasites or so I am told!
I know plenty of people who hunt them, none who eat them.
Myself included, but people need to get educated on the fact that a silencer mutes (somewhat) the explosion in the chamber, but really has no impact on the missile/bullet breaking the sound barrier. I guess if you wanted to be (audio) effective, you would have a silencer and a sub-sonic velocity missile.
Napalm
The problem is that land owners are still charging hunters a fee to shoot them. Fine land owners who do not control hogs.
Make it free and no season or hunting permit required from the state.
The problem would be gone in just a few years.
F,A,E,!
An abomination!
We soak it in grapefruit juice, then marinate in mojo
There’s so much entertaining videos on YouTube regarding feral hog control. Some things I learned:
1. You have to capture more than 70% of the heard, or they will reproduce back with a year.
2. You have to capture them in large groups, as uncaught survivors are “educated” and avoid threats from then on.
3. Hogs have no predators from above, so they are vulnerable from that direction.
4. Modern trapping systems are best triggered by a human with remote intelligence. Sometimes traps are triggered by farmer/owner at sporting events.
5. Patience is key. Allow for most of the heard to gather before triggering.
Sterilize them
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