Hogs gone wild

[OEF5]

Feral Hog Control Wild Boar Trapping at Night Vision Hunting

I saw this hunting show on TV, think it was on the Outdoor channel a while back...

This is the way to hunt the critters. They got this all legal in Georgia for the thermals. Retired Army Olympic shooting team guy runs the outfit, I saw this and really want to do it.

 

[kickbacked]

I have been boar hunting in TN and the guy we hunted with used Pittbulls to catch them.. Then you had a choice of shooting it with a gun, bow, or stabbing it with a knife or a spear... Kind of wild up close and personal and i have meat in my deep freeze for that hunt... I guess you can say that they are fools or Barbarians but wild hogs multiply like rats and they can tear up farmland and forest when their rooting around for food... Plus they are very dangerous for pets and little kids that accidently come across these animals by mistake.... They need to be managed properly just like deer.... Believe it or not Indiana has a Wild hog population in southern Indiana and could be in Central Indiana within the next few yrs..... You will know what i'm talking about when your face to face with these animals..

i think you need to reread everything, noone is saying they arent a problem. just that letting dogs loose on them and stabbing them isnt probably the best method of going about it.

 

[whackmaster66]

First i have read everything right the first time... Second I don't see an issue with using dogs or stabbing them. As long as its a quick ethical kill and the meat isn't going to waste.. Its the same as using a bow or crossbow in my eyes...

 

[Sgt Rock]

IMHO that show is crap. They spend an hour looking for a hog, then sic the dogs on them, wrestle them to the ground and usually carry them off to a truck. WHY? 5 of us go to Texas every year on our annual hog hunt. We hunt from blinds (because you do NOT want to be on the receiving end of a wounded hog)use rifles (I use a .270, but we have 35mm, 308, 7.62 and .44 mags. We've have even used muzzle loaders and slug guns. We shoot every hog we see because they are a nuisance, there is no season, no limit and no restrictions on what you take them with. It's a fun time and we get the meat.

 

[kickbacked]

First i have read everything right the first time... Second I don't see an issue with using dogs or stabbing them. As long as its a quick ethical kill and the meat isn't going to waste.. Its the same as using a bow or crossbow in my eyes...

apparantly you didnt read everything, as not only was i talking about the boars but also the safety of the dogs used.i dont think stabbing it is ethical at all, with the dogs fighting the pig, it is no doubt extremely scared and panicking. it seems that if a business were doing this shooting the animal would be safer and more cost effective. If your doing it for sport, i dont see how having dogs track and hold down a pig for you to gut it can be consider sport at all. just like how i dont believe in paying someone to bait a pole, cast , hook and then let me reel in a fish is fishing at all.