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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Hog Damage 09/03/13 at 05:13:29 Not the Harley hog kind... the real wild hog kind. My corn field.... just over 48 hours... demolished.... :'( Got several hundred pictures of the basterds. As many as 6 in some photos.
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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: Hog Damage Reply #1 - 09/03/13 at 05:39:37 Don't you own a gun? There is meat there for a couple of families! Got to be a small town butcher somewhere near you that will cut it up for free if you give him some of the meat.
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: Hog Damage Reply #2 - 09/03/13 at 05:49:05 If you aren't up to shooting them yourself, get a couple locals to stake out the field with their deer guns. Simple problem, simple solution. Wild hogs are vermin, check the hunting regs, TN has declared them a nuisance species with eradication orders on them.
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Re: Hog Damage
Reply #3 - 09/03/13 at 06:23:38

Not a single qualm here about shooting the boogers. I planted the corn for the deer, not these scoundrels.

This is at my "camp" which we primarily use on weekends, especially during hunting season. Its about 60 miles from my home. I have several trail cameras out, so I know where they are travelling now. Didn't know it until this weekend though, while I was there doing some work to the place. A set of three of them came within 20 yards of the back of the house, but I had taken my rifle back home. (didn't know there was a little 410 in the closet) Went home Sunday and back there yesterday, set out to shoot a few of them, but couldn't find them. They are fair game to kill here too... anytime, by any means. Vermin as WD said. And bacon and ham are 2 of my favorite meats! Wink

Hope to go back this evening after work....

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Pine Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1694 Mississippi, USA Gender:	Re: Hog Damage Reply #4 - 09/03/13 at 08:57:32 That's insane damage in one night. Yep vermin here as well.
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18099 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Hog Damage Reply #5 - 09/03/13 at 11:59:49 Weeee, weeeee, weeee.....BOOM!...................
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Re: Hog Damage
Reply #7 - 09/03/13 at 12:21:26

Good one Dave! Grin

Here's another pic, from above, for another perspective. This is a deep power-line right-o-way that cuts through the middle of our property. The "red" trees were sprayed by the power company earlier this year. This is taken from a knoll above the corn plot, with a stream running left to right immediately below me. There's another small stream just behind the row of trees just beyond the corn, and snakes its way around through there. The camera that took the pics above is on a tree in the bottom right corner of this shot.

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Reply #8 - 09/03/13 at 14:19:03

.223 or a .22-250, .22 Swift, etc will drop them in their tracks. I've taken them in south MS with a 35# longbow or even a plain old .22 long rifle. I carry a .45 cap and ball Ruger revolver loaded with 50gr equivalent of FFFg specification 777 black powder substitute if I'm in the back 15-20 acres. Or a 4" barrel S&W N frame .44 Special with 246gr lead flat point or copper flat point ammo. Either is more than sufficient.

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Re: Hog Damage
Reply #9 - 09/03/13 at 14:50:40

Not a a issue out here in the northwest. Are they pretty common in that neck of the woods? Are they good eating or too tough? Out here in this politically correct, sissy part of the world, people would be lining the street taking photos and if you shot one you would be all over the front page of the newspaper and the lead story on the nightly news.

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Re: Hog Damage
Reply #10 - 09/03/13 at 16:47:09

stinger wrote on 09/03/13 at 14:50:40:

Not a a issue out here in the northwest. Are they pretty common in that neck of the woods? Are they good eating or too tough? Out here in this politically correct, sissy part of the world, people would be lining the street taking photos and if you shot one you would be all over the front page of the newspaper and the lead story on the nightly news.

Good eating and tenderness depends on their diet, climate and terrain. South MS swamp pigs are inedible unless you are truly desperate. They make good gator bait though... if you are lucky enough to draw a harvest permit. Didn't bother this year, even though there are huge bull gators at our vacation place in Bay St Louis MS. 2 record gators caught out of the MS River this past weekend.

Common? Depends on your locale, hogs are a plague/scourge in central and eastern TN, fairly rare in my section (30-40 miles north of Memphis).

I'm originally from the Tacoma WA area. You want to see the city sissies there go bonkers? I'm allowed 3 does per day, in three different seasons. And one phone call to the Fish and Game folks lets me hunt year round, no bag limits, since I live on a working farm with its own pecan/walnut nurseries. Heck I don't even need a duck stamp... Cool

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Starlifter Serious Thumper Offline It only snows seven months of the year here. Posts: 3746 Eastern Michigan Gender:	Re: Hog Damage Reply #11 - 09/03/13 at 17:57:55 "I planted the corn for the deer, not these scoundrels." I put out seeds for the birds, now I feed the squirrels and raccoons.
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Re: Hog Damage
Reply #12 - 09/03/13 at 18:59:31

stinger wrote on 09/03/13 at 14:50:40:

Not a a issue out here in the northwest. Are they pretty common in that neck of the woods? Are they good eating or too tough? Out here in this politically correct, sissy part of the world, people would be lining the street taking photos and if you shot one you would be all over the front page of the newspaper and the lead story on the nightly news.

I've had trail cams on that property for 7-8 years. The only other pig pics I have gotten was in Oct 2011 and only one occurrence. But after a little research, I discovered there is a property within 30-40 miles of mine that offers hog hunts. Escapees from there? Maybe. I really don't know. And I don't know how they taste any more than what I've read online. Will let you know if I get to find out personally.
Side note, I've also gotten coyote pics this year and never gotten them before, but I know they've always been around.

WD, the rifle I use is a Savage 223, so I feel comfortable that I can take some out with it. Gators luckily aren't a problem here lol. But I'd love to taste some.

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Re: Hog Damage
Reply #13 - 09/04/13 at 06:44:43

Babyhog, there is a place in Milton (a slaughterhouse ) that will fix these right up for ya. They will even smoke the meat for ya, if you like, for just a few cents extra a pound. My buddy who lives near me in Fayette County just started raising pigs for meat and has been taking his down there. He brought out some fresh smoked bacon and sausage a few nights ago and we had a huge breakfast for supper. I'd never had fresh bacon and I gotta say...It was the best I've had.
I hear wild hogs taste a little different, but the guys I know that have ate them, said they prefer them over the norm.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Hog Damage Reply #14 - 09/04/13 at 07:14:40 Im tired of seeing damage By the hogs. I wanna see some damage to the hogs.
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