Texas may let hunters shoot pigs from choppers

Gotbuck · 02-20-2009, 09:37 AM

Texas may let hunters shoot pigs from choppers
Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.

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Semisane · 02-20-2009, 10:35 AM

I'm not surprised. It's amazing how much damage a big population of hogs can do. Watch for the ads:"Book Your Hunt Now- Thunder From The Sky Ranch". I wonder how hard it is to reload a muzzy in a chopper.

hunting junkie · 02-20-2009, 11:52 AM

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ORIGINAL: Semisane

I'm not surprised. It's amazing how much damage a big population of hogs can do. Watch for the ads:"Book Your Hunt Now- Thunder From The Sky Ranch". I wonder how hard it is to reload a muzzy in a chopper.

I don't know semi,but one thing is for sure you wouldn't have to wait for the smoke to clear.

cayugad · 02-20-2009, 12:04 PM

I was reading an article a while back, and they had pictures of the damage that hogs do to agricultural fields. It also showed woods where the hogs would rub trees, and basically turn the ground to mud. It did not explain what they were after in the woods to congregate like they did. It was shocking, the pictures they had of the aftermath whenhogs wentthrough a field. They basically flattened half of this grain field in the picture.

No wonder the State of Wisconsin put up an alarm flag when some were spotted in Wisconsin.

Semisane · 02-20-2009, 12:28 PM

The hogs hit acorns hard. I've seen areas under a white oak tree that you could smell from 100 yards away and look like someone took a roto-tiller to it.

cayugad · 02-20-2009, 12:31 PM

That is exactly what the picture looked like... like some nut with a good roto tiller went in there and dug the place up.

SWThomas · 02-20-2009, 01:03 PM

Maybe if someone uses a shotgun with buckshot would they be able to make an accurate shot. Otherwise, it's way too unstable and shakey in a helicopter to make an accurate shot.

falcon · 02-20-2009, 02:26 PM

At $3,000-5,000 per hour for chopper rent that will be an expensive hog hunt. They did this last year in two OK WMAs. The idiots left wounded hogs all over the place. No animal should be made to suffer a lingering death.

cayugad · 02-20-2009, 02:41 PM

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ORIGINAL: falcon

At $3,000-5,000 per hour for chopper rent that will be an expensive hog hunt. They did this last year in two OK WMAs. The idiots left wounded hogs all over the place. No animal should be made to suffer a lingering death.

falcon I could not agree more. Granted the hogs might be a problem but they deserve as fast and clean death as possible. I commend you and the way you hunt hogs.I have followed your posts and enjoy them. And I also envy you a little as well. You get to hunt and exciting, challenging, and even dangerous animal, you get excellent eating, test different bullets on live animals, and clean up a population problem or at least try and keep it in control while helping others.

Gotbuck · 02-20-2009, 07:16 PM

I hunted in Texas for hogs a while back and the landowner showed me his fields and it is exactly like Cayugad said, all were tore up and crops damaged. He said they are after grubs and that they like earthworms that's why they dig. The thing I hate about the report is they said they just leave them there. I tell you what, them hogs are great eating. Get some cherry wood and smoke them for hours then braise them with butter and your favorite sauce and what a meal.