Pig Bomb

Tobe_B · 10-18-2009, 05:37 PM

Anyone watch that show on the discovery channel tonight called Pig Bomb. It was a really neat show about the progress of the wild pig in America.

DC KNIVES · 10-19-2009, 05:38 AM

Yes, it was a good show.Definately shows the increase in population and range.I suspect we will see open season on hogs in the future.Dave

Tobe_B · 10-19-2009, 05:48 AM

Texas already has an open season on them. Not only that but it is now legal to hunt them privately from a helicopter throughout Texas. No tags required either. Just gotta buy your hunting license every year.

falcon · 10-20-2009, 10:41 AM

Much of OK is over-run with wild hogs. OK allows hog hunting year around. No license is needed by residents or non-residents. We are not allowed to shoot hogs at night with the aid of a light. There are restrictions on hunting hogs in some of the OK WMAs.

halfbakedi420 · 10-20-2009, 10:48 AM

is a good show, cant find the link...did find a link but its 3minutes at a time

der Teufel · 10-20-2009, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by halfbakedi420

is a good show, cant find the link...did find a link but its 3minutes at a time

Yeah, me too. I couldn't get the video on the discovery channel to play, but I found the same thing on YouTube and watched them there. Interesting stuff.

der Teufel · 10-20-2009, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Tobe_B

Texas already has an open season on them. Not only that but it is now legal to hunt them privately from a helicopter throughout Texas. No tags required either. Just gotta buy your hunting license every year.

And if you're a landowner, lessee, or designated agent of the landowner, and you're shooting hogs for deprecation (meaning you're just trying to eliminate a nuisance and you don't keep the meat) you don't even need a license in Texas.

Me, I think the hogs are tasty so I buy the license.

North Texan · 10-20-2009, 07:29 PM

Since most of Texas is private property, its pretty much kill as many as you want however you want.

The Rev · 10-20-2009, 10:44 PM

I've been sounding the alarm for years, but too many ranchers are on the make money bank wagon that we will be over run soon. We can't hunt them quicker than they will breed.

falcon · 10-21-2009, 02:56 AM

Many of the states that now have a serious hog problem made some dumb mistakes very early on. The Fish and Wildlife people in many states are still deathly afraid that someone is going to poach a deer. Instead of encouraging hunters to just kill hogs; they require hogs to be checked at game reporting stations and put restrictions on the killing of hogs until they can "study" the problem. In OK they still will not let us hunt hogs with a light at night.

Several states that have a budding hog problem refuse to allow folks to hunt hogs because they are afraid that will cause the hog population to "spread" to other areas. Not to worry, their hog population is going to spread so fast it will make their eyes blurry.