Hog Hunting....Texas Style!
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Hog Hunting....Texas Style!
This is real Hawg Huntin' done proper!
Before all you Huggy Fluffs get all riled up....recall that Hog Infestation has caused Millions of Dollars worth of crop damage, damage to farmland, and injuries to farm stock.
This is a way of reducing the feral Hog population....and to me beats poisoning, trapping, and other control methods. At least this one is good fun!
For those of you in the UK....you will never have to worry about trying this at home.
Before all you Huggy Fluffs get all riled up....recall that Hog Infestation has caused Millions of Dollars worth of crop damage, damage to farmland, and injuries to farm stock.
This is a way of reducing the feral Hog population....and to me beats poisoning, trapping, and other control methods. At least this one is good fun!
For those of you in the UK....you will never have to worry about trying this at home.
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Chriswhi,
Perhaps you don't quite understand what a problem we have, read here:
A Plague of Pigs in Texas | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
I also find it disturbing that you would rather see a helicopter full of people crash vice some feral hogs get shot. To each his own I guess.
Perhaps you don't quite understand what a problem we have, read here:
A Plague of Pigs in Texas | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
I also find it disturbing that you would rather see a helicopter full of people crash vice some feral hogs get shot. To each his own I guess.
More 'Heli Hogging' on the Pig and Pussy Hunt thread!
yeeee haaaaa!
Looks like the shooter could do with a case catcher - if I was flying I wouldn't fancy a hot casing down my neck.
If it's such a problem over there why not call in the national guard - good practice for gunships!
What happens to the carcasses? Are they left in the wild or taken home for supper?
Looks like the shooter could do with a case catcher - if I was flying I wouldn't fancy a hot casing down my neck.
If it's such a problem over there why not call in the national guard - good practice for gunships!
What happens to the carcasses? Are they left in the wild or taken home for supper?
As i my father teached me hunting he told me each day wild animals are part of God's creation and we have to hunt and to chase in respect.
The video blame all hunters, but i wouldn't say it's a hunting video. Not more than trigger happy idiots killing for fun. What a fun killing and wounding (followed by a slowly and painful death) a mass of wild animals like slaughters from above and with self-loading guns.
Yes millions of dollar damage. Why is the population increasing? The animals are there because the farmers feeding they. The animal population is increasing due to more and more maize and soya for the biofuel industry and other customers. Animal populations don't increase if they have not enough to chop.
Helicopter animal killing in such fashion is prohibited and under draconian penalty in a lot of countries for good reasons.
The video blame all hunters, but i wouldn't say it's a hunting video. Not more than trigger happy idiots killing for fun. What a fun killing and wounding (followed by a slowly and painful death) a mass of wild animals like slaughters from above and with self-loading guns.
Before all you Huggy Fluffs get all riled up....recall that Hog Infestation has caused Millions of Dollars worth of crop damage, damage to farmland, and injuries to farm stock.
Helicopter animal killing in such fashion is prohibited and under draconian penalty in a lot of countries for good reasons.
Last edited by tecpilot; 1st Feb 2012 at 10:43.
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From Savoia's post in the other thread....
Tec....if we were talking about Moose, Elk, Deer, Bear, Buffalo, Wolves perhaps....but when it is Feral Hogs....that is a different matter. These Hogs are Vermin...causing enormous damage and are out of control.
Each hog killed is recovered, butchered, and used as much as possible.
I love the usual anti-gun...anti-hunting approach to the responses....and usually so full of ignorance about the actual issues at hand.
Shooting from a helicopter is safe....both for the crew, shooter, aircraft when done with a modicum of commonsense. Have not the military been doing it for over fifty years now?
Mustering which is the flying most common to this Hog Hunting has its own share of crashes.....and the Robinson R-44 figures in more than a few as well. So it isn't the mere fact some guys hunting hogs have found themselves in the dirt or trees.
Unlike most in Europe (which includes the UK) are all about stopping others from doing something if one objects to it being done....rather than merely "not engaging in the activity oneself". That is perhaps a difference to those of us here on this end of the Saltwater Divide.
If the folks in Texas want to go Hawg Hunting in Helicoptes using machine guns and its legal....then fair dinkum for them!
I could happily engage in some Hawg Hunting that way....but will still reserve the old fashioned method for my Elk, Deer, and Beer hunting. I prefer to get out on foot and murder them by ambush which I guess is seen as being far more sporting. Granted...I am using a modern firearm with a telescopic sight rather than a spear or arrow but then is not all hunting a degree of barbarity? But then I see Slaughter Houses as being palaces of barbarity....despite enjoying that Hamburger, bacon, ham, steak, and chop!
As I said in the initial post....our gang of Huggy Fluffs would have to lodge their usual protests....and I see nothing has changed here.
The Farmers are feeding the Hawgs....yes....and in the same way of thinking... residents of the City of London are feeding Rats too I guess? Are Rats welcome in London? If so...why are there Exterminators specializing in Rat Removal? Do they relocate them or put them down?
Why such drastic action by state lawmakers? There’s a simple answer. These wild porkers are taking over the state’s agricultural land and are even moving into the outskirts of some urban areas. We’re talking millions of hogs here, not just a few thousand. Less than 10 years ago the estimate of the Texas feral hog population was 2.2 million and today it is over 4 million and climbing rapidly. Texans can brag that they have over half the feral hog population of the U.S. within state borders.
In Texas, feral hogs cause more than $400 million in damages to crops, fences, irrigation ditches, livestock, wildlife, golf courses and even yards each year. They carry a number of diseases, some of which are transferable to humans and livestock. Hog brucellosis, pseudo-rabies, tuberculosis, trichinosis, hog cholera, anthrax, tularemia, six varieties of stomach worms, Lyme disease—and of course fleas, ticks and lice—are all part of the package. And they almost breed exponentially.
Enter the helicopter. Of all the methods tried for control such as no season, no limit hunting, trapping and snaring, the helicopter and aerial shooting have proven to deliver the best results. As an example, ground hunting usually produces a kill of six to eight per hour or, at best, 60 hogs a day. Helicopter shooting, on a good day, could produce 30 per hour. Even with those statistics, aerial shooting for the past 12 months has resulted in an estimated kill of only 70,000 hogs, a drop in the bucket, so far. The new regulations should elevate that number.
In Texas, feral hogs cause more than $400 million in damages to crops, fences, irrigation ditches, livestock, wildlife, golf courses and even yards each year. They carry a number of diseases, some of which are transferable to humans and livestock. Hog brucellosis, pseudo-rabies, tuberculosis, trichinosis, hog cholera, anthrax, tularemia, six varieties of stomach worms, Lyme disease—and of course fleas, ticks and lice—are all part of the package. And they almost breed exponentially.
Enter the helicopter. Of all the methods tried for control such as no season, no limit hunting, trapping and snaring, the helicopter and aerial shooting have proven to deliver the best results. As an example, ground hunting usually produces a kill of six to eight per hour or, at best, 60 hogs a day. Helicopter shooting, on a good day, could produce 30 per hour. Even with those statistics, aerial shooting for the past 12 months has resulted in an estimated kill of only 70,000 hogs, a drop in the bucket, so far. The new regulations should elevate that number.
Each hog killed is recovered, butchered, and used as much as possible.
I love the usual anti-gun...anti-hunting approach to the responses....and usually so full of ignorance about the actual issues at hand.
Shooting from a helicopter is safe....both for the crew, shooter, aircraft when done with a modicum of commonsense. Have not the military been doing it for over fifty years now?
Mustering which is the flying most common to this Hog Hunting has its own share of crashes.....and the Robinson R-44 figures in more than a few as well. So it isn't the mere fact some guys hunting hogs have found themselves in the dirt or trees.
Unlike most in Europe (which includes the UK) are all about stopping others from doing something if one objects to it being done....rather than merely "not engaging in the activity oneself". That is perhaps a difference to those of us here on this end of the Saltwater Divide.
If the folks in Texas want to go Hawg Hunting in Helicoptes using machine guns and its legal....then fair dinkum for them!
I could happily engage in some Hawg Hunting that way....but will still reserve the old fashioned method for my Elk, Deer, and Beer hunting. I prefer to get out on foot and murder them by ambush which I guess is seen as being far more sporting. Granted...I am using a modern firearm with a telescopic sight rather than a spear or arrow but then is not all hunting a degree of barbarity? But then I see Slaughter Houses as being palaces of barbarity....despite enjoying that Hamburger, bacon, ham, steak, and chop!
As I said in the initial post....our gang of Huggy Fluffs would have to lodge their usual protests....and I see nothing has changed here.
The Farmers are feeding the Hawgs....yes....and in the same way of thinking... residents of the City of London are feeding Rats too I guess? Are Rats welcome in London? If so...why are there Exterminators specializing in Rat Removal? Do they relocate them or put them down?
Maybe its the camera, though them chaps seem to be shooting at the pigs from a long way out. I'd reckon they'd save a few bullets, and money, if they got a bit closer. ...oh, and a shell catcher wouldn't go astray either..
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May be i'm a little upset, but hogs in the most countries are big game and not vermin. And it's a watchful game, able to fight hard (several times a thanked my kevlar trousers) and it deserves respect. From a helicopter it's not more than slaughtering with a lot of bullets in a very painful baiting way. I have no problems with hog regulation, but it's the way which make the difference.
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We don't live in "most countries"....sorry.
This is Texas we are talking about which actually used to be its very own country before annexing the rest of the United States (Texas version...).
Now I guess we will hear about running down Hawgs and killing them with pocket knives or something similar!
This is Texas we are talking about which actually used to be its very own country before annexing the rest of the United States (Texas version...).
Now I guess we will hear about running down Hawgs and killing them with pocket knives or something similar!
Got nothing on some of the kiwi venison recovery videos on youtube
Saw hours and hours of home made videos in Papua New Guinea which had been brought up by the Kiwi contingent of our flyboy force. It was (for them) a sort of 'helicopter porn' which they were unable to do without. Often times at the flying club after work (Mt. Hagen) some of the Kiwi drivers would begin imitating deer sounds after only their second beer!
Regarding the Texas hog hunting/culling taking place .. I think this is an ideal opportunity for chefs across the State to devise a range of Texan wild boar recipes!
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Surely that should be banned. They need a twin engined machine for that.
