>Honestly, kill as many of those frickers as possible.
did someone post a video a while back of putting out bait for them around a block a tannerite, and then blowing up all of them at once? I thought I saved it but I can't find it.
Legal? Who know it's up to the local laws but how badly do you want to risk starting a fire you can't put out like that baby reveal fire that happened in Cali?
They are considered pests, as long as you don't break any other laws in the process you can pretty much kill them however you like.
So as long as tannerite is legal in this location, probably.
Legal? Who know it's up to the local laws but how badly do you want to risk starting a fire you can't put out like that baby reveal fire that happened in Cali?
Tannerite isn't really that likely to cause a fire unless it's mixed really wrong in terms of ratio.
As long as it goes off properly and the ground isn't tinder dry grass should be all right.
i killed two with an AK last time i went, everyone else got one or two with an AR. i got one through the lungs and got the other in the spine.
they're feisty, you're probably not ever going to get the jump on them so be ready to aim for moving targets unless you plan to just sit in a blind
there is a webm of a boar ripping open a dogs stomach in a pit fight. don't underestimate those pigs. you can hit a male boar with a car going 50miles and they survive. little tanks that go crazy to protect the familiy. they will chase you up a tree and wait for hours just to kick your ass.
>Best gun for killing these things?
Same thing you would use for Black folk, cops, game up to whitetail size, shooting clays, concealed carry, school shootings, and kinky gunplay in bed. An AR-15.
Arizonagay here, the closest thing we have to wild boar in my area are javelina. They're a bit smaller, but they're absolute Black folk.
7.62x39 is what I've seen them taken with, but 5.56 or pretty much any caliber you'd hunt a deer with should put one down.
Ditto PA. I'm starting to wonder how long it is until they get here but I'm not looking forward to always be looking for them when innawoods.
consolation coyotes
If only. I've never seen one.
This is as prohibited as full auto in leafland.
Oi m8, you have a loicense for that PVC pipe?
https://i.imgur.com/NGu2NHM.jpg
Realistically, how do we contain the spread of feral pigs? Hunters are great, but taking out 1 or 2, even a whole sounder, isn't going to put the genie back in the bottle
Full auto sporting exemption. Also bounties where they pay you by the tail (IIRC they used to/still do this with coyotes).
Europoor here. Been shooting pigs with mosin and single shot shotgun. We shoot them because they're even worse than gypsy kids stealing our produce (at least the brats wouldn't destroy the field whereas these frickers do). Sometimes we eat them but most of the times we gave them to the gypsies.
Then when I went to a trip to see my extended family in america and they brought me to a hunting trip and I really couldn't believe what I saw; several dozen pigs, some of them are as big as an ATV. Before this I thought shooting a game with semiauto rifle was overkill and unsportsmanlike but pigs in my place barely reach the size of a toddler but in america seeing pigs the size of an oil barrel running around is pretty unnerving even with gun by your side
US feral hogs are crossbreeds, combining normal european boars with some massive domestic breeds kept for meat production. The result is just as clever and aggressive as a normal boar, but mich bigger and stronger. There is a reason these bastards have no natural predators in the US outside of anything chambered in 5.56 and up.
It's fun to watch two videos back to back: that based moron who hunts them with a Cannon firing a six inch wide harpoon through a boar and blowing entire organs out of its body, but the pig keeps running, then watch some guys insta-killing them with 22lr.
.308 bolt action if you're hunting them ar-15 if you're exterminating them I guess .300 blk would be ideal but heavier .223s will be enough if on the weaker side of course ideally something like an ar-10 to shoot two or three of them at a time
Piggybacking on this georgia lets you only hunt with in season weapons so you can hunt hog almost two extra months on public land with a .22 or smaller but what's the most powerful cheapish .22 round out there for taking piggers I'm not at the level of braining them with .22lr yet
Heh. Does .223 count?
The 17 HMR round shoots very well, flat, but you'd want an accurate shot.
22 WMR would be more powerful than 22LR but haven't shot that round.
Completely agree, have shot w/ 30-06 and 243 in bolt action. AR semiauto platform if you dusting off an entire group seems appropriate.
I wonder if someone could come up with a kind of biodegradable shrapnel that you could use in combination with tannerite. Something that would increase the lethality without destroying the land.
I'd soak pork in bleach and drain-o since hogs are notorious cannibals and I'd leave it out for them. The game warden hated me. I'd also throw pipe bombs at the frickers. An AR shooting 5.56 at it is more than enough, make sure you know whatever weapon you intend to use, train with it. They'll jump you and you need to make sure you can hit them under stress. Shotguns work. Get a semiauto so you don't short-stroke it like an idiot and get gored in the legs and suffer potential amputation from infection. Hogs are srs bsness, more people need to accept the Hog Question and purge them. Evil bastards. Pigs are cute though, even if they'll bite you and eat you while you're alive. That isn't so cute
>I'd soak pork in bleach and drain-o since hogs are notorious cannibals and I'd leave it out for them. The game warden hated me.
Vultures are our friends Anon.
AR-10, any battle rifle, anything high powered with good penetration and powerful terminal ballistics on those super dense and heavy boned motherfrickers. They move in big swarms often enough, so a belt fed 7.62X51 is not unreasonable. Especially when firing on them from a helicopter. If you want a pistol backup, you'll need .44 Mag or better. Again, high capacity is advised. So you need power and lots of shots. An M240 is honestly not out of line and the preferred hog hunting weapon, especially if in a fixed position and especially vehicle mounted.
firing pin breaking or timing issues are nonexistent on any properly maintained revolver meanwhile there's a dozen ways for a semi auto to jam and even the best of them do
While obviously fuddlore, it's not that stupid to carry a 2nd gun in case something fricks up.
At the very least you're not putting anyone in danger by doing that.
I use 308 for longer range and 458 socom at night up close. The best things you can buy if you want to get serious about shooting them are thermal or night vision. I use a pvs14 to spot and stalk and thermal on the rifle. Where I live they don't start moving until 10-11 at night.
How do you like it? I know a guy that has a savage 11 in .338 federal and has never shot it because his dumb ass thought it was a .338 Win Mag when he ordered it. I figure I can buy it for a steal, and I reload all kinds of oddball calibers so I won't mind one more.
in otaly the hunter i know either use a strangr version of .223 rem a .308 bolt action or a double barrel.
i've seen one with a musket but probabily only for fun.
I thought only specific 12 ga ammunition would work for those frickers
And you would laugh a lot if you'd the the rules to hunt down wild hogs, like hunting them in gruops of 5/6 people iirc and carrying them away using pickups with proper towing ropes
reminder that America's feral pig infestation is essentially the same situation as the infamous "emu war". except the emu war was mostly just a failed publicity stunt while the US is actually losing to the pigs to the point where seriously bringing in the military might not be a bad idea.
Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them. Run a few TV and internet campaigns to let people know it’s legal to go out and kill twenty of the frickers. The American People will take care of it.
>Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them
more or less already done >Run a few TV and internet campaigns to let people know it’s legal to go out and kill twenty of the frickers
problem is that pigs scatter when shot at making them almost impossible to hunt in large numbers.
also the hunting tourism industry that has popped up around the infestation has been accused of spreading the pigs themselves. turning unused land into profitable hunting grounds.
>Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them.
You don't need tags to hunt wild hogs. You don't even need a hunting license if you're doing it on private land and you have the owner's permission, at least down here in Texas. The only thing that makes it difficult is you're a stranger with a gun who wants to kill and you're trying to find some farmer who will let you post up in his fields at night.
There are several State Conservation Dept. that prefer you call them so they can try to trap the entire sounder if you see them rather than shoot them.
Private landowners, specifically outfitters are the other part of the problem because they're monetizing a destructive, invasive pest.
Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them. Run a few TV and internet campaigns to let people know it’s legal to go out and kill twenty of the frickers. The American People will take care of it.
Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them. Run a few TV and internet campaigns to let people know it’s legal to go out and kill twenty of the frickers. The American People will take care of it.
They're considered pests in most states meaning you can kill as many as you want. The real reason they're having trouble exterminating them is that they'll retreat into property that doesn't allow hunting, or doesn't allow hunting without paying.
What to do after you kill them? Burn? Eat? Leave the body for scavengers?
They're riddled with disease and the meat of the adults is difficult to prepare, turns very tough. Most people don't consider it worth the trouble and just leave them for the wildlife. No point in burning them, let the nutrients return to the environment.
I've seen one of these motherfrickers in front of my house and I live in a middle of a fricking city.
Made me get my gun license. Surprisingly easier than I thought.
t. Europoor obviosuly
Realistically, how do we contain the spread of feral pigs? Hunters are great, but taking out 1 or 2, even a whole sounder, isn't going to put the genie back in the bottle
Realistically? Chemical spray to kill them make them sterile, but that runs the risk of fricking up everything else in nature. Hunters simply can not stop them on their own even with some places offering bounties. You'd need to spend an exorbitant amount of money and make teams of hunters sweeping the country getting paid well to do it. TVA type shit of dudes with rifles in every state.
>You'd need to spend an exorbitant amount of money
they're apparently doing $billions in agricultural damage. a fairly large operation should pay for itself in a couple of years.
you have to kill the younger pigs (not the small ones but the ones who are shortly before their sexual maturity). under no circumstance kill the matriarch (female leader of the group), because she always tries to restricts the breeding of the younger female pigs in her group (similar to dogs, the alpha female breeds, the rest is supposed to assist). if you keep killing their teenagers, then the group will slowly die out.
Consistent bounties across the entire country combined with significant government assistance. No more piecemeal waiting for the damage to be done then pushing their numbers just below that threshold until they exceed it again like a yearly harvest. Methodically, county by county, exterminate them.
Outlaw the breeding or harboring of wild boar. Simple cage traps can be used to capture large numbers of them remotely.
Give the national guard some target practice.
Realistically? Chemical spray to kill them make them sterile, but that runs the risk of fricking up everything else in nature. Hunters simply can not stop them on their own even with some places offering bounties. You'd need to spend an exorbitant amount of money and make teams of hunters sweeping the country getting paid well to do it. TVA type shit of dudes with rifles in every state.
>You'd need to spend an exorbitant amount of money
Just take like one percent of the government funding for piss-art of famous historical veganas or making sure Israel has silver plated missile defense turrets or appeasing Moloch or whatever the frick.
>pay raise based on number of hogs killed >don't get to hunt hogs unless you can pass PT standards
Might work. The one shit thing is you can't donate/sell the meat because of disease risk.
>Give the national guard some target practice.
you would have to somehow organize a massive corralling operation or they would face the same problems that hunters are. like a miles long encirclement.
The only real problem hunters are facing is lack of incentive to hunt Hog full time instead of dabbling here and there and lack of ability to trespass.
there isn't a reliable way to incentive against these problems on an individual scale without risking it blowing up in the face. there are already reports of people seeding new hog populations so they can make money hunting them.
That's why I said give them the ability to trespass in search of boar. Make it a crime to harbor or seed boar. Hire specific hunters and teams on comission to clear areas. Use the national guard. Identify unnatural patterns with the boar population sightings to zero in on people Artificially spreading them Don't use street shitters. You act like there are no "counters" to this kind of thing, like we haven't worked out the whole ecological poacher-invasive species-extermination Metagame further than India in the colonial era. People just aren't being given the go-ahead to employ the strategies we've already developed.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You act like there are no "counters" to this kind of thing
there aren't and we haven't. invasive species are considered practically impossible to eradicate once they establish themselves.
I have no idea what these strategies you're talking about are because I can't think of a single instance of humanity successfully putting the genie back in the bottle.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>practically impossible to eradicate once they establish themselves.
Only because they're not politically feasible or not comparable to the Boar. This isn't some crab that burrows into the sand by the millions or some microscopic spore that turns into a billion pounds of mushrooms, exterminating a large mammal is literally the simplest thing in the world, if you're willing to do what you have to.
2 years ago
Anonymous
so those counters and strategies are just some bullshit you pulled out of your ass?
sure boars might be different this time but there's literally zero precedent for it happening and no actual plan to do "the simplest thing in the world" that would mobilize the national guard and compromise property rights en mass.
I don't even know what you're imagining. that soldiers would walk shoulder to shoulder in a giant line across the entire continent?
>Make killing them completely legal >Even if they fled onto anothers property, as long as you don't damage the property and don't loiter. >Institute a tusks-for-ammo exchange where you receive a certain amount of bullets in a (NATO standard) caliber of your choice. Like hands in leopolds congo
One that shoots the african swine fever. Once it hits a population it absolutely decimates it. France decimated it wild bunny population with myxomatosis, it absolutely worked.
I hunt boar with a boltaction 308 tho
AR if you dont mind tracking them down/ not finding your kills/want to kill as many as possible. When you want to get meat from them, use at least a .308 or .270, and even then they can be hard to put down
Why don't homeless people in America buy a shitty $80 shotgun and hunt boars for food?
They have enough money to make tent cities yet they beg for food like subhumans. Just help the community by taking out boar pests.
Did you know that the vast majority (well over 80%) of the "chronically homeless" which is a technical term meaning "homeless more often than not over 10 years" are severely mentally handicapped? That's why no matter how many outreach programs and job centers and shelters you run, the number never goes down. When we closed the asylums we just turned everyone out onto the streets.
There are free soup kitchens and food banks all across the country. No one capable of physically feeding themselves starves in America, those people you're talking about are begging for money to buy drugs.
One that shoots the african swine fever. Once it hits a population it absolutely decimates it. France decimated it wild bunny population with myxomatosis, it absolutely worked.
I hunt boar with a boltaction 308 tho
AR or AK should do you right. Honestly, kill as many of those frickers as possible.
>Honestly, kill as many of those frickers as possible.
did someone post a video a while back of putting out bait for them around a block a tannerite, and then blowing up all of them at once? I thought I saved it but I can't find it.
amazing that some survived that
I mean they're still moving but I highly doubt they lived.
they're fricking tough bastards. that's part of the problem
there's no shrapnel, I heard that they do this to stun them so they can be picked off more easily
They probably have internal pressure damage, they just don't know they are dead yet.
Is this legal?
There's no restrictions on how one may kill wild boars in the US because they are an invasive species.
Not really, but you'd have to start a wildfire or something to get prosecuted.
Tannerite is a dust-based explosion. There is no fire.
moron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill_Fire_(2017)
Legal? Who know it's up to the local laws but how badly do you want to risk starting a fire you can't put out like that baby reveal fire that happened in Cali?
They are considered pests, as long as you don't break any other laws in the process you can pretty much kill them however you like.
So as long as tannerite is legal in this location, probably.
Tannerite isn't really that likely to cause a fire unless it's mixed really wrong in terms of ratio.
As long as it goes off properly and the ground isn't tinder dry grass should be all right.
Not if you get caught
>*record scratch*
i killed two with an AK last time i went, everyone else got one or two with an AR. i got one through the lungs and got the other in the spine.
they're feisty, you're probably not ever going to get the jump on them so be ready to aim for moving targets unless you plan to just sit in a blind
What to do after you kill them? Burn? Eat? Leave the body for scavengers?
You leave the bodies near their stomping grounds and shit/piss/coom on them so they know the apex predator is always watching.
98 style bolt action rifle with 8×57 mauser rounds or similar
Blowgun:
that's awesome
This is as prohibited as full auto in leafland.
Pitbull with Kevlar vest.
Yeah that pibble is getting fricking annihlated lmfao
your little velvet hippo is going to be confetti
Still going to lose to the half dozen that'll jump the pittie in retaliation.
Two nigs with one rope.
Pitbull in a suicide vest*
now that's what i call killing two birds with one stone
I've seen proper hunting dogs get ripped open by boars, a shittie would explode.
Throw all the pit bulls to the pigs, kill the remainder conventionally.
there is a webm floating around on /gif/ of three pitbulls getting their shit pushed in by one boar
Didn't work
A feral boar broke into a hyena enclosure at a Kansas zoo, and those hyenas tore that pig apart
there is a webm of a boar ripping open a dogs stomach in a pit fight. don't underestimate those pigs. you can hit a male boar with a car going 50miles and they survive. little tanks that go crazy to protect the familiy. they will chase you up a tree and wait for hours just to kick your ass.
shotgun
ar10 probably
>Best gun for killing these things?
Same thing you would use for Black folk, cops, game up to whitetail size, shooting clays, concealed carry, school shootings, and kinky gunplay in bed. An AR-15.
Get with the times, no other firearm is necessary
The m-14 is better
Ar15 in 300hamr
go to bed grandpa
i prefer a battle rifle chambered in 308 winchester i trained shoulder exactly for this
.50 BMG is the minimum otherwise you might as well get a sex change
>t. never went hunting before
kys fren
A baton
Arizonagay here, the closest thing we have to wild boar in my area are javelina. They're a bit smaller, but they're absolute Black folk.
7.62x39 is what I've seen them taken with, but 5.56 or pretty much any caliber you'd hunt a deer with should put one down.
>javelina
Oof. Sorry you have demon pigs.
I don't want the boar population to spread any farther but man I wish I could hunt these frickers in Colorado 🙁
Ngl anon you’re seriously missing out. They’re all over here in Louisiana and I shooting the endless swarms of them is the perfect stress reliever
consolation coyotes
Ditto PA. I'm starting to wonder how long it is until they get here but I'm not looking forward to always be looking for them when innawoods.
If only. I've never seen one.
Oi m8, you have a loicense for that PVC pipe?
Full auto sporting exemption. Also bounties where they pay you by the tail (IIRC they used to/still do this with coyotes).
Europoor here. Been shooting pigs with mosin and single shot shotgun. We shoot them because they're even worse than gypsy kids stealing our produce (at least the brats wouldn't destroy the field whereas these frickers do). Sometimes we eat them but most of the times we gave them to the gypsies.
Then when I went to a trip to see my extended family in america and they brought me to a hunting trip and I really couldn't believe what I saw; several dozen pigs, some of them are as big as an ATV. Before this I thought shooting a game with semiauto rifle was overkill and unsportsmanlike but pigs in my place barely reach the size of a toddler but in america seeing pigs the size of an oil barrel running around is pretty unnerving even with gun by your side
I convinced my no guns mom that semiautos need to be kept around for the feral pigs. Fricking 4H kids man.
US feral hogs are crossbreeds, combining normal european boars with some massive domestic breeds kept for meat production. The result is just as clever and aggressive as a normal boar, but mich bigger and stronger. There is a reason these bastards have no natural predators in the US outside of anything chambered in 5.56 and up.
Also the morons that kept feeding these frickers
>but in america seeing pigs the size of an oil barrel running around is pretty unnerving even with gun by your side
Yea, agree.
Bazooka.
I want to shoot one, or many, with my .350 legend. Seems to have all the right characteristics.
An AR or any battle rifle. Or an elephant gun.
I second this. I would love to see what happens to one of these tanks when a 500NE hits it.
It's fun to watch two videos back to back: that based moron who hunts them with a Cannon firing a six inch wide harpoon through a boar and blowing entire organs out of its body, but the pig keeps running, then watch some guys insta-killing them with 22lr.
AR-10 in .45 Raptor loaded with 180gr JHPs. Should get at least 2600 FPS out of a 16" barrel. Imagine.
Easy with the anti-semitism, anon
.308 bolt action if you're hunting them ar-15 if you're exterminating them I guess .300 blk would be ideal but heavier .223s will be enough if on the weaker side of course ideally something like an ar-10 to shoot two or three of them at a time
Piggybacking on this georgia lets you only hunt with in season weapons so you can hunt hog almost two extra months on public land with a .22 or smaller but what's the most powerful cheapish .22 round out there for taking piggers I'm not at the level of braining them with .22lr yet
Heh. Does .223 count?
The 17 HMR round shoots very well, flat, but you'd want an accurate shot.
22 WMR would be more powerful than 22LR but haven't shot that round.
Completely agree, have shot w/ 30-06 and 243 in bolt action. AR semiauto platform if you dusting off an entire group seems appropriate.
30-30 SON, NOTHING LESS AND NOTHING MORE
OOH RAH
usmc feb 1966 may 1966
Big caliber lever action seems fun. Also dynamite
I wonder if someone could come up with a kind of biodegradable shrapnel that you could use in combination with tannerite. Something that would increase the lethality without destroying the land.
>biodegradable shrapnel
Iron would be good as it rusts away over time.
Not steel and especially not stainless steel - and not zinc coated iron either, but mainly because these rust far slower.
Put your tannerite on a mound of gravel and woodchips, maybe?
What a bonehead I am. I forgot that gravel and woodchips exist. That's actually genius.
Rocks?
I'd soak pork in bleach and drain-o since hogs are notorious cannibals and I'd leave it out for them. The game warden hated me. I'd also throw pipe bombs at the frickers. An AR shooting 5.56 at it is more than enough, make sure you know whatever weapon you intend to use, train with it. They'll jump you and you need to make sure you can hit them under stress. Shotguns work. Get a semiauto so you don't short-stroke it like an idiot and get gored in the legs and suffer potential amputation from infection. Hogs are srs bsness, more people need to accept the Hog Question and purge them. Evil bastards. Pigs are cute though, even if they'll bite you and eat you while you're alive. That isn't so cute
>I'd soak pork in bleach and drain-o since hogs are notorious cannibals and I'd leave it out for them. The game warden hated me.
Vultures are our friends Anon.
Didn't have any where I lived
.338 Lapua Magnum right in the fricking head boom!
AR-10, any battle rifle, anything high powered with good penetration and powerful terminal ballistics on those super dense and heavy boned motherfrickers. They move in big swarms often enough, so a belt fed 7.62X51 is not unreasonable. Especially when firing on them from a helicopter. If you want a pistol backup, you'll need .44 Mag or better. Again, high capacity is advised. So you need power and lots of shots. An M240 is honestly not out of line and the preferred hog hunting weapon, especially if in a fixed position and especially vehicle mounted.
Most common rounds used for boar hunting are .223 and 22lr.
I’ve been told hunters in Austria always bring a revolver with them in case they run into a wild boar since pistols may jam.
no one here has a revolver for that kind of reason. its simply a matter of personal preference
a jammed auto is a helluva lot easier to fix than a fricked up revolver
>also ctrl r
>spear
>0/0 results
bunch of pussies in here
firing pin breaking or timing issues are nonexistent on any properly maintained revolver meanwhile there's a dozen ways for a semi auto to jam and even the best of them do
Any Mosin/SKS without ammo is a spear by default.
justboomerthings
While obviously fuddlore, it's not that stupid to carry a 2nd gun in case something fricks up.
At the very least you're not putting anyone in danger by doing that.
I use 308 for longer range and 458 socom at night up close. The best things you can buy if you want to get serious about shooting them are thermal or night vision. I use a pvs14 to spot and stalk and thermal on the rifle. Where I live they don't start moving until 10-11 at night.
I've done well on hogs in the dark with .338 Federal.
How do you like it? I know a guy that has a savage 11 in .338 federal and has never shot it because his dumb ass thought it was a .338 Win Mag when he ordered it. I figure I can buy it for a steal, and I reload all kinds of oddball calibers so I won't mind one more.
11.5 5.56 ar-15 with a frick huge can loaded with 55grn m193
Anything that can kill them in one shot, since they go berserker if you wound them
in otaly the hunter i know either use a strangr version of .223 rem a .308 bolt action or a double barrel.
i've seen one with a musket but probabily only for fun.
I thought only specific 12 ga ammunition would work for those frickers
And you would laugh a lot if you'd the the rules to hunt down wild hogs, like hunting them in gruops of 5/6 people iirc and carrying them away using pickups with proper towing ropes
PS: I'm Italian too
>I thought only specific 12 ga ammunition would work for those frickers
Then you aren't very smart.
yeah i ve seen a few hunter but idk instarted eating meat yesterday i was a vegetarian so idk much how it work,
i m just a random sport shooter
A knife and a good hunting dog.
1892 in 45 (Long) Colt.
https://leverguns.com/articles/paco/45coltlevergun.htm
reminder that America's feral pig infestation is essentially the same situation as the infamous "emu war". except the emu war was mostly just a failed publicity stunt while the US is actually losing to the pigs to the point where seriously bringing in the military might not be a bad idea.
Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them. Run a few TV and internet campaigns to let people know it’s legal to go out and kill twenty of the frickers. The American People will take care of it.
>Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them
more or less already done
>Run a few TV and internet campaigns to let people know it’s legal to go out and kill twenty of the frickers
problem is that pigs scatter when shot at making them almost impossible to hunt in large numbers.
also the hunting tourism industry that has popped up around the infestation has been accused of spreading the pigs themselves. turning unused land into profitable hunting grounds.
>Just stop making people pay for tags to hunt the thing and remove all laws and restrictions around hunting them.
You don't need tags to hunt wild hogs. You don't even need a hunting license if you're doing it on private land and you have the owner's permission, at least down here in Texas. The only thing that makes it difficult is you're a stranger with a gun who wants to kill and you're trying to find some farmer who will let you post up in his fields at night.
There are several State Conservation Dept. that prefer you call them so they can try to trap the entire sounder if you see them rather than shoot them.
Private landowners, specifically outfitters are the other part of the problem because they're monetizing a destructive, invasive pest.
My man, there are no fricking tags.
They're considered pests in most states meaning you can kill as many as you want. The real reason they're having trouble exterminating them is that they'll retreat into property that doesn't allow hunting, or doesn't allow hunting without paying.
They're riddled with disease and the meat of the adults is difficult to prepare, turns very tough. Most people don't consider it worth the trouble and just leave them for the wildlife. No point in burning them, let the nutrients return to the environment.
Yup and you need consistent heat to kill off all the nasty bugs if you're planning to eat these giant pigs so no smoking or barbecuing.
I know a guy who died of liver disease because he ate them pigs and bears everytime
You could freeze them for a month and then do whatever you want with them
I've seen one of these motherfrickers in front of my house and I live in a middle of a fricking city.
Made me get my gun license. Surprisingly easier than I thought.
t. Europoor obviosuly
75 mm cannon
Unironically an sks
I mean he had to go, but calico pig is kinda cute
>plastic upper handguard
>no bayonet
imagine owning a neutered sks
I kinda like the bakelite hand guard. Looks different. No bayonet is weird tho.
Realistically, how do we contain the spread of feral pigs? Hunters are great, but taking out 1 or 2, even a whole sounder, isn't going to put the genie back in the bottle
Realistically? Chemical spray to kill them make them sterile, but that runs the risk of fricking up everything else in nature. Hunters simply can not stop them on their own even with some places offering bounties. You'd need to spend an exorbitant amount of money and make teams of hunters sweeping the country getting paid well to do it. TVA type shit of dudes with rifles in every state.
>You'd need to spend an exorbitant amount of money
they're apparently doing $billions in agricultural damage. a fairly large operation should pay for itself in a couple of years.
the natural predator of the wild hog is the wolf, the bear and the alligator. but those still struggle with them.
you have to kill the younger pigs (not the small ones but the ones who are shortly before their sexual maturity). under no circumstance kill the matriarch (female leader of the group), because she always tries to restricts the breeding of the younger female pigs in her group (similar to dogs, the alpha female breeds, the rest is supposed to assist). if you keep killing their teenagers, then the group will slowly die out.
HIMARS. Try to argue against it, you can't
We're too busy sending our HIMARS to be launched BY the pigs to use them ON the pigs
You fight fire with fire
Consistent bounties across the entire country combined with significant government assistance. No more piecemeal waiting for the damage to be done then pushing their numbers just below that threshold until they exceed it again like a yearly harvest. Methodically, county by county, exterminate them.
Outlaw the breeding or harboring of wild boar. Simple cage traps can be used to capture large numbers of them remotely.
Give the national guard some target practice.
>You'd need to spend an exorbitant amount of money
Just take like one percent of the government funding for piss-art of famous historical veganas or making sure Israel has silver plated missile defense turrets or appeasing Moloch or whatever the frick.
I like the idea of training the National Guard on it.
>pay raise based on number of hogs killed
>don't get to hunt hogs unless you can pass PT standards
Might work. The one shit thing is you can't donate/sell the meat because of disease risk.
>Give the national guard some target practice.
you would have to somehow organize a massive corralling operation or they would face the same problems that hunters are. like a miles long encirclement.
The only real problem hunters are facing is lack of incentive to hunt Hog full time instead of dabbling here and there and lack of ability to trespass.
there isn't a reliable way to incentive against these problems on an individual scale without risking it blowing up in the face. there are already reports of people seeding new hog populations so they can make money hunting them.
That's why I said give them the ability to trespass in search of boar. Make it a crime to harbor or seed boar. Hire specific hunters and teams on comission to clear areas. Use the national guard. Identify unnatural patterns with the boar population sightings to zero in on people Artificially spreading them Don't use street shitters. You act like there are no "counters" to this kind of thing, like we haven't worked out the whole ecological poacher-invasive species-extermination Metagame further than India in the colonial era. People just aren't being given the go-ahead to employ the strategies we've already developed.
>You act like there are no "counters" to this kind of thing
there aren't and we haven't. invasive species are considered practically impossible to eradicate once they establish themselves.
I have no idea what these strategies you're talking about are because I can't think of a single instance of humanity successfully putting the genie back in the bottle.
>practically impossible to eradicate once they establish themselves.
Only because they're not politically feasible or not comparable to the Boar. This isn't some crab that burrows into the sand by the millions or some microscopic spore that turns into a billion pounds of mushrooms, exterminating a large mammal is literally the simplest thing in the world, if you're willing to do what you have to.
so those counters and strategies are just some bullshit you pulled out of your ass?
sure boars might be different this time but there's literally zero precedent for it happening and no actual plan to do "the simplest thing in the world" that would mobilize the national guard and compromise property rights en mass.
I don't even know what you're imagining. that soldiers would walk shoulder to shoulder in a giant line across the entire continent?
If that's true explain coyotes.
>Outlaw the breeding or harboring of wild boar.
Aww, but Nosler a cute.
they are obviously not very tasty, or their numbers would be greatly reduced.
>Make killing them completely legal
>Even if they fled onto anothers property, as long as you don't damage the property and don't loiter.
>Institute a tusks-for-ammo exchange where you receive a certain amount of bullets in a (NATO standard) caliber of your choice. Like hands in leopolds congo
Biological warfare see
semi auto deer rifle 30rd mag.
AR if you dont mind tracking them down/ not finding your kills/want to kill as many as possible. When you want to get meat from them, use at least a .308 or .270, and even then they can be hard to put down
m193 to the ear has put down every single one I've shot with my A1.
300 Win Mag, right between their beady little soulless eyes
Why don't homeless people in America buy a shitty $80 shotgun and hunt boars for food?
They have enough money to make tent cities yet they beg for food like subhumans. Just help the community by taking out boar pests.
Did you know that the vast majority (well over 80%) of the "chronically homeless" which is a technical term meaning "homeless more often than not over 10 years" are severely mentally handicapped? That's why no matter how many outreach programs and job centers and shelters you run, the number never goes down. When we closed the asylums we just turned everyone out onto the streets.
There are free soup kitchens and food banks all across the country. No one capable of physically feeding themselves starves in America, those people you're talking about are begging for money to buy drugs.
One that shoots the african swine fever. Once it hits a population it absolutely decimates it. France decimated it wild bunny population with myxomatosis, it absolutely worked.
I hunt boar with a boltaction 308 tho