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A few years ago, my son, who lives in the Phoenix area took me to where he thought some quail might be, and letting me out, said to me: "If you see a hog, shoot it." I had a trusty 16 gauge with bird shot.
I asked him recently if he meant the little peccaries or these big old hogs I have started to see in pictures: He said "No, the big ones."
Jeez......I'da drove a half track with quad .50's if I would have known how damn big those things are.
Sam Ogle, Lincoln, NE

When I hunted them in Turkey, the Turks used lights, but to drive them. We would take a stand on the side of the field the pigs were expected to run to and Ramet would shine a light across the field.The pigs had learned after a short while that lights mean getting shot at.The moral of the story is that you also can't kill them out by jacklighting.
Mike

ed why don't you go over to the BBS where the rest of the PETA members hang out and post your anti-hunting drivel there for awhile. You can condemn hunting and there will be many there that will support you.

Bit of advice though: Don't mention that you sell hunting guns or guns to hunters. They will be mean to you if you do.

there you go again mikie...making erroneous assumptions and accusations. just because seeing an animal torn apart by a pack of dogs turns me off, does not mean that I am anti hunting nor do I condemn hunting as your claim...

why are you allowed continue to trash threads with your obsessive compulsive behavior?

Ed, no dog ever "tore apart" a hog, not even dead, their skin is that tough. They can worry them, distract them, that's all. Ever see the gristle shield on the side of their shoulder? The newest method to skin them is to take a box cutter, cut narrow strips all over the animal and pull them off with a pair of visegrips. Quickest way I know of. Hogs don't need much pity. Steve

One of the things that my wonderful Father taught me was --
"Do not play with the pigs in the mud,
You get dirty
and the pigs like it."

I haven't been able to get them to stay in one place long enough to use it. It is still sitting under the shelter where I unloaded it. If I knew how good the dogs were at getting them to leave an area I would have never bought it. My duck hunting buddy from Dublin hunts hogs with dogs year 'round and will come whenever I call him. May have a big issue with them next year, tho'. I'm due to plant peanuts by the big 500 acre wet weather pond.

SRH

If you do catch one (my relatives make drop-gate traps with chain link fencing and heavy iron at the bottoms to prevent rooting under, but by whatever means...) then while feeding it clean, also put some wormer in their water trough 2 or 3 times--they'll drink it all no problems.
If you are wiping out as many as possible, say with a 12 man drive through a section of land, take the plug out of your shotgun and declare war. But you won't be able to escape the whang taste of any boars that way...Steve

BTW, here's a story on how smart a hog can be: Fellow had an electric fence hooked up straight to 110 volts. Hogs were still tearing up his garden, so he sat up to watch how. There was a slight downward slope leading to the garden, and at dark-thirty here came the small herd at a run. They knew the wire was hot, but it was worth it to slide under with the wire rubbing them all the way, then get up, shake and start eating. He neglected to carry a gun, so continued to observe them get a running start at departure time, only to run/slide under the fence again. Stubborn critters. Steve

I am sitting here eating wild hog my 11 year old killed on Saturday. It is delicious. We are selective about the ones we keep to eat, and have yet to have a bad one. The 300 plus pound boar I killed a couple of days before is feeding the buzzards. Arkansas regulations do not require we keep the meat of wild hogs, as they are nuisance animals, and we can leave them where they lay if we wish.

This was Nathan's first pig, a 150 lb gilt sow that was actually killed on public land. It was quite an exciting hunt, we almost got run over by a 250 lb boar as he angrily exited his sleeping spot. The pigs are in there right now, so we will return to visit soon.