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Stallones - Cool!
Gil I lost my Brie dog to a rattlesnake bit about four years ago.
I am glad to be here.
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Some of the guys I shoot SC's with have been hunting hogs at night with LE grade night vision optics. They've set up a processing station and have killed a bunch. Tasty!
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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Some of the guys I shoot SC's with have been hunting hogs at night with LE grade night vision optics. They've set up a processing station and have killed a bunch. Tasty! Ken, apparently in OK there's a Eurasian strain of hog which is a mean sob. Gil
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Ok, I can see how domesticated animals might escape and turn feral, but what is the story on these Eurasian or Russian variants? Somebody has had to deliberately add them to the mix somewhere.
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In California, the feral hogs include a strain of European boar that came over with the Spanish missionaries. Been breeding with the local hogs for 400+ years, probably the same in Florida. I'll try to post a profile pic of my mount that shows the Euro boar influence. Doesn't look anything like a domestic pig. 
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Ok, I can see how domesticated animals might escape and turn feral, but what is the story on these Eurasian or Russian variants? Somebody has had to deliberately add them to the mix somewhere. Our "Piny Woods Rooters" in the Southeast began with escaped swine brought along by Hernando DeSoto on his 16th century trek from what's now Florida through Georgia and out to the Mississippi River. Five centuries of free range stock raising down here have added to and combined with the feral Spanish hogs and resulted in our present stock. In historic times truly wild European (Russian)Boar have been stocked in various places including the Smokey Mountains and elsewhere. Since they're all pretty much the same animals crosses have taken place. I'm not sure what GLS was addressing with his post about Eurasian stock. The are lots of different native members of the swine family throughout Asia, Europe, Africa and India/Southeast Asia I believe. A close encounter with a wild hog can be a dangerous situation to be in...Geo
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Gee with all those hogs running rampant some of you boys should visit local Academy Sports and pick up them Ithaca 37 Hogslayers. It's long magazine tube gun with rifled barrel and hi visibility iron sights. I mean unlike them little birds you keep chasing hogs have lots of meat on them. As HJ said the meat is healthier then stuff you get at local supermarket. Remember our cultured British friends are fond of rook pies so there is no shame in eating wild pork.
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