The Gun Counter

My wife and I are watching the new Discovery show, Hogs Gone Wild. If they've become such a huge problem, why don't they just remove bag limits and season limitations on these wild predators.

Declare them a nuisance and let the hunters at them.

Someone else asked the same thing over on Yahoo! Answers:

Question about the Hogs Gone Wild TV show?
So my boyfriend and I watched the Hogs Gone Wild TV show last night and the whole time we were saying "Why don't they just shoot them"? I mean I can understand not firing in a neighborhood I guess, but some of these people are on ranches and farms and these wild boars are destroying their livelyhoods. These people are turning their dogs loose to bring them down and tie them up or they are trapping them and hauling them off. So are they turning them loose elsewhere? I don't get it and they didn't explain on the show. Does anyone have any ideas or experience in these matters?

DAMN! Even the smaller hogs are vicious and willing to charge these guys!!

They could sure use some hi-cap magazines to help take care of all these hogs and protect themselves - except according to some people in Congress, their only use is to shoot as many PEOPLE as quickly as possible!

In Florida, at least, there is no season on Hogs on private property. They may be killed year round as long as you adhere to whatever the lwas for discharging firearms are. We have guys who bow hunt them in suburban areas where you can't otherwise have gun hunts.

Florida law considers them a domesticated farm animal and they legally belong to the landowner on whose property they are roaming. You can hunt them at night, you can trap them and you can bait them. It's actually pretty common for the rednecks here to trap up a bunch of small hogs, castrate them, and then let them go for better hunting (and eating) later.

There are specific seasons for them on state WMA's.

308Mike wrote:If they've become such a huge problem, why don't they just remove bag limits and season limitations on these wild predators.

That would certainly cause some adjustment to what we commonly think of as a varmint rifle. I'd almost say to legalize market hunting for wild hogs, but that might backfire, since there would be a financial incentive to ensuring a continued large population of them.

Wild hogs are vermin in TX - never heard of a bag limit or season on them, actually - outside of Europe.

Year round hunt in CA. License and tag required is all (but good luck with access to private land cause public land hunts are tough here).

Netpackrat wrote:I'd almost say to legalize market hunting for wild hogs....

No can do.
Between 25% to 40% of wild hogs carry Toxoplasma gondii. Cook all wild hog meat to 175 degrees or higher, and it's a good idea to wear latex/nitril gloves when cleaning them.

You could get $1/# live weight for them 12 years ago, but you had to bring them in alive so they could be tested.

blackeagle603 wrote:Year round hunt in CA. License and tag required is all (but good luck with access to private land cause public land hunts are tough here).

It doesn't help that all the hogs are in the part of the state with little public land. I been trying to find some one who would let me hunt pigs and turkeys on their property for a couple years now, I am hoping to get a hunt in this spring.

If you hunt them at night with firearms, I'd think that would be a great incentive for MANY hunters to be using suppressors. Not a lot of people like to hear firearms going off at night unless they KNOW there's a hunt going on nearby. Suppressors would make a HUGE difference!

308Mike wrote:If you hunt them at night with firearms, I'd think that would be a great incentive for MANY hunters to be using suppressors. Not a lot of people like to hear firearms going off at night unless they KNOW there's a hunt going on nearby. Suppressors would make a HUGE difference!

A nightvision scoped MP-5 w/suppressor shooting Fiocchi 158FMJ subsonic would be the cat's pajamas...