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OfflineOMGitsBigCheeze
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Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls*
    #16898171 - 09/23/12 05:00 PM (11 years, 4 months ago)

http://www.helicopterhuntingsafety.com/hog-hunting.html



So these people have a problem with hogs destroying farmland, they rent helicopter rides where people take out packs of hogs with machine guns and leave the corpses.  I've heard them referred to as blood thirsty savages supposedly because they also attack humans? not too sure on that one.  I'm wondering why a simple fence is not affective.


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: OMGitsBigCheeze]
    #16900152 - 09/23/12 11:17 PM (11 years, 4 months ago)

fencing is expensive and hog hunting could generate some income for a land owner. the hogs can destroy fencing pretty quick too. that's just my instinctive take on the situation after having been a farmer.


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #16900214 - 09/23/12 11:35 PM (11 years, 4 months ago)

They're not really hunting tho, they are mass slaughtering herds of pigs.  And you only need a regular hunting license to do this.

  • Is it just a novelty method for reducing their population that only crazy rich people do just to claim bragging rights, or if the farm land saved by their destruction

  • Do they really reproduce so fast that we need this kind of destruction?


Granted it does look extremely fun flying around in a chopper annihilating pigs, but something inside me makes me feel like I would have to morally justify it to myself


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: OMGitsBigCheeze]
    #16900272 - 09/23/12 11:46 PM (11 years, 4 months ago)

i don't agree with the method necessarilly, but is it any worse than other methods that could be used to control them? you're looking at poisons, traps, dogs, and possibly biological. i'd take my chances with a bullet if i were one of those pigs.


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: OMGitsBigCheeze]
    #16900320 - 09/23/12 11:56 PM (11 years, 4 months ago)

A freezer and smoker full of meat?


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: OMGitsBigCheeze]
    #16901130 - 09/24/12 08:07 AM (11 years, 4 months ago)

The whole concept of flying in helicopters, spraying thousands of bullets on living creatures carries a really bad Vietnam-like sentiment IMO.

If these animals need culling, then there's two things that come to mind:
- use the meat sensibly like SheikCorp suggests; leaving the corpses to rot is insane IMO.
- some serious questions can be asked concerning land use and ecological balance - chances are we're doing something fundamentally wrong in terms of land use.


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: koraks]
    #16901747 - 09/24/12 10:53 AM (11 years, 4 months ago)

Hogs are living creatures. However, in MANY places, wild hogs are an invasive species, and one of the most environmentally damaging ones around.

Food is supposedly going to get more scarce in the coming years... so i agree with koraks, at least pick the meat up.


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: 404]
    #16902641 - 09/24/12 02:09 PM (11 years, 4 months ago)

I'm so glad someone posted this because I've seen in recently on youtube and thought a lot of it.  I'm almost certain that these hogs are spreading like wildfire across the country, hogs in texas, and the real deep south states have been around for a while but there is a point where something becomes an invasive species. Hogs are not native to the U.S. we introduced them.  not too common but they can get to be like
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Hog spread is so wide now that while on a summer vacation to Lake Champlain in the adirondack mtn range, basically shares some border with vermont and not too far off is canada, were hogs.  They had never even been heard of in the area.  Things were tearing up a countryside farm and orchard and if I had by some slight chance had decided to bring my bow along for the trip I would have had a nice time taking care of these hogs for the farm and protecting their fields.


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: Dough]
    #16908049 - 09/25/12 12:08 PM (11 years, 4 months ago)

The more massive boar were introduced to america presumably from Russia, and are \known to be extremely aggressive.

http://www.texasboars.com/articles/facts.html

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The first true Pigs were brought to the United States by Hernando de Sota to the Atlantic Coast of Florida in 1539.

The First "Pure Russian" wild boars were brought into the US by Austin Corbin. They were released into a 20,000 acre enclosure in Sullivan County New Hampshire in 1890.

SOME FAST FACTS AS OF 2006:
STATES WITH FERAL HOGS: 39, plus 4 Canadian provinces.
TEXAS COUNTIES with Feral Hogs, 225 out of 254 counties.
HOG POULATION IN TEXAS; 2,000,000 (MILLION)+!
NATIONAL POPULATION is estimated at around 4,000,000.
ESTIMATED ANNUAL AGG DAMAGE from feral swine $52 MILLION!
LANDOWNER ANNUAL EXPENSE to control feral swine $7 MILLION
NATURAL LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A FERAL SWINE IS 6 to 8 years.
AVERAGE SIZE of feral swine is 100 to 150 pounds, but depending on the region can obtain sizes in excess of 600 lbs.
REPRODUCTION OF FERAL SWINE: Once a sow reaches breeding age at 7 or 8 months of age they can be responsible for 1,000 plus feral swine in a 5 year period. The State of Texas had an estimated population of around 2 MILLION at last check.( If 1/4 are breeding sows!? ) 





smaller swine are more common, but there are those beasts from russia that you especially don't want to muck with because of their size and temper, unless you have a working weapon.


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Re: Paid helicopter hog hunts *Opinions pls* [Re: OMGitsBigCheeze]
    #16932234 - 09/29/12 12:17 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

wild hogs destroy land then move on. They are like massive locusts. They also run off all the other wildlife.
They have torn up so much of the hunting land on our lease.  In our area you can keep the meat or leave it for
the coyotes and wolves.
The pigs breed and reproduce like rabbits and have very little loss of young, since they are so aggressive.


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