They're kid'din...........right??😖
I saw the article........read the article.........STILL couldn't believe it!
Kentucky finalizing ban on hunting feral swine in hopes of slowing their advance.
Maybe I'm missing something.........wouldn't be the first time.
My first thought........they are in WAY over their heads.
What are your thoughts??
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Missouri made a similar call but only on 'STATE LAND'.
Claimed 'hog hunters' were upsetting the MDC herd reduction strategies. Bunny cops were looking for a scapegoat to CYA when their trapping plans failed. There's a LOT of 'state land' in south MO and that's where the feral hogs have become a big problem. IMHO, putting a $25 per head bounty on the hogs would get better results.
I've seen first hand some of the MDC failures that could have been more successful and cheaper using a bounty system.
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They're easiest to track and trap when they're slowed down by lead.
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I'm from the government and here to help.
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This is an ideal situation for hunting with suppressors. Using subsonics there'd be no noise to spook 'em, just neighbor pigs tipping over.
Almost sounds like the Kentucky F&W folks have figured out a way to secure their cushy jobs for the foreseeable future.
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That new law doesn't make sense to me. The way to control wild hogs is to encourage people to shoot them.
I killed fifteen of them in central Georgia and my buddies killed dozens more. Wild hogs are not nearly as smart as Kentucky DNR thinks, they are easy to kill. One day, I was hiking through the woods with just a 1911 Colt*, and I stalked up on a 110 pound boar that was rooting around. I shot him twice at 25 yards and he was dead. Try stalking up within 25 yards of a whitetail buck, good luck, before you get anywhere near 25 yards, you will see a white tail waving "bye bye" to you as the buck runs away.
ps Georgia hogs are delicious. Put a 15 pound wild hog ham on the smoker for 10 hours, load that smoker with pecan wood, mmmm good.
*Legal to shoot hogs with a pistol in Georgia.
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If DNR encourages hog shooting, you get wild millionaires like Ted Nugent going out in a helicopter and getting rid of lots of them:
"I took my machine gun in the helicopter – in the Texas hill country" Nugent said. "I killed 455 hogs with my machine gun. I did it for Bill Maher and all those other animal rights freaks out there."
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"so they can be trapped and removed." OK, so where are they removing them to?
Even my bride said this is dumb. "A dead pig can't be educated."
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