That 'Lil ones like a personal pan piggie then
I honestly don't know how I'd self-film stalking pigs on the ground. I'm open to suggestions, but I think at best it would require me buying more of that expensive camera gear and at worst it would involve fiddling with a camera so much that I missed my shot opportunities.How about a shorter self filmed video of you hunting and harvesting one of these? Next time you head out to fill the freezer.
All talk, no drive-time.Congrats on the bacon!!
I have the exact same gun I bought for saddleploosa. I’ve only shot it to sight it in. I don’t think I’ve been to a saddleploosa since! Lol
I need to come down there and stack some up!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I honestly don't know how I'd self-film stalking pigs on the ground. I'm open to suggestions, but I think at best it would require me buying more of that expensive camera gear and at worst it would involve fiddling with a camera so much that I missed my shot opportunities.
We all know how I feel about missing trigger time.
And @swampsnyper has a good point. Heart shots drop game. But something about that 22 mag, man. It was dropping pigs better than a 2" rage. It was almost like shooting a 30-06 but without blood trails. The big pig didn't have a drop of blood anywhere except coming out his snout.
Yeah, when they literally make paintbrushes out of their hair, you can bet your azz it'll hold blood.I’ve killed enough with sticks to know with all that hair and mud, not much blood hits the ground sometimes, even with a pass thru. It’s just about knowing your weapon and it’s capabilities. Heck, they got people killing them with air rifles and sling shots. And I’m not against feeding cripples to coyotes either. That’s just another day a deer doesn’t get harassed. Shoot everyone you see. Tanks, bazookas, claymores, it doesn’t matter to me. The war on pigs is fun!
All talk, no drive-time.
Whenever you finish that house up, come on down.
Yeah, when they literally make paintbrushes out of their hair, you can bet your azz it'll hold blood.
I don't hate pigs the way most folks do. It doesn't make any sense when you think about it. Folks say they're invasive. Well, when do the become naturalized? They've been here 600 years. They bother deer? I saw literally dozens of deer on the same 500 were tract with the pigs last weekend. Jumped them bedded down yards apart from each other. They tear up the earth? Not in the big woods. Farms, sure. And if I was a farmer I'd hate pigs. But farmers are responsible for WAAAAY more habitat destruction than pigs. Pot, meet kettle. And if a farmer has his crops destroyed by pigs, down here at least he writes it off, gets a free depredation permit, and has hunters pay him to get on it to kill pigs.
Don't get me wrong, I shoot them like I shoot everything. But just because they're tasty and fun to shoot. Id be sad if we wiped them out.
I'm not denying pigs can impact the environment, I just think the ecological damage pigs cause is overplayed and sensationalized. Assuming it was a native species, biologists would likely say that their rooting softened the soil and allowed new plant growth in general, not just invasive species. Down here at least, the areas they root grow right back with whatever was there already once they move on, usually thicker and greener too. Frogs and other ditch-dwellers nest in the old wallows. Droppings spread palmetto and other specie's seeds. Piglets feed the alligators. They are omnivores so they do their fair part cleaning up carrion. It's not as simplistic as people make it sound. I think it's because big-ag backs a lot of anti-hog rhetoric. And I have seen WAY more wetlands destroyed as a result of agriculture and urban sprawl than because of pigs. COE is happy to let you destroy a wetland if you pay the blood money.Pigs do a pretty good job of tearing up the earth in the big woods up here. They're particularly destructive in wetland areas which are often associated with rare plant species. This sort of disturbance to the ground is also a vector for invasive plants to take hold and proliferate. This changes the entire ecology of a wetland community and often leads to the outright extirpation of native plants.
Yes, farming or other development also negatively affect the environment, but we don't allow farming on sites set aside to protect natural communities, so nor would allowing pigs to persist there be appropriate.
Like coyotes, it's not a problem you can shoot your way out of, but unlike coyotes, there are measurable, detrimental environmental effects to pigs establishing themselves in an area.
Whenever I have to fill out paperwork that asks race I always put native american for the same logic....family and I have been on this continent for a while now...pretty sure I'm a nativeFolks say they're invasive. Well, when do the become naturalized? They've been here 600 years.
I'm not denying pigs can impact the environment, I just think the ecological damage pigs cause is overplayed and sensationalized. Assuming it was a native species, biologists would likely say that their rooting softened the soil and allowed new plant growth in general, not just invasive species. Down here at least, the areas they root grow right back with whatever was there already once they move on, usually thicker and greener too. Frogs and other ditch-dwellers nest in the old wallows. Droppings spread palmetto and other specie's seeds. Piglets feed the alligators. They are omnivores so they do their fair part cleaning up carrion. It's not as simplistic as people make it sound. I think it's because big-ag backs a lot of anti-hog rhetoric. And I have seen WAY more wetlands destroyed as a result of agriculture and urban sprawl than because of pigs. COE is happy to let you destroy a wetland if you pay the blood money.
Some folks say they spread disease, but I've seen way more folks hurt with deer through the windshield than from tuberculosis or trichinosis. And overpopulations of deer can decimate native browse. And deer hurt farmers too. It's weird that pigs get a bad rap. I think it goes back to that whole Ralph Emerson/David Thoreau Naturalism that insists on keeping everything "as it was before we got here." But that's BS. The only constant is change in nature. You can't keep it in stasis.
We have a very healthy hog population down here and were ground zero for the "pig invasion" the Discovery Channel likes to hype. Agriculture, clear cutting, chemical runoff, urban sprawl, the dam systems, and a plethora of other issues are way more detrimental to our river bottom swamps and delta regions.
Controlling any species is ultimately all about population control, and as a hunter I'm in love with the idea of an animal you have to aggressively manage.