A bud has 6,000 acres of crop land and hardwood bottom land on the Red River. He got the bright idea of buying a trailer load of Russians from Tennessee. Turned them loose, wanting to breed some sporting hogs. Well, they bred with the native feral hogs and now he regrets doing that.
I’ve hunted his property and one foggy morning, shot a 300# boar with my 6.5-284 at 225 yds. It was so foggy, I couldn’t range him. Only later was able to use the rangefinder after fog had lifted.
Drug him to the camp, weighed him. 300 pounds on the nose. Drug him to the bone pile. Next day passing by, saw just bones. Man, those coyotes sure were busy. Put a trail cam there. It was hogs eating hogs.
I’ve posted this before. I’ll shoot’em, not planning on eating them. And all the diseases they are said to carry…. Sorta lost my appetite for wild hogs. Now a young one, probably ok.
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Hogs have eaten hogs since the second litter I suspect. Its never stopped us from eating em but I may have a bad report in the future. Never know. Ones that come from crop areas are sweeter than store bought to us anyway. We are lucky those at 2 places we hunt are that way.
Others may not be quite as good. But just because they eat another pig or such its not a big deal to us. obviously ymmv and thats cool
