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Barry, I'm sure being local has its benefits. I'm not, but would never pay to hunt TX hogs. Good to know that some TX farmers understand the problem.

The biggest problem I see with this new toxicant is that it is available "for use by licensed pesticide applicators ."

It also takes 3 weeks to "condition" the pigs to eat the feed and use the "approved" feeders before they apply the poison.

The it takes a few days of eating the stuff before the pig croaks.

All that means that a licensed applicator will need to spend a month or so going to your land and selling you the "approved" feeders, the feed and his services.

That is going to get spendy really fast!

Would be a lot more fun to spend the funds on a new AR, night vision scope and some tannerite.

And now the government comes in a screws it all up with regulations and added cost. Then the licensed applicator has to charge,,, then pay taxes on it too. Just let the farmers do it... jeese, hardly any farmers are stupid. It's almost like the dont really want the problem to go away.

It's sure not the "magic bullet" that some seem to think it is.

Wouldn't want it around my place. Or the neighboring places.

I guess it does, if you like to shoot hogs.

FWIW, I know some farmers and ranchers that would rather put up with the hogs than have strangers shooting up the place at night with an AR15.

I'm one of those, I reckon. It'd take a LOT of money before I'd let someone on my place to do that.... (Probably more $$$ than they have )

The operations that sell hog hunts and cater to hog hunters for a price, actually DO rid other places of hogs to some extent. They can't possibly have enough hogs on those pay to hunt places to stay in business very long. So guys trap hogs on places that don't want them, and sell them to the operations that do want hogs.

Blood thinners in dead pigs would transfer to other animals eating on them, they say low dose, but it’s got to build up levels to kill 209 pound hog, PETA will throw a fit.

Actually, from a standpoint of strictly ridding an area of coyotes, he's absolutely right... IF he knows what he's doing himself, that is.

You let one guy who knows what he's doing on there to kill coyotes, and he'll do a FAR better job of ridding the place of coyotes than a half a dozen guys with a FoxPro and the absolute ability to educate 90% of the coyotes to where they'll never be taken out.

Same applies for hog control. The ineffective idiots will just drive most of them to become nocturnal and multiply clandestinely.

I know most "hunters" don't want to hear stuff like this... But it's a fact, nonetheless.

Darn it, what am I going to do with the custom hog gun I ordered now? Not to mention all that super nuclear beyond light speed hog banger ammo I bought?
Classifieds?

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I’ve seen more ranches torn to hell around here by urban sprawl than by hogs.

Yeah there’s a few that come thru along the creek. And I seen some recent sign on the hill behind the ranch house. But we do not have near the issues agriculture-wise that folks over in the blackland and bottom land have. Them folks got crops. And many of them farms are also having same issues with subdivisions springing up around them.

Biggest issue here is 5 acre ranchettes with 15 head of longhorns on it. They enjoy slinging the "Rancher" moniker

You’re probably right, I just bought a high dollar thermal and custom 308, may hold off calling trapper until spring 🤠, it’s funny to see hogs and big group of calves on wheat fields, it sure puts a stop to picking a few off.

Yankee’s moving to hill country, driving there Toyo’s pickup and Australian hats, taking over the vote.

What really gets me are all the missing pet posts on FB these people post when Tabby or Fifi come up missing! Yotes are well fed around here.

Edit! Had the local "snake wrangler” chew me out for killing rattlesnakes! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am not fond of the poison route at all. We shoot em as we can. Trap em as we can. We have access to places too.

That said all the folks talking about paying to hunt and people making money.

Would you refuse a raise? Would you refuse to sell your cattle at a higher price?

So many want to shoot pigs. So many want to do it for free. I get that. But in there is free market. If you didn't want to shoot pigs then this wouldn't matter at all.
I do know plenty that will shoot for reasonable amounts. We used to do an annual down south but the property got sold. It was a fun long weekend and affordable. I would not hold it against if he had gone up.

It is what it is. But I fail to see that if you can make the most you can why can't he so to speak.

heck I would still love to find cheap nilgai cow hunts and cheap axis cull or doe hunts just for the freezer . They don't exist for what I am willing to pay. Even whitetail doe hunts to add to the larder are higher than I'm willing. But I dont' constantly complain about it on the internet.

True that.

There's only a market for something if there's a demand for it.

Ha, not a chance. They may rape and murder and kill 10 or so a day in car crashes but they vote dimocrap.

Well, you have good points, and I never shot a hog, never hunted them, never wanted to . The reason is , they complain up a storm about pigs and people here even asked if they could hunt them and the answer was always no. The reaoson was just excuses like " I let some hunt once and they left the gate open, or left garbage, and NEVER AGAIN is what they say.. Well, some are idiots, but I bet 99% here would shoot a hog on your land , and take you out for a Prime rib come sundown.. There are only a very select few here that I would not trust on my land.. I even told a guy here on the Campfire he can use my cabin for a bear hunt in NW Wi if he wants to.. He had another place anyway , but still. I knew him from a friend of a friend.

You got to think like a Rancher, the most important thing you have is your cattle, there everything, and to let a bunch of fast talking, bragging city boy’s, that claim this and that, on your place at night with thermal’s , with black hogs and black cows, HELL no, only people you know and have watched grow up, or someone like Barry, that knows not to pull a trigger on impulse . That may be a lot of not letting strangers on your place, turkeys and quail is one thing totally different.

The only people around here that complain about hogs are realtors. I know of very few ranchers around here that do. They will shoot one if they see one. They look at them as a pest and not really a major nuisance.

The media around here has done more to spread the word of a “wild hog epidemic!!!" Than anyone else. And they always start with hogs in a subdivision somewhere!!!

The only thing worse than the hogs are the hog hunters. At least deer hunters pay good money and don't typically tear your stuff up.

Hog problem? What hog problem...