RobSky
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/3...ition-as-feral-hog-explosion-thins-herds.html
Hope they don't make it to MD.
Hope they don't make it to MD.
I like pork better than venison so let them come. I am sure they will issue crop damage permits for them also.
The difference is in the level of crop damage that feral hogs will do versus deer. Deer will graze on the crops, but feral hogs will destroy an entire field. Add to that the fact that hogs breed much faster and are much more adaptable to different environments and you get a nuisance species that no one should want to introduce, no matter how much we love bacon.
The worst thing a deer can do to most of us is be hit by our car or eat our hostas or azaleas. (44man et al farmers not included)
A hog or a bunch of them will not only root up fields of crops, they will flat tear you or your animals up if and when they decide you're in their way. Make no mistake, those cutters will open up a person or a dog just like a sharp knife. That and they just won't stop. They are crazy once they get going.
Great to shoot. Great to eat (if not hopped up on testosterone). Awful to have in your AOR.
Not to be looked forward to. You want this one to be a road/away game...
Yeah man. Them hogs were not a first world problem... They still ain't.I am not looking forward to them but I cant worry about them any more than I do about deer. hell deer cause me to lose sleep on a regular basis.
I can remember being VERY young and my grand dad and his brothers would tell stories about wild boars here in southern Maryland. apparently they killed dogs and people alike. but they got eaten up.
I have had deer eat entire fields. I have had 50-60 deer in fields grazing at one time. I shoot those effing cockroaches every chance I get. I have lost tens of thousands of dollars to deer, so like I said, let them come, I could care less. I am sure they are tasty.
I have had deer eat entire fields. I have had 50-60 deer in fields grazing at one time. I shoot those effing cockroaches every chance I get. I have lost tens of thousands of dollars to deer, so like I said, let them come, I could care less. I am sure they are tasty.
Yeah man. Them hogs were not a first world problem... They still ain't.
Call them feral. Call them primal. In the chain of predators, they're occupying a spot where they get my respect.
When you go to them, it's a sport. When they've come to you (in numbers), it borders on survival.
Yeah man. Them hogs were not a first world problem... They still ain't.
Call them feral. Call them primal. In the chain of predators, they're occupying a spot where they get my respect.
When you go to them, it's a sport. When they've come to you (in numbers), it borders on survival.
It's going to take someone's kid or some hiker getting gored or killed for anyone to notice. Listen to farmers or landowners? Nah. All they're good for in MD is taxes.
Yeah man.I remember a story my grand dad told me about his brother. the hogs got after him in a corn field by the orchard and got him on the ground and cut his leg all to pieces. he got away just long enough to climb a bigger apple tree and was treed like a coon all night. he used his belt as a turnaqit to keep from bleeding to death and they found him mid morning the next day. they said it took him months to recover. when that old man would get drunk he would drop his pants and show you the scars. but such are old stories.