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[browningautorifle]

build another 5.56 Civie Shorty and go nuts

Rattle battle Frank, down to the ranch and do some hogs in.

[imntxs554]

Rattle battle Frank, down to the ranch and do some hogs in.

Jim, I didn't think you remembered when I melted that barrel. I should because all those videos I showed you and then all that ammo I bought, you knew exactly what I was going to do. I had that barrel glowing for awhile. I'm not looking forward to it. I hate killing those damn hogs there nasty and filthy.

[browningautorifle]

I hate killing those damn hogs

Well, the only other way to get rid of them is to convince them to move to Arkansas...or Mexico. Good luck on that one. I remember the pics of their destruction. We're seeing them way up here in the prairies now of all things.

[oldfoneguy]

Well, the only other way to get rid of them is to convince them to move to Arkansas.

Whoa now Jim. I'm spending half my time between NY and Arkansas working on getting my sisters estate down there sold. To put it in a nutshell I'm having enough damn problems without adding hogs to the mix. Why don't you wish them on Navada or some other den of sin. Truth is if they made it south of the Missouri border they wouldn't last long enough to make it past the northern border counties. Not when those barbecuers down there hear about free pork on the hoof running around !!!

[browningautorifle]

Why don't you wish them on Nevada

OK Nevada...now those guys are going to roast me...

Thing that perplexes me is how they made it all the way up here to our prairies. I haven't seen them with my eyes but the people telling me should be able to distinguish what breed they are and they say feral...like yours down south.

[painter777]

Thing that perplexes me is how they made it all the way up here to our prairies

From a AP story Nov 2023

In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that’s spreading out of control.

Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada’s leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, “the most invasive animal on the planet” and “an ecological train wreck.”

Canada’s problem dates back only to the 1980s when it encouraged farmers to raise wild boar, Brook said. The market collapsed after peaking in 2001 and some frustrated farmers simply cut their fences, setting the animals free.

It turned out that the pigs were very good at surviving Canadian winters. Smart, adaptable and furry, they eat anything, including crops and wildlife. They tear up land when they root for bugs and crops. They can spread devastating diseases to hog farms like African swine fever. And they reproduce quickly. A sow can have six piglets in a litter and raise two litters in a year.

That means 65% or more of a wild pig population could be killed every year and it will still increase, Brook said. Hunting just makes the problem worse, he said. The success rate for hunters is only about 2% to 3% and several states have banned hunting because it makes the pigs more wary and nocturnal — tougher to track down and eradicate.

Hard-to-eradicate ‘super pigs’ in Canada threaten to invade the US | AP News

[browningautorifle]

Canada’s problem dates back only to the 1980s when it encouraged farmers to raise wild boar, Brook said. The market collapsed after peaking in 2001 and some frustrated farmers simply cut their fences, setting the animals free.

Why in the F@ck would anyone do that? The height of stupidity...tap them between the eyes and dig a trench with the front end loader. A farmer should know better... Unbelievable...

[Sapper740]

...... and several states have banned hunting because it makes the pigs more wary and nocturnal — tougher to track down and eradicate.

Other than helicopter hunting the vast amount of hog culling, at least in Texas goes on at night which by the other states' reasoning should make the hogs diurnal. It hasn't so one has to wonder if the ban isn't for other reasons.

[imntxs554]

OK Nevada...now those guys are going

I don't think we need any help guys with animals. We got theGoat Sucker from theSouth and the Super Ferrell Hog that's a Man Killer. Look what happen to us when we took possession of those diseased Monkeys fo Saddam. We almost went to war with Iran over those damn Monkeys

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OK Nevada...now those guys are going

I don't think we need any help guys with animals. We got the Goat Sucker from The South and the Super Ferrell Hog that's a Man Killer from the North. Look what happen to us when we took possession of those diseased Monkeys for Saddam. We almost went to war with Iran over those damn Monkeys

[Sapper740]

Thing that perplexes me is how they made it all the way up here to our prairies. I haven't seen them with my eyes but the people telling me should be able to distinguish what breed they are and they say feral...like yours down south.

Jim, I was hunting feral hogs in B.C. 40 years ago. It seems some German immigrants missing their annual Black Forest Boar hunts released hogs between Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs in the hope of reviving their hobby in B.C. The Fish and Wildlife Branch issued an open season on them with no bag limit in the hopes of wiping them out before they overran the area. Members of the club I belonged to and I went after them a couple of times but never got a clear shot at any of them. If we were allowed to hunt over bait I'm sure we could have bagged a few but that practice is banned in B.C. If they're popping up in the prairies, it's probably for the same reason.