Another Feral Hog Massacre on SH-130

[Stumpy]

Load of choice for hogs?

I've grown quite fond of using a Rem Core Lokt 165gr PSP .30-06
It dropped this sucker right where he was. Round broke right through his shoulder.

TRUST me - you ain't the first to underestimate hogs - domestic OR feral/wild! They're some of the smartest, most wiley critters out there, and between their strength and teeth, not much will stand up against 'em for long.

+1

 

[TexasRedneck]

Yall must be a lot better shots than me or shooting smaller pigs as I've had to shot a hog more than once on many occasions. Ive also put them down with a 17hmr too so...

Sorry if I wasn't clear....when we're clearing hogs as nuisances, I'm looking to put a round in 'em, then move on to the next one. Final/clean-up shots come after I've gotten a round into every last one I possibly can. Years back it was nothing to top a hill and encounter 50+ hogs in a single herd down in Laredo - so Job 1 - put a round into every body possible, finish 'em off later.

 

[M. Sage]

Sorry if I wasn't clear....when we're clearing hogs as nuisances, I'm looking to put a round in 'em, then move on to the next one. Final/clean-up shots come after I've gotten a round into every last one I possibly can. Years back it was nothing to top a hill and encounter 50+ hogs in a single herd down in Laredo - so Job 1 - put a round into every body possible, finish 'em off later.

AK + drum!

 

[FlashBang]

Just put up "No Feral Hog Zone" signs.... geez, do I have to think of everything!?

 

[TexasRedneck]

Just put up "No Feral Hog Zone" signs.... geez, do I have to think of everything!?

In pig latin, of course......

 

[1slow01Z71]

One of these is on my to buy list for next year
WASP CNVD – New from TNVC - Soldier Systems
Ought to work well for ridding the world of piggies with my 458 socom

 

[Shorts]

Just put up "No Feral Hog Zone" signs.... geez, do I have to think of everything!?

I'm going to write you in next election. That surely can beat out the Degettes, Kellys and Jackson Lees in this world.

 

[eff]

About 10 years ago my wife was driving at night on Hwy 97 between Pleasanton and Floresville. She hit a pack of hogs. The DPS officer counted 13 dead and he had to kill several more that were badly injured. The Ford Winstar had a slight crease in the driver front fender, a bent rim, and popped air bags. She was lucky. That was all the damage. She drove that Winstar another 5 years.

 

[Flyingswords]

That hog sure looks like its smiling for the camera lol

 

[alexrex20]

We just need to put those shock collars on all the hogs, with an invisible fence alongside the highway.

 

[TheDan]

We just need to put those shock collars on all the hogs, with an invisible fence alongside the highway.

...and we could sell tickets for people to watch fools try to put collars on feral hogs!

 

[GrandpaOf18]

...and we could sell tickets for people to watch fools try to put collars on feral hogs!

Hmmmm, need to go find my scalping hat

 

[benenglish]

“They got caught up in the wheels like marbles,” she said.

Back in the 1970s when I took Driver's Ed in central Texas, we were taught that the two animals you most need to look for were hogs and vultures.

Hogs, we were told, were bad specifically because of what the lady in the accident is quoted as saying. Being low and dense, they're liable to get under the car and lever it up off the road. Cars are not meant to travel without all wheels on the ground so this usually ends badly.

Vultures eating road kill were another issue. Startle 'em and they're likely to fly away. When they try to get off the ground, their instinct is to jump into or run across the most active nearby thermal area in order to catch the rising air. Well, if they're eating on the side of the road the best source of hot, rising air is probably the roadway itself. Long story short, they'll jump or waddle right out in front of you.

I've never hit a hog but I was in a car where a vulture, in exactly the manner described above, impacted the front windshield.

From all that, I gather my old Driver's Ed instructor had an idea what he was talking about.

Lordy, would I hate to hit just one big hog traveling 85+mph!

 

[alexrex20]

I bet my truck could take a whole pack of hogs at 85mph.

I once hit a turkey vulture at ~140mph. Didn't lose control, but the impact damn near totaled the car.

 

[alexrex20]

...and we could sell tickets for people to watch fools try to put collars on feral hogs!

You mean the same fools that want to use barbed wire to keep the hogs off the highway? lol

 

[Das Jared]

You mean the same fools that want to use barbed wire to keep the hogs off the highway? lol

Cough doc roe

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[Younggun]

Back in the 1970s when I took Driver's Ed in central Texas, we were taught that the two animals you most need to look for were hogs and vultures.

Hogs, we were told, were bad specifically because of what the lady in the accident is quoted as saying. Being low and dense, they're liable to get under the car and lever it up off the road. Cars are not meant to travel without all wheels on the ground so this usually ends badly.

Vultures eating road kill were another issue. Startle 'em and they're likely to fly away. When they try to get off the ground, their instinct is to jump into or run across the most active nearby thermal area in order to catch the rising air. Well, if they're eating on the side of the road the best source of hot, rising air is probably the roadway itself. Long story short, they'll jump or waddle right out in front of you.

I've never hit a hog but I was in a car where a vulture, in exactly the manner described above, impacted the front windshield.

From all that, I gather my old Driver's Ed instructor had an idea what he was talking about.

Lordy, would I hate to hit just one big hog traveling 85+mph!

I never thought much of buzzards until I was sitting in the passenger seat when one hit right in front of my face.

I put my head down fast enough to keep glass from getting in my eyes but got numerous cuts trying to get it off my arms and face. We had probably gotten slowed down to under 45 when it hit.

I give them a lot more room now.

 

[recoveringyankee]

Cough doc roe

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I miss him, he was entertaining. In a train wreck sorta way.

 

[Das Jared]

I miss him, he was entertaining. In a train wreck sorta way.

I dont. Kid was a hazzard to society

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[steve-o]

Cough doc roe

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Did he get banned, or did he finally realize he was a pain in the arse?