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Posted: 12/14/2018 11:42:13 PM EDT

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/we-are-being-invaded-by-wild-hogs-feds-shoot-swine/article_38268be4-b133-51ea-b0f6-6d6c91a56443.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

Posted: 12/15/2018 8:05:04 AM EDT

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Sounds like y’all have the same problem we do. The people in charge don’t know much about wildlife.

Posted: 12/15/2018 8:40:16 AM EDT

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Can you copy/paste because paywall.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:14:37 AM EDT

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That’s funny. They killed a hundred last week. The good news for Missouri, since the feds are in charge, you’ll have something to hunt year round before too long . Get in early. Once it gets popular, farmers get bombarded with people “offering to help out”. Then his cow/horse/goat/tractor will get shot up . Then you get thrown off , and he starts researching poison. Poison is boring , no shooting pigs in the face with poison.

Posted: 12/19/2018 8:28:41 PM EDT

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We have already been told we can’t hunt them. Apparently it will disrupt the mo gov attempts to trap them and also us hunters cannot be trusted to not catch and realease them in other places. But the feds.....they get to.

Posted: 2/9/2019 12:15:53 AM EDT

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@sanman28

We can hunt them, just has to be a property not owned by the state or managed by MDC. There is nothing stopping you from hunting on a farm.

Posted: 2/9/2019 12:25:31 AM EDT

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That’s funny. They killed a hundred last week. The good news for Missouri, since the feds are in charge, you’ll have something to hunt year round before too long . Get in early. Once it gets popular, farmers get bombarded with people “offering to help out”. Then his cow/horse/goat/tractor will get shot up . Then you get thrown off , and he starts researching poison. Poison is boring , no shooting pigs in the face with poison.

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That's how it used to be a couple years ago before the game wardens made it illegal. They run a monopoly on wild pork around here, have to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to shoot pigs.

Posted: 2/9/2019 1:25:40 AM EDT

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Funny how situations are treated differently regionally. In Texas, I would not be surprised if they passed a law saying you HAD to shoot a hog or two. I have 190 acres in S. Texas and they are a horrible problem. As far as "saving" the meat is concerned, it is just not cost effective. Donating the meat is easy, cleaning the nasty "you know what" to get the meat is not easy. I am a dragger, as in I shoot them and then drag them to the corner of the property.

Posted: 2/9/2019 11:11:15 AM EDT

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We can hunt them, just has to be a property not owned by the state or managed by MDC. There is nothing stopping you from hunting on a farm.

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I guess “can’t” was too strong a word. They strongly discourage it.

Posted: 2/9/2019 12:57:54 PM EDT

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@sanman28

We can hunt them, just has to be a property not owned by the state or managed by MDC. There is nothing stopping you from hunting on a farm.

I guess “can’t” was too strong a word. They strongly discourage it.

For those of us that dont have private property access, it's a defacto ban.

Posted: 2/9/2019 3:45:40 PM EDT

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All of this really poses an interest dilemma. If the state of Missouri doesn’t want a hog population, then what they need to do is ban hunting them . If they don’t, folk will realize it’s fun, and you can do it year round , and they’ll pay to do it . Once money starts getting made, they’ll start importing them . Then you’ll really have a problem so to speak. At the end of the day , nobody really wants them gone . Everybody act like they do. Most have no idea of the real damage, and aren’t impacted by it either. If they really wanted to “help landowners “ they could take the 20k worth of thermal/nv they just bought and donate it to a guy that’s got pigs. He could buy 2 nice traps to use at his place. But that ain’t as fun as shooting them in the face....

Posted: 2/10/2019 8:22:31 AM EDT

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@sanman28

We can hunt them, just has to be a property not owned by the state or managed by MDC. There is nothing stopping you from hunting on a farm.

I guess “can’t” was too strong a word. They strongly discourage it.

For those of us that dont have private property access, it's a defacto ban.

Sad part is Missouri has a huge amount of Department of Conservation that is not does not include State Parks.

Posted: 2/10/2019 10:33:40 AM EDT

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All of this really poses an interest dilemma. If the state of Missouri doesn’t want a hog population, then what they need to do is ban hunting them . If they don’t, folk will realize it’s fun, and you can do it year round , and they’ll pay to do it . Once money starts getting made, they’ll start importing them . Then you’ll really have a problem so to speak. At the end of the day , nobody really wants them gone . Everybody act like they do. Most have no idea of the real damage, and aren’t impacted by it either. If they really wanted to “help landowners “ they could take the 20k worth of thermal/nv they just bought and donate it to a guy that’s got pigs. He could buy 2 nice traps to use at his place. But that ain’t as fun as shooting them in the face....

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Yeah and after ten years of shooting them in the face it really becomes work! I liked a whole lot better when we could sell them to the Texans for really good money. I can remember the days of $100.00 an inch for tusk. And a bonus if they were calm animals. We’ve always had feral pigs here and they didn’t explode until the state banned selling them to Texas. Nobody here wants to pay to hunt them and most properties are small so we really don’t have the hunting options large land owners have.

Posted: 2/10/2019 10:49:15 AM EDT

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@sanman28

We can hunt them, just has to be a property not owned by the state or managed by MDC. There is nothing stopping you from hunting on a farm.

I guess “can’t” was too strong a word. They strongly discourage it.

For those of us that dont have private property access, it's a defacto ban.

Sad part is Missouri has a huge amount of Department of Conservation that is not does not include State Parks.

I do all my hunting in Mark Twain. I see hog sign almost everytime I get around a water hole. It's a shame I cant actively hunt them.