Posted: 1/12/2014 5:38:30 PM EDT
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I am curious if anyone else does something similar.
My youngest kids (8, 10, 12) and I have developed a strategy for our hog population control out at my Dads 200 acre property in east Texas. In order to have an idea of the number of pigs we are seeing on trail cameras, we shoot around very unique colored pigs in order to allow that pig to identify the sounder. Over the last several years we have had spotted pigs, white stripe pigs, and some white sock pigs that were very unique. Each time we have shot around them killing the typical black and brown pigs. This way we have been able to also account for our reduction efforts when one gets away from us in the thick stuff and we are not sure how good the hit was. We confirm when that sounder count goes down by one black or brown pig that we shot. We know how many sounders are in our area at any one time and we have had a lot of fun looking at the pictures as we reduced a sounder 1 or 2 at a time from 15 down to 5 or 6. I hope that makes sense. It is something we just decided to do and it has been fun and informative on the sounder movement and habits. Let me also say this, hunting pigs with my kids using suppressed ARs is a lot of fun for a Dad. Has anyone else done something similar? |
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We have so few colored pigs, plus I can't see color through the thermal scope. Our strategy is to start with the biggest ones and work our way down. We worked a 5k acre area last year really hard starting in March. After wacking all the grownups the whole farm was full of lost and stupid juveniles. Some of the younger ones seemed to have a rough time of it too. I'm guessing when you break up pods like that anything less than 6 months old has a hard time defending himself and finding food. I killed a few 3 month old pigs wandering without a mom that looked half starved.
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Makes perfect sense for the reason you are doing it - entertainment 
It is usually my goal to try to get all of them, obviously that gets hard when you start talking 15-20 pigs. I usually shoot a mid size one that is the farthest away first. Thought is that this will afford the best chance of killing the most out of the group. Very small are stupid and will fall prey. Large are very easy to hit on the run. Farthest, because they will just be getting further and are standing still. Not great with math but best two sounder shootings I have had were 9 of 10 and 8 of 13 |
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HH1010,
BushmanLA does it to help us have a crop to harvest. The entertainment value is icing on the cake. I don't care if they starve to death, the 'yotes eat 'em, they die of lead poisoning, or just leave the parish. BTW They are easier to kill without the leader. Lee |
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HH1010, BushmanLA does it to help us have a crop to harvest. The entertainment value is icing on the cake. I don't care if they starve to death, the 'yotes eat 'em, they die of lead poisoning, or just leave the parish. BTW They are easier to kill without the leader. Lee Sorry that was in reference to the OP. |
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Interesting, but I'm too lazy for tracking.
We employ the following system on our 600 acres: Shoot all that can be shot. We used to trap many and donate them to the local mission. We even got help from a volunteer butcher for hair/sanitation issues. Health Dept. still put the kabosh on. Far better that our tax dollars give them protein. The buzzards are pleased. |
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Interesting, but I'm too lazy for tracking. We employ the following system on our 600 acres: Shoot all that can be shot. We used to trap many and donate them to the local mission. We even got help from a volunteer butcher for hair/sanitation issues. Health Dept. still put the kabosh on. Far better that our tax dollars give them protein. The buzzards are pleased. We at the Turkey Buzzard Preservation Society applaud your efforts. |