BoarBuster - This is an awesome feral hog control invention

[pianoman9701]

http://www.noble.org/Global/boarbuster/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFXhGoDnW0

[Axle]

Very nice! I can spend hours watching youtube hog hunting videos.  Trapping them looks like fun too. 

[HunterStrait]

I really like what JAGER PRO does to control the Hog populations.
I think its more efficient than this imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7JATeB8Ug0

[pianoman9701]

I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. Either are effective, for sure.

[Machias]

I think the BoarBuster solves some of the issues that the Jager Pro has.  Of course you could also be looking at hogs that had not been hunted and trapped as hard as the ones in the Jager Pro videos.

[jasnt]

I'd bet a similar trap setup could be used to trap k9's in this state.  Thanks for posting

[pianoman9701]

The thing I like about this one is that the complete cage is off the ground, so the pigs aren't worried about an enclosure. They sure go nuts when either trap shuts.

[Machias]

I'm doing a hog hunt down in South Carolina on the 20th of March.  Can't wait!!

[pianoman9701]

We're going to want pics and video, Fred! 

[jasnt]

We're going to want pics and video, Fred! 

[Stein]

Here is the thing, I don't think feral hogs are really a problem.  If they were, there would be lists of landowners who are looking for someone to come shoot them - take a look at pronghorn in WY for example or the management hunts in WA or MT.

Instead, what I saw when I looked was a bunch of offers to pay them to shoot a pig.  If I have to pay to shoot something, it really isn't a problem it is a source of revenue.

[Machias]

It's a HUGE problem in a lot of agriculture areas and actually hunting them does more harm than good in a lot of areas.  They have to be heavily trapped and aerial shooting were possible.  The hogs are so smart and breed so quickly (hmm sounds a lot like a wolf problem) hunting them only makes them smarter and harder to control.  Check out the Jager Pro video above.  Those hogs are hunted hard and it's not having any significant impact on the numbers.

[pianoman9701]

Here is the thing, I don't think feral hogs are really a problem.  If they were, there would be lists of landowners who are looking for someone to come shoot them - take a look at pronghorn in WY for example or the management hunts in WA or MT.

Instead, what I saw when I looked was a bunch of offers to pay them to shoot a pig.  If I have to pay to shoot something, it really isn't a problem it is a source of revenue.

It's called doing their best to make lemonade out of lemons. This year, agricultural damage due to hogs in TX alone is predicted to be $55M - just one state. Nationwide, we're looking at $1.5B. Believe it; feral hogs are really a problem.

[Machias]

We're going to want pics and video, Fred! 

Oh yea, I'll be documenting and sharing! 

[stevemiller]

sorry but I have to agree with Stein here.Yeah they say 55mill. in damage but is it really?The farmers are making big money on this deal thats for sure.GOV. SUBSIDIES, TV series,Hunting,Guides,meat,lodging,taxes,The list is endless.If they really wanted to get rid of the problem they could.It doesnt matter what the animal is if over hunted its gone,The hog just needs to be hunted a little more than it is for less money and its gone.A farmer with a problem:A)gets paid from Uncle Sam for damage B)Rents out hunting lodge for hunters C)Charges so much per hog harvested D)Charges to have the hog processed. E)Growing seasons over replant crops call Uncle Sam whine some get whole thing started all over again.Some of these people are making money hand over fist,All while trying to get the legislature in their states to limit other ways of fighting the hog population.If a real problem existed and they put out a free for all it would be done as fast as it was here in WA. lol.

[Bofire]

   https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/



read this,     what feral hog problem in Washington??

Carl

[pianoman9701]

I'm unsure that you have a grasp of the hog problem across the country. There are a few who are trying to take advantage with hunting, even fewer who make any money on TV shows. Livestock ranchers are losing calves. Cotton, rice, soybean, sorghum, and wheat farmers are having the crops tilled over and destroyed. In HI, the hogs have decided that the roots of palm trees are extra-tasty, so they're killing the state's palms at an alarming rate. What you see on TV looks like a lot of fun and I'm sure it is. But the bulk of farmers and ranchers across this nation want nothing to do with feral hogs and are having a hard time keeping up with them.

[stevemiller]

I'm unsure that you have a grasp of the hog problem across the country. There are a few who are trying to take advantage with hunting, even fewer who make any money on TV shows. Livestock ranchers are losing calves. Cotton, rice, soybean, sorghum, and wheat farmers are having the crops tilled over and destroyed. In HI, the hogs have decided that the roots of palm trees are extra-tasty, so they're killing the state's palms at an alarming rate. What you see on TV looks like a lot of fun and I'm sure it is. But the bulk of farmers and ranchers across this nation want nothing to do with feral hogs and are having a hard time keeping up with them.

Im sure that this is true piano,But show me some adds where these farmers you speak of have put out free to hunt hogs anytime no limit in Texas since its the worst they say.

[Bofire]

  http://www.huntingtexashogs.com/hunts/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAvKunBRCfsum9z6fu_5IBEiQAu4lg4qY1-z2LCW_utE82MlA6YA9njuGnARX8YmtYipTiHsQaAirb8P8HAQ

Free!! hunt
Carl

[pianoman9701]

Two completely different topics - national agricultural hog damage and those who are charging for hog hunting. I understand what you're saying about marketing hog hunting. But, just because they're charging for it doesn't mean they're making as much money on it as they were on agriculture, either. Many of these farmers have lost way more than they'll be able to recover by letting you and me shoot pigs on their land.

[stevemiller]

http://www.huntingtexashogs.com/hunts/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAvKunBRCfsum9z6fu_5IBEiQAu4lg4qY1-z2LCW_utE82MlA6YA9njuGnARX8YmtYipTiHsQaAirb8P8HAQ

Free!! hunt
Carl

Thanks Carl, UUUMMMMM is this a joke cause I cant tell lol.Does this look free to you?

[Machias]

The World's Worst Invasive Mammals

Boar War

“I’ve trapped 61 of ‘em down here in the last month,” says Tom Quaca, whose in-laws have owned this land for about a century. “But at least we got some hay out of here this year. First time in six years.” Quaca hopes to flatten the earth and crush the saplings with a bulldozer. Then maybe—maybe—the hogs will move onto adjacent hunting grounds and he can once again use his family’s land.

Wild hogs are among the most destructive invasive species in the United States today. Two million to six million of the animals are wreaking havoc in at least 39 states and four Canadian provinces; half are in Texas, where they do some $400 million in damages annually. They tear up recreational areas, occasionally even terrorizing tourists in state and national parks, and squeeze out other wildlife.

Texas allows hunters to kill wild hogs year-round without limits or capture them alive to take to slaughterhouses to be processed and sold to restaurants as exotic meat. Thousands more are shot from helicopters. The goal is not eradication, which few believe possible, but control.

The wily hogs seem to thrive in almost any conditions, climate or ecosystem in the state—the Pineywoods of east Texas; the southern and western brush country; the lush, rolling central Hill Country. They are surprisingly intelligent mammals and evade the best efforts to trap or kill them (and those that have been unsuccessfully hunted are even smarter). They have no natural predators, and there are no legal poisons to use against them. Sows begin breeding at 6 to 8 months of age and have two litters of four to eight piglets—a dozen is not unheard of—every 12 to 15 months during a life span of 4 to 8 years. Even porcine populations reduced by 70 percent return to full strength within two or three years.

Wild hogs are “opportunistic omnivores,” meaning they’ll eat most anything. Using their extra-long snouts, flattened and strengthened on the end by a plate of cartilage, they can root as deep as three feet. They’ll devour or destroy whole fields—of sorghum, rice, wheat, soybeans, potatoes, melons and other fruits, nuts, grass and hay. Farmers planting corn have discovered that the hogs go methodically down the rows during the night, extracting seeds one by one.

Hogs erode the soil and muddy streams and other water sources, possibly causing fish kills. They disrupt native vegetation and make it easier for invasive plants to take hold. The hogs claim any food set out for livestock, and occasionally eat the livestock as well, especially lambs, kids and calves. They also eat such wildlife as deer and quail and feast on the eggs of endangered sea turtles.

[stevemiller]

Maybe Washington can help,We send a handful of breeding pair wolves to Texas. 

[Bofire]

  Hey it said Free right in the search block, and its on the internet, so its true!!!

[j_h_nimrod]

Maybe Washington can help,We send a handful of breeding pair wolves to Texas. 

More likely they would ask for a few pairs to start a breeding population and then list them as threatened until the numbers climb to a sustainable level in 7 of 10 arbitrary regions of the state representing the whole. Then open a limited hunting season by drawing only opened from the first odd numbered Thursday in June u til the first even numbered Tuesday following the season opening, except in even numbered years when hunting is further limited to only the first odd numbered Thursday until the next even numbered Friday.

Your first tag would cost a reasonable $54.30, if drawn (the drawing application costs $6.60) any following tags are a second pig drawing permit which costs an additional $67.42 for the permit if you are drawn after another $6.60 application fee.

[j_h_nimrod]

Pigs are considered the smartest domestic animal, above dogs and birds by a fair margin. They carry this into wild situations and are incredibly intelligent animals. They are also one of the most difficult to keep penned, hence the ferrel population.

[huntingfool7]

I like the open design and remote controlled trigger on the BoarBuster (and the Jager).  I'm guessing that the "rotation while closing" design of the BoarBuster is to prevent the cage from being lifted.

If you think feral hogs are some sort of cash crop, you have not spent any time looking into it.