The pig is DEAD...Headshots FEATURED

ssiredfish · #1 03-14-2014, 07:51 PM

This pig walked out just before turkey season last year while I was sittin and introduced himself to me. This was the first time I realized we had a BIG hog cruising the property. That was the last time he was seen during the day and just over a year ago. Between then and now he absolutely terrorized our place. He smashed 3 feeders multiple times even drove me to staking 1" galv pipe into the ground with T-posts bolted on only to come back and find it twisted up like a pretzel and my feeder mech broken. Weve since replaced two feeder mechs, strapped feeders to the pines, straightened up this, raked out that, cleaned up this and repaired all that.

After dozens of shared hunts over the year we never caught up with him in daylight or night. He was almost mockin us as we would check our cams to find him there an hour later after we left and occasionally before we even arrived. So with Turkey season fast approaching and our "one-yr anniversary" comin up, I wanted to do something real "special" for em......My Uncle convinced me its time to just trap him and we went ahead and procured a trap we thought would be adequate.......it wasn't.

We came up a few weeks after it had been set to find the whole thing dug out(no bottom), gate closed and no pig.....not even a trigger on the cam we set on the trap. Im tellin ya this thing is good!!! So we re-baited the trap with a lil corn syrup for incentive and left it be for a few days with a 2" ratchet strap w/ earth anchors for good measure.

We came back last Saturday and as we approached we saw the gate was triggered but again no pig.......then he stood up. YES. We got em!!!!! I grabbed my 45 and Pate got the camera. It was just the kinda reunion I had in mind. No doubt he recognized me by my smell when I got up there. For a second there I imagine we looked like two Pits ready to grab each others neck. It was time......I lined up.......and then you pushed play. (Special thanks to the trailcam hangin on that tree right there that just so happened to work at the right time....this time)
http://youtu.be/hldAHrpOvMg

Destroyer · #2 03-14-2014, 08:50 PM

I haven't looked at the video. I thank you for not posting graphic pics actually on the website. Although I can fully understand your need to dispatch the animal I'm glad that I don't have to actually look at it. To me, any pictures of dead animals are far worse than the rawest porn, and I thank you for sparing those of us that do not hunt from having to look at them. Congrats on what I'm sure was a good, merciful kill. Please pass the bacon.

charlie_the_tuna · #3 03-15-2014, 01:01 AM

thought I saw the word "hunt" in there somewhere. now i'm no hunter but is that how you pig hunt? isn't that the very definition of 'shooting fish in a barrel'? that don't seem very sporting to me. I've seen some of those videos where a couple guys let some dogs out of a truck, the dogs tree a cougar and the guy walks up to the tree and shoots the cat. also, not very sporting.

bradford · #4 03-15-2014, 02:14 AM

For those who may not know wild hogs are a highly invasive non native species. I know they tear the hell out of farmers fields. They multiply like crazy and a sow can get knocked up while nursing newborns and still rearing her older piglets. A good friend of mine who is an avid hunter was told by the DNR that if you have a hog population on your land and want it just to remain the same, not increase in numbers, you have to cull 7 out of 10 every year. It is legal to shoot them all year long, no closed season. Some of the local hunters on the board will probably have more info than me.

Pulled pork for me please!

tsubaki · #5 03-15-2014, 04:55 AM

What ssired posted is considered by our State wildlife officials a good hunt - good kill and very encouraged to do so. It's actually illegal to not kill that animal before removing him from the trap.
One of the barrier islands owned by the State half way between me and ssired has a sniper on the payroll to kill them year round in order to keep the population down enough to reduce them from raiding the sea turtle nests, ground nesting birds and reduce the impact on the islands natural inhabitants. This is on top of the 7 hunts allowed that include 675 people to participate.

Destroyer · #6 03-15-2014, 01:08 PM

I can't help but think that PETA or some other outsider tree hugger group that doesn't live within a thousand miles will eventually file suit in court to stop the hunts, much like they have done here in NJ for the Black Bear hunts. Some people just don't understand the need to cull a particular animal type, be it pig, bear, deer or whatever. And although it seems mean, it's actually far kinder than letting them slowly starve to death in the winter because there's not enough food for all of them, or, in the case of the pigs, because of all the damage they do to crops and to other species. Can someone say BBQ?

bradford · #7 03-15-2014, 02:38 PM

I've seen them destroy a field over night, looked like someone was cutting doughnuts with a bulldozer.

ssiredfish · #8 03-15-2014, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by charlie_the_tuna

thought I saw the word "hunt" in there somewhere. now i'm no hunter but is that how you pig hunt? isn't that the very definition of 'shooting fish in a barrel'? that don't seem very sporting to me. I've seen some of those videos where a couple guys let some dogs out of a truck, the dogs tree a cougar and the guy walks up to the tree and shoots the cat. also, not very sporting.

Charlie I couldnt agree with you more....In my mind it was just about as coldblooded as I could have handled the situation. But it was necessary....

If you read in my post you'll see that I "fair-chased" this pig for over a year. Now that might not mean much to some but it actually means that I woke up at 5am at least 10x to hunt him exclusively and I also stayed out till midnight and past about as many times trying to catch him walking out. He just never cooperated. He didnt cooperate for any of us guys on this lease. He was just that crafty so I used the trap as a last act of desperation. It didnt make me fell good to dispatch the pig as much as it did resolving a problem that has lasted for a year, cost me prob close to $1000 and was under no circumstance gonna go another year. This pig will also provide enough food for my family for close to 6mths as well and nothing went to waste. I hope you can understand my position with this animal and rest assured that I will always prefer to "hunt" my game over trapping it.

charlie_the_tuna · #9 03-16-2014, 01:09 AM

understand, i'm not judging. we have no wild pigs on long island and i'm unfamiliar with their habits. I've also never shot an animal. i'm just mentioning the irony of what I view as putting the pig out of your misery AND using the word "hunt" in the same sentence. I admit I don't know the first thing about a nuisance pig.

Redneck · #10 03-16-2014, 09:13 AM

Nice pistol pork chop don't think so but he isn't talking any more scary being that close to them even in a cage. Shot some with a 300WSM in the lungs and they didn't drop quick would have loved a cage or fence on more then one occasion. I shoot lots of them destructive bastards they F@#$ Up the land so bad Kill em all if you can. lots of the nice little drainages and low laying Wet areas were native wild game lives are completely destroyed. The native grasses, flowers and shrubs have been replaced by thistle after pigs have taken up residence. We get $50 bucks for a set of ears from the county office witch makes it half profitable to keep the bench loader working. With more than one Redneck prowling these lands the pigs have been keep in check as best as possible.

Fire up the Smoker!!!!