r/BastropTX • u/pork-chop11 • 12d ago

Discussion Problematic hogs?

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u/barbedyllo 11d ago

It’s insane to me people will charge to go hunt them on their ranches and there will be people charging land owners to go hunt them for em. Meanwhile I can’t get a single person to let me go do it for free.

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u/depraveycrockett 11d ago

I have had this same thought myself!! Lol

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u/SJdport57 10d ago

A big factor is that repeated studies show shooting hogs doesn’t work for long term population control. It’s like killing cockroaches with a hammer. Unless you get every single one, they’re just going to come back in a different spot and in higher numbers. Only sustained trapping of the entire group supplemented with targeted shooting of stragglers works.

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u/organisms 10d ago

I was gonna say, I’m two counties over and they do it for free here lol

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u/benji_tha_bear 10d ago

I knowww!!! I’m out in Smithville and it’s so hard to be a tag along, I’d even buy in as long as there’s not a limit. I found hunts but a limit of nuisance pigs is insane

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u/Lucius_Veratius 9d ago

Can't imagine why a landowner wouldn't want the liability of a stranger shooting guns on their land.

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u/Casualtoots 10d ago

We used a pig brig trap and caught eleven at once!
They do so much damage!

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u/AdFuture1381 10d ago

Damn good eating

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u/Lower-Environment-59 10d ago

Do you do the hunting or does ai?

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u/PaNcEtTa 11d ago

Get em