Hog Patrol has started

[Mark W]

Man the second time I went to PA to shoot 1000yds, we drove 80 across coming from Ky and I had never seen so many deer hit by cars it was like every 2 miles blood and inners all over the place, it was just crazy this was 1987

You should see I-79 from the WV line up to Pittsburgh during the rut. It’s a literal blood bath.

 

[dgeesaman]

What he expected to gnaw on is beyond me.

A sleeping female from what I understand.

 

[msinc]

Baptized my new Model 7 yesterday...only shot him because he was not a very big hog. I kinda hate to shoot them this time of year, but you know...new rifle, just shot a really good group...couldn't help it!!! As much as everyone wants to get rid of them around here {lot of horse farms} they are having babies and that means fewer targets in the later spring/early summer.

 

[Bc'z]

Baptized my new Model 7 yesterday...only shot him because he was not a very big hog. I kinda hate to shoot them this time of year, but you know...new rifle, just shot a really good group...couldn't help it!!! As much as everyone wants to get rid of them around here {lot of horse farms} they are having babies and that means fewer targets in the later spring/early summer.

Ya gotta save some for seed !

 

[hogpatrol]

Ya gotta save some for seed !

I hear you BUT with millions of dollars in horseflesh trotting around, the farm managers won't wait for me to show up. They'll gas them and backfill the holes.

 

[msinc]

I hear you BUT with millions of dollars in horseflesh trotting around, the farm managers won't wait for me to show up. They'll gas them and backfill the holes.

Here's a story that actually happened about 20 miles from my house. Years ago {maybe they still do} the local John Deere dealership sold these contraptions for "gassing" woodchucks. It was a metal plate with a hose that ran from a propane tank, like the ones used on a gas grill. Bear in mind I have never seen one of these, so I cant even swear that it exists.
Two local farmers, fed up with woodchucks devouring their soybeans decided that the thing cost too much, but the idea, if slightly modified was a good one. These two guys take a garden hose and shove it down the den hole, put a funnel on it and pour about 2 gallons of gasoline down the hose. Then they pour some more directly down the hole, stand back and light it. The woodchuck of course catches on fire and comes running out.....and climbs right up one of the guys leg. The other fella gets a good healthy dose of burning hog when he tries to put out the first guy and both of them end up in the hospital. Apparently a woodchucks hide can absorb quite a bit of gasoline...the first guy had to be flown to another hospital and nearly died.
I don't know if the propane tank deal is the same rig others use or not, but as I understand it you are not supposed to light anything...I think the idea is that the propane displaces all the oxygen in the den and the woodchuck goes to sleep. The heavy metal plate prevents him from escaping. Goes without saying that if he has another entrance you have to block that one too.
I'm glad these guys don't reload. Not long after this incident an anti-gun horse idiot asked me what the best way was to get rid of groundhogs. I knew she would never let me hunt them on her farm. I told her lead poisoning, figuring she would get it. Nope...she actually asked me. "how do you get them to eat lead?" I said, "they don't eat it, you inject it" She looked really puzzled so I said,..."at 4000 feet per second!!!"