http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLp6DQjDjxw

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What do you reckon that 'yote thought when the guns started shooting and the pigs started squealing?

This guy is out of Columbus, GA, and was with the Army Marksmanship Unit. He is in the hog control business, using state-of-the-art thermal scopes and equipment. I think he charges his shooters $550.00 per night, two minimum and three maximum shooters. There is no charge to the landowners, who are proud to have the pests gone. The field where this hunt was taking place appeared to me to be a harvested peanut field. You just wouldn't believe how much damage a herd of hogs like there is in that video can do in just one night.

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Looks like fun to me! But I hate to think about dressin' out all them oinkers.
f.t.

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These guys come to Randolph Co. where I live.We are over run with hogs. They tear up fields,deer plots,and anything else they come across.They are the biggest problem we have down here right now,but they are good to eat and are a lot of fun to shoot.Killed five last deer season.

There are several threads running concurrently on the GON forum. It's the hog-doggers vs. the farmers and thermal shooters.

The guy who is doing this has several other very impressive videos on some of the threads. Most of the dog hunters are referring to it as a "sport" and apparently consider hogs just as much of a game animal as deer, turkey, or rabbits. The difference is that hogs are one of the most destructive non-native-invasive species known to man.

Most of us who own property and try to farm would like to see all of them dead in a big pile.

http://forum.gon.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33
http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=331388
http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=331353

And this one sort of started things off a day or so back. I had to remind them that hogs are not game animals and hog hunting is not a sport, because calling it a sport implies management other than eradication.
http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=317870

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Frankly, I like having a few feral hogs around at my place. They are sporty, tasty, and "free."

I agree that all feral hogs should be eradicated.
If you travel up US 129 and US 76 across any of the mountains in north Georgia, the hogs have completely demolished the road embankments trying to get all the salt that is spread when the roads are icy.
Coyotes should be also...but the coyotes do seem to keep the feral feline population under control...but they also seem to kill off all the rabbit hunting.

Can't have it both ways I suppose.

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I understand there is one famous Georgia Peanut Farmer who disagrees with the program. A former Navy Guy, name is Jimmy Carter, he believes that quiet diplomacy will work, if that fails after a few years you can take the matter to the UN, or perhaps hold “free” elections where only the hogs get to vote.

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And the rest of us former Navy guys apologize to everyone else for letting him slip through.

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Ok, am I the only guy watching that video that was trying to "help them aim"? I found myself adjusting my head to get the hog in the crosshairs. LOL

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Yeah, me too.

I was a bit annoyed, though, at his calling that "hunting", especially where you see the three pigs that have been hit and are layin' there scratchin' around, tryin' to get up, and they don't shoot 'em again. I understand that they are vermin, and when I hear the rats, up in the attic (the ones that ate the poison) squeaking in pain, I think, "Good. Die in pain you little hairy ****s". But I don't think I could shoot something and let it suffer, without putting another one in it. No matter what it was.

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Those Jager Pro vids are AMAZING!!!

It's like watching a video game.

Some of those shots are impressive...those boys have some skill.

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+1

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Yes, don't know how many they missed, but 50 yds on a running pig in the dark!! Wonder if that was the former army marksmanship unit guy?

When I first moved to my current house about 25 years ago there was a neighbor that did some saw mill work although he was almost "retired" then. He said that during the war he worked during the week in Baltimore at the ship yards and only got up to Pa some week-end. Said when he started to work on the ships he let all the pigs he had and could get loose on the mt behind his place. After a year he started harvesting them and selling the meet to the Gov"t (spam). Said he made more money during the war than at anytime during his life.

He also showed me a ,22 rifle that he claimed had killed hundreds of coons, but then he had been hunting them with it for nearly 50 years. He had a few hounds around still but couldn't hunt anymore, would have loved to have known him in his prime, nothing like following the sound of a good dog on a hot trail.

+1

I like to wait on them without night vision and stuff - just shot them at sunrise in the morning fog. I´m happy with one at a time.

They might want a bigger gun next time

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0ge...050322_hogzilla.html

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If you have a place down there that will come let me try to shoot a few Red, let me know.

I'll buy some night vision...always wanted an excuse to get some.

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Rats in the attic? Wow, and I thought palmetto bugs were bad enough.

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Rats don't crawl in your ear while you are sleeping and lay eggs.

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