A lot of bacon I think
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A lot of bacon I think
Friend sent me this picture of a pig they killed this morning on his property down the road from me. Might be my imagination but I think they are getting bigger. I'm sure they were happy to have a tractor handy.
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Again, we don't have them in WNY but a guy from a club I belong to, said "what's the problem, my brother in Texas shoots one and the party is on." So I wrote a article why we don't want them as they'll eat anything and you can't kill enough of them to keep up with their reproduction rates. As good as it looks, feel bad for the farmers down south, due to lose of produce.
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I have mixed feelings about them and I lean more toward not liking them more but I do enjoy harvesting them from time to time and they do make a great compliment when making deer sausage.
With the cost of good night vision becoming more reasonable I suspect we will be able to do a better job thinning their ranks. A while back I was loaned some high quality night vision gear that belonged to a rich uncle and for two weeks I had a blast. I'd locate the pigs at night with the thermal gear then waylay them using the infrared. One night I emptied a thirty round magazine in a sounder. I thoroughly enjoyed that.
With work slowing down I think I'll make an extra effort to get a couple for processing.
With the cost of good night vision becoming more reasonable I suspect we will be able to do a better job thinning their ranks. A while back I was loaned some high quality night vision gear that belonged to a rich uncle and for two weeks I had a blast. I'd locate the pigs at night with the thermal gear then waylay them using the infrared. One night I emptied a thirty round magazine in a sounder. I thoroughly enjoyed that.
With work slowing down I think I'll make an extra effort to get a couple for processing.
Here in NY, NYSDEC won't let you shoot them when and if you see them. You have to contact them, so they can set up traps, etc. to catch the sounder, not just kill 1 or 2. Reason being is that they just spread out further into groups. Don't know what I'll be doing if I see any. I'm thinking, Shoot, Shovel and Shut up. Like to get some free pork.
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