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We’ve all been there. Your small kids are out playing in the yard. Suddenly, within three to five minutes of you opening the door, there are 30 to 50 feral hogs running through. How are you supposed to kill them, you may ask? While this recent scenario caused perhaps the most unexplainable comedic event on Twitter in quite some time, feral hogs are apparently such a problem in Texas that you no longer need a license to hunt them. Starting September 1, you can just go out and shoot them however you please so long as it’s public land.
In March of 2019, the Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPW) Commission made several rule changes for the 2019-2020 hunting season. Amongst those rules were several de-regulations. According to ReformAustin.com, “legislators passed Senate Bill 317 to address the 1.5 million feral hogs in Texas that cause around $400,000,000 of damage each year. The new law exempts anyone hunting on public lands from needing a license to hunt feral hogs.”
In early August, father Willie McNabb earnestly asked Twitter in the middle of a heated gun debate, “Legit question for rural Americans – How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?” read more
How about if you’re from out of state?
An AR-15 against 30-50 wouldn’t do you more good than a musket.
As soon as you fire it at one hog, the rest will scatter.
If this is how Hillary must be brought to justice, so be it.
How about Washington D.C.?
Joe6Pak,
You may have to provide your own helicopter.
KR
Amy Schumer better stay out of Texas. Just saying….
If I were a young man today I would not rest until I had imported a pack of bull arabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2giZztoD6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QRFIU9uBQ
They is the schiznit!!! Had fun with walkers when i was a kid hunting bears, but this looks like too much fun!
Texas Wild Boar BBQ!
I’m drooling so much, I need a mop.
We’ve had no license, no season, and no limit on feral hogs for a while. Great fun! I use a Marlin 336 in 45/70 with a forward mount 2x scope. Fast, fun and the hog is dead by the time it hits the ground.
Great way to spend a day with your buddies and have a tasty reward. Roasting it over an open fire is a must-do activity.
Sounds good until you go to the link for acreage of
public land to hunt by state. Texas has 0.1 acres per hunter.
A sad joke if your feral pigs have the rest to
run around. Only way to do it is open All land,
public and private to pig hunting year round
with some distance to buildings and roads etc.,
no go areas. The pigs are smart. Once under hunting pressure, they move.
https://www.backcountrychronicles.com/public-hunting-land/
I’d go. Not too keen on eatin’ them though. A bit gamey.
And yeah, not much public land per hunter, but all the hunters are spread out over the state…..which I hear is somewhat expansive.
They want to eliminate them, put a bounty of $10 per hog! Hunters ciould use pick up trucks to hunt from.
@ Aaron Burr AUGUST 22, 2019 AT 5:15 PM
That is why you have the butcher make them into Italian sausage
How do you pronounce feral?
FREEral or FAIRal?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feral
Click both little speakers.
No, No NO!
We can save these beautiful creatures!
Let us trap and relocate as many as we can to an environ that is both similar in clime, and to one where their attributes will stand them in good stead.
Say Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the like?
And France
We have the same problem with Iguana’s..State finally said kill em
all (Florida)…Our local Sheriff did a Radio spot …He came across
like the Sheriff’s from every B Movie Zombie Flick..
“Ya gotta kill em quick…Lop of their heads with a Machete”
I envisioned Him rubbing His forehead with the Barrel of a Pistol
while recording the spot.
@Extirpates, I recently read somewhere there is a bounty on them and it was definitely more than $10 each.
@JDHasty, I had my meat processor turn some of my boar into Black Forest sausage and Cheesy Bavarian sausage. I’ve been sharing with friends and a couple of neighbors. It is delicious! Haven’t tried the smoked ham or other cuts yet.
Right on!
Yeah JD. They do that with the skinny ass Javalinas out here. Cant hunt them though except jan an feb….so….no idea where the sausage comes from.
I just like the idea of killin’ ish’ in Texas.
Back up. Texas wild boars ain’t Javalinas. Totally different species.
Now I really want in.
Whew! I thought this was about eatin’ them lil’ peccaries or however you spell it. Texas has wild PORK. Hellz yeah.
They’re open season in Georgia. No bag limit. They aren’t worth eating. But they’re destructive to the habitat. I kill em all the time.
We got one in Arizona, it tasted just fine. We had six dogs to find it. Smart things. The pig got in the water where it could stand but the dogs had to swim.
@MX: “Amy Schumer better stay out of Texas. Just saying… ”
And Michael Moore, as well.
This:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=hunting+hogs+in+texas+by+helicopter+with+machine+guns&view=detail&mid=C6401CCB41519E6ECE87C6401CCB41519E6ECE87&FORM=VIRE.
There is a better way to eliminate the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcxow7lBr3Q
I know I’m late to this party, but here goes,,,
1. Rosie O’Donnell
2. Kathy Griffin
3. Ellen
4. Who’s name that will not be spoken (Hillery), be very very quiet.
Getting late, list will continue on,,, now that it’s a LAW, forever!
We’ve been good to go on our own land for a long time here in Texas. Kill them all year long however you want. There’s other rules, too, but to kill them on public land, you needed a general hunting permit. Never has been a specific license for feral hogs in Texas.
So the reporter’s understanding and suggestion are lame. He could shoot them from his front porch in that scenario. Even in the city it would be self defense against a mass of dangerous animals.
They’re worse than any pitbull.
Also – they’re going to let people hunt public lands without any permit?
Wow, I had no idea things were that desperate here.