OOH FERAL HOGS! I HATE EM!
They’re also - at least the feral invasive ones here - naturally diurnal, but they’ve LEARNED to be nearly exclusively nocturnal, because they don’t want to get hunted. A lot of the time, they won’t even come anywhere near trail cameras, and they’ve learned to stay WELL out of any source of unnatural light, so even a lot of the high tech defense won’t work on them. It’s a very serious game of chess, figuring out ways to eradicate them, or at least keep them off your property, before they figure that shit out and adapt. Bastards.
If you read any of the articles about this invasive hog crisis, from local news sources all the way up to the Smithsonian Institute and the like, just about all of them have this tone of desperation. This is a very serious problem.
And YES. These things are BIG.
These crazy cowboys CAUGHT - not killed, CAUGHT - and 800lb monster!
Feral, invasive hogs are FUCKING TEXAS UP. They’re destroying just our farmland to the tune of 50+ million dollars a year in Texas alone. That doesn’t count all of the other property damage they cost us. They’re a foreign species that has NO natural predators here and is far too well-suited for this climate.
I can attest that they are wrecking MY place, too, knocking down and killing trees and tearing up basically everything.
Somebody’s out here hunting at least every weekend, usuallly more, and we’ve never got one. We’ve got traps all over, and we’ve never caught one. They sneak around at night, get inside the trap, take the feed, and get out with out setting off the damn trap. They’re SMART.
Setting up ONE of the traps. It’s also BIG.
I see rubbings in my own yard from these fuckers that come up 4 feet off the ground. That’s anywhere from 6″ to a foot shorter than the pig that rubbed it, too, cause, well, pigs tend to be pretty round.
These are where they rub up against a tree, either just passing by, or to scratch themselves or whatever. They leave a layer of mud on the tree where they rub. See how high up the tree that one on the right is? The MONSTER doing that is probably at least 4 feet tall, just standing normally. This fuckers are HUGE.
Here’s ONE of the places they live, just on my own property:
They’ve carved out several wallows in the side of this bottom. I know I’ve got plenty of pics better than this, but I think they must be on my other camera cause I can’t find them.
I don’t think you can tell from the crappy pic, but that bed is a good 6-7 feet long and 5 or so feet wide. And it’s only ONE of them. They’re everywhere all over these 40 acres, and then everywhere else all over the damn state. And Texas, as you may have heard, is BIG.
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