Texas overrun by invaders!

Those charter helicopter hog shooting (eradication) services are charging $15000.00 for a 6 hour day. It includes lunch, use of a 12g MKA1919, 00-buck and mags. But still. Fifteen thousand dollars. Split 8 ways that's only $1875 per person for an ~hour of door gunner time.
 
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Those charter helicopter hog shooting (eradication) services are charging $15000.00 for a 6 hour day. ...
Sounds to me like there are plenty of opportunities for a lot less money!
 
Texas is full of people that can afford it.

I want to help them with their Bobcat and Coyote problem.

Some day soon I hope !!!
 
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And yet I bet they make it difficult to go kill them...

I have wanted to go hog hunting for years. With all the complaining, you'd think it would be easy to set up. Nobody will let hunt for them. And everyone wants you to pay hundreds of dollars for a day hunt. I don't get it. Deer are even worse.

I can go to nahunta and buy a hog dressed and ready for the grill for $100-150. No muss, no fuss...
 
TX is like anywhere else, if you know the folks you can get access. I do hate that they’ve almost universally gone to high fence which keeps the deer on their ranch, but I think it also limits genetic diversity so short-term win, long term loss. I don’t expect that the fence is much of a hog barrier.
 
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Double ought buck from an arial platform? They probably wound ten for every kill. No thanks, even if I did have$15k to burn.

You've got problems with an invasive species? I'll be glad to help you out for the cost of a few rounds. I like pork. I really like bacon.

You want how much? No thanks, keep your pork. I'll go buy pork loin for $3-4/lb.
 
2 years ago when I was building a property in Katie (west of Houston) I had my doubts about the site after I showed up one morning before daylight to get an early start with the surveyors and saw groups (10 to 12 per group) of hogs milling about showing very little concern about the human presence. This parcel was surrounded on 3 sides by agricultural and a highway on the 4th so I knew it wasn't going to get any better.
I expressed my concerns to the client and being ignorant of the destructiveness of wild hogs he hesitated on a final decision to abandon the parcel. Thank God that during his hesitation we had really heavy rains and because of a drainage ditch that had been altered 1/4 mile away the site flooded and was condemned by the county.
We wound up in a lawsuit with the idiot farmer that altered the drainage and found another parcel about 2 miles away to build on, thank you God!!!
 
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maybe the hogs will eat the liberals infesting that Republic

That's insulting - even feral swine have some hygiene standards!
 
When my sister lived in The Woodlands, about 20 minutes north of Houston, they had some big-ass feral hogs, and this was 15 years ago.
 
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