And I thought we were safe!

[Magyars]

From shark attacks......at least!

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/wild-pigs-kill-more-people-sharks-shocking-new-research-reveals

 

[Ziggidy]

It's a bacon revenge!

 

[Michigan Slim]

My Pa told me porkin was dangerous!

 

[Mgderf]

Anyone who's ever lived on or near a hog farm knows they can be deadly.
Hog lots would sometimes be used to dispose of unwanted carcasses.
Hogs will eat just about anything.

 

[Magyars]

Nigh on to 40 years ago, went boar hunting in the hills of western N.C.
The guide walked with a limp and used a cane. He had been zipped open by a boar from ankle to the knee. Those tusks are sharp!

 

[Mij]

 

[Mij]

If they ever do become established in the Hoosier state I can see a lot of outdoorsmen changing out their side arms to 50 cal. something’s.

 

[Hookeye]

The laws changed some years back about raising/selling/transporting pigs.
Kinda fizzled the supposed "pig bomb"

I suppose a few are still trying to start or enhance northern populations.
Research shows that a lot of the pig "migration" was done with tires.

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/pigs-dont-fly-feral-hog-spread-man-made-mess

 

[Hkindiana]

If they ever do become established in the Hoosier state I can see a lot of outdoorsmen changing out their side arms to 50 cal. something’s.

They ARE established in southern Indiana

 

[Mij]

They ARE established in southern Indiana

From @Hookeye ‘s post above.

“Indiana’s current wild pig presence is limited to several counties, a population Backs attributes to a single probable source. According to Backs, in the mid-1990s, a resident of Louisiana used wild pigs as a cover to poach Indiana deer: “This guy would haul in wild hogs and release them. He’d hunt deer in the same location at night and when approached, he’d claim he was hunting hogs.”

 

[yetti462]

From @Hookeye ‘s post above.

“Indiana’s current wild pig presence is limited to several counties, a population Backs attributes to a single probable source. According to Backs, in the mid-1990s, a resident of Louisiana used wild pigs as a cover to poach Indiana deer: “This guy would haul in wild hogs and release them. He’d hunt deer in the same location at night and when approached, he’d claim he was hunting hogs.”

My buddy knew the guy well, said he was a he!! Of a cook too. Pigs are pretty much gone from around home, haven't seen or shot one since 18.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

False flag operations...

 

[foszoe]

My Pa told me porkin was dangerous!

Well....one day ....you will just stick it in there....and it will explode

 

[Michigan Slim]

Well....one day ....you will just stick it in there....and it will explode

Thre's teeth in there son. Ya have to be careful!

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Anyone who's ever lived on or near a hog farm knows they can be deadly.
Hog lots would sometimes be used to dispose of unwanted carcasses.
Hogs will eat just about anything.

When I was 16, my first full-time job was at a hog/dairy farm. One of my least favorite jobs was to take the old Farmall M, hitched to a corn bin wagon and go around and feed sows. The corn and pellet feed had to be poured out on a concrete slab to keep it out of the mud, but in one pasture the concrete slab was about 20 yards inside the fence. So, I had to climb the fence, with two 5-gallon buckets of corn and pellets, and wade through 50 squealing, screeching 300 lb sows and get the buckets to the slab without getting them knocked out of my hands, or tripping and falling. I was probably 135 lbs myself at that time.

By the time I'd get set up and get my buckets full, the sows would be crowded around the crossing spot, so my trick was to first put two buckets at the fence down a ways before I put my other buckets at the crossing spot. Then I'd walk down and sling the first two buckets across into the dirt, and then sprint back to the crossing spot and get across the fence while most of the sows were distracted. It was not a job for the faint-of-heart.

 

[Hkindiana]

From @Hookeye ‘s post above.

“Indiana’s current wild pig presence is limited to several counties, a population Backs attributes to a single probable source. According to Backs, in the mid-1990s, a resident of Louisiana used wild pigs as a cover to poach Indiana deer: “This guy would haul in wild hogs and release them. He’d hunt deer in the same location at night and when approached, he’d claim he was hunting hogs.”

I saw them in Lawrence county BEFORE the mid 90’s, and they are STILL here

 

[ZurokSlayer7X9]

My stepdad grew up on a hog farm. His "favorite" story was when he was around 7 years old, his dad brought him to the barn after a litter (if that's what you call it) of piglets were born. Two of the piglets had defects and were kind of messed up though, like missing legs and eyes, so his dad handed him a 2x4 and told him to get to work bashing their heads in before dinner time.

 

[yetti462]

I saw them in Lawrence county BEFORE the mid 90’s, and they are STILL here

My farm is an area the Cajun released them, I miss hunting them. Chased them for years , I wish I had thermal back in the hay day.

 

[phylodog]

I knew they were dangerous but those statistics were a bit shocking. That said, let me know when farmers begin begging people to come kill them off of their property. Until then, they aren't a problem.

 

[Mij]

My stepdad grew up on a hog farm. His "favorite" story was when he was around 7 years old, his dad brought him to the barn after a litter (if that's what you call it) of piglets were born. Two of the piglets had defects and were kind of messed up though, like missing legs and eyes, so his dad handed him a 2x4 and told him to get to work bashing their heads in before dinner time.

After we got done in the farrowing sheds there were a lot of them that were missing two things.