Typical government thinking! Why wouldnt they just open up the season year round in management areas and reserves and allow night hunting for them everywhere else?

LDWF needs to get serious about this problem...best way is to open up year-round hunting

I'm not for poisoning anything except fire ants, but their other methods seem to be ok. You can hunt them at night and you cannot transport them alive. He catches them, tests them, then shoots and buries them, he cannot do anything with the meat, which seems like a waste.If they are bothering you call wlf and they'll send someone out to catch them. He also has a standing order to catch every one on plum creek land.

I hope this is not correct. The use of poison should have no place in this country when it comes to poisoning varmits and hogs and any other mammal. Better ways to accomplish the same goal without all the dangers associated with their use.

If their was no other way then maybe but there are other ways. The accidental killing of bears and pets and such that will occur should not be tolerated when there are other more target specific methods of trapping and hunting.

Your right Mike, even the trapper was upset about this possibility. Maybe someone else has some better info on a way to stop this before it starts. He said they had used it in australia with terrible devastateing results. The bad thing is its slow acting and animals suffer. I hate to start false scares but this was straight from the man who is involved, so i believe him.

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12O lbs Boar Awesome Meat

Not a Good Idea Sounds like some1 needs to get there act together on this there alot peopel that will trap the Hogs for free, They have Nothing Wrong w/them Very Good Lean Meat

Nothing wrong with them? Did u look at the pics? that was just in about 30min. till i ran em off. They also carry canine rabies, brucellosis, and trichenosis. He's swabbing the nose because they can pass these diseases thru rooting then ur child drops her sucker and picks it back up and puts it in her mouth or from a cut on her foot. He never touches them without gloves. They are fine to eat COOKED VERY WELL but be carefull handling them.

we dont need poison, just more hunters need to start getting in the woods and traping/hunting them. we trap and hunt them and also either eat every one we kill or sell them. they are safe to eat as long as they are cooked to well done. domestic hogs can carry the same crap that wild hogs do if they arent given shots and wormers. most hunters just think that someone else is going to take care of the problem for them. the big hog in the picture above is one that we killed. it was over 400lbs on hoof, and the gentleman that posted the picture had no problem eating the meat.

What happens when someone kills a deer that has the poison in its system and eats the meat?!?! I would take what he said with a grain of salt. I don't think LWDF would be so dumb.

I posted this so people that have problems with hogs will know where to get help. Hopefully trapping will help enough there will be no need for this poison. As for the trappers credibility, he's been working for wlf for a long time. He told me the name of two brands but i dont remember them, thought maybe someone else could supply some more info.

if you hunt you should have just killed them yourself they taste great.as for the wearing gloves while handeling them i do for gutting them in the woods but at home i skin them without anything.have not had a problem killed 8 nice hogs last season.wish they would let us use center fire to shoot hogs instead of just small game or 22 mag out of deer gun season.just soak them in milk over night or some kind of marinade they will taste great.better than store bought meat.either way thanks for the info on the poison issue.

Ya'll are right about being good to eat and the disease factor is mainly a problem with livestock, not people. We only have 5acres surrounded by 2,000 acres of plum creek land that i have no access to so they only come on our land late at night. If it was just a couple i would have killed them but 10 is too many. They havent showed up in a week, hoping he caught them.