Most American thing I can think of.
I say we cede the country to the pigs. They might do a better job.
I for one welcome our new hog overlords
Those are ones in captivity, for food.
I’d rather do that than arm people with assault rifles so they can live in remote rural areas where herds of feral pigs are an issue. Yes this is an actual argument people make in favor of keeping assault rifles legal. “What if I need to stop a stampede of 80 feral hogs? This is a weekly occurrence on my property.”
Frankly, if feral hogs have you running scared, it’s not your property, it’s theirs.
Would you like to be a moderate? I’ll propose giving the hogs the assault rifles and you’ll instantly become a moderate.
humans have assault rifles <— no one has assault rifles —> hogs have assault rifles
Edit: would arming both humans and hogs also be a good compromise?
Hogwash! Capitalist pigs will end us. I for one advocate for roo committees.
Pig walking into a full congress, “these animals are disgusting”
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which,”
Too late!
Some animals are more equal than others!
If you’ve read Orwell, then you know we have.
“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?"
Shit, reply all lives on.
I miss that show. PJ is good on Search Engine, but I miss Alex. Both of them.
Alex has a new show as well! Hyperfixed
Omg thank you! I like PJ but I still can’t forgive him completely
Forgive him for what? I recall there was drama around this show but I legit couldn’t understand what actually happened.
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Woke killed the show. It’s the only casualty of woke that I really can’t process.
Wasn’t it a sexual harassment thing?
Edit: I guess I don’t know the story at all. I thought I remembered one of the guys being involved in a sexual harassment suit. It appears I was mistaken.
I thought it was a discrimination thing
And the anti-union shit.
Put the kids in a fenced garden
Give the kids guns too.
That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)
While I can’t change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.
I’ve been shooting since I was about 5 too.
I haven’t in many years, but I think I was 10 or 11 when my dad got me a 20 gauge.
A 14yo was the first to fire at Marshalls at Ruby Ridge.
Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.
We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.
You actually have to lure the hogs into a pen with multiple exits, drop the gates, and gun them down before they can manage an escape. You also should be very vigilant and listen well for any nearby hogs, the adult females tend to be smarter and more cautious but they’re the targets you NEED to kill.
Failure to catch all of the hogs will allow the others to learn and adapt to the traps, and failure to kill the females will result in their population continuing to grow.
Other effective methods are clap traps and spike pits but those don’t work well when you have children or other animals. There is also the M44 cyanide pill shooting trap made for Coyotes but idk if it works on Hogs.
Cute piggy friends 🥰🐷🐖🐖🐖🐖
Bruh they’ll fuck you up. They’re vicious.
You would be vicious too if someone was hunting you with dogs and a rifle. I have encountered several wild boars in Japan and gotten close enough to touch them. Try giving them snacks like you would a cute kitty and see if they don’t respond just like a cute kitty does. They mirror our behavior.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_boar
It is a small, almost maneless, yellowish-brown subspecies[4] with distinctive white whiskers extending from the corners of the mouth to the cheeks.[2]
That is not what we have here.
We have these
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_pig
Feral pigs can be dangerous to people, particularly when the pigs travel in herds with their young, and should be avoided when possible. Feral pigs living in the United States have been known to attack without provocation and fatally injure human beings.
I concede that feral pigs and feral dogs can be much more dangerous than their unaltered natural counterparts boars and wolves. Here is a video from one of my trail cameras of a Japanese boar mama and her babies. I have never met any females with babies in the woods. I have only met male boars that were by themselves. I always announce my presence by repeating a little chant while I walk. It lets the animals know I’m coming and that I’m not trying to hunt them. If they don’t want me to see them, they have plenty of time to get away. If an animal runs into me, I don’t want the animal to be surprised. That’s the worst possible meeting. https://spectra.video/w/n8XJxxYPK9pJqBcjAuQxQV
Again, Japanese boars are much much smaller than the boar we have here. Think game of thrones dangerous. They get to 400-600lbs and they’re practically solid muscle and have pretty much no natural predators, the ones in Japan are tiny compared to the ones here in the usa and parts of South America.
“Without provocation”? We’ve fucked wildlife over so much they probably think they’re defending themselves.
I wouldn’t feed them. Same as alligators or bears. Feeding them is how you get them killed.
Just watch from a very far distance until they leave. Have respect.
I don’t feed them specifically or directly. I have trail cameras in the forest and I leave my kitchen scraps in front of the cameras. The boars get it sometimes but usually the tanuki (Nyctereutes viverrinus) get to it first. The two times I got close enough to touch boars were both surprise encounters. First time I was cleaning up trash under a bridge and the boar was eating mulberries off the ground. The noise from the cars on the bridge kept him from hearing me and he must have been upwind because he didn’t smell me either. I was looking down to pick up trash while walking. Something big jumped up and ran away from me. I jumped too. I looked and saw a boar’s ass running. He turned around and came back toward me. I showed him my palms, talked calmly and backed away slowly as he got too close. I figured out that I meant him no harm and then moved about 100 feet away and went back to eating. I kept picking up garbage. We could see each other but respected each others space. The second time I was feeding bread to ducks with my daughter and she had her shoes off to soak her feet in the river. She was sitting on a rock. A boar burst out of the underbrush next to her and came up and stole her shoe. He ran upriver with it, dropped it and came back to us. He started eating the bread I was trying to feed to the ducks. I just dropped all the bread on the ground and my daughter and I backed away from him. He seemed like he wanted to play, but I wasn’t going to risk him getting aggressive or over-familiarizing him with humans and putting him in danger. I’m not sure if it was the same boar both times or two different boars.
🥰🥰🥰 friends
About the only thing they are good for is shooting.
How’s their aim?
Don’t be an ass to wildlife and wildlife will respect you.
This is not true. There are squirrels who relentlessly mock me and I have done nothing to deserve it.
Delicious*
Die 🤗
(Edit) Apologies, this was needlessly abrupt. I will amend my statement to:
I wish the same fate on you that you wish on other sentient beings.
Probably not the same animals that need to be controlled, but boar is delicious!
Only the babies. The testosterone makes them nasty af as they get older.
Progressives should support a boar hunting program, along with offering assistance for moving, dismantling, and inspecting game. People who learn how to hunt, know how to shoot. That might be a very valuable skill in the times ahead.
We kill two boars with one bullet.
Pigs run this country.
Bring back predators…the good kind. Wolves have a purpose.
Wild hogs would destroy a wolf. These creatures are no joke.
That’s probably why wolves prefer to live in packs. Just to be more evenly matched.
Wild hogs live in “packs” (“sounders”, actually. Lulz.) as well. On all fronts, the hogs should win. Some of the bigger hogs could easily outweigh a wolf 5:1.
These creatures are what nightmares are made of and I wish I could say I was joking or being sarcastic.
Could a pack of wolves separate a hog from its pack and kill it? Sure. Not all hogs are hell-spawn. Regardless, we are also talking about mother nature’s true version of Medusa.
Lulz, I think I just found a collective noun for Republicans
Wild boars are an invasive species, they don’t have natural predators.
Where are they not invasive?
Good point… Panther? Mountain lion?
Wolves eat what ever is easiest to kill like endagered species that cant get away.
Is “wild boar” a euphemism for MAGA cultists and politicians?
Dude, come on. This is a real problem we’re facing quit with the maga bs.
Do you actually believe that a fascist wannabe dictator in the White House, an abjectly corrupt activist Supreme Court, and bought a sold oligarchs as the heads of departments are more of a problem than wild boar? Seriously?
Listen dude, I’ve made a least two showerthought posts about cheese pizza Lunchables. You’re not talking with joe biden.
Are you sure you’re not Joe Biden?
… no…
If I’m correct, this is a reference from Some More News. I think you could say it’s a metaphor for any issue that affects the populace. For example, if wild boars killing people happened as frequently as people shooting up schools, we would do something about the boars.
How rad would it be if they had unicorn horns like a narwhal
Why the hell wasn’t this an answer to my question a while back about RPG quests in real life? I can kill wild pigs. They’re only level 1 so it should be easy to grind.
I can kill wild pigs. They’re only level 1
These aren’t. Most animals that you get to hunt in the US will run away if you take a shot and miss. Hogs just might decide to turn around and fucking disembowel you.
Ever play as a level 1 adventurer in a tabletop game?
Getting gored by a pig is just how the game goes sometimes.
Just pick a warrior class that can wear mail/plate then.
I’m not seeing anything said here that doesn’t differ from how wild hogs in video games work.
It’s not like they’re big, or on fire, like in a Fromsoft game.
Side quest time. I mean we are getting closer to the final boss.
Just make sure you pack a very good gun and are up a sturdy tree. Barring that get a spear with a pole as thick as your arm and a tip with a wide guard on it. The guard is important, because a boar will impale itself to get to you and there’s a good chance it will succeed before expiring.
When? Where have you made this question? Any hunting, foraging and gathering activity can be translated as an RPG quest
Considering any feral pig has a few kills under its belt and sleeps outside, it’s more likely that you’re level1 and it’s level 8 or 9.
Wildlife not being extinguished by humans is a good thing.
Feral pigs are an invasive species that wreak havoc here
You should see the damage a single pig can do. I have. And I like pigs, have a pet pot belly.
They are the only animals I will shoot on sight, no questions asked. And I wouldn’t shoot a squirrel.
Pigs aren’t trying to eat you. I would shoot a polar bear on sight. They are one of few animals that will intentionally hunt humans for food.
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Just launch all the nukes and make them all detonate to equally cover the entire continental US with fire and radiation … BOOM! … no more wild pigs!
I admire your creativity, I seriously doubt that would help. You would only get really pissed off mutant hogs after the dust cleared.
I’ve got some really bad news for you…
But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don’t have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?
"This is merica it’s mah glawd given ripe!
I went hog hunting a few times back in my redneck days. There’s virtually no regulations and we had no idea what to do. Me and my friends went out with a full arsenal. I had a 9mm, SKS, and a 30-06.
I used every gun. It was crazy.
A 9mm would just piss them off.
Possibly not even that. A mere irritation.
It’s still gonna fuck you up- they’re just ornery like that.
Oh, ornery! Hah! Imagine someone thinking you said horny. Totally not me.
