Prodigal Son, That is SOME pig !!! I once saw some pigs coming toward me on a fence clearing. I had my Model 12 16 guage shotgun planning to shoot some crows. I leaned against a tree and aimed at a trail twenty feet away that had a deadfall across it.. A smaller boar got run off from the rest by a bigger boar and came under the deadfall tree. I didn't have to make much adjustment in the aim. The pig stopped as he saw something that didn't look just right. Aimed the load of #8 birdshot between the eye and ear and at the shot , a one inch hole appeared . DRT
Outer Rondacker,
To quote NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: "If you don't have hogs now, you will."
The SOLE good thing about feral hogs is that the ones to about 100# field dressed are EXCELLENT when BBQed. = Those go on my pit whole & cook overnight.
yours, tex
brewer12345,
My Model 760 in .300 SAV works well on both with a 170 or 180 grain bullet. = Hogs are NOT armor-plated & they make excellent sausage & BBQed pork, too.
NOTE: One of our TX Master Naturalists makes INVASIVE SPECIES CHILI, with half feral pork scraps & chunks of Axis Deer. = BEST that I've ever had.
(Even our ladies, after a day in the field doing mammal surveys or reptile studies, go back for THIRDS.)
Addenda: Use any good recipe for Texas Red Chili with pork/venison, instead of the beef.
Served with sliced onions, tomatoes, homemade sourdough bread, cornbread muffins & iced tea, his chili makes a real FEAST.
(Hardly anyone has room for the cake/pie/ice cream after a 3rd or 4th bowl.)
yours, tex
rodwha,
IMO, there is NO "maybe". = I just get my bowl & get into the chili line, then go get cornbread muffins & iced tea.
(Carlos M_________ says that he's had equally good luck in making his chili, using NILGAI & feral pork.)
Since you are TEXICAN, may I invite you to join the volunteer "crazies" called TEXAS MASTER NATURALISTS??
(Recently, a VERY senior manager at TP&WD HQ said, "Those people are 'nuts'. It seems like every time that something that really needs doing but which 'the experts' say cannot be done, the TMN 'bow their collective necks' & just go do it. It seems that 'grit' & the collective effort of a bunch of determined volunteers really does solve 'insolvable' problems.")
Note to All: There are now Master Naturalists in about 30 US States & 6 other nations now. - Our forum members may want to check to see if our groups have invaded your State/Country.
We do a wide variety of CONSERVATION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION & EDUCATION projects to benefit our communities.
yours, tex
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rodwha,
While a 9YO could certainly help an adult (who is a MN), I cannot see one being able to complete the TMN training, UNLESS they were eligible for MENSA & maybe not even then. = I have 2 graduate degrees, 3 decades as a LEO & found the classwork/homework to be "challenging" at BEST.
(Most of my TMN class had earned doctoral degrees or were experienced engineers/IT pros/etc.)
I suggest that if YOU are dedicated to "wearing the green badge" that you go get trained. - I completed my class & graduated, "green". = Then take your sapling along.
yours, tex
Wow! So this is quite intensive. And for volunteer work???
Sounds like an interesting and worthwhile organization. Wish I had a more regular work schedule. As it is currently, I doubt I would do anything except frustrate everyone.
I passed my last psych eval, how bout you?
rodwha,
The 1st day of class when everyone started giving their professional backgrounds, this "ole hillbilly boy" said to himself, "What the H am I doing here??"
But I did graduate!!
YEP, we are all volunteers for any number of important conservation, restoration, preservation & education projects all over TX & in a lot of other places.
(A piece of advice: Do NOT let them talk you into a day with the S.A.L.S.A. team. = 2 of us older TMN went out for a Saturday with that bunch of "crazies" to remove over 130 chinaberry trees from a State natural area. I was foolish enough to try to keep up with the USN guys in their 20s & 30s. BIG MISTAKE.===> I hurt all over, in places that I didn't know that I had places, for days.)
yours, tex
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Lonegun1984,
Your employer might very well give you "time off" to go to class. - You will find out, if you ask around, that TMN are "pretty well thought of" by a lot of folks.
Our class was 6 hours, 1 day a week, for 10 weeks plus 48 hours of field work to graduate.
A complete & acceptable result of a background investigation by TX DPS is also required.
Tuition was 200.oo.
yours, tex
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Texasnative,
If it’s one day a week, that’s definitely doable. I was thinking several weeks of training all day every day til finished. See, this is what happens when I start thinking.
I’m not worried about the background check. Work does one on me every year anyway, so that’s the easiest part of this.
I passed my last psych eval, how bout you?
Lonegun1984,
Understood.
I find it "interesting" that certain people, who after being informed of the need for an acceptable background & DPS investigation, still try to get by it, when they have "a record".
yours, tex
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