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I used to help friends manage destructive hog populations on TX farmland. It was really crazy. I remember a few years back people on twitter were ragging on som
by wyager 4y ago
I used to help friends manage destructive hog populations on TX farmland. It was really crazy. I remember a few years back people on twitter were ragging on some guy for saying he needed an AR to kill "30-50 feral hogs", acting as if that was some sort of insane fictional scenario, when in reality he was being perfectly veracious.
I haven't helped with hog control in 5+ years, but I'm interested to see how it's changed with the proliferation of NVDs and thermal optics. It would have made our jobs a lot easier, but the equipment was much more expensive back then - no one I knew at the time had better than gen2 technology.
- rdl 4y agoI assume a lot of of it is people with the latest/greatest gear for "prepper" use doing live-fire testing against hogs, not so much people buying gear solely for addressing hogs. (I have pvs-31/gen3 and a separate thermal monocular, trying to get an eCoti or make a clone of one, and am super into the new digital stuff for sensor fusion, but while I'd love to go hog hunting, it's not primarily stuff I've bought for the purpose of shooting hogs. A good "tell" here is people who don't run full-time IR illuminator to be realistic training against adversaries who might themselves have NV)