mainmech48
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Never hunted hogs in Texas, but as a young man back in Missouri we used to go after feral swine at least two or three times a year.
Many small farmers there raised hogs instead of cattle, and every year a few would manage to escape back into the hills and start reproducing. When their forays into pastures and what little tillable land there was got out of hand on someone's place the call would go out and groups would gather to thin them out.
For the city boys, all hogs have razor-sharp tusks. These are routinely removed from domestic swine when they are very young. A slash from one of these results in an extremely nasty wound and infection sets in almost immediately.
What we were doing wasn't "sport". We'd use the dogs to find a group and get them to bunch-up. They'd hold them until we could get into position. Then we'd dispatch as many as we could with our "deer" rifles. The meat usually went into sausages and the hides to a tannery.
As I said, we weren't there for sport so there was virtually nobody who brought any sort of handgun as their primary weapon. Wounded animals were more likely to be dispatched with a round to the head than with a knife, mostly to avoid the added risk to men or dogs.
Many small farmers there raised hogs instead of cattle, and every year a few would manage to escape back into the hills and start reproducing. When their forays into pastures and what little tillable land there was got out of hand on someone's place the call would go out and groups would gather to thin them out.
For the city boys, all hogs have razor-sharp tusks. These are routinely removed from domestic swine when they are very young. A slash from one of these results in an extremely nasty wound and infection sets in almost immediately.
What we were doing wasn't "sport". We'd use the dogs to find a group and get them to bunch-up. They'd hold them until we could get into position. Then we'd dispatch as many as we could with our "deer" rifles. The meat usually went into sausages and the hides to a tannery.
As I said, we weren't there for sport so there was virtually nobody who brought any sort of handgun as their primary weapon. Wounded animals were more likely to be dispatched with a round to the head than with a knife, mostly to avoid the added risk to men or dogs.
