Pig Man Helicopter Episode

[charles]

i guess thats the only way pigman can get a hog. i know he come over here to alabama and hunted 4 days in a competion hunt and i dont think he even caught 1 hog. someone that enjoyed dog hunting would not go out and do that, it just makes no sense to go shoot them if your a dog hunter, them farmers are not loosing money they have insurance on everybit of them crops

well teach the porkers to use anti-aircraft guns and it will keep the non doggers in business. come on, them farmers have to earn a living, make sure you got food in your stomach, cloths on your back. more items than you think are made from crops tht are part of daily life. the hogs tear it up and eat the profit, it makes the prices of products go up when there is less of it bc hogs destroyed the crops.

[MrsLouisianaHogDog]

Wow. I think some took this thread a bit too extreme. I wasn't getting into politics here, or dogs vs. choppers........

I was simply stating that it looked like a fun time, being up in a chopper, with those awesome guns, taking down feral hogs that were tearing up this man's privately owned farmland! 

Since it got brought up, I am NO less of a dogwoman, just because I said that wuld be fun. If I had a choice, running dogs vs. choppers, of COURSE I'd
run my dogs! For me, I'll likely never even get the chance in my life to do a chopper hunt. It was FUN TO WATCH. Like someone else mentioned, that farmer may have preferred for whatever reason to NOT have dogs run on his property. Not all landowners like us running dogs for whatever reasons, and they have that right.

Good LAWD. And are we forgetting that these are neusance animals??? That destroy people's properties and means of a living?? I know we get to have fun running them down and hunting them, but isn't it ultimately a good thing for them to be killed? If hogs are scarce in whatever areas, maybe there's alot of folks hunting those spots??? Who knows! All I know is that I find it highly unlikely that the hog population will be extinct anytime soon. In the meantime, I'm have a BLAST runnin my dogs and takin' em out one at a time!

[DSmith]

Wow. I think some took this thread a bit too extreme. I wasn't getting into politics here, or dogs vs. choppers........

I was simply stating that it looked like a fun time, being up in a chopper, with those awesome guns, taking down feral hogs that were tearing up this man's privately owned farmland! 

Since it got brought up, I am NO less of a dogwoman, just because I said that wuld be fun. If I had a choice, running dogs vs. choppers, of COURSE I'd
run my dogs! For me, I'll likely never even get the chance in my life to do a chopper hunt. It was FUN TO WATCH. Like someone else mentioned, that farmer may have preferred for whatever reason to NOT have dogs run on his property. Not all landowners like us running dogs for whatever reasons, and they have that right.

Good LAWD. And are we forgetting that these are neusance animals??? That destroy people's properties and means of a living?? I know we get to have fun running them down and hunting them, but isn't it ultimately a good thing for them to be killed? If hogs are scarce in whatever areas, maybe there's alot of folks hunting those spots??? Who knows! All I know is that I find it highly unlikely that the hog population will be extinct anytime soon. In the meantime, I'm have a BLAST runnin my dogs and takin' em out one at a time!

Well said,,,,,,,   

[RockinW]

bet people would be ticked if it was wild horses they shot that way or feral cows. they would both probably do as much damage i bet.or them wild non native goats.

na, we couldnt do that to feral horses. we have to kick the ranchers off the BLM so the horses can have it to ruin it for cows, wildlife & everything else, then we have to give the government $500 of our tax dollars per horse, per year,till they die of old age, to feed the excess of em that nobody wants while they graze on thousands of acres of privately owned grass that used to produce beef. at least you can still kill the hogs & use the meat.

[reatj81]

Let them shoot all they want too!  It won't get all the hogs.  Maby if there were fewer hogs it would eliminate some fly by night want to be doggers!!!

[justincorbell]

Call me what you want but I personally would LOVE to go heli hog hunting. I don't see how it makes a person any less of a dog man. Dont get me wrong, there aint nothing like gettin your hands on a big nasty boar hog but i wouldnt hesitate at the offer to go airborne on m.

Posted by Ed Barnes:


I guess I just have more respect for hogs or any animal that doesn't have a chance in hell of getting away from a helicopter.....

Whatever you say bro. I'd do it with a giant chit eatin grin on my face in a heartbeat!!!!




"the sun is shining somewhere in texas" -Jason Boland

[firemedic]

Wow. I think some took this thread a bit too extreme. I wasn't getting into politics here, or dogs vs. choppers........

I was simply stating that it looked like a fun time, being up in a chopper, with those awesome guns, taking down feral hogs that were tearing up this man's privately owned farmland! 

Since it got brought up, I am NO less of a dogwoman, just because I said that wuld be fun. If I had a choice, running dogs vs. choppers, of COURSE I'd
run my dogs! For me, I'll likely never even get the chance in my life to do a chopper hunt. It was FUN TO WATCH. Like someone else mentioned, that farmer may have preferred for whatever reason to NOT have dogs run on his property. Not all landowners like us running dogs for whatever reasons, and they have that right.

Good LAWD. And are we forgetting that these are neusance animals??? That destroy people's properties and means of a living?? I know we get to have fun running them down and hunting them, but isn't it ultimately a good thing for them to be killed? If hogs are scarce in whatever areas, maybe there's alot of folks hunting those spots??? Who knows! All I know is that I find it highly unlikely that the hog population will be extinct anytime soon. In the meantime, I'm have a BLAST runnin my dogs and takin' em out one at a time!

Agreed. I would enjoy heli-hunting for hogs,.....not to totally eradicate 'em,....but to trim the population a bit.

[Tom45]

Been looking for this, I was disappointed in the show and how it supported the heli killing. I thought they would kill 30 or 40 hogs not 272. I have hunted all kind of animals for 40 years and the show made me sick and almost scary on how someone or group of people could enjoy killing hogs or any animal over and over and over. What is it was deer (they eat the crops) would it be OK to go kill 272 deer in 7 hours,,,,,I was very dispointed in the show.   Did some math just to show some numbers.   25 helis hunt 2 days a week across the state, each kill 200 hogs a day, thats 10,000 a week.  JMO!!!!

[hogdog05]

This hunt took place just a few miles from my house.  Big ranch, no the land owner doesn't allow dogs, that's fine his place.  I didn't see the show so I don't know when it was recorded but they have flown this ranch  twice in the last 4-5 months.  A different group has flown another ranch about 8 miles down river twice in the last year killing about Tue same amount of hogs both times and I have went in and caught plenty of hogs after that.  Might be lots o hogs in this area.  When they destroy their property their livelyhood somethings got to give.  But hey it might push em out on some of my places for a while and I'll have good huntin.

[Hack01]

Any one know some one with a chopper? Rice farmers along the coast are always looking for people to kill'em.

[hillcountry]

Heck i gun 3 to 4 times a month when the leaves are off and 1 t
Or 2 times when they are on. Its a rush but there is no way i would go up with those jack offs . We go thru a week long course  on safety in the chopper , gun safety and situational awereness so many things can and do go wrong . Even with the training we still loose pilots and gunners in the agency. Hogs are like shooting fish in a barrel the real challenge is yotes and bobcats. If i told you how many we kill in the state of texas in a year you would soil your pants. So even though i use dogs to make a liveing and  hunt almost every day i guess  im not a dog man because i use a chopper as a tool along with dogs, traps and snares to control hogs in my county.

[E barnes]

Heck i gun 3 to 4 times a month when the leaves are off and 1 t
Or 2 times when they are on. Its a rush but there is no way i would go up with those jack offs . We go thru a week long course  on safety in the chopper , gun safety and situational awereness so many things can and do go wrong . Even with the training we still loose pilots and gunners in the agency. Hogs are like shooting fish in a barrel the real challenge is yotes and bobcats. If i told you how many we kill in the state of texas in a year you would soil your pants. So even though i use dogs to make a liveing and  hunt almost every day i guess  im not a dog man because i use a chopper as a tool along with dogs, traps and snares to control hogs in my county.

You use dogs to pad your pocket not because you like dogging.

[Mike]

E Barnes, do you know "hillcountry"... Pete?
I do, he's a friend of mine. He loves running dogs just as much, if not more, than you, me and everyone else on here. He's fortunate enough to "live the dream" and get to do it for a living.

That was a pretty sorry thing to say.

[cantexduck]

E Barnes, do you know "hillcountry"... Pete?
I do, he's a friend of mine. He loves running dogs just as much, if not more, than you, me and everyone else on here. He's fortunate enough to "live the dream" and get to do it for a living.

That was a pretty sorry thing to say.

 I don't know hill country but I can tell he one of the few left if you know what I mean.  E Barnes, that remark is ment towards others not like him. Makes you look like a jack azz with a comment like that.

[hillcountry]

E barnes   Its not my fault you have to lease land to hunt your dogs and here we have ranchers and farmers paying us for a service. Im not lineing my pockets by far just a little bit to help with fuel, vet bills and dog food. Heck my wife says if im not hunting,  im at the kennels, or working pups , im talking to somebody on the phone about it. So  if im not a dog man give me your definition of  one . 

[E barnes]

Hill country you sound just like me sorry for the miss understanding. I guess I just can't understand that yalls hog #s we just don't have that many here and everybody is trying to trap shoot or kill the last one just put a bitter taste in a dog hunters mouth sorry again.

[hillcountry]

Well hold on pardner cause good things are comeing to you!  In 1986 we had to drive to the head of the river to kIll a hog. Thats 18 miles . One ranch stocked hogs for thier hunters and  by 1996they are like ants. On one of my good places there are so many that we  dont road the dogs because they willrun sows all night. We track hunt and look for slober on the protien feeders  . Some easttexas  guys say they see more hogs in one night then in a year  in east texas.

[warrent423]

Where I'm from , no self respecting "Hogman" would attempt to "slaughter" hogs to let rot or suffer, let alone get a rush from it. To each his own.

[Hogsnatchers]

Where I'm from , no self respecting "Hogman" would attempt to "slaughter" hogs to let rot or suffer, let alone get a rush from it. To each his own.

Didn't look like they were letting them sit and rot to me when they had caravans of rangers going around picking them up as they finished an area. You really think Uncle Ted would want to be seen as that wasteful as much as he teaches use the meat?

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[T-Bob Parker]

Even if they were being left, it ain't wasting,'buzzards and coyotes gotta make a livin too.

You know the circle of life