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HB 1095
This bill appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to develop an effective control plan for reducing the population of feral pigs statewide.
This bill will be heard before the House Committee on Agriculture on Wednesday, February 13, 2019, at 8:30 AM in room 312.
Click link to email committee members your support for the bill:
https://account.votility.com/enterprise/HFB/ec/579
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I can write the "effective control plan" in one sentence fragment: $25 bounty on every pig head turned in.
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Sounds good to me terracore! I'll turn some in for some of that bounty then have a BBQ at my house! One statistic I read says you have to remove 70% of the feral pigs in order to maintain the population where is at. That's a lot of BBQ ribs!
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I always see guys with T-shirts and stuff on their vehicles about being pig hunters.
What are the laws regarding hunting feral pigs? I always assumed they could take as many as they wanted as long as it was done within hunting regulations
Obviously I’m not a hunter
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Chas, there are strict regulations on hunting feral pigs. On state public hunting land, each individual hunting unit has it's own rules. Some allow hunting with dogs, some don't. Some allow firearms, some only allow bow and arrow. As for private land, the homeowner can give permission to hunt pigs on their property. The hunter needs to follow state rules and regulations even if they hunt on private land. Also, you cannot discharge a firearm or even a bow and arrow if it will endanger your neighbors. Sometimes we hear gunshots at night, but hunting at night is illegal on public and private lands. Snaring pigs is only legal on private ag land, not residential. Unfortunately, there are some hunters out there that disregard the rules. A friend had a pig hunter trespass onto her property and his dogs killed her whole herd of sheep! Sometimes I find a dead pig carcass on my street in HPP. This really upsets me because all my neighbors know I'm a hunter and they may think I did it! The majority of the hunters out there follow all the rules and respect private property but there are always a few who make us look bad!
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Thanks. I guess because there’s so many pigs in places you can’t safely take them, letting hunters take as many as they want won’t solve the problem.
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Originally posted by terracore
I can write the "effective control plan" in one sentence fragment: $25 bounty on every pig head turned in.
This may well endanger hikers in wilderness areas or even just people walking around in residential areas. Not every bounty hunter is going to observe the hunting regulations if that much money is at stake.
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"This may well endanger hikers in wilderness areas or even just people walking around in residential areas. Not every bounty hunter is going to observe the hunting regulations if that much money is at stake."
I agree. There will always be the bad apples that ruin it for everybody else.
"hunting at night is illegal on public and private lands"
Once they've eaten something on my property they are livestock and it's not "hunting" it's "processing". Thanks for showing us how to hunt and butcher BTW, the knowledge you gave us is worth more than you will know.
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$25 bounty on every pig head
But first you must register and pay a fee...
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People will be breeding pigs to sell the baby pig heads. Need to pay for the heads by the kilogram...
