Most American thing I can think of.

  • @SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    Progressives should support a boar hunting program, along with offering assistance for moving, dismantling, and inspecting game. People who learn how to hunt, know how to shoot. That might be a very valuable skill in the times ahead.

    We kill two boars with one bullet.

    • Cornpop
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      416 hours ago

      Only the babies. The testosterone makes them nasty af as they get older.

    • Lemminary
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      21 day ago

      I can understand ruining the entire harvest crops… But not stealing the laptops! D:

  • @Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    392 days ago

    “Legit question for rural Americans – How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?"

    • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      You actually have to lure the hogs into a pen with multiple exits, drop the gates, and gun them down before they can manage an escape. You also should be very vigilant and listen well for any nearby hogs, the adult females tend to be smarter and more cautious but they’re the targets you NEED to kill.

      Failure to catch all of the hogs will allow the others to learn and adapt to the traps, and failure to kill the females will result in their population continuing to grow.

      Other effective methods are clap traps and spike pits but those don’t work well when you have children or other animals. There is also the M44 cyanide pill shooting trap made for Coyotes but idk if it works on Hogs.

    • @remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      242 days ago

      Give the kids guns too.

      That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)

      While I can’t change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.

      • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

        We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.

      • @theangryseal@lemmy.world
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        72 days ago

        I’ve been shooting since I was about 5 too.

        I haven’t in many years, but I think I was 10 or 11 when my dad got me a 20 gauge.

    • I’ve only have wild boar jerky before and it was pretty tasty, but you gotta get the meat tested first bc they can carry some serious diseases.

      Sorta fun fact from my organizmal bio teacher: the reason you never hear about pork being cooking medium rare is that we are fairly closely related to pigs and so we are susceptible to many of the diseases that can infect pigs.

    • @supernicepojo@lemmy.world
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      72 days ago

      Meh, no, unless you trap them. Youve got to feed them a better diet than what they get in the wild. Also, this opinion resides heavily on the fact that industrially grown, bred and genetically manipulated pigs are damn delicious.

      • Sneezycat
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        112 days ago

        I disagree, my grandpa used to hunt wild boars and I have eaten them a couple times. They’re delicious, good meat.

        • You should go hunt a bunch too! Have a bbq party and invite a bunch of poeple to get them with the idea there are delicious 400 pound hogs running wild in your backyard causing massive crop damage. Your granpa would love that

    • paraphrand
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      13 hours ago

      Is it finally time for Some Boar News again? It’s been awhile.

  • @Lumberjacked@lemm.ee
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    252 days ago

    I went hog hunting a few times back in my redneck days. There’s virtually no regulations and we had no idea what to do. Me and my friends went out with a full arsenal. I had a 9mm, SKS, and a 30-06.

    I used every gun. It was crazy.

      • FuglyDuck
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        92 days ago

        Possibly not even that. A mere irritation.

        It’s still gonna fuck you up- they’re just ornery like that.

        • Lemminary
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          21 day ago

          Oh, ornery! Hah! Imagine someone thinking you said horny. Totally not me.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    2 days ago

    Why the hell wasn’t this an answer to my question a while back about RPG quests in real life? I can kill wild pigs. They’re only level 1 so it should be easy to grind.

    • @seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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      392 days ago

      I can kill wild pigs. They’re only level 1

      These aren’t. Most animals that you get to hunt in the US will run away if you take a shot and miss. Hogs just might decide to turn around and fucking disembowel you.

    • @Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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      21 day ago

      Considering any feral pig has a few kills under its belt and sleeps outside, it’s more likely that you’re level1 and it’s level 8 or 9.

    • @sulgoth@lemmy.world
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      72 days ago

      Just make sure you pack a very good gun and are up a sturdy tree. Barring that get a spear with a pole as thick as your arm and a tip with a wide guard on it. The guard is important, because a boar will impale itself to get to you and there’s a good chance it will succeed before expiring.

    • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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      12 days ago

      When? Where have you made this question? Any hunting, foraging and gathering activity can be translated as an RPG quest