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Radioactive pigs..
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08/01/17 10:57 AM
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JCCinOhio
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Not sure if it's public knowledge in the US or not, but thought I'd share something from my military time in Germany..
I got my German hunting license while stationed there and was lucky enough to meet up with a guy that let me lease some land in the Black Forrest. I got to shoot red deer, roe/reh deer, ducks, and... a boar. What I didn't know was that many of the boar are radioactive. When Chernobyl went off it deposited cesium-137 in the soil. This gets into the roots, shrooms, etc the pigs eat and gets into the meat. So whenever you shoot a pig you have to take 1kg of meat to a tester and they will measure the radioactivity.. if the meat tests over a certain level, the pig is destroyed.. Of course the one I shot was just over the limit..
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Re: Radioactive pigs..
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08/01/17 02:35 PM
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Always ready 2 hunt
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Cool info. Radioactive hogs so maybe they glow at night and thus no need for thermal imaging, lol.
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Re: Radioactive pigs..
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08/01/17 03:05 PM
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I worked with a guy from Germany and he was telling me the same thing about the pigs and deer also.
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Re: Radioactive pigs..
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08/01/17 03:18 PM
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Oh damn!
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Re: Radioactive pigs..
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08/01/17 04:26 PM
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I'd rather take my pork with Warfarin than radioactive with cesium-137.
On the other hand, surely .gov has some cool hardware that would lets us track them from the air.
We all need to practice Whoa more.
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Re: Radioactive pigs..
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08/04/17 01:57 AM
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That is a problem that won't go away for a while! I think the half life is just over 30 years (if I am remembering correctly)
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