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Gator hunting Hog in Florida

Posted By: Pig_Popper

Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/25/20 10:54 PM



The gator activated it’s cloaking mechanism and the hog didn’t stand a chance
Posted By: Biscuit

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 01:01 PM

Nice
Posted By: Double Naught Spy

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 01:34 PM

And people say hogs have no natural predators... bang
Posted By: JimBridger

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 02:09 PM

Looks like 5 more cruising over to the kill.
Posted By: SapperTitan

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by Double Naught Spy
And people say hogs have no natural predators... bang

Who says that? Mountain lions, coyotes, gators. Hell I bet bald eagles and large hawks have picked off a few piglets same with bobcats.
Posted By: der Teufel

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 03:43 PM

It does seem that once a hog gets to somewhere greater than ~50 Lbs, the list of predators falls exponentially.

At the end of the video, it does look like several more gators are thinking "I'ma gonna get me summa dat…"
Posted By: Double Naught Spy

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by SapperTitan
Originally Posted by Double Naught Spy
And people say hogs have no natural predators... bang

Who says that? Mountain lions, coyotes, gators. Hell I bet bald eagles and large hawks have picked off a few piglets same with bobcats.


Lots of people. You can find it all over the internet, from state offices, to newspaper articles, to even posts on this forum. It is stupid, but lots of people say it. And, you forgot bears and wolves.

Virginia says adult hogs have no natural predators...
https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife/feral-hogs/#:~:text=Feral%20hogs%20are%20detrimental%20to%20natural%20habitats%20and,population%20can%20triple%20in%20size%20in%2014%E2%80%9416%20months.

Piglet over 2 months old in Alabama have no natural predators...
https://www.al.com/news/2018/03/feral_hogs_eradication.html

San Antonio News...
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/202...pound-feral-hog-wreaking-havoc-on-ranch/

Houston...
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lo...l-hogs-hurt-the-environment-14381424.php

Missouri...
https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g9457

Plenty more refs, not going to bother listing them.

Feral hogs have plenty of natural predators in the US. Problem is, we kill off as many of them as we can. Our primary hog predator (other than humans) in Texas would be coyotes, but coyotes do only go after the little ones.
Posted By: SapperTitan

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 08:54 PM

That’s crazy. I’ve never heard anyone claim that hogs have no predators but then again I don’t hang out with idiots lol
Posted By: Whack n stack

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 10/26/20 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by SapperTitan
That’s crazy. I’ve never heard anyone claim that hogs have no predators but then again I don’t hang out with idiots lol


roflmao clap
Posted By: Dave Davidson

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 11/01/20 07:27 PM

Yep, I won’t let the Grandsons kill a coyote or bobcat
Posted By: der Teufel

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 11/02/20 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by Dave Davidson
Yep, I won’t let the Grandsons kill a coyote or bobcat


Well, the places I hunt the landowners say to kill every coyote I can.

I've been out at night and heard coyotes yipping and howling, and cattle making all sort of distressed noises as the coyotes try to get in and steal a calf.
So, I might let a bobcat go, but not a coyote.
Posted By: 603Country

Re: Gator hunting Hog in Florida - 11/02/20 01:55 AM

Interesting! I always shoot every coyote I see, but the other evening when I played a piglet distress call on my electronic caller, a coyote showed pretty quick. I still shot him, and will shoot the next one I see.
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