Does Your State Allow This?

[BarryBobPosthole]

Oklahoma is getting ready to pass a bill to allow night time hunting of feral hogs. No permit, no license, no game warden notification, no nothing. AND they will allow the use of supressors (silencers) and noght vision equipment as well.

Aside from making an already pretty creepy job of trackng down poachers at night even creepier, my main concern is they're not going to do anything but create a market for this shit and more hogs will get released and we'll even have a bigger feral hog problem than we've already got!

This seems to be taking things pretty far over the common sense line. But that's only my opinion of course.

How is this handled in your state?

BKB

Feral swine bill allows unregulated nighttime shooting

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state...f2fa93d48.html

(Sent from Tulsa World)

[Big Muddy]

MS hog hunting regulations pretty much state, "private landowners can shoot them ALL on sight, 24-7-365, day or night, with ANY type weapon"....however, non-landowners, may only use .22 cal. or smaller weaponry, at night.

[yellowk9]

In Arkansas they've pretty much done away with hog hunting on public lands. Trapping or aerial gunning is more efficient at lowering populations and encouraging the public to hunt them only seems to encourage some members of the public to release more of them. I think they are still fair game on private lands.

[Big Skyz]

We don't have hogs, but everything you listed applies to coyotes in Montana. Poachers are going to poach regardless of what the state laws are. It's doubtful that those new regs will have much affect on what they planned on doing anyway.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Troy, I'm less concerned about the poaching aspect and more concerned about what yellowk9 said, that we'll actually end up with more feral hogs because of the change.

BKB

[Big Skyz]

In that regard, I could see where that would happen. Can't fix stupid.

[Thumper]

Our WMA's (Wildlife Management Areas) vary with some of their rules ... on some, you can't hunt hogs during Spring turkey season. Some have size limits, some don't. The last time I deer hunted a WMA, the game warden told me to kill every hog I saw, any size, any sex and if I didn't want it, I could leave it for the buzzards. Also on WMA's you have to hunt them with bows during bow season and muzzle loaders during muzzle loader season, other than that, it's any legal weapon. I really don't know anything about the legality of night vision equipment and I seriously doubt we can use silencers ... I don't think they're even legal to own/possess down here. I'd have to research that.

On private land, just about anything goes. Florida regs:

On private property with landowner permission, wild pigs may be trapped and hunted year round using any legal to own rifle, shotgun, crossbow, bow or pistol. There is no size or bag limit, and you may harvest either sex. Also, no hunting license is required. A gun and light at night permit is not required to take wild hogs with a gun and light on private lands with landowner permission.

[BarryBobPosthole]

You have to file for a silencer permit here I believe. The silencer part of the bill was supposedly done for 'hearing safety'.

Right.


BKB

[Thumper]

You have to file for a silencer permit here I believe. The silencer part of the bill was supposedly done for 'hearing safety'.

Right. BKB

Ha ha ha! Riiiight!

We use these:

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[quercus alba]

you get caught with a light and a gun in Arkansas at night for any reason and it's a night in the cross bar hotel you gun your truck and maybe a five year ban on your license

[Captain]

NC is just as you posted. No license, day night, night vision. My buddy Big Jim has spent more money that I care to think about on some REALLY high dollar night vision and thermal equipment.
They hunt several nights a month.
This is his text to me Friday night/ Saturday morning.
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And to your point he says they could shoot a zillion deer at night. But they only shoot hogs and coyotes. He is not going to risk having his rifles(s) with the night vision and thermal taken away.

[BarryBobPosthole]

He done a deed there, brother. Tell him if he won't eat me out of house and home he can come out here and kill every one of ours.

BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

That's a mess of pig dip!

[BarryBobPosthole]

That's a mess of pig dip!

Have you sampled the camp pate'?

BKB

[Captain]

I don't think Hank has ever had Camp Pate'
Hell I can not even remember what was in the mix that night. I do remember alcohol was involved and some combination of stuff decomposing around the club house...

[BarryBobPosthole]

As I recall it was about a cup of peanut butter, about a half bottle of Louisianna Hot Sauce, and two cans of sardines mixed well.

And it was pretty dang awesome.

BKB

[Captain]

That sounds about right. Them boys come up with some weird pate' when alcohol is involved.

[Arty]

As I recall it was about a cup of peanut butter, about a half bottle of Louisianna Hot Sauce, and two cans of sardines mixed well. And it was pretty dang awesome. BKB

This sounds like some kind of weird okie catfish bait.... That should have the disclaimer "not for human consumption" on the bag.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Oh it was good stuff, Maynard.

Camp pate', corn liquor, night time gunfire, all the ingredients for a memorable night!

BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

Sounds like something I'd eat if I had a belly full of un-taxed liquor and sincerely regret the next morning.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Between the liquor and the pate' and the bowled peanuts my gut was in reasonably good shape. Can't say, but I'd imagine the Captain's septic tank glowed in the dark down at the farm after I left though.

BKB

[Thumper]

Man! Youse dufes will eat ANYTHING!

[BarryBobPosthole]

Except snot.

[Thumper]

Same here ... I draw the line at oysters!

[Thumper]

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[LJ3]

This... This post is why I love this place. I bet even Bucky would smile at this thread.

[Arty]

This... This post is why I love this place. I bet even Bucky would smile at this thread.

Hey Bucky. Show yoself!

[Captain]

Yea, Bucksnort. Why you disin' us?

[Thumper]

I thought he drove off into the sunset with his Chevy 9500 hauling his 53-foot quadruple axle camper and was holed up in some COA park with no I-net access.

[Big Muddy]

Speaking of snot....we went out for supper, tonite at the Half Shell Oyster House.

My appetizer was a raw dozen, followed by a seafood sampler platter....I'll sleep very good tonite !!!

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