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I mean… I feel like a somewhat sane policy at this point would be to put the US’s massive collective armory of privately owned firearms to use:
Declare feral hogs to be something approximating a national emergency, adjust hunting laws so that outside of major urban and suburban areas, and far enough away from roadways, you get a small stipend from the government for every feral hog you down and bring in to a local butcher.
Everybody has already been upgunning themselves into like 6.5 creedmoor and 300 blackout and shit for the ‘zombie apocalypse’ or ‘the boogaloo’… aim them at hogs instead of fantasies of being some kind ‘me and buddies’ militia.
Like, we already have states that adjust the number of other species you can take down per season, per how much the estimated population in the area is or is not overshooting ecological carrying capacity.
Just … every area with hogs? Dramatically reduce the legal ability to shoot anything other than a hog.
Require that a hog has to be literally placed into a body bag before you haul it away, require a picture from a phone with exif data including timestamp and geolocation be taken before and after you bagging it on site.
Maybe a farmer or rancher or someone with more hunting experience than myself could chime in with a critique of this general concept.
Just… spin it, market it as doing your patriotic duty to take out a hog instead of buck, or something.
I mean… I feel like a somewhat sane policy at this point would be to put the US’s massive collective armory of privately owned firearms to use:
Declare feral hogs to be something approximating a national emergency, adjust hunting laws so that outside of major urban and suburban areas, and far enough away from roadways, you get a small stipend from the government for every feral hog you down and bring in to a local butcher.
Everybody has already been upgunning themselves into like 6.5 creedmoor and 300 blackout and shit for the ‘zombie apocalypse’ or ‘the boogaloo’… aim them at hogs instead of fantasies of being some kind ‘me and buddies’ militia.
Like, we already have states that adjust the number of other species you can take down per season, per how much the estimated population in the area is or is not overshooting ecological carrying capacity.
Just … every area with hogs? Dramatically reduce the legal ability to shoot anything other than a hog.
Require that a hog has to be literally placed into a body bag before you haul it away, require a picture from a phone with exif data including timestamp and geolocation be taken before and after you bagging it on site.
Maybe a farmer or rancher or someone with more hunting experience than myself could chime in with a critique of this general concept.
Just… spin it, market it as doing your patriotic duty to take out a hog instead of buck, or something.
Unfortunately, if you put a bounty on something some asshole is bound to start a breeding program.
Probably true.
… put a bounty on them as well lol, demoted to hog.
The government could just set up to buy tails or something and the rest would sort itself out.
I think there’s already people shooting these things with night vision and automatic weapons from helicopters though.