THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY ON HOW TEXAS FARMERS, AND RANCHERS ARE FIGHTING THE WAR ON FERAL HOGS. ANY ATTEMP TO REPLICATE THESE TECHNIQUES YOU DO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Agreed, dudes shooting was just outstanding. Even though I've never tried shooting from a moving vehicle + a moving target I can imagine the difficulty. 😊
we have a tactical match that has a rolling thunder stage that you shoot from the back of a pickup truck and the speed limit is around 5 mph for safety because it is located in a old reservoir with access road bulldozed around the perimeter across 3 bay's even going that slow it's still difficult to get all the hits on about 18 targets with 3 hits. definitely way harder going balls out at speed in a bouncy atv across pastures but I imagine these guys have a lot of practice
Indeed. There's more than one lesson to be learned from watching this. First was, as you have noted, accurate use of a rifle from a moving, bouncing vehicle -- one of the hardest feats of marksmanship to pull off, not far off from the old frontier days of cavalry shooting from horseback, something that very very few soldiers got proficient at. Then there's the effective use of the laser. people think that a laser sighting device is the be-all, end-all way of placing bullets on a target. But the facts are that they're a lot harder to use than most people think, especially at speed. Some time ago the NIJ ran some tests and found that most people were able to acquire and hit targets (this was under a law-enforcement setting on standard police silhouette targets) and they found that most people could actually accurately hit a target faster and with more consistency just by using the sights and ignoring the laser than by using the laser itself. It seems easy, just put the dot where you want the bullet to hit. But like most things it's more complicated than it first appears. Use of a laser sight effectively requires training and above all, practice just like any other form of marksman ship. For the person who takes the time to watch and think, there's a lot more to learn here than lessons about fun times eradicating a destructive pest species. I put it like this: call it the zombie apocalypse or if China or Russia or anyone else was ever f**king stupid enough to invade us, I know where I'm going to fight it out. Wherever this dude (Huey) lives. To anyone smart enough to watch and listen, I imagine he would have a hell of a lot to teach.
My dad was taken out by a pack of feral's over 800 strong. Being a veteran he always relied on his Colt 1911, he never missed with that gun but the Hogs took him down as the gun only carries 7 bullets. This video would have made him proud.....
Really nice to see someone out there taking the hog situation seriously and do something about it and not just trying to monetize the situation at every turn
Dude, what are you talking about? People used to make a living on killing and trapping pigs all across Texas until the pork producers lobby for regulation that put professional hog hunters out of business just as the international market was developing. Now the big idea there selling is to have the taxpayers pay for government-workers to poison wildlife so farmers don't have to deal with walking-food moving the dirt they just moved to grow non-walking food. If they turn y'all into vegans with your own money, remember I told you so....
@@brandtbuchanan5526 what is the point you’re trying to make? I’m saying that the leases that people are selling for thousands and thousands of dollars and the ranches that are selling hunts for hundreds of dollars a day and then putting a 1 or 2 or 3 hog limit are not conducive to the eradication of feral hogs. That is very good for making more money though.
@@brandtbuchanan5526 for the reasons that everyone cries about. Detrimental to the crops, animals, and land with no natural predators and no control on breeding. All I’m saying is that you can’t play both sides. Either you want them gone to preserve the habitat or you want to keep them around to make money off of them. They can’t use the “hogs are ruining everything” argument if they don’t take the actual steps to get rid of them because they want to monetize it. I don’t care that they want to make money off of it, it’s incredibly lucrative, just don’t claim that you actually do. Be honest about it
@@Quik_Gaming I can't disagree one one bit. They rhetoric amoung the hog hunting community is pretty contridictory. The crop damage thing is really the driving force behind state-funded hog control programs since probably because the cost is so easy to calculate. They cause quite a lot of headaches in our irrigated hay fields but; instead of trying to get the state to solve our problem with your tax dollars, I'd rather let paying hunters on the ranch and make those hogs pay for those losses with interest. That just seems like the most American way to solve that kind of problem. As far as the ecological damage goes, I can say as someone who majored in conservation biology is an undergrad: the studies used to make those claims are making some really big leaps without much hard data to back it up. I'm pretty sure most of the hate for hogs stems from deer hunters tired of hogs standing under the corn feeders when they'd rather have deer at the feeder and we started coming up with all kinds of other stuff because interfering with your deer hunting is a tough one to sell to the general public??? I probably sound like a conspiracy theorist but I've been in the farm/ranch/hunting community all my life and someone brings up hogs ---it rarely has to do with population dynamics or plant successional stages....
Randomly clicked a video of a guy shooting rats on a farm in the uk with an air rifle and ended up here watching the most American thing I’ve seen in a long time ! Love it
Damn fine shooting boys. I actually think this decreased the hog numbers in your area, on net. They breed so fast but you definitely put a dent in their numbers. Keep it up.
@@LoneStarBoars If you want a decent infestation Atoka and Coal counties in Oklahoma (near lake Texoma) have one hell of an infestation. One of the most frequent complaints of landowners in the regions is (those fucking hogs tore up another food plot)
Wow! Probably the best video you've ever posted. Love what you're doing Todd, thanks for the content. Thanks for helping out the ranchers to rid them of the feral hogs. Too bad there's more of them than there are you and your team. I appreciate the content you're providing.
3:12 Your friend missed an almost stationary piglet, then when you got going again you picked it up immediately at full tilt and brought it down in a single shot without even looking down the sight. Props.
This is great to watch and I guess the best way to spend a few hours in the evening if you're actually out doing it but the serious side is the hogs you dispatched just in this video could destroy complete fields every night. Well done.
"Tell me you're from Texas without telling me you're from Texas." Great shooting, guys! Keep it up. EDIT: What happens with all the bodies? Are they policed up afterward, or just left where they lay? Seems like a lot of good meat, but obviously you can't stop after each engagement.
I know at least one hog hunting duo I know of was fine with leaving the corpses behind. Probably about 30 of them that they had herded into their kill zone, but they got picked away by scavengers quickly enough. At a certain point you just can't even transport that much meat. Honestly probably would be better to pile up what you can't transport away and incinerate them but I haven't heard of anyone doing that, perhaps there's a reason for that and I'm not familiar with it.
Uncle kills a bunch every hunt, and takes the meat for himself, whatever is left over/he has too much of which is often he just donates to families/shelters around the town. There's no limit on feral hogs, because they're such a menace. Sometimes people just kill them and move on, which personally I think is fine. If it was a deer someone shot, and just left there I'd be a little pissed. But those hogs are feral and invasive, and gotta go. My view on it is, if you gotta tag it or log it, it's wrong to leave meat there, but if it's open season all year round, let em drop/
I have never hunted before and just got back this afternoon from a hog hunt in north Texas. It was so fun. We didn’t shoot from a side by side but did use one to get around. I will be down there again in a couple of months for sure.
Great action. Darn these creatures are fast. I like the way that hog came running toward you like he was gunna kick your ass or something. That laser sighting system coupled with the FLIR is a heck of a combo. Keep on slaying’em.
I love the transitions between a quiet calm evening, on to the crazy dune buggy chase-and-shoot, then back to the quiet evening. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Great fun!
@@marks_sparks1 aaaand, he’s back. Funny how you’ll call them libtards, and leave the platform, calling their policies and agenda unjust- and then come back to collect more checks from them? 😂
Good ol' Texas boys just havin' fun. I like it and they are doin' a good deed for all. Thanks for posting. Those feral hogs are smart in using the cattle as screens.
People don't realize how much damage to farm crops, fields, pasture, indigenous critter populations, water shed, etc. these varmints do, and I'm told that's compounded when in some states the climate allows one sow to start breeding at 7-8 months old and produce three litters, averaging 15-20 piglets per year .
@@MTFOphantom you can go either way, if you go the $200 tax stamp route the firearm has to have been registered prior to 1986. If you get your federal firearm license and pay your $500 dollar “special operational taxpayer” also known as SOT, you can manufacture new automatics and suppressors.
@@jaydunbar7538 .....is this related to why they changed the law on suppressors in Texas recently? I mean, I assumed it was for the sake of our hearing....but I feel like the bigger reason-or at least the reason it happened _now_ is so we could shoot more hogs more easy lol
Todd, Remember a few years ago you'd never shoot with cattle in the area...hog numbers must be getting worse. This shit would make a great video game for us armchair shooters!
Would love to have been a part of this. When visiting the grandkids in Louisiana I had a chance to hunt some hogs. Made for good eating. Fortunately they are not an issue in my small part of Texas.
awesome content ! felt like I was there ! good job and love the auto gun, thank you for sharing, hello, from Miami, FL, our pests here are iguanas and feral roosters and chickens
US Army: "we need live fire exercises with numerous live moving targets, fast moving firing positions and real life battlefield conditions!" Texas: " Yes"
Reporter (yelling over the sound of the ATV): Do you ever shoot the sows and piglets? Door gunner (yelling): Sometimes! Reporter: How do you shoot sows and piglets?? Door gunner: Easy! You just don't lead them as much!! Ain't hogs hell!!!
People complaining murdering the hogs just blows my mind. If we were not allowed to have these types of firearms people would be complaining about not being able to afford food. Thank you very much gentlemen you're doing an outstanding job
Shotgun would have been good on a few of them... but you'd be constantly reloading. Not criticizing, absolute spot on shooting. It's a miracle to hit anything while moving, takes talent and practice.
And they "say" there isnt any reasons for people to own large capacity firearms. I've got to say this looks like fun, just imagine all the free meat. Sweeet
