Creating a Lake

[jinman]

Eddie, I'm sure you will attract coyotes, buzzards, and other critters. You may even see more pigs since they are not above cannibalism. You might even see a few domestic dogs if any of your neighbors let them run free. Have you ever considered weighting the pig down and feeding him to your catfish?

 

[patrick_g]

Have you ever considered weighting the pig down and feeding him to your catfish?

Now there is a good idea... A good use for the older bigger not tender enough for Eddie consumption porkers.

Almost makes me wish I had some feral pigs to shoot. They abound in our area but no sign seen on my place (knock on wood.)

Pat

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie, I'm sure you will attract coyotes, buzzards, and other critters. You may even see more pigs since they are not above cannibalism. You might even see a few domestic dogs if any of your neighbors let them run free. Have you ever considered weighting the pig down and feeding him to your catfish?

Hi Jim,

Using it for fish food never occured to me. I'm sure they would love it, but I really like shooting coyotes, and they come out all day long with a stinky pig out there. I was out mowing until 11pm last night to make sure I had good shooting lanes and they couldn't hide in the tall grass anywhere near it.

Right now, there are coyote tracks all over the place. They are coming up to the house and they are making a heck of a noice all night long. I rarely see any deer here, and realize it's a combination of poor habitat and too many preditors. The hogs compete with them for food and drive them away. The coyotes kill a few fawns every year, and that also affects my deer population. Every coyote that I kill means that a fawn has a better chance of making it.

I also really just like the challenge of shooting them. The hog is set up at 150 yards. Where they like to sit and watch the buzzards is about 200 yards out. It's perfect for me to work on my markmanship skills on a small target at medium range.

Eddie

 

[duck spy]

Next time load the tactor on trailer with pig on back and go see your brother,
he will eat most of a big pig,and you can enjoy some seat time at your brothers....:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[dcyrilc]

I also really just like the challenge of shooting them. The hog is set up at 150 yards. Where they like to sit and watch the buzzards is about 200 yards out. It's perfect for me to work on my markmanship skills on a small target at medium range.

Eddie

Standing position... open sights?

 

[patrick_g]

Eddie, I wish you had a rifle like mine for a couple days. This semi auto 6.5 mm Creedmoor was developed for 1000 meter/yd competition. There may be a significant difference in the capability of the gun and the gunner as the gun will group within 10 inches at 1000 yds and I'm not there consistently (yet). Or in terms for the non target shooters among us (are there any?)... it will put 5 out of 5 rounds through a paper plate at a bit over half a mile away if the gunner is good enough.

That should "do" any standing still or moving slowly and predictably hog you can see very well or ditto for a coyote feeding on a hog or just looking at the object of his attention.

I used to think my 22-250 was the "end all" varminter out to 200 or 250 yds but except for shooting flat (simplifying ballistics) it doesn't hold a candle to the 6.5 Creedmoor, at least when using a 1000 meter capable laser range finder so drop is essentially out of the equation. So far I'm using strictly factory Hornady ammo but when time permits I'll be experimenting with hand loads to see what it really likes.

Pat

 

[TBDonnelly]

To get it back to the field for shooting coyotes, I put it on my finish mower. It's a 90 inch mower, and it was already attached to my little tractor, so it was a no brainer.

In hindsite, I really should have thought this through. Getting that pig onto the mower was a lot more work then I thought it would be!!!!

Note to self, bring a chain next time. :thumbsup:

Eddie

I see this as an incorrect (finish) mower for the intended use. What you really needed was a 'bush hog' mower.:thumbsup: You were in the bush and needed to transport a hog.

Of course, all in good fun.

Don

 

[EddieWalker]

Pat,

When I started traveling and hunting in different places around the country and world, I got into reloading big time. I spent a bunch of money on it, and more hours then I can keep count of. In the end, I was shooting five shot groups at well under an inch pretty consistantly. Unfortunately, those bullets didn't do very much damage to the animals I shot with them, and then I discovered Federal Premium Loads. One inch groups with 165 grain bullets in the 30-06 that are absolutely devestating to anything I shoot with it.

I don't practice enough to be that good anymore, but it's been years since I've missed anything with that rifle and ammo.

I have a 22-250 that is fun for shooting ground hogs, but I don't have any ammo for it right now and don't have any desire to buy any. My 30-06 is my deer rifle, hog rifle and daily shooter when I want to make something dead.

So far, no sign of coyotes, but I'm excited for daylight and to see what's out there. The vultures have been all over it and it's just a matter of time until they find out it's out there.

Eddie

 

[Obed]

Eddie,
I could see why you would shoot the smaller hogs that are good to eat. What's the motivation for shooting the larger hogs? Is it primarilly to provide bait for the coyotes?

We have coyotes around here. They cause problems for the neighborhood cats and dogs. One of our neighbors has put up electric fencing all around his 5 acre lot to keep his dogs in and the coyotes out. Our next door neighbor had a cat killed by some creature(s); they suspect coyotes. We have some friends who had free ranging chickens but the coyotes killed the chickens so they stopped raising the chickens. My dad has some coyotes that roam his farm. He hasn't lost any cattle to them that he's aware of but he has some concerns. He has told the neighbors they can shoot coyotes on his property.

Obed

 

[EddieWalker]

Hogs are like rats around here. I really need to just shoot as many as I can to get the population under control. My neighbor has a tenant who hunts almost every night and shoots quite a few a year, but not enough to affect the numbers.

I shoot them for practice, for meat, for bait, for others and I shoot them because I get annoyed at the damage they do. Right now they are all over the place, tearing up the ground. I had 20 of them in my front yard a week ago, and I shot at the biggest one with my pistol, and missed. It was the farthest one away, and the close ones were 15 feet away from me. OOPS.

Since they are not native to here, don't belong here, are extremly destructive and they breed non stop, there are no rules on how many you can shoot, or when you can shoot them. The goal is to kill as many as possible and hope to kill more the next day.

My problem with coyotes is that they have killed one cat, maybe tore up another, but I really think a racoon got the second cat and they eat a few fawns every year. My goal is to kill as many coyotes as I can in order to save at least one fawn from dying. I don't know if it works or not, but when I kill a few of them, I don't see many tracks, if any, for a very long time. Right now, there are coyote tracks everywhere.

Eddie