In the fight against the scourge
of feral hogs in Texas, there are millions of the two-hundred pound,
multiple-times-year-breeding drunken bastards in the State, the Great State of
Texas has now authorized the use of muzzle suppressors (silencers) and
next-generation night vision scopes.
Muzzle suppressors do not actually silence the gun, but get it awfully
close. Quiet enough to shoot a hog at a feeder and not spook its brethren who
are rooting nearby. Since hogs are wily,
and go nocturnal when under any hunting pressure, Texas has also made legal
next-general night vision scopes that don’t show green blobs, but show thermal
images of the devious, destructive hogs.
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| Feral Hog About to Be Dispatched by Night Vision |
Thermal night-vision scopes and
muzzle suppressors have obvious, nefarious uses against things other than feral
hogs, where total war is necessary. So,
they’re expensive and hard to get. The
biggest problem, aside from price, is the time it takes authorized stores to
get them, up to six months, and at a cost of multiple thousands of dollars.
Compared to the damage they do to crops, fences, pastures and roadways, it’s
worth it to big-time ranchers and hunters who would otherwise see fields and
deer-leases torn up.
Background checks are obviously an
issue for some, too. When faced with the
scourge of millions of possibly drunken, destructive hogs, this seems like a
good option, to turn the hunting public loose. We can’t wait for cars to hit
all of them, like they do in Australia (see link) And we can’t just set out amateurs
into the everglades like they did in Florida in their ultimately pitiful
attempt to wipe out invasive pythons. (see Florida’s failure here)
No, in Texas, we outfit
professionals in the best tactical gear, and hope they don’t turn to poaching
other game, or people. The anti-gun lobby is likely pissed. They likely haven’t faced drunken feral hogs,
though.
Full story and picture credit: http://www.chron.com/sports/outdoors/article/Texans-take-aim-a-feral-hog-problem-with-quiet-4334456.php#photo-4291012
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