One option that people are not thinking about with grocery supply problems is hunting. Feral Hogs are a common problem, and most states have an open season on them. Oklahoma is one of these states, and they are trying to slow the problem by unlimited hunting. Since a pig can yield over 100 pounds of meat, and you can shoot any quantity; you figure it out!
One Caveat; I personally do not eat pork, so this is for you, not me!
Image from article:
https://www.gunpowdermagazine.com/considerations-for-the-perfect-feral-pig-gun/
These are mean and nasty animals, and you need to be careful!
Article on rifle size for pig hunts:
https://www.gunpowdermagazine.com/considerations-for-the-perfect-feral-pig-gun/
I personally prefer the top end sizes, and carry a .308, with a 20 round magazine!
A second consideration they miss in this article is a secondary weapon, CARRY ONE! The bigger the better, I use a .357 Magnum revolver; for fast reliable response.
In this article they recommend:
The mid calibers – 25WSSM, 6.5 Grendel, 260 Rem, and the AK-47 all have excellent pig-killing characteristics. The thirty calibers: 308, 300WSM, and Russian 7.62x54R are lethal and a good choice for the bigger pigs and hogs. The 338 Lapua Magnum works quite well – no need to explain why.
Feral pigs and hogs are tough animals and tend to be fatter than a deer. The vital area is a little different also; when shot through the rib cage, the bullets holes will often get plugged up, causing some difficulty in recovery. A head or neck shot means the swine is dead right there.
It is best to take them at long range; it increases your response time, and confuses the pigs. It reduces the chance of personal attacks, and allows you to take more of them.
When you have extra, your neighbors will appreciate an extra 100 plus pounds of meat; and may even share their excess with you.
The feral hog population is booming. Since there’s no shortage, in most places there are no seasons and no limits. Something to think about during the covid-19 madness and you are in local store looking at bare shelves. Instead of filling your grocery cart, go home and dust off that pig rifle and put it to work filling your freezer, and your neighbors’.
It also gets you out in Nature, at a safe social distance....
If you are able, this meat can be cold packed and pressure canned, so a large quantity can be put to good use and stored long term, without refrigeration.
Unusual, but very effective 'grocery' store!
Should have posted this in The Pew...Seems like a firearms related post as much as a post about grocery shopping.
Sorry, you are right! I will do better, I was thinking prepper, LOL. Too bad it is not clean people food, here it is open season on them.
Pretty good challenge too, they are a tough target!
♡♡♡♡I've done a loot of pig shooting here, .308 and .243, but never kept the meat. I'm not a huge fan of pork products I guess, I eat it, but not that often. I don't think I'd been game to consume much of the wild stuff although have tried it a few times when out hunting and we got a young one. They harvest it here for the German market. We have a feral pig problem here so the government offer a bounty. There is no season to hunt them either, it's year-round.
All good, I saw it as a gun post and figured you'd just forgotten about The Pew.
I fixed it, .308 is my preference. I don't have a .243, I have to fix that, LOL.
I don't eat it, but a lot of people do, might give them a good option with empty grocery shelves. No bounty here...yet!
I just was so focussed on prepping, that Pew just got past me, LOL!
:)>I really like the .308 as it imparts such a nice amount of energy into targets when it hits. I also find it easy to shoot, sort of effortless. Of course, it doesn't necessarily have as good a trajectory as other currently popular rounds, the .243 for example, but it certainly deserves its place at the pointy end of favoured rounds.
Everyone seems to be looking for faster MV, a flatter trajectory, however the .308 is a capable and effective round...Still, people are always looking for the next best thing these days huh?
No stress about The Pew...It's for anything gun related so feel free to drop stuff in there. You can also reblog those posts directly onto your blog which means your friends will still get to see it. I do that with most of my own posts anyway, and certainly anything I drop into a community that I think could be universally interesting. (I hope this makes sense, if not ask and I will clarify.)
Followed it perfectly...and that worries me, LOL!
The 300 Win Mag shoots pretty flat too...got a little velocity on the point. The last deer I took was at about 150 yards with that toy, it was almost unfair!
I like the .308 for wild pigs, because it carries 20 in the magazine...and it does a fantastic job downrange.
The guy at the gun club shooting 22-250 was pushing the speed badly enough he was loosing about 10% to centrifugal force, due to velocity! I am Mean...I told him he could get more speed with a lower twist barrel, ROFLOL! And he was thinking about it....
After all, 4200 FPS was too slow (so he said).
Sharing is a good Idea!
:)>Lol...300WM at 150 yard would kill a T-rex dude! :)
I like the 22-250, just sold mine only a couple months ago though...Was surplus to my needs. but man, they get those rounds zipping along huh? 4200fps! I don't think it's be my go-to for pigs though...Too light.
I hate it how government tries to regulate hunting. Well, if you hunt on their land, then they have that right to regulate. But if it was not their land, then they would not have that right.
True, but the Constitution only gives them control of DC. They are not allowed to control any other land area here.
Hunting regulations should be a recommendation, not a regulation! Some people need hunting to feed their family. I would likely follow the recommended season, because I like the increased population of game animals.
But they do not have the Constitutional authority to REGULATE this!
>:(But who owns national parks?
Ostensibly the government, but they are NOT allowed to own land outside DC.
Our Founding Fathers worried that the government would take too much land and impose upon private land ownership. So they made it Illegal, Now look where we are. There are states where the government owns a majority of the actual land in that state!
Exactly what we were warned about...originally....
:)>But should the states own those lands? If states, counties, and cities, own some land, then that means it is not actually public property. When I lived in Vietnam, they told me that everybody, all the Vietnamese, own the land. But in reality, government owned it. Same thing in most countries. They can say that they all share it and yet final decisions are made by the government to the extent that voting does not affect their decisions. So, in other words, if people are able to vote and protest and do things to get local and state governments to do what we the people want them to do with our land, that is public land that is owned theoretically by everybody, then that is acceptable to the extent government is not corruptible.
Setting up the land in legal trusts, out of government control, will retain public use outside of government control.
The government is the single largest land owner in the USA. In spite of our Founding Father's warnings, and the fact that it is illegal and unconstitutional.
It us also dangerous due to the concentration of power in DC!
♡♡♡♡Yes
I don’t know how wild pigs are, and domestic pigs are very smart.
Those that have mini-pigs as a pet (having dogs as well) say that piglets learn faster than puppies :-)))
They are Very smart! Hard to trap or poison, I have been told. The sweet pigs revert quickly when they get out into the woods. That is where they came from.
They have done well in the wild here, and are becoming a problem. The only animal you can hunt with a starlight scope at night here. You can also shoot them and leave them in the field.
:'(I understand the hunters.
But, I would never be able to kill any animal, except if they are life-threatening.
Understand, My Wife is not supposed to eat processed meat, it aggravates her MS. Store bought meat is pretty bad food....
She is allowed game meat. I can buy Buffalo here that is unprocessed, and free range chickens. But most of the store bought meat she can't eat.
I don't mind hunting as long as the hunter uses a good rifle, and is a good shot. The store bought 'meat' also must be killed....
:'(I understand!
I am not against hunting.
I am against killing animals just for fun, and against publishing them!
And you have a noble goal!
In the store, in fact, it is not known what you are buying!
I know a lot of hunters, never met one that wasn't out to fill the pot.
I use a Heavy rifle, and I practice so they never suffer!
Store bought is always a risk....
:'(It pleases me that mostly hunters are good!
Sir smithlabs! I think all those hogs are coming up from Texas aren't they? You can have them unless there's a food shortage then we'll need a few. lol.
I know they're invading Kansas also.
They are breeding everywhere, and we only send the ones that speak Texican south, ROFLOL!
They are a problem, and can be a food source in a pinch, I don't eat them myself.
:)>I don't eat pork myself except maybe bacon a couple times a year, if that, because I love bacon. What is your reason for not eating it? Biblical guidelines?
Bible is the best reason, but the fact that you can NOT kill all the trichinosis worms in crisp fried bacon; is a good secondary reason! We know more now, the unclean foods are basically the garbage disposals that concentrate contaminants....
I eat turkey bacon that tastes right, with no trichinosis worms; most mornings!
:)>Exactly. Great minds think alike sir smithlabs. I need to get me some turkey bacon, it's been a long while.
Six pieces will fit in a 10 inch cast iron skillet....
This is 'jennie o' brand, one that is close to real bacon flavor!
Yeah I like that brand, thanks for the reminder!