What's stopping Americans from achieving a final solution to the feral hog problem? Their ancestors nearly made the plains bison extinct with just lever action firearms, horses and trains. How come modern Americans with ARs, satellite and aerial tracking, and helicopters and motorized transport, haven't been able to do the same?

>>5000789 (OP)
bison only have 1 calf, pigs have 7
bison live on the plains, pigs live in thickets, you have to slash and burn your way through the undergrowth

just set up feeding stations as a lure and shoot them. It would be so easy.

>>5000789 (OP)
Same reason USA lost to Vietnam. Too many, too many places to hide, can’t nuke them because they live too close to civilians which is also the same reason they can’t use chemicals, they reproduce like rats, they eat anything, they are violent, and they are fast.

>>5000789 (OP)
Because the animal that hunts them with zeal (wolves) is scawwy to retarded hobby farmers

>>5000789 (OP)
Because no matter how destructive they are, you have people screaming they should be left alone.

>>5000789 (OP)
>What's stopping Americans from achieving a final solution to the feral hog problem?

It's three things:
1. Boar are exceptional generalists; they can survive and persist in quite literally every environment present in the United States.
2. This: >>5000874 Humans hunting boar can't replace the efforts of a devoted predator like wolves. To demonstrate the difference; wolves are effectively the only reason why boar haven't spread across Canada like they have in the US and are still largely heard about and not seen. Wolves specifically switch to boar during the winter (boar are slowed down by heavy snow and can't look up from it) and can devastate their numbers.
3. Too many bad actors don't want the boar gone. There's thousands of hog/game ranches in Texas who quietly release hundreds of boar into the wild every year.

>>5000870
USA never went to war against Vietnam though, there was never a declaration of war and there was never any real intention to "win" against Vietnam (China) then. It was just a racket for the military industrial complex.

>>5001123
And I should say NVA, rather than just Vietnam.

>>5001123
You might be right but that’s not how the regular people saw it at the time. Or the young man in the jungle shitting himself

>>5001116
>3. Too many bad actors don't want the boar gone. There's thousands of hog/game ranches in Texas who quietly release hundreds of boar into the wild every year.
This is the real answer. Scumbags find the problem profitable.

>>5001123
>there was never any real intention to "win" against Vietnam
Yeah, it was just a blood sacrifice to Moloch. The US embassy in Switzerland would tell the North Vietnamese embassy the location of every airstrike on North Vietnam the day before we launched it, on orders from McNamara and LBJ. The powers that be in the US were uninterested in victory.

>>5001116
>>5001349
To be fair, boar is very tasty.

>>5000790
Why don't we? Oak savannah and pine barrens need to make a comeback.

>>5001123
>we didn't lose the vietnam war because it wasn't a war
kek at the mutt cope

>>5000789 (OP)
>Bison
Reproduce very slowly, are obligate herbivores, when sensing danger typically tighten up into a small herd which allowed market hunters to pick off the first one that broke ranks and keep them in a tight group, and they were slaughtered in actual coordinated and concerted efforts
>Pigs
Reproduce extraordinarily fast, are omnivores that can survive in almost any environment, their numbers are replenished by escaped/released hogs by retards, and they can hide in much more difficult environments to reach
>What is the final solution?
Ban hog hunting by the public. Here in Kansas we’ve sent helicopters up to machine gun any sounder that crosses the border with Oklahoma or Missouri. Missouri banned hunting them on public land and that’s dramatically slowed their spread. A new poison has also recently been developed that’s salt based as it causes hypoxia in pigs but is still in the trial phase. It isn’t deadly to other wildlife like deer but the hogs don’t like the taste so they’re cutting it with peanut butter and the like.

>>5002056
How does banning hunting by the public slow their spread? Genuine question.

>>5002160
It removes economic and cultural incentive to conserve the hogs and release more from captivity. Texas feral pig genetics demonstrate consistent geneflow from both domestic pigs and from farm raised eurasian wild boar which are not related to the ones that were there 10 years ago. In Kansas, you can (and are encouraged to) shoot any feral hogs you see, but no one is making a living as a "hog hunting guide".

Frankly, my preference is punitive fines for people who are sheltering breeding sounders or who are releasing captives, but it's probably easier to just remove the incentive people see.

>>5001382
no it isn't

>>5001116
>There's thousands of hog/game ranches in Texas who quietly release hundreds of boar into the wild every year
This is exactly where all those giant hogzilla pigs come from. Because they keep the skulls as trophies you can see the development is very different to a wild pig that is eating tough fibrous plants and digging for roots and is more similar to a domestic pig raised on grain to get as big and fat as possible

>>5001396
why don't you? is it because your hands are tender and soft, your skin is sensitive to sunlight, your feet blister easily, and you own neither boots or a gun?

>>5000789 (OP)
Because people like to hunt them. They let some get away so they can hunt them in the future.

hogchads are simply superior to humancels, the hog will inherit the earth.

>>5000789 (OP)
Private property laws and like half of the ranchlands not letting anyone on their land for liability reasons.

>>5000789 (OP)
Dropping esoteric knowledge on you plebs.
It's to keep the followers of Islam away.

>>5000818
this

>tfw never been on a hunt

>>5003281
just buy an air rifle and hunt squirrels. You get way more of a thrill because you can shoot a bunch of the fuckers, they taste kind of like turkey in a stew.

>>5003281
That pig was corn raised in a pen before being released, I guarantee it.

>>5001410
not an amerimutt but he's right. us government might as well have just thrown 18 year olds into a meat grinder for how much good they were ever intending on doing.

>>5000789 (OP)
the bison were massacred to make way for the railroads. theres nothing that lucrative that a few hoags are getting in the way of

>>5000818
>just set up feeding stations as a lure and shoot them. It would be so easy.
Hogs don't show up at all hours. You have to set up game cameras and figure out when they are active. Also, first shot and the sounder will scatter, even with a semi-auto. It can be hard to shoot more than 1.
I've only been hog hunting a few times, but I've seen more deer at feeders than hogs.