June 17, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
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A 2 hour hog hunt? By helicopter? How much fun can buzzing the State Capitol for 2 hours be? The hogs in there have too many places to hide.
1Kinda takes yore breath away doan it?
I’m speechless in the presence of sooooooo much stoopide.
2I know what to say but Susan’s Momma would come after me with soap. Kinda sounds like that the idiot from Alaska with her wolf hunts. Take a paw in and you get a bounty.
3and after you shoot the poor hog with an assault rifle…whats left? You hunt, you eat what you kill.
4Will these be the same hogs that shot up the Twin Peaks parking lot? Might be worth buying a ticket.
5in lieu of the fact that your mom reads this..I will not say anything.
6Talk about a cheap date…
7There are a number of marks that signify that a group is a cult.
Here are some:
* The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
* Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
* Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
* They use “loaded” language (characterized by “thought-terminating clichés”). These “special” words constrict rather than expand understanding. They function to reduce complexities of experience into trite, platitudinous “buzz words”.
I think that ammosexuals qualify as a cult.
8I wonder if the “kid zone” is anywhere near the “machine gun shoot”. If we have all the crazies in one place can we quickly build a fence?
9Imagine the fun of shooting money grubbing hogs from a helicopter. As REO Speedwagon’s song says-you’re under the gun so you take it on the run.
10This ain’t hunting. Its just plain damn entitled sadism. My God, these people would actually shoot a sitting bird let alone a scrambling hog!
11Maybe the winners will fall out of the copter and the hunter will become the hunted.
12There have already been several fatal helicopter accidents during hog hunts since it was legalized in Texas. I spent my career as a professional helicopter pilot, and I would never even consider doing this. Idiots with guns in the back can shoot anything, including me, the helicopter, or whatever else is foolish enough to get in the way of the bullets.
The intent isn’t to hunt feral hogs, but to eradicate them. Feral hogs are ruining rural Texas, and it’s truly a serious problem. But the intent and the reality aren’t always identical.
13Um, I hate to be the only voice of dissent, but here goes:
Wild hogs are extremely destructive as well as dangerous. They ruin rangeland and have been known to kill young livestock. They can be VERY large, as in over 600 lbs large. (Ruins large pickup trucks to hit one; low center of gravity, worse than deer) They reproduce rapidly, and travel in large extended family social groups. They kill pets. They could easily kill kids, and probably even easily kill adults too. They uproot shrubbery and small trees and tear turf to bits leaving a muddy torn up mess full of deep divots behind. A .22 would’t make a dent in a grown one, a .3006 or .3030 will, but what’s one out of two hundred? A large group that we could hear from 5-600 feet away while INSIDE OUR HOUSE convinced me that there is a legitimate application for an automatic weapon; if they had been on our land I’d have been beside myself-if I could have killed them on my neighbors’ land it would have been a favor. It was scary, no other way to put it, and I had never seen anything like it. I’m pretty sure they are a big problem in E Texas too, as they are in my county.
14I have a cousin living over there. I better warn her.
15I don’t care if they shoot the feral hogs. I’m scared of them riding around in helicopters to do it. Meanwhile I’d say everyone else in Nacogdoches better take a vacation then and go somewhere like Colorado or New York.
162 hr. 2 person helicopter hog hunt. . . . Sigh.
17Kind of interested in knowing what the “Kid’s Zone” entails.
18I can’t add anything to Aggieland Liz’s commentary. Feral hogs need to be eradicated in Texas.
19A person on the ground with a Stinger missile could dramatically help the gene pool.
20We have wild hogs that were introduced into the Smokies….they are destructive and do not belong here. So that part did not bother me so much. It is just the love of guns of all kinds that bothers me more and more.
21I wouldn’t mind getting in on the hunt, but not from a helicopter, nor on horseback and sure as hell not from a limousine with Dick Cheney. Wild hog makes some of the best barbecue ever. Despite their looks, the meat is far superior to domestic pork.
22PKM you trap ’em for that! No lead 😉 Baby hog loin is nice, grown up hog, not so much. I don’t know why the helicopters? We do have lots of 4-wheeler accidents around these parts, and not all of them involve kids. If someone with large acreage donated the space and posted warnings? I mean, they have public hunts at state parks and kick everyone else out? I know a lot more about hogs than I do helicopters I’m afraid! I wouldn’t enter the contest, but I’m not entering ANY contests where the prize is a gun, a hunt, or a trip to the shooting range. I’m not supporting any of that crap, no matter who is offering it. But hunts have been raffled and auctioned in my county for eons (lotsa outdoorsmen, real and wannabe in booger co) because they are popular. They just weren’t trendy; at the moment, the gun freaks are having their 15 min of fame and glory; the price of all these things will rise (think golf 10 yrs ago) and the trend will fade. Unfortunately, there will be accidents, like the boy killed last weekend while hunting w Grandpa (I’m betting he was told to stay in the stand and didn’t, following instructions isn’t a strength of 9 yr old boys) and then we will apply some sense. But it’s going to take some tragedies I’m afraid!
23Feral pigs are present in CA, too. They do incalculable damage to our parks, rooting up rare species, etc. I have a friend who does legal hunts on the parks using high-powered rifles in the company of park rangers. Unfortunately, they are out-breeding the hunters.
24I have pigs all over my macadamia farm. They leave huge holes, eat the nuts, and attack my dogs.
We have trusted hunters come in a thin the herd, but since pigs outbreed rabbits it’s a constant battle.
25I have a question about the “aspirin buster”. I really hope that doesn’t refer to the aspirin that “good womenfolk” are supposed to keep between their knees.
Then again, it would confirm their love of rape culture.
26Aggieland Liz, would that we could, but trapping isn’t safe here. We want the hogs, not some innocent raccoons, coyotes, our own cattle, or one of our own Ranchies (dogs.) Don’t even want to think about a neighbor’s kid or a horse injured by trapping.
Wa Skeptic, only real hunters like your friend will hunt feral pigs. All those gun humping ammosexuals are pretty much useless, when it comes to a target bigger than them or more than 50 paces from a cold beer.
27One of the features is listed as “Texas Snakes”, so I guess most of the TX Republican politicians will be present for the festivities?
28Prolly not Ted Cruz though, he gets real nervous around armed ‘carriers’, even his own RWNJ kind.
If they could add in Ted (pervy poopypants) Nugent and Chuck Norris it would be a real rattler roundup (they both live not far away).
Feral hogs are a small problem in sw iowa. Some idiots somewhere decided to turn some loose so they could have another animal to hunt. Feral hogs adapt quicker than wingnuts and do as much or more damage to the environment. Domestic hogs are enough of a pain in the ass,imho.You can always ring domestic hogs to pretty much stop rooting around. But then you don’t see that many hogs in pastures any more.
29Meant to ask this before. What kind of automatic weapon is the guy holding in the picture? It looks like total overkill.
30I had a friend who hunted feral pigs by staking out hog trots (where they ran to water and shelter) and while he used a rifle, he kept a .45 at his side all the time just in case. He said he didn’t want to meet something with teeth like stainless steel sabers coming towards him without a weapon. He was the quietest, but bravest, guy I’d ever met. (Funny how that happens with that kind of man.)
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