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Closing in on the Feral Hog VS Missouri Wild Hog Crisis

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December 31st, 2018
Looks like someone decide to respond to the Missouri Wild Hog Crisis. Well maybe not.
​Rose Color Glasses that the MDC and it’s partners are wearing and they are not closing in on the Feral Hogs, they have made it much worse in the past two years

Keep this in Mind "Is their such a thing a a coincidence" -
December 26th, 2018 - My interview air on Thursday
December 27th, 2018 - Link was taken off and removed from FB.
December 30th, 2018 - MDC Interview airs.

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Link to show http://www.kzimksim.com/podcast/feral-hog-policies-in-missouri/?fbclid=IwAR31o3JDZ-yMq07poHdpcX6rDu7MeTIhs5WvC25fQ1R_30myuRZiMSY2UBw

Listen to the interview, then read below and listen to interview again.

You can put lipstick on a pig - Guess what it's still a pig! 
The truth is going to come out. 

​45 Seconds - FACT NO. 1. – Left something out the response on the KILLING FERAL HOGS ON MDC ground POLICY, don’t want them to Scatter: DO WHAT!!!!

During the Months of Mid Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec and Mid Jan. they will not trap public land so that deer and turkey hunters can still hunt without a big ordeal of shutting down the area to deer and turkey hunting from the public and putting signs out.

30 different conservation area are they all like Castor River Conservation area which has had NO hog trapping for last four month? With reports of over 60 plus hogs running on area.

Because of this a 4-month refuge for Wild Hogs on public land.

Wild Hogs must be wearing ear muffs and sunglasses during 10 days rifle season when 200,000 deer hunters go to the woods, so they don't scatter over the landscape, so they can be trapped, because hogs can't hear or see, those 200,000 humans in Orange are roaming the woods and shooing at a deer and not at them.

JANUARY 1ST, 2019

​Guess it's all written down for the Missouri public to read and understand.

​TWO - Missouri Citizen Sent this to me.

"They had corn in Feral Hog traps all deer season on the national park service and on all the MDC owned land in Shannon County all deer season just like this."

"This Feral Hog Trap was set on the border of Pulaski County, On public land, during deer season last year also had corn in it."

​My Questions -
1. Did they close area off too Deer Hunters with corn on the ground?
2. How close can hunters hunt to this?
3. Doesn't the corn concentrate deer and potential increase the spread of CWD?
4. HMMM - Told they WILL NOT do that on the conservation land next to me and they kept to their word and did not for the last 4 months.
​5. Guess if I do that on my own Private Land and have deer stand within 20 yards. I won't get a ticket? Very confusing, all these different policies, regulations, and procedures for different areas, land and people. 

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​1 minute 48 seconds – FACT NO. 2 – Helicopter - Had success doing that. DO WHAT!!
 
2017 MDC helicopter gunner fails to kill any feral hogs at Current River site.
 
2018 - December 10th thru 14th. How many days to kill 103 hogs - 97 dollars a wild hog for 5 days of flying, I still bet I am low - Really how much Tax Payer Money - A typical (US) light helicopter like a Bell 407 or a AS350 with a single pilot and no special equipment would run maybe $1,500-2,000 +/- of TAX PAYER MONEY a day x 5 days $10,000.

​December 21st, 2018
AFTER
the USDA APHIS killed 103 Feral Hogs
FERAL SOW KILLED by “PUBLIC HUNTER” on BELL MOUNTAIN and appeared to have Milk - OOPS - MISSED ONE, or How many?

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2 Min 53 seconds FACT NO 3: just presents or absence all that matters. DO WHAT!!!
What does the Missouri Department of Conservation think the hog population is in Missouri
They don't know? DO WHAT!!

7 Minutes 37 seconds “We are making good progress” DO WHAT!!
 
The No. 1 Conservation Department in the National that can Estimate 1.3 Million Deer, 300,000 to 400,000 Wild Turkeys can set limits on every species of Wildlife in Missouri can't figure out what the wild hog population is.

 
FACT: NO. 4 - If 70 percent of the pigs in a region are killed, the remaining ones can have piglets fast enough to replace all those lost in just two and a half years. But at Missouri and Forest Service figures they can’t break 20%. REALLY

MDC reported estimated population of 10,000 in Missouri in 2015. Then in 2016 MDC reported 30 counties with Feral Hogs and placed a ban on killing any on MDC land and the Feral Hog population had exploded across Missouri with between 8 and 15 more counties now with Feral Hogs.

In less than a Week the People of Missouri have spoken with 38 counties reporting Feral Hog Problems.

The U.S. Forest Service - Mark Twain National Forest best educated guess that last year the Wild Hog Population was 30,000 to 40,000 in state of Missouri. USDA APHIS reports 45 counties in Missouri with Feral Hogs. 1998 Wild Pig Reports in 12 Missouri Counties 2018 Wild Pig Reports in 45 Missouri Counties

Peck's Ranch has to be the most watched Conservation Area Missouri since Elk have been introduced to Missouri. 100% Controlled by the Government.
​ If Feral Hogs are not eliminated on Pecks Ranch since 2011, with the TOP officials in the AGENCY watching, what are the odds of them being eliminated from Missouri or from your land under the current policies?

Missouri citizen just sent these photos to me.
January 1st, 2019
"Pictures are from Peck Ranch CA the Elk collar was in hog rooting
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​8:27 Min – We Have to work around hunting seasons. ROFLMAO


FACT NO. 5 – Left something – So CORN multiple sources agree on something finally, the MDC and  Even the  NO. 1 Wild Hog state in the nation like Texas has recommendation from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and Texas A&M University that corn is the best bait.

But if any version of Wild Hog Bait contains CORN and is used on Private or Public land and depending on distance and acreage, all or section of that PRIVATE OR PUBLIC land is shut down to all Deer and Turkey but the only person that know the distance is your local agent.

DECEMBER 2018 HEADLINES

December Issue of the Missouri Conservationist “Closing in on the Feral Hogs”

December Radio Interview with the MDC “We are making good progress”

1998 Wild Pig Reports in 12 Missouri Counties
2018 Wild Pig Reports in 45 Missouri Counties

Missouri Citizen - just sent this to me January 1st, 2019 -

"This is all in National Scenic Riverways area - We seen LOTS of sign. We rode our horses out a trail at 11 a.m. and by dark they had been thru and dug up our tracks this past weekend!"

​ National Scenic Riverways Area is 100% control by the government and their regulations on Feral Hogs – So why is this still happening if their methods are working? The citizens of Missouri, believe we have a “Missouri Wild Hog Crisis”

27 Full Time Feral Hog Trappers caught 8,200 Feral Hogs in 2018
"Only 20% of Estimated Population"
That is an average of 303 Feral hogs per person.  Each Person makes $15,000 dollars a year. Poverty Level FYI - That is $405,000 in Tax Payer money costing $50.00 per feral hog
(Does not included, Benefits, Gas, Equipment, and Feed) 
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Single Wild Boar Hog and letting the professionals handle it as recommend.
6 Minutes 12 Seconds - It takes time.

USDA APHIS FEDERAL hog trapper started on November 26th, 2018, has given up Friday December, 28th, 2018 after 34 days, 6 bags of corn in 46,255 photos at bait site only of Raccoons and Deer , no hog sign, no hog damage, no hog photos including his high tech equipment of a Bushnell game camera that went dead at least twice and return my key.
​34 days of NOT being allowed to Deer and turkey hunt section of my own property.


Now the Real Truth
​My photos from Saturday December 29th, 2018 of the hog rub and tusk marks on the tree, not counting the Photo of the hog on Dec 6th and Dec 22nd on my actually high tech equipment that I bought myself.

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Missouri Wild Hog Crisis VS Closing in on the Feral Hog

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