Texas Feral Hog Hunting and Farm Field Damage

Ronny and Micah are continuing with their favorite past time - eradicating feral hogs in Central Texas. For both fathers of young children, getting out of the house on weekends is a much needed measure to decompress for them. The wheat fields around Austin Texas are almost ready to be harvested, with the wheat beards hanging taller than knee high. It doesn't take the team long to discover their first feral hog in the field this evening.

Thanks to Seizmik UTV for the free product!

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FERAL HOGS - AN INVASIVE SPECIES

Feral Hog Math: 1+1=12, 6+6=72, 36+36=232
Gestation period: 115 days
Females can have their first litter as young as 6 month old.
One sow with litter can turn into over 70 hogs in only 9 months. Add 9 months for every generation after that. You're looking at over 200 hogs after only 18 months.

Wild Hogs cause an annual damage of estimated $2 Billion. That is damage to equipment, live stock, land, as well as crop. This estimate also includes the cost for efforts controlling this invasive species.

ABOUT TEXAS JAGD

"JAGD" (ja:kt) is German for Hunt/Hunting. Ronny was born and raised in Germany and moved to the US in his late 20s. He has always been an avid outdoorsman and almost immediately started hunting after moving to the USA. Hunting wasn't as accessible in Germany, so he enjoyed and embraced the freedom given in America. He partnered up with Micah when they both discovered that they shared the same passion for night vision and thermal vision hog hunting in Texas. Together they patrol private ranches, farmland and corporate properties around Austin TX and keep the local feral hog population at bay as much as they can.

They aim to kill fast, but feral hog control is a numbers game and they will take any shot which can be safely placed. Their highest priority is safety, and their shots are limited by population/residential homes in rural areas as well as livestock. That's why you won't see them going rapid-fire. They will err on the side of caution instead of taking that one shot they would regret.

Their equipment and means to control Wild Hogs primarily consists of semi-auto rifles equipped with the newest Thermal Vision and Night Vision Optics. These Thermal Scopes allow them to quickly detect and recognize feral hogs at distances up to 1,000 yards. Suppressed AR platform rifles are their preference but there are many other very capable semi-automatic rifles, which will be utilized as well. Silencers are essential to the team's efforts because it reduces the noise level significantly and won't alert people living in surrounding areas so that TXJ's activities won't become a nuisance. Local Texas farmers are grateful for the free crop protection services as it saves them money.
Ronny and Micah enjoy what they do and take pride in this work.

PLAYLISTS

[OG-nlso]

Thanks for the Vlog people need to see how much damage these hogs are doing to the farmers and ranchers great drone shots keep up the hard work your doing it's the best content on there

[MrJoeyoung]

4 hogs are definitely better than no hogs. Good video guys!

[BJ-uewt]

Ronny wieder top Video, Borsten knipsen makes fun!

[JoeyBaby]

When does the thermal drone come in? :D