Decided to post this here so more bodies would see it. It appears that LSU has signed a patent on a non-environmental damaging hog killer. If legit and works, might be the answer to a lot of folks problem.
https://www.lsuagcenter.com/article...OVoj2yknJjUAnXBcLrnnGxlw3inXW3DYTZrKiOJs

That’s great. Kind of surprised it’s taken this long for someone to come with something. Hopefully it’ll get the all clear and we can get our hands on it. I also wonder if it will have the added benefit of taking out coons too?

going to be interesting who comes out against its use .

I thought they tried this or something similar in Texas and it was pulled from use for some reason. I may be wrong but I know there was something at one time.

Yeah..... LSU has been developing that for years.

They ain’t ever gonna pass nothing like that. Hogs make the state too much money to be eradicating them. Not just our state, all the states that has hogs. Them universities have worked on that kind is stuff for years, but that’s far as it ever goes. Won’t ever make me believe the government is looking after the hunter’s interests.

This has been around for a while now. Sodium nitrate is highly toxic to hogs. I doubt the gooberment will let it be used.

I will give you alittle advice for people with hog problems, soured corn laced with broken clay pigeons on top, and hogs don’t mix. Took a heck of a beating one time shooting clay targets over our hog parlor when I was a kid.

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The rubbery texture is critical, as it helps ensure the bait doesn’t fall apart when hogs bite into it. That limits the amount of scraps on the ground and helps protect nontarget species.

That can’t be good

This, plus hogs aren't the demons of the woods they are made out to be. They can be controlled with hunting and trapping. Personally, I'd like to have hogs numbers back up in Bankhead and get back to hunting them. Was a lot of fun at one point.

Hogs are the spawn of the Devil. They destroy my property the roads and my fields.... we can't even plant beans or corn. They go through the woods an literally vacuum up all the Acorns under every tree. The deer lose.

We had hogs for a long time... then we had a "hog problem". There is a big difference I don't think we will ever get rid of them they roam the entire county like a horde of Vikings raping and pillaging.

At some point you can't control them any more by even trapping they just keep coming. You give up and put a low fence around your feeder and that's all you can do.

Who wants that?


No landowner.

The hate isn't from a recreational standpoint. It is from an Ag standpoint. I don't care what happens to your woods or food plots, but I do about the destruction of ag land from the bass-turds.

Plain and simple, Hogs are nothing more than an invasive species that needs to be eradicated. The only people that seem to want them are those that hunt public land because they have no skin in the game and it gives them something else they can shoot at. They dont have to deal with them on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis and incur and pay for the monetary damage that they cause. Dealing with hog problems takes a lot of time, money and physical labor/work. Oh and by the way, the sodium nitrate poison pill developed by LSU and mentioned above will never be approved for use in AL and probably not anywhere else either.

You can make this stuff yourself if you want too. Stuff been around a long time. The problem was a delivery system that was safe for other animals

This ☝🏻100%! If you own or lease land hogs are the devil and if you don’t have them you will

If you believe that then you dont actually have pigs yet......

^^^^^Exactly. Thanks for posting that pic Harold, so that the ones that just think they have hogs, will know what it looks like when they really do have hogs.

I’m sorry, but that mentality makes me mad. I hope you recreational hog hunters never have the chance to hunt them again, and that was my mission while on Bankhead. They’re absolutely awful, and thinking they’re not a big deal is the very reason we’ll always have them.

What's crazy is that the ground looked that way across that whole bottom......The guy said they had counted as many as 200 one night in one of their bigger ag fields....

I got two words… tanner rite.