Jackson Jambalaya

This ought to be good, get ready for MDAC to open a chain of BBQ joints.

Johnny get your gun.

Since the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks won't do a damned thing about wild hogs, glad somebody will at least take the matter up.

For many years, MDWFP had been nothing more than a governor and friends private hunting agency, catering night and day to whoever was in our highest offices, arranging hunts, ignoring limits, running interference for dignitaries and exchanging favors in return for funding and promotions.

I almost forgot 'and acquiring land and naming it for whoever the current governor was at the time'.

What about the “.223 Shoot Until You Run Out Of Ammo” program?

Any update on Scott Coopwood's private hunting club in Rosedale?

Mississippi has enough gun Toten rednecks who can take care of this situation without any governmental or corporate help. People pay “good money” from in and out of state to hunt these things (some even hunt them with knives). Why does the brokest state in the union spend money and hire employees to solve this?

This is great news.

The average person doesn't understand how much damage these wild hogs do to our crops.
One can trap em' and kill em' all day . . . but it's almost a " no-win scenario".

These pigs reproduce faster than rabbits.

I have friends along the Mississippi River that have spent thousands on traps . . . to no avail.
Sure they catch many wild hogs, but not enough to make a difference.

I wish we would adopt the Texas plan.
(Hunting the hogs at night with infrared scopes and and border line machine-guns . . . even from helicopters).

Although it really doesn't effect the wild hog population explosion, it does provide some great hunting experiences and cool youtube videos.

PETA officially objects, but they are too wrapped up about beef and chicken plants, fur coats, leather belts and such . . . that they overlook the Texas wild hog hunts.

Again, great job Commissioner Gipson !

From the headline, I was hoping they were introducing restrictions on gifts and meals for legislators. Maybe next time.

Hunters can't make a dent in this, only trapping. The average person doesn't know how much of a problem until they damage their yard at night. These things are a real problem that we have to stop.

" (some even hunt them with knives) "

Sorry 4:05 . . . you have no clue.

No sane tough guy would even consider taking on a wild hog with a knife.

A Catahoula Cur has even more sense.

As I doubt you understand . . . a Catahoula Cur is dog.
(A bad ass dog that that will eat a Pit Bull on any day).

Is the meat safe to eat?

You can hunt feral hogs 24/7 365 days a year night or day with any legal firearm. If you have night vision equipment that works too.

I know hogs are smart and adapt well but what I dont understand is...what happened to the hog population that was on the wildlife management area off hwy 43 at the rez? You dont ever hear of anyone killing any out there anymore.

I’m so glad someone is stepping to the plate on this very BIG problem. Now it will b fun to see if the common man with just a couple hundred acres stands a chance at this service or will it just goto select ones. Anyways I guess we shouldn’t really care because one less pig is a win for us all as land owners and tax payers. I’ve often wondered why the state or county doesn’t offer a bounty for each one you bring into a select check station like they once did with beavers I believe.

put a bounty on hogs!!!!!!!!!!! 25$ or so...that will be cheaper and more effective than any stinking ''program'' the government puts forth. you give some administrative agency like MDWP $ and the first thing they will do is commission some ridiculous ''study'' to tell us what we already know.

Did Phil ever hunt wild hogs or was his skill restricted to shooting clip-winged quail up at Louisville?

What about the “.223 Shoot Until You Run Out Of Ammo” program?

Covid, Riots, & Election Year has Ammo when You can find it at .70 to 1.00 per round.

And I just learned something at least I didn't know (according to what I read). You can subscribe to or use autobots, and they constantly search & make purchases. Unfortunately, most are being used by resellers. The discussion said it would change online buying forever for high demand items, as it had changed the Collectable Toy Market some time ago.

But U can't believe everything you read.

4:32 - maybe you should get a clue.....I've been on hog hunts where the animal was killed with a knife.

There were two sets of dogs. Chase dogs and catch dogs. When the catch dogs catch and hold the pig the hunter goes in a kills the hog while the dogs are holding it.

Its crazy, you have to trust the dogs holding the hog and it takes a huge set of cahone's.

@6:30am - Or just a lack of gray matter. This state has plenty of folks that lack it.

for all the wack jobs out there that can't stand the thought of killing cute little piglets, a little history. ''wild'' hogs are what's known as feral animals. meaning that they were domesticated animals that have escaped into the have wild and have effectively become wild. domestic house cats do the same thing and kill millions of native wildlife.
there was also a time when many landowners imported truly wild european wild boars into the united states . those european boars had tusks, straight tails and looked a bit similar to african warthogs. they didn't look like anything in the barnyard.
most of those european boars were released into enclosures so they could be hunted. but none one could contain them and they eventually broke out. many wild hogs are decended from them as well as the domesticated pigs that went feral.
the only successful introduction of a non native specie of game in the history of this country has been the ringneck pheasant.
everything else has been an ecological disaster. nutria, fire ants, invasive plants, all come to mind. and if you actually think the government is going to do anything about this problem, don't hold you breath. the only thing government employees are interested in is whether or not they will get a pay raise when the next legislature convenes.

to 4:05......gun toting rednecks in mississippi are more likely to shoot themselves or others than a feral pig.

to 4:36...............there are no veterinarians , drugs, antibiotics , and growth hormones in the wild. feral hogs fend for themselves and the weak and diseased soon die off. contrast that with the way cattle, pigs and chickens are raised. how safe to eat do they look now?

bison were hunted into near extinction. why you say? because there was profit in killing them. the government paid people to kill em to cut off the food supply to the plains indian tribes. also there was a market for the hides, lounges and meat.

put some profit into the killing of feral hogs and that will solve the problem. depending on a stinking government agency to do the job is pissing in the wind. try a little capitalism.............or is that now a dirty word?

"I know hogs are smart and adapt well but what I dont understand is...what happened to the hog population that was on the wildlife management area off hwy 43 at the rez? You dont ever hear of anyone killing any out there anymore.
August 27, 2020 at 8:05 PM"

8:05...my understanding/what I heard was that the hog population on the reservoir
died and was wiped out by a disease. Don't know if that is true or not...but that is what I was told by a wildlife official.

Trap em feed them corn for a month and that's some good eating. And yes I have seen someone (actually 2people) kill one with a dog and a knife.

Tough guys do indeed kill wild hogs with knives. They use well-trained, well-protected dogs to assist, then the hunter kills the hog with a knife.

To the Bryant-basher above, Phil Bryant hunts hogs with a knife.

The State would be better off if he focused on wrangling the 20 hissing possums instead, but that’s just my take.

I would love to participate at a hog boil. I can skin, butcher, cook, whatever is needed. A good summer ham takes 5-8 months to cure and I'd love to do that in our old smokehouse. Would love to have that experience before I die.

Any videos out there of these redneck bad asses fighting/killing wild hogs with only a knife ?

To the poster about imported European breeds. Yes, some were imported and "attempted" to be contained in Hunting Pens...but I know several people who deliberately released some offspring into the wild in order to have a larger area & more hogs to hunt. They knew what the result was going to be, a population explosion...at the time, all they cared about was Hog Hunting.

The most ethical one I knew, had chase & catch dogs. But he carried several pair of handcuffs. One for the front feet, one for the back feet. They cut a pole, ran through the legs & 2 hunters carried the hog out live. Then they grain fed them for a month to get much of the wild taste & fatten them up. You could buy pork cheaper then, but they enjoyed the Hunt.

8:52 am makes a damn good point....lots of european will boars were introduced here back before there were laws preventing the importation of non native species.
but what i cant understand is why we now have sets of laws three feet thick regulating importation of non native species ,yet this country is being eaten up by invasive birds, insects, fish and plants.
proof that all that billion dollar government bureaucracy is fucking worthless.

" But he carried several pair of handcuffs. One for the front feet, one for the back feet."

One well placed shot in the pig's head . . . even by a lil' .357 . . . would more be than adequate for dispatching said wild hog.

But then again I had no idea that a few people hunted these boer hogs with only a knife.

Now I learn that there some that try to put handcuffs on their feet ???

Unbelievable !

I would love to watch some videos of that method as well.

No one in his right mind would post any videos of hunting hogs, PETA would find something wrong.

I once put fur lined handcuffs on...never mind. I don't want KF to blush. :)

Oh my, I was only bullshitting when I said they hunt hogs with knives and dogs....y'all ass cray cray. Don't believe that shit about people wrestling alligators either, I grew up on the bayou, nobody ever jumped in before he had a bullet between the eyes.

" Don't believe that shit about people wrestling alligators either, I grew up on the bayou, nobody ever jumped in before he had a bullet between the eyes. "

Yeah, but some consider it a sport to hand grab giant ass catfish in a log . . . (said catfish minding their own business by the way).

I've watched many videos of that. . . but I'm still waiting to watch a video of someone trying to put cuffs on a pissed off wild Moma hog's feet.

To redress the handcuffs on the Hogs, he said he had tried thick cable/wire ties, but stainless Handcuffs worked much better and were reusable. He said when you have the right Pit Bull on clamped on the Hog's snout & another on the rear leg/or male organs...90% ain't gonna move. The key is have the right dogs. He said he just liked to hear his dogs run. He hadn't killed a Hog in 2 years. When they butchered & cooked for everyone, someone walked out, put a .22 between the eyes of the hogs they had fattened in the pen.

Also knew a veterinarian in the late 70s who Bobcat & Fox hunted. Had a truck set up just for that. Didn't do any other type hunting. Never killed a Bobcat or Fox. Said he just liked to hear the dogs run...after all, Happiness is Just a State of Mind.