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05-25-2009, 08:30 AM
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Texas 'pork chopper' bill advances

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Bill to encourage hunting hogs from helicopters advances in Texas House

By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News

rtgarrett@dallasnews.com



AUSTIN – A bill to encourage more hunting of feral hogs from helicopters drew several Democrats' scorn but advanced in the House late Thursday.



Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, said his bill would allow landowners to lease their property to hunters using helicopters to thin the estimated 2 million feral hogs causing havoc in virtually every county.



Currently, landowners can only rent helicopters and do their own shooting, but Miller's "pork-chopper" bill would let them sell the rights.



"The problem continues to grow and ... it is out of hand," he said.



The House tentatively approved the bill on a voice vote, and it could come up for a final vote as early as today.



Miller's original bill would have changed sport-hunting sections of current law. But he rewrote it at the last minute to make transfers of helicopter hog-hunting rights acceptable in a subchapter devoted to hunting and fishing licenses for scientific research.



The new language says the hogs have to be "depredating" – meaning plundering or pillaging, presumably crops. But Rep. Kristi Thibaut, D-Houston, complained that Miller had changed nothing. She tried unsuccessfully to limit the hunting-rights transfers to small rural counties.



Rep. Eddie Lucio III, D-Brownsville, offered an amendment to prohibit price-gouging by landowners selling their rights.



Saying he understood the need to control the hog population, Lucio said: "What I don't agree with is selling for a profit ... hunts from a helicopter. That in my mind is not the traditional hunting that I grew up with."



Georgetown Republican Rep. Dan Gattis, shot back: "We're not looking for population control, we're looking for population eradication."



Lucio replied, "Call it what it is, it's sport hunting from a helicopter."



The House brushed away his proposal, 97-32.

Hogdude1234
05-25-2009, 08:35 AM
Hunting from a helicopter would be awesome.

txbhunter1
05-25-2009, 09:06 AM
Bungee hunting would be better with a spear.................LMAO http://texashoghunter.com/images/images/forum/emoticons/dance.gif

Hogdude1234
05-25-2009, 09:13 AM
Gary...that is about the dandgest, funniest thing I have ever heard!!!!!!!

txbhunter1
05-25-2009, 09:30 AM
Would be fun to watch though, wouldn't you say? LMAO

CODY
05-25-2009, 10:23 AM
bungee spear hunting from a helicopter for hogs sounds fun, count me in LOL

txbhunter1
05-25-2009, 11:03 AM
Ihope they have an extra heavy duty bungee for my ass. LMAO Count me in also. Anybody else? LOL

txbhunter1
05-25-2009, 11:04 AM
Even if the hogs were penned, it would still be fun to watch. LOL

Hogdude1234
05-26-2009, 07:20 AM
Gary....I'm in!!!! I'll fly the Helicopter while you and CODY take turns running the spear and camera!!!! LMAO Again!!!!

txbhunter1
05-26-2009, 12:29 PM
All after a couple of dozen Margarita's right? LMAO

Hogdude1234
05-26-2009, 06:54 PM
Yeah!!!! That would do it!!!! lol

Keechi
05-27-2009, 05:48 AM
They did one on a big ranch in Leon Co. last winter.Hogs were tearing up their oat pastures.They killed 316 hogs in 2 days.they could run ,but couldn't hide

BustedAssRanch
05-27-2009, 08:29 AM
The land owner has done it over my deer lease. I dont think he was too successful. Between the canyons & the thick brush..I only heard of him doing it the one year. He does have a federal trapper Or state whatever..He has never been back to check his snares..BTW check my classifieds listing for used snares...