tagged w/ feral hogs
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An American farmer has grown so tired of feral pigs - or hogs - destroying his crops that he has begun machine-gunning them down.
Skip Smith from the Texas town of Dublin uses night vision goggles and a machine gun with a silencer as his preferred method of pest control.
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He says farmers usually use dogs to chase the pigs or trap them before shooting them, but he takes a different approach.
"We use thermal imaging and night vision so they can't see us, hear us or anything like that and it's a very effective way. It's the same thing that our forces use in Iraq, we're just using them on animals," he said.
Once found he then uses a range of guns to shoot the pigs.
"It matters [sic] from H and K or Heckler and Koch or Bushmasters or Colts - they are fully automatic, cartridge-loaded machine guns," he said.
"Then we have regular suppressed guns that are fully suppressed, that are as loud as you and I talking. So a .338 Lapua, which is a very large cartridge would sound like a decibel of 35 which we are talking at right now."
He admits he could just use a hunting rifle, but the sound alerts other pigs.
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He says when hunting he usually kills five or six pigs at a time, but can get up to eight if the silenced guns are used.
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