That is what's coming up on the show this weekend. There is a very good chance that sometime in the next couple years, we will legally be able to snuff out feral hogs via the use of poison. What is the poison made of? A special feeder that ensures only hogs can access it? Who will make it? All those questions will be answered by Texas Wildlife Services Mike Bodenchuk.

Then for all you crappie anglers out there, Mr. Crappie will drop in to talk about chasing slabs during the spring spawn. Wally is a really nice guy and I am excited to have him share his expertise with us. Now's the time to fill the freezer!

Also, TPWD Turkey Program Leader Jason Hardin will stop by to discuss what hunters should expect to see next weekend when the north zone opens up. Also, how are the Eastern birds doing and will TPWD really have to close 15 counties to turkey hunting next year?

Should be a highly informative show.

Saturday morning from 8:30-9:30 on Dallas' 95.3 The Range and from 7-8 on San Antonio's KTKR Ticket 760.

Looks like another good show to listen in on. Thanks!

Great topics. Look forward to it.

Thats a ticking time bomb right there! You start poisoning critters on your land and then it crosses the fence and gets shot and later eaten by hunters then things are going to get ugly.

Should make for an intresting topic though.

I'm all for poisoning hogs... my preferred poison of choice is lead at high velocity

One would think so, but the poison only kills the hog. Its actually sodium nitrate which is a food additive in human food but fatal to hogs because they cant produce the red blood cells necessary to change it...now it gets over my head....but anyway it wont kill humans or other animals that injest the dead poisoned hog.

I'm sure they can work that out lol.... just because u poison something doesnt mean it will kill u if u eat it...

Sodium nitrate is used to preserve cured meats like bacon. Maybe the hogs will be precured after eating the stuff.

You ever have a rat die in your wall? Imagine one of those big suckers crawling under your shrubs around the house and dying.

Good show today Cable.

I wish the poison thing would not happen. The hogs are a poor mans big game animal. If people do not speak up this will destroy them.

Wish I could have heard the show, how was it?

post a link Cable - want to hear this one!

Cable, podcast??

Sorry guys, podcast is up. Try to have it added for ya on Monday mornings. Hog poision plant will be in Texas. So at least those damn feral hogs will be creating some jobs here.

And to the poster who is worried about this ruining your hunting, I don't think it's gonna do that. It's gonna be up to the landowner to decide whether or not to use thes stuff.

Episode 62 Podcast. www.lonestaroutdoorshow.com

I listened to the interview, and by the description of the mandatory feeder that the sodium nitrate bait is placed in the hog is going to have to work at it to get to the bait and probably only one hog at a time.

Also the smaller hogs may not be able to lift the door to get the trap open which will spare a lot of the smaller hogs.

Also there is a posibility that the smarter more educated trap shy hogs will avoid it altogether.

Maybe I'm invisioning it wrong, but I just don't see it being overly efficient such as a corral type trap that already is, that catches a whole sounder in some cases, and thus not wiping out the population in short order, which is good for those who still like to hunt and trap them.

Any method to help control them is good, but I just don't see this being the silver bullet, as long as it has to be administered in an approved and purchased, bait specific feeder.

This one method to insure that other wildlife other the a hog cannot get to the poisioned bait. It kills fast and humanly.

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