When Life Sends You Bad Piggies...

... Make sausage.  It's the off shoot of the old saying, when life sends you lemons, make lemonade.

It's been said, there's two types of ranches in Texas, those that have feral hogs, and those that will have feral hogs.  Feral hogs are destructive, there are an estimated 12 million wild hogs in the US, 3 million live in Texas, several thousand in Washington DC.  We run a game ranch here, feral hogs destroy feed lots, chase off whitetail deer and blackbuck antelope, prey on young game and destroy turkey nests, eating their eggs.

While on a whitetail hunt we witnessed a 200 pound boar we'd been watching on the game cameras rush in and charge two whitetail bucks and several does, chasing them off.  His predatory behavior came to a swift 7mm magnum end.  

Another hog met his end with a 6.5 Grendel after rooting up a large portion of an oat field.

To protect the game, the rule on the ranch is hogs, coyotes, bobcats and raccoons are shoot on sight.  All  four prey on wild turkey, along with their nests and poults.  Coyotes and bobcats are deadly to whitetail fawns and blackbuck.