Ted Nugent Is In Hog Heaven After "Machine Gunning" Feral Pigs In Texas

[TexasTowelie]

It appears the only thing Ted Nugent likes more than guns is attention. The 70s rock icon is in hog heaven after what he calls a "win win win", of saving the environment, feeding the hungry and inflaming the "haters". Over the weekend he told XM radio host Brett Winterble,

"I took my machine gun in the helicopter - in the Texas hill country - me and my buddy 'Pigman' ... his name is 'Pigman' - I'm the swine czar. I killed 455 hogs with my machine gun. i did it for Bill Maher and all those other animal rights freaks out there."

Sport hunting from helicopters in Texas is illegal, but according to Texas Department of Agriculture, "private hunters are now allowed by the State of Texas to pay for the right to perform as the gunner and shoot feral hogs from a helicopter as part of a feral hog depredation program."

Texas has a feral hog population of over 2 million. They are responsible for damage to property, crops, and livestock at an estimated annual cost of $500 million, but if this isn't sport hunting, it has to be the most popular government program ever among conservatives and gun activists. Still, Nugent says he is doing Texas a favor saying, "We saved the environment from the destruction of these out-of-control pigs and I'm not talking about Washington D.C. or San Francisco ... I'm actually talking about actual pigs."

More including photos at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13214/ted-nugent-is-in-hog-heaven-after-machine-gunning-feral-pigs-in-texas .

Cross-posted in Texas Group.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Machine guns are legal in Texas??

[pipoman]

6. Yep, and just about every state..

usually not for hunting game, but feral hogs aren't considered game in any state I know, it is always open season and there are no bag limits..

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Ted Nugent is mentally ill. Only someone who is THAT sick would do such a thing...

Hey NRA... you're "concerned" about the mentally ill and guns? Take Ted's before it's too late...

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Can those pigs be eaten? BBQd?

Ted "Kill It And Grill It" Nugent

[pipoman]

7. They can be

however, unlike commercial domestic hogs, trichinosis is a risk on these pigs so meat must be cooked to 165F before eating. Also there are varieties of ages of feral hogs, the older ones wouldn't be particularly palatable..

[TexasTowelie]

9. My father killed a wild boar once in the late '70s.

I thought it tasted awful.

[Ikonoklast]

11. If you've ever butchered a slaughtered feral pig, you'd wonder how people can eat it.

Especially the males, boar flesh is so strong it is almost always inedible no matter what you do to it.

[pipoman]

12. I don't doubt that..

I suspect that 1 year old or less may not be as gamey..

[Ikonoklast]

13. Once the hormones kick in, forget it.

I'm not kidding, the smell will knock you out.

[Bjorn Against]

10. Ewwww...I would never even think of eating Ted Nugent

[Bjorn Against]

4. If there is one thing Ted Nugent knows very well it is an out of control pig

He may not understand what it is like to be human, but he sure understands what it is like to be an out of control pig.

[rustydog]

5. Shoot a pig, no prob! answer America's call for service during Vietnam...

Shit your pants for a week and take your AFEES physical, fail physical and then talk tough 40 years later...

[mokawanis]

8. He's a good figurehead for the NRA

A gun nut with a big mouth who loves to kill things.

[sorefeet]

14. I think he's a fuckin liar

IF he killed all those hogs he didn't turn them into the homeless shelter like he said because you can't hardly eat them wild stinkin bastards in the first place, plus the meat would be destroyed and full of feces and bacteria plain old poison. But again we are talking Texas maybe thats how they treat the poor and think they are doing them a favor.

[Initech]

15. Can't wait for Bill Mayer's new rules this week.

Ted Nugent is a truly vile, disgusting piece of shit (in more ways than one!). Hopefully Maher rips him a new one the way he did Donald Trump.