Ted Nugent Is In Hog Heaven After "Machine Gunning" Feral Pigs In Texas
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 General Discussion.
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The Draft Dodging, Poacher was to good to bear arm for all our fellow mankind and lost comrades in Viet Nam. (58,216 of the best KIA). Yet now he is enjoying flying around killing his own kind and acting like a MOH recipient. He should be the one on the ground taking fire from above and sleeping with the pigs. It’s all about Ted and his loud mouth
You can bet none or very few if any of the pigs were dressed out and made table fare for the needy. Just a show boat again.
This guy is a disgrace to our VNE Veterans, Texas, Our Nation, Michigan, nature lovers, hunting, and outdoors sportsman and their image. Yet he is still on the BOD of The National Rifle Selling Association. No wonder everybody want restrictions our guns. Look at this nut from the BOD of NRA and what he stand for!!!
Tells how smart NRA nuts are... And yes I am pro gun hunter all my life raised on a ranch in Texas, and used to be a member of NRA. When it went nutty I gladly left NRA.
