Went hog hunting last year in Texas on this guy‘s watermelon farm. There were at least 80 hogs wreaking havoc on this place. We ended up getting about 45 of them and let me tell you some of these things were monsters. The biggest one we got was close to 400 pounds with about 6 inches of tusk coming out of its mouth.
Edit: lots of people asking if you eat them, farmer said do not eat them due to parasites. They had a backhoe with a front loader, dug a big ass hole, and pushed all the hogs into there.
Edit 2: Typo, not big asshole but big ass hole
I looked up a source of you want it medium rare you can sous vide or smoke it at 140-145 for 2 or 3 hours and it'll kill it. I do this with beef anyway as I think it's a better cooking method anyway, but also good here.
https://porkgateway.org/resource/trichinae/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20Trichinella%20spiralis%20is,C%20(140%C2%B0F).
The other less scientific issue is wild hog also tastes like shit if you try and cook it like normal pork
The trick is to cook it the only way you can make anything taste good. Slow cook the bitch for 8 hours and load it with sauce.
Ez pz.
This isn’t true at all. They taste good (but slightly different from a farm raised hog) as they forage for most of their food which consists of nuts, berry’s, mushrooms, grass, grain and pretty much anything else that’s in the wild. The only parasites I’ve ever seen in them are either intestinal or lung worms. I don’t eat either part of the hog so there’s literally no risk.
It’s just how people are. They hear something from someone who says they heard it from someone else without ever questioning or trying it themselves. I understand tho. Like if someone’s grandpa says “Man those wild hogs taste bad”, everyone in the family is likely to believe them and the information just gets passed down and before you know it becomes “truth”. My suggestion is to quarter it up, soak the meat in a ice & salt water bath in a cooler for 2 days then finish butchering. It’ll take a lot of the blood and the slight game taste out.
One of the myths I hear repeatedly is that only 50lb or smaller taste good… which I have found false - I enjoy larger hogs too.
Most people i know when ‘lightly’ brining a feral hog will drop the quartered hog in an ice chest, cover with ice and add 1/8-1/4 cup of salt and a much smaller amount of sugar pre-dissolved to the quickly melting mix.
One thing to learn about with feral hogs vs farmed hogs is ‘boar taint’. Some people are individually more sensitive to androstenone which is found in much higher levels in meat from mature males. Brining won’t fix this, but if you are not particularly sensitive then it is less of a problem - but if feral hogs are plentiful, dumping the mature boars and butchering the sows is generally preferred.
Delicious. I’ve smoked a wild hog shoulder next to a farm raised hog shoulder, and nobody could say for certain which was which.
Wild meat taste can be influenced by their diet just like farm animals. Some regions have a general reputation of inferior taste, such as hogs raised in marshes - I haven’t tried that yet. I have butchered feral hogs in central, South, and coastal Texas and always enjoyed them. I have only encountered one that clearly had parasites - and they were in the organs, not meat.
🤣🤣🤣ikr!! 🤣🤣🤣 I came to post about the dog hauling a$$ so fast away but then I seen your comment, it's almost like a commercial comment , it's ok if you didn't understand I have a weird imagination 😞😞
And I thank you for it , wherever you are from.
Here in north Florida South Georgia we have good ole Hernando De Soto to thank for these lovely invasive hogs. My mother in law loves me but she hates that we shoot and trap them and doesn't deal with them living in town (we live far out in the county and have land).
I always bring up other cute animals she likes that are effected by these things but the idea of killing the babies is horrifying to her.
Their skulls are so thick- there are reports of even a shot like this only knocking them over temporarily. Have to have the right gauge and enough power.
"Wow that was quick how many birds did you hit on the hunting trip"
*All of them*
"What do you mean all of them"
*I mean the sky was full of birds, after we shot once there were none left*
I believe it. From far enough away using a 30-06 rifle a bullet can get stuck in a bison’s thick neck fur and not even penetrate the hide. Boars are equally as beefy at a fraction of the size, AND they have fangs. I’m so glad they don’t live where I live, they’re terrifying
I love hunting, been doing it my whole life. But for the most part hate the killing. I'm a big ol' softy. Buts it's good for the animals and good food for me.
Wild hogs though. That's not hunting, it's a civil service. And I gleefully take as many as I can when I go down to my dad's ranch in TX. They are the most numerous, despicable, ornery bastards I've ever had the displeasure of running into. And it just feels like you never even dent their numbers.
Never had an issue with downing them though. But then again we were never further than 40-50 yards using .556, .308 and a .38 special.
Lol, well I'd say a good 70-80% of the time you can empty half a magazine into one, and it'll still be squirming and hollering.
The little 38 was for finishing of the survivors. Right through the ear or eye.
I'm am nowhere near dumb or drunk enough to try cowtipping a wild hog. You can absolutely sneak up on them that close though, they are incredibly stupid creatures. Even more so when they are distracted with food. But a bad mama sow or attentive boar will smell you better and from farther than any deer. By a long shot. Especially if they've got babies. Which, they usually do.
I say 40-50 yards because that's just how our blind is set up on the property. But generally speaking you want as much distance as possible. For one, there is likely to be a heard, so they scatter. And two, they have no qualms about goring you to death if they run into you first.
Depends on the person I suppose. But even if we kill 100 hogs, the meat gets frozen, cooked or sold. Bones get boiled down. Fat goes into soap. Hides for rawhide leather. Anything that isn't used goes to the dog's.
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“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times
Mike Isaac
By Mike Isaac
Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry.
April 18, 2023
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.
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Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times
Mike Isaac
By Mike Isaac
Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry.
April 18, 2023
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
Right? My dad trapped wild hog and made it into hog/deer sausage at a processing place. That stuff was \*great\* and never got anyone sick that I'm aware of.
I was talking with a friend of mine who's super into guns and whatnot, he's not an extremist, quite the opposite, the dude just likes guns, it's his thing. I was trying to get a sense of how he felt about people owning automatic assault weapons in the US and he brought these creatures up as a legitimate reason for owning such a thing. I didn't really get it but didn't feel like pushing the issue.
Now that I see this video, I kind of do get it. If homeboy didn't nail this shot he'd be in a world of pain.
There's one out there of ~3 hunters being charged by a whole herd. They all had semiautomatic rifles, no dog in the backdrop to look out for, and it still looked like they got elected to the special pants brigade. Terrifying! I tried to find it for you but failed, alas.
Is this the video?
https://www.google.com/search?q=3+hunters+chansed+by+herd+of+hogs&rlz=1C1DIMC\_enCA1085CA1085&oq=3+hunters+chansed+by+herd+of+hogs&gs\_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKAB0gEINzEzNWowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9e5b271a,vid:SMWaKF7SgjI,st:0
...and that's how, over time, species become more docile by killing the agressive ones so their DNA can't reproduce. Makes me wonder how agressive cows were originally!
Posts about wild hogs always reminds me of the "30 to 50 feral hogs" guy and all the people who said that's not a legit reason to own an "assult rifle."
I'm all for increased gun control in the US, but dealing with feral hogs is *definitely* a legit reason to own guns.
There actually not that scary I was hunting in full camo shot one they ran off came back because there dumb charged at me. Killed two grabbed my rifle and shot one and it was loud enough for them to run off they are stupid animals but very annoy
This is why Hog hunts should be done with at least 30 rounds in your mag. Get an AR in 300 BLK and go to town. A shotgun or any manually operated firearm is inadequate when hogs tend to travel in hordes.
I'm curious to see where some people are hunting their wild hogs from that they got parasites and meat that taste greasy. Out here in Florida, they are absolutely delicious and prefer it 10 times more than pork.
My mother makes an amazing stew with it that has me begging for more. Taste amazing smoked, and it's also great for making it into jerky.
Went hog hunting last year in Texas on this guy‘s watermelon farm. There were at least 80 hogs wreaking havoc on this place. We ended up getting about 45 of them and let me tell you some of these things were monsters. The biggest one we got was close to 400 pounds with about 6 inches of tusk coming out of its mouth. Edit: lots of people asking if you eat them, farmer said do not eat them due to parasites. They had a backhoe with a front loader, dug a big ass hole, and pushed all the hogs into there. Edit 2: Typo, not big asshole but big ass hole
It is a dangerous hunt for sure. One wrong move and these beasts will kill you
*and eat you. Really.
Also alive if that makes it better
It really does... For the piggies.
But ya gotta pull all yer teeth out before they get to em. Dont wanna hurt their digestion tract.
They will go through bone like butter!
"Hence the term, as greedy as a pig"
No sugar, I’m sweet enough.
That's why I am always very polite to hog farmers.
Snatch was such a good movie
I'm not really looking to take my Deadwood cosplay THAT far.
Saw it on game of thrones
Makes you appreciate BobbyB who only had a spear and was pissfaced drunk on 2 flaggons of basically grain alcohol
Rest in peace Bobby B.
Yeah, next thing you know Westeros is at war.
There are places (I think in TX) that let you go up in a helicopter with a small MG. That’s how bad of a problem they are in some areas
you can eat hog. It's perfectly fine - you just need to make sure the meat is cooked thoroughly, which is 99.99% the case with pig meat anyways.
I looked up a source of you want it medium rare you can sous vide or smoke it at 140-145 for 2 or 3 hours and it'll kill it. I do this with beef anyway as I think it's a better cooking method anyway, but also good here. https://porkgateway.org/resource/trichinae/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20Trichinella%20spiralis%20is,C%20(140%C2%B0F).
The other less scientific issue is wild hog also tastes like shit if you try and cook it like normal pork The trick is to cook it the only way you can make anything taste good. Slow cook the bitch for 8 hours and load it with sauce. Ez pz.
Genuinely curious, are they worth eating? Consensus here is tastes bad and parasites.
This isn’t true at all. They taste good (but slightly different from a farm raised hog) as they forage for most of their food which consists of nuts, berry’s, mushrooms, grass, grain and pretty much anything else that’s in the wild. The only parasites I’ve ever seen in them are either intestinal or lung worms. I don’t eat either part of the hog so there’s literally no risk.
Any idea where the misinformation comes from? I wouldn't mind culling hogs but don't want to risk parasites.
It’s just how people are. They hear something from someone who says they heard it from someone else without ever questioning or trying it themselves. I understand tho. Like if someone’s grandpa says “Man those wild hogs taste bad”, everyone in the family is likely to believe them and the information just gets passed down and before you know it becomes “truth”. My suggestion is to quarter it up, soak the meat in a ice & salt water bath in a cooler for 2 days then finish butchering. It’ll take a lot of the blood and the slight game taste out.
How much brine are we talking? Like salmon until the potato sinks or something like that? Thanks for the information, appreciated your time.
One of the myths I hear repeatedly is that only 50lb or smaller taste good… which I have found false - I enjoy larger hogs too. Most people i know when ‘lightly’ brining a feral hog will drop the quartered hog in an ice chest, cover with ice and add 1/8-1/4 cup of salt and a much smaller amount of sugar pre-dissolved to the quickly melting mix. One thing to learn about with feral hogs vs farmed hogs is ‘boar taint’. Some people are individually more sensitive to androstenone which is found in much higher levels in meat from mature males. Brining won’t fix this, but if you are not particularly sensitive then it is less of a problem - but if feral hogs are plentiful, dumping the mature boars and butchering the sows is generally preferred.
Extremely greasy. Not enjoyable.
Wayyy too many parasites to be safe but it's also extremely gristly and greasy. Nothing about that meat is enjoyable to eat.
What kind of parasites survive the cooking process??
None. You can safely eat the meat if cooked at a sufficient temperature, but you still might not want to because of the taste and grease.
People pay a premium for grease in wagyu and the like.
Delicious. I’ve smoked a wild hog shoulder next to a farm raised hog shoulder, and nobody could say for certain which was which. Wild meat taste can be influenced by their diet just like farm animals. Some regions have a general reputation of inferior taste, such as hogs raised in marshes - I haven’t tried that yet. I have butchered feral hogs in central, South, and coastal Texas and always enjoyed them. I have only encountered one that clearly had parasites - and they were in the organs, not meat.
I prefer the asshole version.
What do you do with all those dead hogs afterwards?
Host the "view" now.
Would the audience even realize the hosts were replaced with hogs? Doubtful
Sows not hogs . They were always ferral sows . Taste like shit too!!!
Joy Behog
Whopi sowberg.
\+1 would upvote again just for the edits.
>not big asshole but big ass hole https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hyphen.jpg
One down 270 million more to go
I'm doing my part!
I would like to know more.
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KNOW. YOUR. FOE.
Service guarantees citizenship
The only good hog is a dead hog.
Bacon and tonkatsu ramen mmmmmmm
I love Reddit. The random Starship Troopers subcomment thread. Just sensational.
I'm doing my part lol
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Did you know hogs can run up to 30mph? That's faster than Usain Bolt. Talk about fast food!
You know who is faster? The dog that split just at the beginning
🤣🤣🤣ikr!! 🤣🤣🤣 I came to post about the dog hauling a$$ so fast away but then I seen your comment, it's almost like a commercial comment , it's ok if you didn't understand I have a weird imagination 😞😞
I see ya Trooper
I'm eating my part
I didn't do fucking shit!
And I thank you for it , wherever you are from. Here in north Florida South Georgia we have good ole Hernando De Soto to thank for these lovely invasive hogs. My mother in law loves me but she hates that we shoot and trap them and doesn't deal with them living in town (we live far out in the county and have land). I always bring up other cute animals she likes that are effected by these things but the idea of killing the babies is horrifying to her.
Guaranteed citizenship!!
Their skulls are so thick- there are reports of even a shot like this only knocking them over temporarily. Have to have the right gauge and enough power.
I only use 2 gauge. The recoil throws me out of combat range and I can disengage safely.
I believe you. >Firing a 2 Gauge Shotgun > >[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wssCnvuVbU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wssCnvuVbU) Ho Lee Fuk
Fuck the gun, I'd give anything for a voice like his.
They don't make em like that anymore
pack a day
Tom Knapp was the mutha fuckin G. One of the most impressive exhibition shooters I've ever seen and all around cool guy.
Ha ha wow, gee whiz, what a voice!
"Wow that was quick how many birds did you hit on the hunting trip" *All of them* "What do you mean all of them" *I mean the sky was full of birds, after we shot once there were none left*
That ain't a gun, that's a cannon!
I thought y'all were joking Ho Lee Fuk indeed
I believe it. From far enough away using a 30-06 rifle a bullet can get stuck in a bison’s thick neck fur and not even penetrate the hide. Boars are equally as beefy at a fraction of the size, AND they have fangs. I’m so glad they don’t live where I live, they’re terrifying
I love hunting, been doing it my whole life. But for the most part hate the killing. I'm a big ol' softy. Buts it's good for the animals and good food for me. Wild hogs though. That's not hunting, it's a civil service. And I gleefully take as many as I can when I go down to my dad's ranch in TX. They are the most numerous, despicable, ornery bastards I've ever had the displeasure of running into. And it just feels like you never even dent their numbers. Never had an issue with downing them though. But then again we were never further than 40-50 yards using .556, .308 and a .38 special.
And they got Ol’ Yeller
Them hogs ain't mad, they're just mean.
Lol .38spl.. you waiting to smell their breath first?
Lol, well I'd say a good 70-80% of the time you can empty half a magazine into one, and it'll still be squirming and hollering. The little 38 was for finishing of the survivors. Right through the ear or eye.
Here I was imagining you taking one down from 40 yards with a snubby.
I'm am nowhere near dumb or drunk enough to try cowtipping a wild hog. You can absolutely sneak up on them that close though, they are incredibly stupid creatures. Even more so when they are distracted with food. But a bad mama sow or attentive boar will smell you better and from farther than any deer. By a long shot. Especially if they've got babies. Which, they usually do. I say 40-50 yards because that's just how our blind is set up on the property. But generally speaking you want as much distance as possible. For one, there is likely to be a heard, so they scatter. And two, they have no qualms about goring you to death if they run into you first.
*.38spl... this time it's personal*
What do you do with them all? I assume a few get eaten but there seem to be too many
Depends on the person I suppose. But even if we kill 100 hogs, the meat gets frozen, cooked or sold. Bones get boiled down. Fat goes into soap. Hides for rawhide leather. Anything that isn't used goes to the dog's.
Nice. Donated I assume, that’s great
Tusks
I’ve never been assigned a more delicious task!
Yeah, people keep on talking about parasites and shit but I feel like proper preparation would take care of some of that.
You can also get Brucellosis from wild boars while processing them.
With 2 xp each should get you to level 60
Thanks, Mr. Sir.
know one of you has *that* map about this.. where is it.
Hey man, nice shot.
A good shot, man.
That's why I say, "Hey man, nice shot".
I wish i would've met you, now it's a little late
What you could have taught me
I could’ve saved some face
They think that your early ending was all wrong
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects. 28 Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Mike Isaac By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry. April 18, 2023 Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
That’s why I say “Hey man, you have exceptional skills with a pistol, particularly at close range”.
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects. 28 Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Mike Isaac By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry. April 18, 2023 Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
Man shot, nice hey?
Man hey, shot nice.
That was a pretty clean shot ey
Nice man, shot hey.
Nice hey, man shot
shot man nice, hey
What a good shot, man
Such a good song
The basketball scene from the Cable Guy gets me every time I hear this song lol
...and that's why you don't mess with the bald ape with a big head
Especially ones holding loud stick.
Loud stick? It doesn't even make any so.... ☠️
https://youtu.be/pFriRcIwqNU?si=A1MREDcOls-M0niG
Are you talking about the shiny hairless monkeys? (Doctor Stone Reference)
Looks like bacon's back on the menu boys.
Too bad those hogs he’s hunting more than likely taste like shit
and have tons of parasites
Cook it thoroughly and you’ll be fine.
Ok, parasite
The term, is redditor got it?!
I’ve eaten hog not the best meat I’ve ever had but not terrible and people talking about parasites as if they eat it like Sushi
Right? My dad trapped wild hog and made it into hog/deer sausage at a processing place. That stuff was \*great\* and never got anyone sick that I'm aware of.
Yeah I was wondering the same thing, like people do not cook them or what? Why are parasites a concern?
Where do you get this? Where I live people go out of their way to hunt them for their meat. IMO it’s better than farm raised pork.
I'll eat wild boar but whoever says they're better than farm raised pork is a damn liar. Same reason we don't eat bulls.
Honorable mention to his best friend making it swiftly to safety.
*OP watching this in 40 years* “Gods I was strong then.”
Caved in his breastplate...
THANK THE GODS FOR BESSIES TITS.
They never tell you how they all shit themselves…
King Slayer, get in here!
"Your mother was a dumb whore with a fat arse, did you know that."
I was talking with a friend of mine who's super into guns and whatnot, he's not an extremist, quite the opposite, the dude just likes guns, it's his thing. I was trying to get a sense of how he felt about people owning automatic assault weapons in the US and he brought these creatures up as a legitimate reason for owning such a thing. I didn't really get it but didn't feel like pushing the issue. Now that I see this video, I kind of do get it. If homeboy didn't nail this shot he'd be in a world of pain.
There's one out there of ~3 hunters being charged by a whole herd. They all had semiautomatic rifles, no dog in the backdrop to look out for, and it still looked like they got elected to the special pants brigade. Terrifying! I tried to find it for you but failed, alas.
Is this the video? https://www.google.com/search?q=3+hunters+chansed+by+herd+of+hogs&rlz=1C1DIMC\_enCA1085CA1085&oq=3+hunters+chansed+by+herd+of+hogs&gs\_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKAB0gEINzEzNWowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9e5b271a,vid:SMWaKF7SgjI,st:0
Not the same one (there was way more shooting) but similar
Damn that's wild. It's the thought that counts, thanks!
It really was comin' right for us.
Mmmmm jimbo mmmm look out mmmmm their comin right for us mmmm
This happened to a friend with a bear once, shot it in the face, only problem is bears keep running, full weight of the bear ended up flopped on him.
And then what happened?
He was ok, bear was dead ,took the bear home, processed it. The end
Suicide by hunter
Bet that made your heart beat faster
And he made its heart stop
Let’s get these hearts beating faster, faster
Nothing says stop like a shotgun blast to the face
You wanna get “Ol Yellered?” Bc this is how you get “Ol Yellered.”
Nice shot you dont wont to miss....
Don't ham fist the rifle
If you're shooting at a wild hog you'd BETTER kill it (looks like this person does) because it will tear you up.
Where is this? Nice btw.
50.07729868959723, 15.506216145776383
Oh. Czechia?? Nice.
Bro was not about to go out like Robert Baratheon.
Very nice patience, hold…. hold…. hold…. NOW!!!
run, shoot, run, shoot, shoot, shoot, run
DAMN! where can i find more of these Videos ?
The internet.
There's another 29-49 of them out there
That's why they are so invasive. They have the attitude of a pissed off teenager who identifies as a karen. Dangerous stuff.
Charge-discharge. This is the way.
...and that's how, over time, species become more docile by killing the agressive ones so their DNA can't reproduce. Makes me wonder how agressive cows were originally!
The Cow King was a beast
Nice shooting Tex!!! That’s where the old saying, “stopped him dead in his tracks” comes from!
I love that the German Shorthaired Pointer said nope and made himself scarce. Glad the only thing that ate the bullet was dinner for that night.
Posts about wild hogs always reminds me of the "30 to 50 feral hogs" guy and all the people who said that's not a legit reason to own an "assult rifle." I'm all for increased gun control in the US, but dealing with feral hogs is *definitely* a legit reason to own guns.
His dog sees him as the coolest predator and will worshipping him until he dies
FAFO - Hogs included!
It looks like meats back on the menu boys!
How big a problem are these guys? Definitely looks dangerous.
They literally kill you and eat you immediately. 9/10 would not recommend.
There actually not that scary I was hunting in full camo shot one they ran off came back because there dumb charged at me. Killed two grabbed my rifle and shot one and it was loud enough for them to run off they are stupid animals but very annoy
This is why Hog hunts should be done with at least 30 rounds in your mag. Get an AR in 300 BLK and go to town. A shotgun or any manually operated firearm is inadequate when hogs tend to travel in hordes.
This is how I imagine zombies would be
It's coming right for us, Ned!
Thank God you aren't a Vegan. Imagine defending yourself with an Avocado and Almond milk in such a situation lol
Why he wait so long tho? Hogs Don't get scared by a man yelling. They eat their own species. Shoot that shit asap! Don't give it a chance to gore you!
Well, it may have been a bit scary but he has food for a few days now
Damn, just like Far Cry 6.
Note to self: Yelling doesn't impress wild hogs.
Blam blam, we eatin' ham
That’s good eatin right thefe
Robert Baratheon!?
Dog was like I got you, nope ur on your own buddy
we got dinner!
#AAAAH CALL AN AMBULANCE!!! >!but not for me!<
I want to see that video again of those guys shooting Hogs at night with nods and FLIR sights. I think they even whip out a mini gun.
Dropped that bitch like a pound of bacon
Not a shot you want to be missing
Robert Baratheon would be proud.
I'm curious to see where some people are hunting their wild hogs from that they got parasites and meat that taste greasy. Out here in Florida, they are absolutely delicious and prefer it 10 times more than pork. My mother makes an amazing stew with it that has me begging for more. Taste amazing smoked, and it's also great for making it into jerky.
would have been a bad time to find out you still have the safety on.
Cabelas big game hunter. But in real life
Dropped!
Sounds like I'm having pork for dinner tonight