someone explain the new hog hunting at night rules

[JABIII]

Sadly, when the bill was being written, it was trotted around as a "nuisance to farmers" bill and had great support within the farming community. As it turns out, it is completely worthless to us. Not that anyone is walking around in shock that special interests took over.

One only has to look to those Natural Resource Whores over and over again to find the ills in this state. The fox pens, the hog pens, the tame duck operations, ad nauseum. To hell with the resource, let's make money off killing stuff.

I might as well open a hog ranch and start selling hog hunts to Yankees for $1500 a pop...

[2thDoc]

be sure to tell em to bring a BIG flashlight and a decent shooting pistol.

[skrimp]

It's bad when our legislature just sits around with their thumb up their ass but it's even worse when crap like this gets pushed through.

[badfaulkner]

I don't think anybody needs to hunt at night due to the potential for poaching. I've already vented that on another thread of this same topic here on ducks. But I do understand only letting doggers do it since it's highly effective and imo the least like sport hunting and far more like flat out killing.

As to the live capture being included, bad decision. I guess that was left in for all the pay to hunt operations who buy hogs so dipshits can come down and hunt over corn (Bostick, etc). Common knowledge to the folks in Estill (that practice).

[rp]

And by the way, the 22 I referred to above is RIMFIRE only.

cause we alllllll KNOW a 22LR can't kill a deer and NOBODY would consider a 22MAG venison-worthy either.... ohhhhhh except damned near every good rogue i know.

SERIOUSLY??

Do you ever wonder why it is not made unlawful to hunt deer with calibers less than centerfire here in SC? Seriously, why haven't they? Because Billy Bob's 4 year old can shoot a 22 and he can't shoot a 223? Maybe a 22 is good protection from those marauding herds of wild deers.

[NannySlayer]

The bill is as worthless as those proverbial tits on the boar...

winner winner... i had every fuck i have ever met call me askin when we can go hog bustin at night now. seeing how much of a threat they are i do not see why there are any restrictions on them.

[NannySlayer]

I don't think anybody needs to hunt at night due to the potential for poaching. I've already vented that on another thread of this same topic here on ducks. But I do understand only letting doggers do it since it's highly effective and imo the least like sport hunting and far more like flat out killing.

As to the live capture being included, bad decision. I guess that was left in for all the pay to hunt operations who buy hogs so dipshits can come down and hunt over corn (Bostick, etc). Common knowledge to the folks in Estill (that practice).

lol... a pack of dogs catches one pig at the time over 30 min to an hour? one of my death squads would sneak into a field and when the light came on and the benneli's and the ar-10 started talking it would not be shit to have killed 10-15 hogs in 15 sec. if i still had the permits i could show you flat out killing.

[doe killer]

from DNR web site 2010 / 2011 rules & regs

S.932 Unlawful to Release Hogs for Hunting Purposes

Effective Date 6/08/2010

—Act No. 211

Hog Release Prohibition/Transport Provisions/ Hunting
Hogs during Night
Unlawful release; permit exceptions

It is unlawful to possess, buy, sell, offer for sale, transfer,
release, or transport for the purpose of release a member of
the family Suidae (pig) into the wild. A person who holds a valid
permit, issued by SCDNR, for taking, transporting and releasing a
pig from a free roaming population or his agent may capture and
release a free roaming pig so long as: (1) the permit holder has
express permission from the landowner to capture and transport
free roaming pigs from the tract on which the free roaming pig is
to be captured, (2) the free roaming pig is captured, transported
and released pursuant to a permit issued by SCDNR, and (3) the
pig is released on the same tract on which the pig was captured or

into a permitted pig enclosure utilized for hunting purposes. Under

no circumstances may a free roaming pig be released in a county
other than the county in which the pig was captured.
All free roaming pigs captured pursuant to a permit must be
tagged at the point of capture as prescribed by the department and
the tags must remain affixed to the pigs. Pig hunting enclosures
must be permitted by the department at a cost of fifty dollars
annually.
It is unlawful to transport a live pig captured in the wild except
as permitted by this section.
For the privilege of taking, transporting and releasing a pig
from a free roaming population, a person must obtain an annual
pig transport and release permit from the department for fifty
dollars.
For the privilege of maintaining a pig hunting enclosure, a pig
hunting enclosure owner must obtain an annual pig enclosure
permit from the department for fifty dollars.

Hunting Hogs at Night

Hogs may be hunted at night with an artificial light that is carried
on the hunter’s person attached to a helmet or hat, or part of a belt
system worn by the hunter and with a sidearm that has iron sites,
and barrel length not exceeding nine inches. The sidearm may not
be equipped with a butt-stock, scope, laser site, or light emitting
or light enhancing device. However, hogs may not be hunted at
night from a vehicle, or with a centerfire rifle or shotgun, unless
specifically permitted by the department. A person who violates
this item is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must
be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not
more than thirty days, or both.
A person who violates this act or any condition of a permit
issued pursuant to this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars

or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

[BugBuster]

This bill is typical of our legislators and the continued waste of tax payer dollars.

[FULLFANLONGBEARD]

The "Good ol Boy" dumb ass system hard at work,on our dime.