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Ep. 039: Maverick County, Texas. Steven Rinella continues his discussion with ranch manager, wildlife biologist and hog trapper Ben Binnion, along with Chris Gill and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew.

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Maverick County, Texas. Steven Rinella continues his discussion with ranch manager, wildlife biologist and hog trapper Ben Binnion, along with Chris Gill and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: perception of pigs on a scale from Satan to margaritas; Sus scrofa and the Eurasian wild boar; hog fecundity; whitetail deer breeding vs. pig breeding; what "hogzilla" is and ain't; hog bait recipes; selling wild pigs to slaughter facilities; charging for pig hunts; whether helicopter pig hunts are for sport or control; several bullshit aspects of pig hunting; the best pigs to eat; and how to get hog hunting permissions.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten and in my case underwear listen

0:15.5

to hunt.

0:16.5

We eat our podcast.

0:17.5

You can't predict anything.

0:19.5

Hi everyone we're in we're jumping into part two of a two part discussion on a

0:34.5

Maverick County Texas about two things that that intrigued me a great deal over the last

0:43.7

few years which is Texas White tales.

0:46.0

In case like big giant bucks in Texas and the culture around that and how they're produced

0:50.4

and also sort of a ride around that which is big giant Texas pigs.

0:59.1

What's up wild pigs?

1:01.2

Why is it that wild pigs are going to come kill us all we got way to me wild pigs but

1:05.2

then they're going to let you go pig hunting and what happens all that pig meat.

1:09.5

What's up with shooting pigs from helicopters and all that kind of stuff.

1:14.1

Some gases we had on the last episode talking about white tail bucks and growing white tails

1:19.1

and wildlife biology and ecology and all that white tail systems.

1:26.0

Ben Benion.

1:27.0

Alright so I don't want to worry I don't want to worry out my welcome but I do want to

1:30.5

talk about pigs for a minute.

1:31.7

I always talk about pigs.

1:33.5

Okay.

1:34.5

I know where to start.

1:37.4

We've been doing down here.

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