YouTube video (uploaded Dec 6, 2023) by TJ LaFaver documenting a hog-hunting expedition in Texas. Participants (Angel Padilla, White Mike, Trotter, Steve) describe daytime helicopter hunts and a nighttime thermal hunt using military-grade thermal optics and suppressed rifles. The video emphasizes the agricultural damage caused by feral hogs (claims: over $1.5 billion annual damage, examples of a 75-acre field wiped out in one night, and up to 10% grain-crop loss) and mixes instructional safety moments, humorous banter, and hunting footage. The day-long operation spans early morning into the following night (mentions 6:30am start and ~1:00am end).
Questions this video answers
December 6, 2023.
Over $1.5 billion per year to agriculture, natural resources, and property.
A 75-acre field described as being wiped out in a night.
Up to 10% of grain crops.
Started at 6:30am and continued until about 1:00am the next day.
Chapters
One, two.
Shot of two.
I've never seen anything like this in my life.
I was lied to. We should start there.
Yeah, buddy.
Oh, man, this is gonna be sick.
We're gonna be eradicating hogs out of the helicopter.
Kill it. Smoke him. Oh, nice shot. All right. I'm gonna take a jet ski.
Probably the coolest thing I've ever done. What's going on, guys?
What's going on, guys? So today what we're going to talk about is. Every time I thought it was me. Not me. No.
White Mike.
White Mike. Okay. All right.
What's going on, guys? As you saw, we were out with Ryan Ashcraft this morning with Ashcraft Aviation.
And what we did when we were out there is we got a chance to get up on the helicopter. You go, I go ahead. No, you go.
Never mind.
Sorry.
We're up in the helicopter shooting some pigs. You guys saw it. We're gonna switch things up. We're out here with Steve from Sandy Creek Outfitters and we're gonna shoot some pigs at night. Some thermals, right?
Heck yeah. We were on the ground. When it goes dark, we military grade night vision behind us. All thermal units envision optics running. The same equipment that our military uses, BAE cores. We have the carbon fiber fat boy tripods. And we're all suppressed with diligent defense suppressors. And make sure we eradicate these pests. These pigs come in, man, and just devastate. And these farmers here are just having a hard time making money off these pigs that are eating all their crops.
They're destroying corn, cotton, everything.
They were in the cotton earlier in the daytime. That's when you know you have a problem.
It's a pig apocalypse.
Responsible for over $1.5 billion in dam to agriculture, natural resources and property a year.
I've seen a 75 acre field get.
Wiped out in a night.
If I looked at it, on average.
I could lose up to 10% of.
My my grain crops.
It causing a lot of damage down here and we're going to take care of some tonight. Let's do it. Hell yeah.
What is this, a hitchhiker?
Bro, you better not stop pick up no hitchhiker.
No. Was that Lauren? No, I swear to God, it looked like more. Back up, back up. If it's not, we just leave. Yo, what the are you talking.
That's a long story.
You're in the middle of nowhere. Yo, white people crazy, man. I swear. I gotta stop hanging around white people. Just go.
What are you doing out here of.
All places to be in the middle of nowhere. Yeah.
The Godfather, The Texas Hog Godfather. Here he comes. Angry Puerto Rican Angel Padilla.
You guys know how to shoot? Yeah, we did.
All right.
Make sure it's tight against your shoulder, right? For the recoil. And you're going to pull the trigger. And after it goes off, you're going to leave your hand on the trigger.
Damn.
Am I doing okay?
No, you're doing good. Here, let me watch this.
See?
Oh, did you get hit? Yeah, I'm sorry.
You see?
That's okay.
Oh, is it bleeding?
No.
We're not gonna put our hand on trigger till we're ready to go. Yeah, so don't screw your buddies. We're gonna go on three. I had a group from Louisiana the other night. Four guys. Big group, right? I said we're gonna go on three. I said one. Homeboy, you start blasting, bam. Smoked his homeboy.
Who the fuck shot it, too? We had, I don't know, eight, ten pigs lined up. We were ready to roll. All right, everybody on three.
On three.
All right. One.
Boom.
God damn it.
That's not what happened. That is not what happened. I shot on two. Damn. Are you sure that. You sure that's what happened?
I'm positive. I swear to God. I hit two of them, though.
Damn. I didn't realize that's what happened. If they. If you say that's what happened, I don't believe you.
How do you shoot at two and still miss? The pig wasn't moving.
Bro.
I. I don't even know.
I thought.
I thought I did what I was always doing now.
Well, what a night.
Watch them just dwell on the. On the last part. Go ahead.
No, I was just. The day started well with the helicopter hunt. Trotter started well, surprised me, didn't finish well.
Let me tell you something. For some. For some strange reason, if you look at every episode, he thinks this shit is about impressing him or not surprising him. And guess who doesn't give a damn.
Me.
I've been out here in this since 6:30am eradicating, and it is now 1am the next day. All right? So it has been a long day.
I'll give him that.
God bless you. Good night.
Let us know in the comment section who you think shot the most pigs throughout the course of the entire day. It was me. So, like, subscribe. Comment.
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That's what we doing. White water rafting. Y' all bring me out here to white water raft? I can't swim.
That was the most intense safety briefing I've ever heard in my fucking life.
Bus driver had a jar of teeth. Fuck are we.
I'm not going to sink.
You weren't kidding when you say you couldn't swim.
