That’s a really good article—Thanks for sharing it. Wild pigs are certainly a concern for many states, but hopefully they don’t find their way to my state of Maine. What a terrible thing that would be for our great forests.

Thanks DW, good read

Well, I guess you can call me the pockadotted elephant in the room. I wish they were right here in my neck of the woods. Even on what little bit of land I own. I know they can do some damage, but heck fire I sure do love hunting them. That’s one of the things I had access to all those years of living in AL that I don’t have here. I sure miss it. I’d pass up hunting a P&Y buck that was being seen in the same place everyday to go after fresh wild pork that had only been seen a time or two.

Troy

dwcphoto wrote: I know a lot of guys like to hunt them and I think it would be a good time, but I don’t want them in my back yard (NIMBY). It seems that there won’t be much of a choice in time.

dwc

I view them much like carp; while I enjoy hunting them with my bow, I’d just as soon they weren’t around.

D: I think there is still a “high-fence” hunting establishment up your way (Tioga county) that has hogs as an option. I wonder how many of these hogs were “introduced” through such places versus just migrating from southern states, or domestics becoming feral. Thanks for the link. Be well.

Alex

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They’re the worst creatures ever introduced to this great continent. I wish every single one were exterminated immediately. I definitely don’t consider them any kind of a game animal either because they’re totally blind and almost totally deaf as well. The only positive about having pigs is some good eating. YOU DO NOT WANT THEM.

My south ga lease has been pig free for over 25 years until I killed the first one in November. Since then, over 40 have been shot or trapped on 2000 acres and we haven’t even put a dent in them. They’re nothing but rats. I shot seven of them in a trap last week. 5 were sows and 4 of those were pregnant with fully grown piglets inside them.

It may be a coincidence too, but last year, I could count over 20 gobbling turkeys at the end of the season (true for years), but this year I can only count 7.

I wish the people that introduce these vermin would be responsible for every dime that they end up costing to farmers and the overall ecosystem.

It’s the same narcisistic attitude that has people introducing spotted bass into all the southern smallmouth fisheries.

They’re ecological villains here too Etter.

ausjim wrote: They’re ecological villains here too Etter.

As far as I know, there is nowhere on this planet, except their original home range (mostly siberia) where they can exist without massive chaos.

I killed one last year with my recurve, about four miles from the trailhead, and I was glad to have a shot at her, but I’d likely not mess with it again, that far back.

I wish they were never shown in hunting magazines as sporting game because it just makes idiots release more of them. I’m always amazed that someone would ever mount a boar head. If you’re bored one day, go to youtube and see how many videos there are of people actually sneaking up and kicking a wild pig in the butt.

About as challenging as stalking an armadillo, I think.