NY porkers make the news

[David Petersen]

#6004

http://news.yahoo.com/ny-seeks-stop-wild-hogs-may-ban-captive-163701421.html

[Troy Breeding]

#46814

From what I’ve seen in the south, if they think they have a problem then they already have one. They are almost like cockroaches. See one and you already have an infestation.

Troy

[Wexbow]

#47786

This is an issue here in Ireland too where the wild boar has been extinct for hundreds of years. It’s now showing up in a number of counties and is assumed to be breeding. Generally blamed on private hunt releases and escapees from boar farms. Now if only they’d allow bowhunting for them as part of the solution 😕

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#47859

Wexbow wrote: …Now if only they’d allow bowhunting for them as part of the solution 😕

Wex – Out of curiosity, and being completely ignorant of hunting regs in Ireland, can you explain why it isn’t allowed?

[Wexbow]

#48852

Smithie, I hate saying it but you cannot legally bowhunt in Ireland 🙁 The 1979 Wildlife Act basically prohibited all forms of hunting and trapping except for listed species and by specified means – which did not include bow and arrow. This is basically the same situation as next door in Britain. However, there is a pretty active campaign in there to change this (see British Bowhunter Association and Bowhunt Scotland) and other European countries have re-introduced bowhunting in recent times (see EBF).

So why do I hang out here? Well I’m a keen archer and aspiring bowhunter who’s putting the scratch together to head abroad for a bowhunt in the not too distant future. As for trying to change the situation here, I don’t fancy the chances as we’ve only recently got rid of a green government that tried to ban all hunting and we’re so screwed economically that it isn’t going to feature on the current gov’s radar. But as they say, hope springs eternal…

[jmsmithy]

#48872

They now letting us whack’em (as long as you have a small game license) year round from what I understand…8)

[Shane Balow]

#26547

It is also illegal to hunt with a bow here in Germany. That was the one major reason i tried to get stationed here. Alot of my friends have seen the boars (except me). I’ve been on a couple drive hunts, seeing the destruction that the boars cause and even found a skull with the rack from what the drive master called a gold medal trophy if i was to shoot it with a rifle (he was gracious enough to let me keep it and its antlers resemble a fallow deer). So after finding out i cant hunt with my bow i have endured the pain of my friends showing me pics of their rifle hunts and cant wait for February 2013 to come when i return to the states and continue my passion of hunting even though i havent killed anything in the six years ive been hunting.

[Stephen Graf]

#26580

Don’t really know much about it, just repeating what I heard… Here in NC, we had the russian boars up in the mountains for hundreds of years. The population was stable and people didn’t really complain about it. Down east, we have ferrel hogs that really tear things up and over breed. Last year the WRC eliminated the wild boar season in NC because the ferrel pigs have over run the wild boar territory and the boars are basically gone now.

So I believe there is a difference in behavior/effect from the russian boars as compared to ferrel hogs. – Not trying to defend the game preserves, just stating how it worked out here in NC with both flavors of pig.

That said, I live in the middle of the state without a pig anywhere… Neither population is encroaching.

[Troy Breeding]

#26656

Steve,

When I lived in AL we didn’t have any hogs in the northern part. That was until about a year before I moved. Then all of a sudden folks started seeing acouple here and there.

Now they are everywhere. Some say the hogdoggers brought them in to prevent having to drive south for their fun. Others say they are ones that weren’t recovered when they excaped from local farms. Eitherway, now they are popping up all over north AL.

Just give it time. the next thing you will know they could be in your back yard.

Troy

[Raymond Coffman]

#26691

I love to hunt pigs. I will believe there truly is a “hog problem” when land owners let one have a free hunt to get rid of the critters, and there are actually a lot of hogs on the property. Every place I know here in the SW charges [unless you have known em for 25 yrs] and the hogs are rarely there except in passing thru– if any members know any places that are over run with pigs and need help let me know, I would be happy to help! -haha

Scout.

[wildschwein]

#26703

Yikes!!! Pigs are everywhere now a days.

We also have a problem with them in Alberta, all of which have escaped from pens here or in Saskatchewan. Seeing as how they are pretty prolific critters, it is now illegal in Alberta for a landowner or person with right of access, not to shoot any feral pig encountered. Even put a bounty on them. And yet the best pig elimination method found in Alberta so far has been Wolves. Seems wherever the pigs pop up the Wolves are sure to follow, with the pigs always on the losing end.

Now as my chosen moniker suggests, I love wild pigs. To me they are the ultimate game animal. So I am a bit conflicted with their appearance in my Province. Don’t know whether to applaud their arrival, or fear the changes their presence may cause. Guess a fella just has to wait and see…

[lyagooshka]

#26875

The last I heard here in Pennsylvania (going back a few years), pigs are not even regulated under PA Fish and Game. They are considered pets and therefore have no protection / management under the Game Commission. But the game manual did say to shoot any wild pig on site due to their invasiveness. I really enjoy hunting hog down in Florida, but I understand that this is a huge problem for people and farmers all over. Who knows what’s going to happen next?

😕

[vajd]

#27047

Last September in the airport heading home from an elk hunt I met a guy from Florida or at least he owned property in Florida. He hunted alot and all over (a compound shooter), but back on his property he had a really bad hog problem. He told me (and I belive him) that he went through six dozen arrows killing hogs. he had a spot he would drag them to with a tractor, feeding many buzzards. It seemed like a waist to me, but I’ve heard hogs can run off deer, and all of his food plots were being wiped out.

[Raymond Coffman]

#27166

Vjad

That is a shame – wild pig is great chow !!

if it is, as he said, too bad he didn’t call tradebow up so we could get to-gether a pig hunting Jamboree -Hootenanny – and Bar B Cue — bring down all interested members and show him it is possible to have a wonderfull hunt, and give him back his indigenous wildlife balance ————-haha – {although i really do like the idea of it}–

If someone really did have a hog problem [ with a lot of pigs]set up a 3d shoot – after the shoot– hit the bush and get some pork chops– an all around camping and backwoods by foot hunting Extravaganza—

Scout

[lyagooshka]

#27780

Scout, I second that. I’d take a long weekend and drive down. Last time I flew, so all I got was some loins my friend over-nighted to me in ice. Even though a nuisance, it’s a shame to waste. Another thing to think about it that pigs will eat anything, so it’s not just the vultures being fed. I believe that he spent that many arrows on pigs. They are TOUGH animals. In my (humble) opinion, this is a case of heavy arrows for even the lightest animal.

If anyone does like pig hunting, there is a place (outfitter) by Okeechobee that has over a thousand acres to hunt. Forget the name, but could find out if anyone’s interested.

Alex

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