Feral Hogs..in your area?

Hay hay hay · Aug 11, 2015

I have not heard of any around here, yet, but I hope they do not decide to make the trip.

Google Article: Nothing to Snort At
Feral Hogs Recognized as a Growing Problem for Farmers
by Chris Clayton DTN

Billy Shafer · Aug 11, 2015

In my part of Texas. It is open season on them. Anytime anywhere no limit.Even been talk of having the Army fly over from Ft Hood. For target practice.

Donald Lehman · Aug 11, 2015

We have them 100 miles away or so. The DEC has decided they are the only ones capable of getting rid of them before they spread.

THAT just FILLS me with confidence. (derisive snort)

They are fun to hunt as long as they are in somebody else's state destroying somebody else's property and crops. (and I say that sarcastically)

Billy Shafer · Aug 11, 2015

Don't know who the DEC is.But they are going to need all the help they can get.

RayP(MI) · Aug 11, 2015

Not here that I know, but in adjacent county. Hope they don'y become my problem.
Michigan DNR authorizes any hunter under any hunting license as well as any concealed permit holder to take feral pigs.

rustyfarmall · Aug 11, 2015

Don't need any feral hogs up here. We already have whitetail deer.

Donald Lehman · Aug 11, 2015

NY State Department of Environmental Conservation. The emphasis is on "environmental" much more so than fish and game. They don't exactly inspire confidence when it comes to fish and game matters.

Donald Lehman · Aug 11, 2015

The DEC doesn't want us rednecks "disturbing" the hogs. They say we will just make it more "difficult for the DEC to eradicate them". Time will tell if they are right.

Billy NY · Aug 11, 2015

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or NYS DEC. Its a few paragraphs down, they want to trap them, as that is the best way according to them. It says a landowner or farmer can shoot them with permission or authorization. Given what they are, what they do. I'd not hesitate regardless, we don't need these, we have geese and deer already that do a fine job of destroying a range of crops.

In the summer, with the dense vegetation, there is validity to trapping, as I'm sure it won't be easy during the day to get a clear shot, then they learn what the noise means if I understand correctly. I'd have a bait pile out in a strategic/safe location and do the below, let the coyotes feast on whats left.

Warning, one small cuss word in the video.
NYS DEC Eurasian Boar

Pig explosion

Texasmark1 · Aug 11, 2015

Not around this part if TX. Open season. Have a few along the creeks in the area. Nothing serious yet. Rednecks go to the bottoms North of here at night and hunt them. Great sport and according to them great eating. Well fine they can dine as they wish. Count me out on that one.

Old bob. · Aug 11, 2015

We have them in west central Arkansas. Not overrun with them, but they are here. When they move in they tear it up in a big way.

If you don't have them, hope you don't get them.

Ken Macfarlane · Aug 11, 2015

Just the wild turkeys have showed up so far.

lee little · Aug 11, 2015

Its a pretty bad problem here on the Cumberland Plateau in middle Tn. TWRA did have an open season on them for a while. This resulted in some fine fellows trapping them and releasing them in areas to "stock" them. (Should be a hanging offense) TWRA then closed regular hunting and instituted a permit system. You can obtain a permit for your farm and have 12(I think)people listed to hunt. Almost any means is legal including spotlighting. You may also trap but they cant be taken out of the trap alive.(Good idea) TWRA says the system is working but we will see. My neighbor behind me has had a lot of damage. So far I have been lucky. I think at least part of the luck is due to ol Tank the heeler and a couple of his pals. He loves to dispach varmits and thinks nothing of grabing a coyote.

dhermesc · Aug 11, 2015

Agreed. Herds of 20 and more are common in NE Kansas.

hd6gtom · Aug 11, 2015

If they decide to combine them with the hundreds of thousands of deer and as many wild turkeys-protected in Iowa--raising crops would be even more of an impossiability then it is today. We have herds of deer ranging in the 100 + numbers, cant drive down the road.

tomturkey · Aug 11, 2015

Hope 'Ole Tank" does not end up like "Ole Yeller" gobble

JerryS · Aug 11, 2015

Makes sense, actually. Really depends on how aggressively the DEC works the plan.

old · Aug 11, 2015

Here in Missouri in the conservation deer hunting guides they say to shoot them on site no matter what. So far none in this area but they say there in southern MO

Tx Jim · Aug 11, 2015

Luckily there are a few feral hogs where I live.

NoNewParts · Aug 11, 2015

(quoted from post at 10:11:31 08/11/15) The DEC doesn't want us rednecks "disturbing" the hogs. They say we will just make it more "difficult for the DEC to eradicate them". Time will tell if they are right.

you live here, you know...
They have to do the proper studying to figure on how to extract the most money from us.
Then create the rules, license, and [i:db6c153a6a]fees[/i:db6c153a6a] structure.
Then we will be allowed to hunt them.

Billy Shafer · Aug 11, 2015

Trapping is a waste of time. You might get a few. But the rest soon learn what the traps are for.I can show you over a hundred traps with grass growing out of them. Totally useless as they have rusted in place.The hogs know what they are for and wont go near them. Hope the DEC has plenty of money to waste.

IHRedRules · Aug 11, 2015

Ray, we have had some confirmed sightings (mostly north of Amble) here in Montcalm county, but I haven't heard too much lately, so maybe they have them under control.

KEB in GCMS · Aug 11, 2015

We have them here in Mississippi and they are listed as a nuisance animal. Open season and no limit. We keep them in check mostly. Have not seen none on our place in a while.

FLOLDFORD · Aug 11, 2015

Come down here to Florida if you need some. We have enough to share with every state in the union. I see at least a couple on the way to work every week. Open season here year round on private land and quite a few hunts on state land. I've seen them destroy a hay field over night to the point you couldn't drive a tractor across it. On the lease I hunt on we shoot every one we see. They are the most destructive animals I have ever seen. You ought to see what they will do to a tomato field!!

BigMarv1085 · Aug 11, 2015

Lots of them here in Georgia. A Atlanta news channel ran a story on them one night and this guy was charging hundreds of dollars for people to come shoot them with a rifle and infrared scope. So know it has gotten very commercial. You can $250 to go in a pen, shoot one, have it processed and mounted. It kinda took the sport out of it.

Texasmark1 · Aug 11, 2015

A cornered buck coon or a sow Feral with piglets will give them more than they asked for.

Billy NY · Aug 11, 2015

Kind of like rats, they get wise to lots of things. I don't see how they'd survive a winter like the last one, deep snow, 90 days of bitter cold, -10F+, no forage except tree bark, coyotes would surely have a feast if they were bogged down in snow.

Its hard to imagine dealing with them in dense vegetation, we have some places full of thickets, vines, grasses, all kinds of lush wild vegetation, much of which a whitetail deer may even avoid. Swamps are plentiful too.

mj · Aug 12, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:56:20 08/11/15)

you live here, you know...

They have to do the proper studying to figure on how to extract the most money from us.
Then create the rules, license, and [i:f7192cd47d]fees[/i:f7192cd47d] structure.
Then we will be allowed to hunt them.

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YEP - seems like the Game & Fish in nearly every state has the money part down pat. The other thing is that very few of the 'land managers' spend enough time in the field to understand the things that they make to be right so then WE get stuck with all manner of goofy rules and regulations that don't really apply to the real world - they spend way too much time in the office studying 'computer models' that were designed by one of their fellow 'experts' that's also sitting somewhere fiddling with HIS computer - bunch of 'educated idiots' in my view AND they're doin' it on OUR dime!! :twisted:

W_B · Aug 12, 2015

None in Central Ohio that I've heard about. Some black bears are coming back to the area after a long absence, but that's about it.

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