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This has been discussed on here some before. The Smithsonian for Jan 2011 has an article on wild hogs, with a map showing growth in infestation from 1982 to 2010. Surprisingly, almost all of CA has wild hogs except the extreme Southeastern desert areas.TX has the most. The upper Great Plains and the Midwest are not so thickly populated but oddly enough MI has them all over the state including the UP. The article says that Canada has some also.

Hogs have no natural predators and there are no legal poisons to use.There are 2 million to 6 million of them and in TX they do $400 million in damages yearly.

To be sold commercially as meat in TX, wild hogs must be taken alive to one of about 100 statewide buying stations. 461,000 TX wild higs were processed between 2004 and 2009. There is a small but growing US market, but most meat end up in Europe and Southeast Asia.

I haven't seen any on my place in Western SC yet, but there are reports of some around. Oh, BTW, they go into suburban areas also.
 
Can you post a link to the info you read.?

I live in Michigan and have not heard of a wild hog problem, yet.
 
Came quick to Tennessee.. The Tennessee Game & Wildlife people have contracted with and outfit from Texas to shoot them out of helicopters in an effort to eridcate them. Our farm is next to a national wildlife preserve and it really has been a big deal on where the state can shoot and not. Watched them shoot last Thursday morning from our goose pit. So far all the dammage is on the east side of the Cumberland river but probably won,t be long till they swim the river.
Had several friends have serious crop damage last summer.
 

I'm looking at the paper magazine and don't know how to post link. The web address is listed as Smithsonian.com.


Two methods mentioned for catching hogs: One is some sort of noose arrangement which catches other animals too and they didn't describe it.

The other method is to make a trap pen and bait it with food other animals won't care for, such as fermented corn. They leave the trap open for a few days so the hogs get used to coming and going and then spring the trap. Something on the order of a giant rabbit gum, I guess.

A side note on fermented corn. Back in the day it was not unusual for bootleggers to have some hogs to conceal the smell of the mash. One lady bootlegger did that 2-3 miles from me at one time. The story is that the mash had enough alcohol remaining it it to makes the pigs stagger around after eating it.

KEH
 
thanks, Very interesting.

The hog infestation isnt in my area of Michigan, but I am sure that they will arrive in time.
 
guru, go to the Mi DNR WEB page. They have maps showing where they are. All over the state. We can shoot them on any license DNR is encouraging us to.

Jerry
 

Re taste article says meat is leaner that domestic pork and is a bit sweeter with a hint of nutty flavor. Young sows that haven't had pigs make best eating. Never had any myself.

KEH
 
We don't have wild Hog in Minnesota, but sure would like to have them --- better then what we have, crazy couyote's
 
A friend took me hunting on his lease in TX and I got a nice young sow (about 80 lbs). I made sausage, cured a couple hams, and I still get grief for gouging my wife's kitchen counter with the sawzall cutting pork chops. It was every bit as good as any domestic pork I have eaten. It was more lean, but I didn't notice a difference in flavor. I guess like anything else, an older boar would have a stronger flavor.

I shot mine, but the friend I hunted with would run a trap when he was at his lease. He would usually get one or two in a weekend using just deer corn as bait (although he caught a deer once too, and let it go). Other guys would trap them and sell them, and another guy would trap them and fatten them up before he butchered them.

The story I heard was that the farmers during the depression couldn't afford to feed the pigs, or would loose the farm and just let the pigs go wild. It doesn't take them long to revert to their wild stage and they can multiply like rabbits.
 
Thanks I will look into that.

I would like to blast one of those.

Can you shoot one without a license? Or does the DNR want $20 out of me?
 
In Michigan there is quite a bit of controversy about the "feral" hog problem. Mostly, I think they're worried about game hogs escaping from captive hunting preserves. But there's also the domestic hogs that may escape from breeding and growing operations. Either one can be a serious problem. Enviornmentally, they can do serious damage to farming operations, woodlots, home yards. They carry diseases that can be transmitted to other species. Michigan has allowed any hunter with any valid hunting license to take feral pigs. They're looking to expand that even further to try to contain the problem.
 
They are not worth the trouble they cause!
They eat well as long as they are young and under 150 lbs then they get gamy. I wouldn't fool with them, as far trapping and hauling them anywhere.
Control.....5gal of corn W/ a 1/2 tea cup of Temick Herb/insecticide and a tractor with a Backhoe. After you bait the area.... 1 pile, run it just like a trap line, on this schedule Morning Noon, Evening. Wear rubber gloves and respirators.
Dig big hole, gather dead in bucket of tractor, dump in hole, lime and cover lightly with soil, do same at noon and evening for 3 to 5 days straight. DO NOT LET BUZZARDS, COYOTES, COONS etc, etc, eat the dead!!!!! this stuff is just like cyanide! After your last, day scrape up the uneaten corn dump in the hole, cover the hole with the rest of the spoils from digging the hole.
I have know of people who have gotten rid of as many as 200 hogs in a session.
Hogs will never be eradicated, only controled and to what extent. Point of information only here, Do this at your own risk and peril.
Later,
John A.
 
i been battling them onrey sob's for about the past 30 years...i've trapped,shot and run over at least a thousand.
hogs getting smarter...hard to get one in a trap anymore...shooting them is about best method...i see people using all kinda high power weaponry but 99% of the ones i shot was with a ruger 10-22...if hog weighs over 100# i leave em for the buzzards...little ones are fine eating.
i dont know of anybody having success feeding trapped hogs...ranches in south Texas buy them and turn em loose on big hunting ranches and feed em like deer.
i finally gave up trying to hunt em down few years back and been putting up 29" hog wire around entire ranch...so far its kept them out.
FWIW in Texas you can kill them 24/7 on your own property...i think the only time a license is required is if youre on somebody elses place.
 
We have some here in Missouri. Conservation people ask hunters to shoot them on site. There is NO limit.
They aren't good eatin if they are older but they aren't any worse than some of the tasteless factory raised crap in the grocery stores. Stuff tastes like wet cardboard or worse.
 
I am in northeast Missouri and they are around here already. I went to a game feed last winter and they always have wild hog ham. It's very tasty. Mike
 
Check out Max"s dance hall West Burke, Vt. every Sat night. About as wild as you can get. soooooeeeeeeee.nuf nuf nuf. Have a goodun.
 
I been trying to find a place to hunt hogs for years!! put several postings on here and on Craigslist with zero responses! They seem to be a problem but everyone with the problem wants to charge you to hunt!If you want to get rid of the problem let people hunt. FOR FREE!! if they are causing you problems why charge? I would be delighted to drive 700miles with a couple buddies to harvest several hogs off your property.
 
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