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feral pigs running wild
do you have feral pigs in your state running amok. pigs being very smart and a ability to muliply
and adapt to new surroundings have become a nusence in some states.with a ability to reproduce
quickly they are becoming a problem for the DNR as well as property owners. anyone with stories
on these once farm piggies gone wild.?
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I wish it was here. Grossly exaggerated. Tried hunting them after hearing what a nuisance they are. After any failed hunts and some research I found out they're almost all farm raised pay a fortune to hunt pigs on private property.
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There is a difference between wild boar and feral pigs. Here in Indiana both are referred to as "wild hogs" and both are considered invasive. It's odd, however, that you can hunt wild hogs on private property but not state owned land. I'm not aware of them being a significant problem in this state. I've read the numbers are estimated to be around 1000 generally in the southern part of the state.
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We have plenty of wild hogs in Florida. They were introduced in Florida by Hernando DeSoto in the early 1500's. Along with cattle and horses. The wild cattle and horses adapted to the swamp land and became South Florida hardened sub-species. The cattle are known as cracker cattle and the horses are marshtackies.
http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/history-wild-pigs.html
I am just about to walk out the door and head to meet my brother and his girlfriend at Dinner Island. This place was infested with pigs until they opened season on them around 2009. Before that it wasn't uncommon to see dozens of them in the fields together.
Now you see more deer than pigs.
Here is a video of a good sized wild hog in a field. This was a couple of years after they opened season on them. Before that it was quota hunt only and hog was just listed with deer and small game.
https://youtu.be/Crxo1ZOKu5k
I am pretty sure I posted a video on here of some dozens of pigs running in a field. I can't find the video right now.
If you look at the video I posted a short time ago of a UTV ride. Around the 2 minute mark you'll see us slow down and the ground is rutted up until about the 2:30 minute mark. That is hog root from them tearing up the ground rooting around grubs. This by no means a large rooted area. I will try and get some picture this weekend, while I'm out.
https://youtu.be/Ke1Pwv4UPXc
Last time out to Dinner Island I kicked up 5 sleeping pigs in a root. And when we went in pursuit I ended up walking right into a mother turkey and her poults and a couple of does that had bedded down near the same spot.
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From the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Management:
HOG (FERAL SWINE)
Hog Definition
Hogs are defined as any hogs, including Russian and European wild boar, which are running at large, free-roaming or wild.
Landowner Provisions
Landowners experiencing damage and depredation caused by feral hogs may contact their local game warden to request a night shooting permit to control the hogs. Landowners may obtain a free hog control
permit from the local game warden allowing them to harvest hogs during antelope, bear, deer and elk firearm seasons without purchasing the corresponding big-game license.
Releasing Hogs
The Judas pig tagging system is legal. This is a population control technique in which a feral swine is caught, radio-collared and released at the trap site, then tracked down after it joins other feral swine so that those swine can be removed. The feral hog must be released onto the same private land on which it was caught within 24 hours of its capture. For more details, go online to www.ag.ok.gov/ais/feralswine.
Private Lands
Hogs may be taken year-round on private land during daylight hours with the landowners permission. The pursuit of feral hogs with a shotgun on private property is not restricted by shot size.
Resident & Nonresident License Requirements:
No hunting license required.
All persons pursuing hogs during youth deer gun, bear muzzleloader (in open counties), deer muzzleloader, deer gun, Holiday Antlerless Deer Gun (in open zones), elk gun (in open counties) and antelope gun (in open areas) seasons with a shotgun and rifled slug, or any rifle or handgun larger than .22 caliber rimfire, must possess a filled or unfilled license appropriate for the current season, unless otherwise exempt.
Public Lands
Hogs may be taken on Department-managed lands during any established hunting season with methods authorized by the Department for that hunting season, except that during any open deer and/or turkey season, only appropriate methods, hunting hours and weapons for that deer and/or turkey season are authorized for taking or pursuing feral hogs. In addition, persons pursuing hogs must comply with all other WMA Regulations (see page 40). However, hogs may not be taken by the aid of a light or light enhancement device (night scope).
Resident & Nonresident License Requirements:
All persons pursuing hogs with a firearm or archery equipment must possess a hunting license (see page 4), unless otherwise exempt. In addition, persons pursuing hogs on WMAs open during youth deer gun, bear muzzleloader (in open counties), deer muzzleloader, deer gun, Holiday Antlerless Deer Gun (in open zones), elk gun (in open counties) and antelope gun (in open areas) seasons with a shotgun and rifled slug, or any rifle or handgun larger than .22 caliber rimfire, must possess either a filled or unfilled license appropriate for the current season, unless otherwise exempt.
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Crawford County......where "The Place is located, has been a hot bed of lawsuits and allegations since 2002-2003.
Seems a guy for Texas loaded up a trailer load and brought them in and released them.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/10...pulation-boom/
Haven't seen any near me personally, but a bunch have been killed by deer and turkey hunters.
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Garvin County (where I live) has 802 square miles of land. According to the state, we are in the "moderate" population with 13 to 59 pigs per square mile of the county. Pretty much every farmer in the county has pigs and therefore crop damage from pigs. They will let "locals" (folks known to them personally) hunt pretty much any time with almost any type of weapon system (we have folks who hunt with spears and knives). The landowners pretty much just ask you to not do any more damage than the hogs are doing. My son hunts quite a bit. I don't. He usually gets the little ones (smaller than 75 pounds) just ground up into sausage. The big ones he may cut a ham out of but not usually. I see lots of pigs when I am riding my mule, much more than I do when I am walking.
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We have a bounty on them in my county, $5 a tail
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So...feral pigs. Are they fit to eat? Because if you can get a 5 dollar bounty per tail in shiftyer's county, that sounds like an argument for sausage. Assuming you can just give them the tail, that is.
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Here is the video of the hogs out in the field at Dinner Island. I don't know how many. But, it was a good size group. Older video camera back then.
https://youtu.be/vuq7FpiVUxo?list=UU...4hjKDArcnkGBdg
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Note not for the faint of heart....Effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UliEiQQyU
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Tundra, the small ones are fit to eat......the big ones probably are also but damn do they stink!!! Yes all u turn in is the tail, but if you don't want the bounty you don't have to. The is no season on hogs and also no specified weapon so you can use whatever your heart desires. I've seen video of someone using tannerite.
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pit bulls and a butcher knife i once saw these teenagers pig hunting in Kauai on the napali coast that's how they were doing it.
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I'd love to go on a hog hunt!
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....Oh honey...Gonna be need a new Helicopter............BOOYA......
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