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I've been hearing about them over in Sconnie for a few years now, but I didn't know that they are that far north. I haven't heard of any in Minnesota yet, but I'm thinking that there has to be a population somewhere. They'll be a hell of a lot easier to control here than they are in Texas.
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Good luck on that notion.
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They'll be a hell of a lot easier to control here than they are in Texas. Not disagreeing, you may be right. Just wondering what your rationale is.
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I just don't think that there is enough winter forage for them in the winter to support the population densities that Texas has. I don't think that more than one litter/year will be big enough to make the winter (granted, 9 pigs/year could still get away from you pretty fast).
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Peterbuilt, if you ever find yourself over run with them, shoot me an email. Have gun; will travel.
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Jim, "I haven't heard of any huntable populations in Alaska yet."
Back in the 70s an enterprising soul decided to release hogs on an island off Kodiak. His motive was logging hog-girdled trees...
They are still there and huntable. Problem is access. The island has a Steller sea lion pull-out that is off-limits to boats and such for several miles offshore. On the inside the edges of the exclusion zone nearly meet at one small byte. That access point is the only way to get at them legally.
For years I have wanted to go out there and do a hog hunt... art
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Oklahoma certainly has a huntable population. My bud stationed at Ft Sill takes slugs with him to take them while squirrel hunting.
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Looking at the distribution map they say we have hogs in S.Az. I know that the Peloncillos in the SE corner have them. Read articles about the Gray's ranch in SW NM having them and a few lucky guys could find them on the public lands on in both states.
Many years ago I heard the Buenos Aires Ranch run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had them. Buenas Aires is near the border east of Sasabe. Steve Debrott was the manager and I was told if I saw them to shoot a few. I found where they had been rooting but never found any. That was 15 yrs ago.
The map must be highlighting an entire county if any are within. Much of the green zone in the SW is within the Tohono O'odham resservation.
I will ask G and F what they know this week.
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Ya'll will know for sure you got a "Good" population when the local testosterone heavy adventure seekers start offering the "ultimate hunting experience". A buddy used to take his young buck customers on these trips upstream from me around Vernon Texas in the Red River bottoms where they would put some hounds down to find'em and bay'em up after seing hog tracks cutting a "road", then the catch dogs were put down and you tried to stay up with them, then the idea was when the catch dogs had the hog sufficiently "secured" the hog - usually one or more on each hind leg & jones, couple on the hogs nose & ears and so one and still alive...and then you are ...if YOU got the Jones ...supposed to crawl into this wild four footed maelstrom showdown ...over the hogs back and either slit his throat or make sushi of his innards with a pig sticker length Bowie knife...and meantime pray the dogs don't let go or mistake your hand or leg for hog fur. Supposed to be a LOT of fun but my buddy sez he cheats and uses a 44Mag and tickles the hogs ear hole with it. We got so many hogs you got to do something to keep it exciting I guess. Ron
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Not my kind of sport....I much prefer stand hunting 'em. I don't do ticks, stickers, or snakes.
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Any wild hogs in eastern North Carolina?
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Any wild hogs in eastern North Carolina? A few (thousand).
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How is that feeder working without the spinner?
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Good eye Hack! I put out a deer block (to attract deer). I left the feeder out there empty so critters would get accustomed to it. The motors are still in my garage. I even have the hole taped up to keep wasps out.
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Here is a picture of a hogs ass with mud dripping off it and a picture of one of the deer blocks (not necessarily in that order) .
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I was worried about 200lbs of feed( 4 sacks) in mine, seemed just a bit wobbley. However the more feed the more steady it is, by a whole lot. The legs will sink quite a bit in dry dirt, consider some of the footing issues you may have before the whole works goes over on you. It's also easy to fill standing on the back rack of my Yamaha 450 ATV.
I would like it to sling the corn a bit further, but it's probably okay. I was hoping for about 20-25foot diameter, I'm getting about 14-16 foot on the outside edge. Most of it is about 10foot or less. I did not want any game bumping into those legs by spending too much time under it.
Other then that, those Feeders are as good as I have used. If you hear about a different paddle or spinner setup that will sling the corn about twice the distance be sure to let me know.
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