Just because the current route isn't working doesn't mean a different approach can't.
A different approach would work really well. Ya see , in Wisconsin we got rid of them faster than you can slap a tick. They never even got a foot hold. The reason is , us Wisconsin boys know how to hunt. In Wisconsin we drive deer quite a bit and many get some bruiser bucks. I doubt those hogs are not any smarter than an old buck, NO WAY!. It seems, ( Texas boys , dont get hurt now) that you all sit in box blinds. You can't hunt hogs like that . One poster even said , he could have a hog by noon but it would be 2 weeks before one would come back in the same field. There is no reason you can't get drives going and push them enough for them to make a mistake. Good shooting and safety is a must however. Also, we have had these conversations before about hog problems. Lawsuits always come up. It is an excuse . I have hunted in Wisconsin all my life and NEVER heard of a lawsuit. NOT ONCE. And if you guys with hog problems are so selfish , then let the hogs ruin your land. And dont tell me I dont let others hunt my land. We do, we also let the neighbors hunt a bit, walk along our river, walk their dogs ETC. We are happy to share our land, of course , within reason and never asked for a penny. Not bad for a bunch of Yankees huh Steelhead.
Watching you tough guys "drive" hogs around here would be worth BIG money.
On that note, it is estimated that the whitetail population of the entire United States was 250,000 in 1900.
I was surprised, when reading "Journal of a Trapper, that Osbourne Russel who was born around 1800 and lived in Maine had never fired a rifle until he went West around 1830.
Apparently game was not nearly as plentiful by that time as I had always imagined.
In 1960, when I left for the Service, I would have to travel 20 miles to find deer. When I came home in 1964, they were all over this country.
There had always been wild hogs in the Squaw Mountain area in Northern Jack County but they had never migrated west of HWY 281 into Young County.
In the 'seventies, a couple of brothers who owned a ranch in the Squaw Mountain are rigged up a trailer with a trap door and caught hogs. Leasing pastures for deer hunting was becoming common by then and hunters would pay the boys to bring a trailer load to a pasture they had leased. They would feed them corn and water them in the trailer for a few days, then release them with a corn feeder placed where the trailer had been.
I know of three pastures, myself, here in North Young County where this was done.
In a very few years, hogs were plentiful all the way from Squaw Mountain to Jean. They seem to set up boundaries and stay in those boundaries for a long time. I saw the same thing in Cottle County, out under the Caprock. They stayed in pockets, even though the country adjacent to them was just like the area where they were established. Then they would suddenly appear miles away.
Just like W T deer, they use the rivers and large creeks as migration routes when they do spread out.
One of my long time M D hunting partners has a flying service in rice country and has a helicopter used strictly for facilitating rice "breeding" and killing hogs, since they are death on a rice field.
They do little damage to range land, wheat, or cotton, but play hell with a hay field.
They wipe out corn here, simply by rooting the seed as its planted.. Its amazing... folks have to replant quite often... once up its not bad though.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
Just because the current route isn't working doesn't mean a different approach can't.
A different approach would work really well. Ya see , in Wisconsin we got rid of them faster than you can slap a tick. They never even got a foot hold. The reason is , us Wisconsin boys know how to hunt. In Wisconsin we drive deer quite a bit and many get some bruiser bucks. I doubt those hogs are not any smarter than an old buck, NO WAY!. It seems, ( Texas boys , dont get hurt now) that you all sit in box blinds. You can't hunt hogs like that . One poster even said , he could have a hog by noon but it would be 2 weeks before one would come back in the same field. There is no reason you can't get drives going and push them enough for them to make a mistake. Good shooting and safety is a must however. Also, we have had these conversations before about hog problems. Lawsuits always come up. It is an excuse . I have hunted in Wisconsin all my life and NEVER heard of a lawsuit. NOT ONCE. And if you guys with hog problems are so selfish , then let the hogs ruin your land. And dont tell me I dont let others hunt my land. We do, we also let the neighbors hunt a bit, walk along our river, walk their dogs ETC. We are happy to share our land, of course , within reason and never asked for a penny. Not bad for a bunch of Yankees huh Steelhead.
You don't have a clue. You'd be better of trying to reason with them and LEAD them where ever you want them to go...
Wisconsin hunters chase black bears with dogs. I wonder if bear hunting dogs would chase pigs?
You can run them with dogs just like you do deer. That's how the settlers used to get them up when they rounded them up every fall. The problem with dogs is that there aren't very many people who actually keep hunting dogs these days. They are just too much trouble and work.
They wipe out corn here, simply by rooting the seed as its planted.. Its amazing... folks have to replant quite often... once up its not bad though.
I've seen where hogs have gone through rows shoulder to shoulder eating the freshly planted corn kernels out of rows. When they got to the end of the field they turn around and clean out another bunch of rows in the opposite direction.
Not to worry, I'm sure Monsanto is working on a solution to the hog problem as we speak. We will worry about what the effects are to human consumption when we have to cross that bridge....
Wisconsin hunters chase black bears with dogs. I wonder if bear hunting dogs would chase pigs?
You can run them with dogs just like you do deer. That's how the settlers used to get them up when they rounded them up every fall. The problem with dogs is that there aren't very many people who actually keep hunting dogs these days. They are just too much trouble and work.
True dat, and the hogs that lived in the river bottoms were unmolested...livestock allowed to fend for itself. One of the coolest things about them is how fast they can be domesticated or go "feral".
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
Pigs consistently rank among the smartest animals. Door latches in pens and hog houses are no problem for them. And I even saw a bunch of them make an improvised slip and slide out of some wet visqueen in a hog house when I was a kid. They were funny and looked just like a bunch of kids.
Well, ok, I dont have a clue. Ya can have the hogs then. They are all yours. As for us. we dont have hog problems. We kill them on sight like Roundoak also mentioned. Matter of fact hunters knocked on farmers doors and asked to hunt for hogs. The hogs , although have it tougher up here from winters , didn't last long enough for most hunters in Wisconsin to even see one. And dont think we dont have brush like Briers and prickery pear. We got all kinds of stuff, even tag alder swamps. Oh well, hope I didn't hurt anyones feelings from down south. If you have land and hog problems , there are plenty of guys on this forum that are respectable and smart enough to not shoot a cow ( the lamest excuse to refuse hunters) , shoot tractors, get drunk and leave beer cans and candy wrappers and rut up the fields, ETC. that if you really wanted the hogs gone, again , there are good people on this forum would no doubt get a few pigs removed. Until then, good luck with the hogs.
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Wisconsin hunters chase black bears with dogs. I wonder if bear hunting dogs would chase pigs?
You can run them with dogs just like you do deer. That's how the settlers used to get them up when they rounded them up every fall. The problem with dogs is that there aren't very many people who actually keep hunting dogs these days. They are just too much trouble and work.
Joe Bob... in the immortal words of Jerb Snow..."You just get ignoranter and ignoranter all the time".
Well, ok, I dont have a clue. Ya can have the hogs then. They are all yours. As for us. we dont have hog problems. We kill them on sight like Roundoak also mentioned. Matter of fact hunters knocked on farmers doors and asked to hunt for hogs. The hogs , although have it tougher up here from winters , didn't last long enough for most hunters in Wisconsin to even see one. And dont think we dont have brush like Briers and prickery pear. We got all kinds of stuff, even tag alder swamps. Oh well, hope I didn't hurt anyones feelings from down south. If you have land and hog problems , there are plenty of guys on this forum that are respectable and smart enough to not shoot a cow ( the lamest excuse to refuse hunters) , shoot tractors, get drunk and leave beer cans and candy wrappers and rut up the fields, ETC. that if you really wanted the hogs gone, again , there are good people on this forum would no doubt get a few pigs removed. Until then, good luck with the hogs.
We kill 'em on sight too.
Problem is, when they are 50 yards from a brushy creek when you see 20 of them, how many shots are you going to get?
