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I’m going this weekend, probably kill some more damn pigs!

Not a typical night...

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That would be fun

Part 1...

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Part 2...

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Yes i do wish there were wild hogs here. This county has no agriculture other than timber logging. The hogs arent going to hurt the local beat, lion, and wolf numbers a bit. Theres very little level ground as most everything is a slope. Hardly any fields or anything providing a good food source so they wouldnt over populate.

Old Pine cricker, I’m not sure where you are in Idaho, but I grew up in Southeast Idaho.
If you put in for a muzzleloader or archery tags you can start hunting antelope in August. Then deer and elk over the counter archery September.
General hunts in October and late muzzleloader and Cow tags if you do them in November. Archery deer goes through December also.
If you put in for them you can do doe antelope tags in Wyoming, too.

I think you can also get a few Montana Whitetail doe tags for pretty inexpensively or nonresident tags.

Friends and I used to hunt coyotes and foxes and lots of jack rabbits in the winter and then start gopher hunting and rock chucks early in the spring. So not really hunting all yea , but that left the summers open for fishing anyway :-).

Besides, you can fly into Houston or Corpus Christi not too bad of a ticket out of Salt Lake and doing Texas hog Hunts for $500 a day. It’s a nice break from Idaho winters!

I’m hog hunting now, hope to kill one in a little while.

Stack 'em up!

Merry Christmas!

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We have feral hogs in Ark. Some places are overrun and none in other places.
I was a member of a deer lease in S C Ark for several years. Hog sign was abundant and you actually could
SMELL them. I got ONE glance at a hog in those years.

A long time friend and rifle loony -- who has now passed - was a member of another lease and took me there.
NO hogs seen.

I've heard 'reports' of feral hogs here close to home. My deer season wraps up for me on Jan 1, 2021. My friend & neighbor are going to scout/hunt the area as soon as deer season closes.

This is a fairly large & long creek (not crick) that dumps into an area Lake. There are a few miles of creek bottom from his place and I'm hoping to be able to get into the hogs between now and Spring.




How much do you pay for 'friends' to help reduce their numbers ?

I would love to get into some serious hog hunting. Might EVEN go to Texas !


Jerry

God will smite me. Forgive me. I shoot everyone one of those sob’s in the the gut and hope they suffer as much pain and misery as they have caused me. If you’re a farmer or rancher you’ll understand and if not your probably a damn anti gun democrat. MAGA

They jack up my yard once in a while. Wifey acts like it’s my fault.

Thanks Dinny. I usually hunt vicariously. I have killed a huge number of 5 ferals. All smaller at Independence Ranch, Gonzales, TX. All of them are trapped and sold to the ranch. I may not go back but it was a good experience to hunt with my adult son. He used the R25 and Federal blue box 150 gr as I used in my Steyr Scout. Both were hog killing machines but I'm sure ARs in .223 would have been fine. If hunting them regularly the 6.5 might be in order. But I would like to get a 358 Winchester upper for it and suppress it with ~300 gr FP cast. Be Well, RZ.

They eat anything, not just the rooting. Fawns, turkey eggs and polts would get decimated. Yards would be mine fields of sorts.
As far as over populating , you are dead wrong there.
Gestation is 114 days, multiple litters a year of 8-12 dozen young.
The population would explode in a very short time.

They are like the terminator, cannot be defeated, ever!

I have always wondered if they would be able to form a stable population in country that wasn’t as dense as south Texas brush or swamp country. I hunt mostly Pa and Ny , once it snows and we could track them I can’t see how they would make it long.

MM

It takes dogs to run down pigs, I believe they can run as fast as a deer or close to it.

With no bag limit and no closed season, again don’t see how they could exist in any sustained numbers up here. Don’t need to run them down, just get within rifle range. I’ve shot a few in Texas and they are delicious as far as I’m concerned so there’s that motivation too.

MM

I run about 50 feeders on the ranch. About 20 yrs ago put hog panels around all the feeders so hogs wouldn’t run the deer off. In recent years the hogs have morphed to where they can clear those 34” hog panels. Hard to believe until you see a 400-500 lb boar jump over them like a deer. I’ve seen it numerous times. I don’t like nothing black. Kill em all, sows first.

When you get within rifle range of 27 of them and they run off at 40mph at the shot what then?

It’s not South TX brushy here, brushy creek bottoms and plum thickets but otherwise open farmland and we can’t make a dent around here. People kill them with dogs, traps, helicopters, rifles, running them over on the road, you name it and someone’s doing it. We get more of them every day. Even with no closed season are you going to hunt them every day? Think what you like, but the truth is they’d be out of control just like everywhere else.