Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Saw my first hog

Well, that's not quite true. I've hunted feral hogs. I even saw a couple sneak through a densely populated part of northern CIncinnati, just south of the Hamilton County fairgrounds one morning on the way to work. This was my first sighting of them near the farm in Bracken County, Kentucky.

I was driving to Falmouth, KY-- the county seat of the next county over, and late afternoon I spied a big black boar wallowing in a stock pond. He would have easily gone over 200 lbs. I've been hearing of them for 15 years, but this was the first one I laid eyes on. I guess they're coming. Eventually we'll start seeing damage at the farm. Sigh!

There’s 2 types of hunting spots.

Those that have hogs...
Those that don’t have hogs **yet**.

I have seen their mud holes and tree rub mud markings in area 41 and 44A.
10, 12 yrs ago I seen 5 or 6 across Veghel DZ in 44a by the Ky offpost border.
Spoke with the fed warden .
He said the 44A ones were probably mennonite pigs the retard lets free range feed.
The ones in 41 were feral and being dealt with inside of fence traps set up by 2 usda shooters.
They were killing alot of em by live fire base.
They restricted ag lease farming for several yrs on the western border to certain areas to concentrate em and baited the schit outta em into those fence traps.
Then they put restrictions on ag lease farming around the post border areas to help prevent hogs being drawn in.
Srebrenica hog cleansing ops.
Seen 1 guy bring in a 250 300 pd hog back around 2011ish to tag.
Area 43 kill Ky border area....
Black and white piebald looking thing ( correct term???)
Probably a mennonite free range feeding hog....
Dunno......
I woulda let the fugging thing lay where it died.
Yotes and buzzards gotta eat too

I actually aint seen sign of hogs in years on post since 2012 2014ish.

Dont hear much if any at all about feral hogs around here hunting off post on private or public land either.

Not necessarily. They can live anywhere but I think they tend to gravitate towards swampy areas, around rivers, creeks, etc.

Last place I hunted, it was near a large river swamp ecosystem but a couple of miles upland from it and there are plenty of hogs in that swamp. I expected to see a lot of them but in 8 years I only saw a pair one afternoon and killed one of them. One was caught on a game cam. There was one instance of them rooting around one of our stands. I knew a guy on a neighboring club which leased land closer to the river and they saw hogs all the time.

Saw my first hog of the day this morning, I was at Walmart. ps....NO ammo.

Once you got em you ain’t getting rid of them

Set up a few game cameras. Want take much time to find out if you have them. Hasbeen

If you have seen 1 or 2 hogs today, there will be 20 next week. Rio7

They multiply quickly

Faster than rabbits. I lost at least 60% of my oats this year due to hog damage. They damaged 30-40% of my Sudan crop so far. Very destructive.

Jim

See em at the walmart on payday

They have been in Pendleton County for several years. Church cemetery got plowed up pretty good two years ago. Had a spot in front of our barn and another behind the house got rooted up last year. However, given that the river is 1/4 mile away, and all of the bottom crop land, never see them during daylight hours. SIL and grandsons have game cameras setup around the farm from time to time. Have never caught a picture of one, yet.

Of course, no one had any black bears on camera in our county either. Until one ran across the road in front of a school bus full of kids in broad daylight last year.

200=125...

Most likely. Experience counts.

My first one, I could only see her head at 150yds or so. Figured she was 100-150lbs. Put one in her ear hole and she flopped. Ol' gal went close to 400lbs. I'm still a crap judge on pig sizes until they are dead on the ground.

They have taken over in my area since that time (this was maybe 2004 or so). Now there are facebook pages the locals are running where they use cell-activated gates and pen traps, catching hundreds a year, being next to people's homes and even in the city limits of our little town. I'd hate to see how many we'd have if those guys weren't knocking a dent in them. Dad had one on his front porch last year, trying to get in the glass door (dogs ran it up the hill from the creek bottom). If the door had been open, he'd have come straight in the house.

The hog I saw was at one of the high points of the county just off a road that runs down the top of a ridge.

I've actually hunted boar. This was bigger than my last one (180 lbs) and smaller than my buddy's (220).

YMMV.

I heard about that. Last I looked, the bear had finally moved on. He was wintering in the foundation of the old mill at Browningsville. My neighbor, O.T., was the one to spot him first over in our neck of the woods. That bear would drop by my place every fall, shred some sumac bushes and then take a large dump and claw up a couple trees. That stopped happening a couple years ago.

Tell that to the ranchers in dry ass Mediterranean climate California where there are no swampy areas, rivers, and what creeks there are sometimes (many times) are dry for months at a time.

If they can find a spot to wallow under an irrigation sprinkler, or tear up vineyard, them pigs seem to be as happy as anywhere else.

Just relating my experience, that is all. I was always thinking I could kill a young one or two, only happened once in 8 years while the guys a way over saw and killed them fairly regularly. But if the OP thinks or wants to think he is going to be overrun with them because he saw one so be it....could be. I guess time will tell.

Crazy thing was, it being South Carolina, the deer were being baited. When I first got invited to join the situation, I didn't think they would be able to keep corn on the ground because of the hogs that I assumed would be there. They never bothered it not once.