Gaining ground. Hunting will not stop wild pigs invasion in Canada.
- Thread starter Why not?
- Start date
They burrow and make nests they'll survive
They seem to do just fine in the winters of Pennsylvania ect
Trimmer 905
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
It's fast and exciting hunting for sure......as long as we go somewhere else to hunt them where they're already established. Believe me,we don't want them here.
We have a lot of them in SK. They seem to do just fine in the -35 weather.
Every now and then you see post about guys in Sk saying they are all over, the same guys won't say where and "keep them for themselves"... Soon enough, that will prove to be a big mistake...
Thanks for the vid. Some great shooting. Grabbed a price from their website.
Heli Hunt Pricing
$1250 per hour per shooter with 2 hour minimum to book ($2500 each)
They like 6 hunters in a group. Actually not that bad when you consider the maintenance cost on the birds.
I don't know if my old ticker could take two hours of that !
Slaughter houses will buy anything over like 40lbs,but they have to walk into the slaughter house so hunted pigs are a no go. Also I would think animal retrieval would be pretty dangerous with a heli full of guns flying overhead...
Well a simple start to controlling them would be to stop the automatic bait stations people leave set up and running so as to condition the animals to the area .
thus allowing them to feed instead of forage .
But, that would make sense now ?
Shoot on sight and leave them for the scavengers or take them home and eat.
Rob
Keep in mind you're talking hot climates, and a fair bit of time between when the shooting starts and the carcasses are recovered. Most likely, they won't be edible (at least not by me, and I love boar). I know that bear will spoil very quickly in hot weather unless you can gut, skin, and cool the carcasses very quickly. It's probably like groundhogs - shoot one in cool weather, clean it and toss it in the cooler right away, and you have excellent meat. Let them stew in the sun for even an hour and...
Or the reverse - bait them and shoot them? But I have a sneaky feeling it would only work once or twice in a fairly large area. Dem tings ain't domb.
holzmeister
Regular
- Location
- Neumarkt Ontario
In Germany they do a great deal of damage! Overnight they can destroy a farmers fields and send him reeling from the loss.
a little one at 25kgs. Shot with a 222. I do not wish them to come here, not at all.
a little one at 25kgs. Shot with a 222. I do not wish them to come here, not at all.
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
If true that is an astonishing situation given the damage these critters inflict upon agriculture industry across North America. NB legislators must live under a rock, or just haven't paid attention.
elimsprint
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Kelowna, BC
