Gaining ground. Hunting will not stop wild pigs invasion in Canada.

Power Pill said:
please let them come to Ontario soon :redface:
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My friend you have no idea how much damage they do to a farmers fields. I have seen them damage trees to knock apples free, they come in numbers into a farmers fields and tear out all the potatoes and ruin that harvest. Part of the hunting test in Germany is a moving target where you much place 3 rounds in the kill zone or fail. No semi rifles there. But in all honesty when they get a foot hold in an area it is all out war. ( I speak of the wild boar here. ) does anyone know if there is any truth to the story of some narcissistic American that exported some wild boar from Hungary to take back home and put on his property? When I did my hunting test they spoke of how this was done in the UK with the gray squirrel and now raccoons in the EU... I wonder if they were just trying to get away from trump! LOL

Ask any farmer in the EU and they would gladly tell you they wish they had never head of them!!
 
Feral pigs will thrive in Ontario and the one thing that will benefit from it will be hunting with hounds. People will realize how hard these animals will be to hunt with the large tracts of bush and how intelligent they are. Deer hunting in central ontario sucks now, so having feral pigs might just replace that for the most part (hope im wrong)
 
central alberta has a pig problem as well. dont hear much about it as the county says they rather use their own methods as hunting will scare them away. anyway its a great pest to hunt on the off season and taste great.
 
I’ve seen what they do to ‘paddocks’in New Zealand,tore up a pasture overnight..Theyhunt them with knives over there..( now THAT would get PETA riled up!)
 
I just got back from a trip to Alberta and Saskatchewan. The pig problem is not going away. More being seen all the time, and more damage showing up.

Hope you guys down there get a hold of this quick! NWT has the answer, open season, no bag limit, shoot on sight.

Ted
 
We used to have a neighbour down stream with at times over 400 wild boar...Some of the wildest ones would breakout on occasion and end up on my place...He's gone now and so are all those Russian boar...Biggest one I ever shot was over 7 and a half feet long hanging from the front end loader...His bleached skull with 4 inch tusks is sitting on the mantel...Sure do miss those days and all that fun shooting and wild pig meat.
 
homeboy1 said:
I would think that the minus 35 weather on the prairies would be hard on those wild hogs.
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Saw a video a few years ago from near Moose Mountain Park - eastern Saskatchewan. A farmer / rancher was trying to drum up concern about the wild pigs. Couldn't get many interested. He had seen a bunch of them hold off his herd of cattle from water in his pasture. Winter time - acre or two slough with cattails and covered in snow. Not a track to be seen anywhere in the field around the slough. On camera, a partner drove a snowmobile into the slough - the entire place exploded!! Hundreds of wild boars happily living in the tunnels they made through the cattails, under the snow, rooting and eating roots, etc.
 
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