Wild Boar Population

Grizzly Adams said:
The Europeans have historically treated them like a game species, with the decline of hunting, it's gotten out of hand. To boot, Chernobyl deposited a layer of radioactive fall out over much of the area that accumulates in pigs due to their rooting habits. Not healthy to consume.

Grizz
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There are invasive populations of North American beavers, raccoons and Chinese raccoon dogs now well established on the Continent. Lots to shoot at but fewer hunters and more dense populations.
 
Drone with thermal, night hunting in designated areas, free butchering instead of bounty. Throw in some regulations for using a can, and you might spark enough interest to put a dent in the population. That's my 2 cents for what its worth.
 
wrangler4867 said:
Drone with thermal, night hunting in designated areas, free butchering instead of bounty. Throw in some regulations for using a can, and you might spark enough interest to put a dent in the population. That's my 2 cents for what its worth.
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Finally someone has a clue. Add to this the ability to push bush with dogs during the day, with guns all around the bush line.
Good times will be had but not for the pigs
 
we did cull from high seat with 7x50 or 8x56 specialized scopes and they re doing that with paid employees in geneva as the hunting was banned and of course it is not working you limit the damages in an area and they move to the next one ....

we put electrified rails bareer to control cabbage, potatoes and corn fields and guess what: they learnt to dig underneath: they re adaptive unless you re manning your fields with good scoped rifle and skills and dog to recover them not to push them .. seems the big plains of sk, ab and mb will make a great food source for them. and the bigger area they spread the harder if will be for them to be controlled let alone eradicated.
 
Brutus said:
I do believe I briefly glanced at an article from Germany about three months back.
Licensed pest control agent was working in a German suburb at night hours. Could have been a city park. Bolt action 30-06 suppressed rifle. Some kind of NVG. Probably thermal.
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I had the pest control on rugby & soccer fields plus golf courses never mind the countless sheep farms
We’re used suppressed rifles and nv set ups to control the pests. Some of the fields where bang in the
Middle of towns, no issues. It’s a game changer and the laws allowed us to do this. 90% of my hunting was
Of a night.

If we wanted fun we would use lurchers over the lamp.

I miss it
 
Grizzly Adams said:
The Europeans have historically treated them like a game species, with the decline of hunting, it's gotten out of hand. To boot, Chernobyl deposited a layer of radioactive fall out over much of the area that accumulates in pigs due to their rooting habits. Not healthy to consume.

Grizz
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You're right,European hunters view them as a welcome game species to hunt, there's no reason we can't do the same here. With the decline of moose and caribou and our asinine game laws (or lack thereof for many) across this country, maybe they'll be the only viable game species remaining in the coming years.
Not sure about Chernobyl, I suppose it's a bad idea to eat them out of the actual exclusion zone but I know of many that eat them all the time in the western European countries.
 
remyltr said:
I had the pest control on rugby & soccer fields plus golf courses never mind the countless sheep farms
We’re used suppressed rifles and nv set ups to control the pests. Some of the fields where bang in the
Middle of towns, no issues. It’s a game changer and the laws allowed us to do this. 90% of my hunting was
Of a night.

If we wanted fun we would use lurchers over the lamp.

I miss it
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Interesting perspective sir.
jealous here.....
 
understand there's a couple regions in Alberta where there's a bounty on the porkies, I think it's $75 per set of ears?, peace region and east side of red deer, seems they are in demand with the hunters so not much talk about where they might be, like giving up your sheep hunting spots or something...not sure I get it yet but whatever, I'd give up a weekend on ice to take the trailer and try and get some bacon for the freezer, if it's reasonable in a couple days that you could land one or two I'd give up even more weekends on ice and bring a pal who would also, the ears(bounty) can go to the land owners generous enough to hook me up with the opportunity to fill the freezer with some bacon bits...sounds win win to me
 
blakeyboy said:
understand there's a couple regions in Alberta where there's a bounty on the porkies, I think it's $75 per set of ears?, peace region and east side of red deer, seems they are in demand with the hunters so not much talk about where they might be, like giving up your sheep hunting spots or something...not sure I get it yet but whatever, I'd give up a weekend on ice to take the trailer and try and get some bacon for the freezer, if it's reasonable in a couple days that you could land one or two I'd give up even more weekends on ice and bring a pal who would also, the ears(bounty) can go to the land owners generous enough to hook me up with the opportunity to fill the freezer with some bacon bits...sounds win win to me
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if only huntin pigs was that easy
 
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