EU wild boar - 2-3mln heads in Italy for food supply - in favor for same in Canada?

Rangel said:
In Europe, in the forest, with or without them - plants, birds, insects and other animals are unaffected.
As for farmfields - there are so many fields there that presence of wild boars is not noticeable.
They used to squeeze through the fence and hide in the grain - but did not eat enough to notice and did not knock down enough stems to notice.
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Is this your personal experience? You're stating this like it's fact, but it totally contradicts what everyone else in this thread is saying.

...Why would wild hogs be courteous enough to only eat such a small amount of something that no one would notice? And the farmers whose fields get trampled don't matter, because there are many more fields? What? K I'm gonna steal your car. Shouldn't matter, there are literally millions more, right? Not even a drop in a bucket.
 
legi0n said:
favor or not they are coming
I for one can't wait
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Grizzly Adams said:
They're an invasive species that create no end of environmental damage. You must be out of your mind. :confused:

Grizz
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From a personal point of view if they had open seasons and no restrictions on them i would love to be able to go out and shoot a pig a couple of times throughout the year to fill up the freezer.

From a bigger picture point of view i don't want the destruction and problems they cause when they spread unchecked.
 
dand883 said:
From a personal point of view if they had open seasons and no restrictions on them i would love to be able to go out and shoot a pig a couple of times throughout the year to fill up the freezer.

From a bigger picture point of view i don't want the destruction and problems they cause when they spread unchecked.
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you cannot have a free lunch with wild boars ...
 
dand883 said:
From a personal point of view if they had open seasons and no restrictions on them i would love to be able to go out and shoot a pig a couple of times throughout the year to fill up the freezer.

From a bigger picture point of view i don't want the destruction and problems they cause when they spread unchecked.
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That’s easier said than done, trust me I hunted these damn things hard.
This time of year is useless, they are deep in the swamps wallowing in the mud.

Winter time is better but pending the amount of snow we get.
I’ve had them coming in every day at X o’clock
Then the day you go down, nothing.

They destroy everything and anything.

I’m almost convinced they ate the deer around one farm. We were getting 200 deer coming into
The bin yard, then the pig population exploded. Within a year we got maybe 50 deer coming into the yard.
Every spring we go thru the bush and not one deer carcass to be found, no bones no nothing.
But the pigs survived.

I’ve got one pic with about 50 pigs on the cam in one photo.
 
I was born and spent 35 years in Alberta before we moved over here and wouldn’t think anyone should wish for them to become established. Fun to kill, yes but hard on an ecosystem. We shot a few on the family homestead around Mayerthorpe as far back as the mid to late 90’s.

I was out shooting them last week but we’ve got options here. Under spotlights, thermal, from choppers, with drones, dogs etc. it’s a free for all. I’ve never shot one in the daylight.

I’ve no affiliation with this team but they’re bloody good and this is up in northern Queensland a couple hours from home.

https://youtu.be/ek5IzUgl_Ac
 
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I'm thinking .308 150g Powerpoints from a Rem 7600 with an IR laser and a PVR14 at up to an hour after sunset in BC.

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lazyfarmer said:
You really don't know much about pigs do you? Ordinary fence is no impediment to a hungry hog, the cost of hog proofing a field would be prohibitive.
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i never seen or heard about hog proofing for a field and we had crops in our farm when i was a kid ... pigs was always complicated to keep inside too lol ...
 
I worked with a guy many years ago that raised wild boar.
He had a few extra uncut male boars that weren't needed for the breeding operation he ran.
So he sold one of them to a friend to put in his freezer.
He hadn't been using the boar for breeding purposes for several months at this point.
The friend got a discount because boars used for breeding have a nasty odour when used as breeders.
Well, the friend asked if he could have another one as the meat was some of the best pork he'd ever had.
Turns out that when the boar isn't used for breeding for some time, the stink in the meat goes away.
My friend did not know that at the time. He does now, but since I haven't heard from him in 30 years it probably doesn't matter.
Just a random fyi that probably won't make a lick of difference when hunting the buggers.
 
Lionel said:
I worked with a guy many years ago that raised wild boar.
He had a few extra uncut male boars that weren't needed for the breeding operation he ran.
So he sold one of them to a friend to put in his freezer.
He hadn't been using the boar for breeding purposes for several months at this point.
The friend got a discount because boars used for breeding have a nasty odour when used as breeders.
Well, the friend asked if he could have another one as the meat was some of the best pork he'd ever had.
Turns out that when the boar isn't used for breeding for some time, the stink in the meat goes away.
My friend did not know that at the time. He does now, but since I haven't heard from him in 30 years it probably doesn't matter.
Just a random fyi that probably won't make a lick of difference when hunting the buggers.
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A percentage of the population also cannot taste Boar Taint.
 
I know we are supposed to have them here in Manitoba but I have yet to see one. Supposedly the greatest concentration of them is in the South Western area but heard they spend most of the time deep in the swamp and only venture out at night making hunting difficult. I would think trapping would be the best option here.
 
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