Feral Hog Sighting

the spank said:
Well after hearing lots of rumours of Feral Hog sightings in and around the area and a former co-worker claiming to have taken 4 the week before last while deer hunting I am now a believer after seeing one today. What a sight! Wasn't a very big fellow, about the size of a small dog and reddish brown in colour but definitely a wild pig! Man can they move! He spotted us about the same time we spotted him in a grain field. He spun and took off for the brush line on the field edge kicking up a wake of snow behind him like a boat's rooster tail. Those little legs were moving like nobody's business. I marked the lsd of the lease I had just come from in my Iphone. I can't wait to go back on my next day off and do a little scouting in the area.:D
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feel free to mark it down wildboarcanada.ca

Also if anyone has any questions on regulations... its a good place to check also.
 
the spank said:
They are apparently a hybrid here of Russian Boar and domestic pig. The one I saw was small but shaped exactly the same as you describe. Thanks for the aiming point advice! I was thinking of using my 22-250 with 55 grain sp's?
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That should work for a neck shot, but if your aiming for a heart / lung you need something that will penetrate their shoulder /shielding. In general you'll want a larger round with a penetrating bullet. Hell they even make special rounds just for wild boar.

Also you may want to check. These don't fall under the wildlife act in alb I'm pretty sure. If that's true you may be able to hunt them with a bow at night. Might even be able to spotlight them with a "green"? light. Not 100% on that.
 
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hoocli said:
That should work for a neck shot, but if your aiming for a heart / lung you need something that will penetrate their shoulder /shielding. In general you'll want a larger round with a penetrating bullet. Hell they even make special rounds just for wild boar.
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You're toting around a .224 caliber bullet on steroids. Your trajectory will be flatter and the projectile will travel faster than out the barrel of my 16" AR, so you will able to reach one at a greater distance than me. I think you have the ideal round for the sort of terrain around SK/AB border. For mountains here in NC, I'm stalking through bush and the ranges are much shorter, so my AR is perfect for this as it will also allow faster follow up shots incase I don't do my part and one of those tuskers charges.

If using a heavier caliber, then you can aim for the area above the bicep at the front shoulder if it's a better target than the head/neck area. Remember that the heart/lungs are between the shoulders (slightly to the front of them actually) and down close to it's breast bone..
 
Last time I checked the Alberta Wild Boar Eradication Program was listed under the SRD or Alberta Agriculture regulations and not the hunting regulations.
Because they are an evasive species and not natural to here.

Also another source of info would be an Alberta rural county individual website. That is, if the singular county subscribes to this provincially funded program.

Cheers!
 
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wildboar.ca wow Confirmed kills and several sightings with pics in Ontario.


From wildboar.ca

Email From Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

Wild boar are not a species native to Ontario; they are often farm-raised by agricultural producers for meat. There is no open hunting season for wild boar in Ontario.
 
all I got to say is shoot every one you see no matter how big or small small ones will start breeding in a few months. its not like hunting deer its culling they are a pest
 
let them get a solid population so the rest of us can enjoy them, its not like little wild piggies are the worst thing going on in our enviorment. i would love to be able to hunt hogs locally
 
daniel_250r said:
let them get a solid population so the rest of us can enjoy them, its not like little wild piggies are the worst thing going on in our enviorment. i would love to be able to hunt hogs locally
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go take a look at Texas or any number of other US states they kill native animals and plants along with causing crop damage its not a deer even though most people hunt them like they are. these pigs are a pest just like anything else and they need to be culled not hunted and culled in numbers that most people would not want to deal with skinning and gutting them down in Texas most are left where they die or are moved into a pile somewhere else its not a freezer filling hunt its pest eradication
 
Texans supposedly let their numbers explode, just so they can hunt them.

There is like zero BLM land available in Texas (Bureau of Land Management........the equivalent of our Crown Land) to hunt them on at will; they're mostly on private land and the owners have their hands out for payment from the hunters who want to hunt them.

I worked in Texas for about 2 months this spring and that was the case everywhere I went at least. Lots of ranches with lots of hogs. You had to pay to play though.

The hogs I saw there were feral pigs; not the hybrid kind or the pure Russian bloodline like here. Here in NC there was a population of Russian boars already here from the 18th century (introduced by someone, I forget who) and after that big Hurricane hit here some time ago, a lot of domestic pink pigs were released by the farmers so that they wouldn't drown from the storm surge. Seems like the farmers forgot that pigs are excellent swimmers and a lot escaped up into the mountains and started breeding with the Russian ones.
 
Melnibonean said:
Texans supposedly let their numbers explode, just so they can hunt them.

There is like zero BLM land available in Texas (Bureau of Land Management........the equivalent of our Crown Land) to hunt them on at will; they're mostly on private land and the owners have their hands out for payment from the hunters who want to hunt them.

I worked in Texas for about 2 months this spring and that was the case everywhere I went at least. Lots of ranches with lots of hogs. You had to pay to play though.

The hogs I saw there were feral pigs; not the hybrid kind or the pure Russian bloodline like here. Here in NC there was a population of Russian boars already here from the 18th century (introduced by someone, I forget who) and after that big Hurricane hit here some time ago, a lot of domestic pink pigs were released by the farmers so that they wouldn't drown from the storm surge. Seems like the farmers forgot that pigs are excellent swimmers and a lot escaped up into the mountains and started breeding with the Russian ones.
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Do they "oink" with a Russian accent now?
 
antiqueguy said:
go take a look at Texas or any number of other US states they kill native animals and plants along with causing crop damage its not a deer even though most people hunt them like they are. these pigs are a pest just like anything else and they need to be culled not hunted and culled in numbers that most people would not want to deal with skinning and gutting them down in Texas most are left where they die or are moved into a pile somewhere else its not a freezer filling hunt its pest eradication
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Have you ever watched American Hoggers? If you did you would notice that the vast majority of thier captures are just hog tied and secured for a road trip. Most likely to keep the little piggy alive until they can deposit it at a slaughterhouse.
 
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From what I have seen around here pig numbers do not "explode" They just barely hang on, living in the most inaccessible corners of bush. Between every local with a rifle in the truck and tractor, every tom #### and harry driving around shooting out the window, the coyotes, cougars, the winters and the wolves its a wonder there are any left at all. Good thing new ones escape from the boar farms every once in a blue moon or there would be none at all.
 
Nobody yet has answered the question; WHERE DID U SEE A FERAL HOG? In Canada, B.C. Alberta, where? I want some bacon. Have eaten wild Asian bore in Germany and I found it to be the best thing I ever ate
 
Just checked out wildboar.ca but can't figure out how to post my sighting with my iPhone without purchasing the app. However there is a sighting shown almost exactly where I saw the one I did to the NE of Lloyd. I will have to convert the LSD to latitude and longitude to compare how close the sightings are and the map also shows two sightings not 10 minutes south of my home. Time to go scouting!!
 
Brutus said:
Have you ever watched American Hoggers? If you did you would notice that the vast majority of thier captures are just hog tied and secured for a road trip. Most likely to keep the little piggy alive until they can deposit it at a slaughterhouse.
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yeah and that's not how most people do it because it takes hours tracking down one pig not very productive when there's millions more. heli hunting is very productive on the other hand
 
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