Huge feral hogs invading Canada, building pigloos as they go

One of the girls at work showed me a photo of 6 dead pigs in the back of her brothers truck.

Got a invite to go but just haven't had the time.
 
I appreciate all the offers to help! We will see how it goes when the day actually comes, sooner or later the balance of probability seems to be that it will happen.

Finally have a good excuse for why I did all those experiments with solids in my 450 marlin ;)
 
remyltr said:
600lb wild boar is yote bait
Dont waste your time drooling over such
A rank beast
Trust me on this
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A 600lb wild boar wasn't always wild. Anyone who claims they shot a 600lb boar either A) doesn't have a clue about how much their pig actually weighed, or B) shot an animal that was raised on a farm. They simply don't get that big in the wild, 300lbs is an absolute monster for wild stock, and the vast majority of big pigs don't hit 250lbs.

Also, Pigs aren't walking from Texas to New England, some jackasses put them in the back of their pickups and drove them there. Because of this issue some states have banned hunting pigs - the idea being that if you remove hunting, people will no longer be incentivised to bring them in and release them.

A pig can put off 12+ young a year (two litters, with 6+ per litter), and those pigs can start making their own babies in a matter of months. Hunting can't keep up with that. The only real answer to a pig problem is a dedicated trapper who knows wtf hes doing...
 
I'll believe they can survive in North Western Ontario when a Saskwatch comes walking out of the bush with a hog under his arm and poses for a vid .
 
We have them on our land. They are very reclusive. I have shot a few. Butchered and ate 2 which were very good. They get hit by cars more often than being shot. They all derived from the failed farm diversification ideas of the 1980s and 90s which also included emus, ostriches, deer, elk etc.. Very difficult to fence in, escapes were inevitable unless farmer was very dilegent. The escapes became our new wild animals. I have never seen a "pigloo". The only time I see wild pigs are at my deer baits. I have many pictures. Unfortunately, shooting at them turns them completely nocturnal. I have only one daytime picture in the last two years.
 
Suther said:
A 600lb wild boar wasn't always wild. Anyone who claims they shot a 600lb boar either A) doesn't have a clue about how much their pig actually weighed, or B) shot an animal that was raised on a farm. They simply don't get that big in the wild, 300lbs is an absolute monster for wild stock, and the vast majority of big pigs don't hit 250lbs.

Also, Pigs aren't walking from Texas to New England, some jackasses put them in the back of their pickups and drove them there. Because of this issue some states have banned hunting pigs - the idea being that if you remove hunting, people will no longer be incentivised to bring them in and release them.

A pig can put off 12+ young a year (two litters, with 6+ per litter), and those pigs can start making their own babies in a matter of months. Hunting can't keep up with that. The only real answer to a pig problem is a dedicated trapper who knows wtf hes doing...
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We had the privilege once of chops off a domestic pig that managed to get to 500 lb. with his balls intact.. Coyote bait is a fair comment. :redface: Some big hogs shot in Texas if you search the net, but they are invariably feral domestic pigs or descendants. Pigs are adaptable, intelligent and have a high birth rate. The idea of not sport hunting them comes from the "experts", who claim that hunting disperses the sounder and makes the situation worse. They prefer to live trap and bag them all in one shot.

Grizz
 
The one I shot is sask last fall was big. Been around a few pigs in my life from 200 pound market hogs to 600 pound old breed boars. The one I shot was right in the middle so I called him a 400 pounder and no one that saw it called bs. In truth he was Probly 320-350. Almost certainly wild born.
 
I have hunted wild boar in Alberta in years past and the double smoked hams are some tasty.
 
there's been a sighting somewhere here in Essex county id both love and hate for it to be a problem I wouldn't treat them like deer though id give them the same treatment as yote's only good one is a dead one.
 
TrevorJ said:
Ever watch Quick #### McDick on youtube? He's down around Tuffnel, you occasionally see wild pigs running around in the background of this videos. Maybe not hard proof, but certainly evidence that they are around.
Check out the link that yomamma posted, it shows where people have seen them. Hunters get cagey about what wildlife they see, and especially where they saw it. They want that information for themselves.
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Youmamma established a thread for more popular wild game recipes. And she posted mine regarding BBQ marinaded wild boar ribs.
Unbeatable taste.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
We had the privilege once of chops off a domestic pig that managed to get to 500 lb. with his balls intact.. Coyote bait is a fair comment. :redface: Some big hogs shot in Texas if you search the net, but they are invariably feral domestic pigs or descendants. Pigs are adaptable, intelligent and have a high birth rate. The idea of not sport hunting them comes from the "experts", who claim that hunting disperses the sounder and makes the situation worse. They prefer to live trap and bag them all in one shot.

Grizz
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Sure lots of big pigs in Texas. Lots of people raising them in pens too. A perfect example is all those helicopter hunting outfits. They are all high fence operations, and you're shooting farm raised pigs and/or trapped wild pigs that were sold to the outfitter. You are doing absolutely nothing that helps with the hog problem, despite how they might advertise their service.

And you're entirely right. It's wildlife management professionals that are telling people that hunting is ineffective - and logically it makes sense. Usually you can shoot one or two pigs before the rest of them split, whereas trapping when done right can get you the entire group.

One episode of Meateater focuses on trapping hogs in Texas. The guy in that episode has trapped thousands of pigs, and he says a big one is 240lbs.
 
Suther said:
Sure lots of big pigs in Texas. Lots of people raising them in pens too. A perfect example is all those helicopter hunting outfits. They are all high fence operations, and you're shooting farm raised pigs and/or trapped wild pigs that were sold to the outfitter. You are doing absolutely nothing that helps with the hog problem, despite how they might advertise their service.

And you're entirely right. It's wildlife management professionals that are telling people that hunting is ineffective - and logically it makes sense. Usually you can shoot one or two pigs before the rest of them split, whereas trapping when done right can get you the entire group.

One episode of Meateater focuses on trapping hogs in Texas. The guy in that episode has trapped thousands of pigs, and he says a big one is 240lbs.
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indeed even in Burgundy the paradise for wild pig a 125 kgs was very rare, and the winter are milder than here.
 
Heli hog hunters don’t hunt fenced in hogs. There is a government program ( House Bill 716 ) for the farmers which allows heli hog operators to hunt on their land.
 
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