You always hear of someone seeing them around, but I personally never have. Has anyone in Sask gone after them specifically? Where are they? How big do they get up here? More importantly does anyone have any pics. You'd think with all the people driving fields / bush pushing this time of year that guys would be killing them left and right, but you don't hear of that happening either. Where are these critters?
Hunting Wild Boar In Sask.
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I heard that they were supposedly stock for a failed game farm venture in the Leader area that "got" out, had have become a feral pest. I haven't heard much about them this year. I work up that way with lots of Leader people, and have been meaning to get out there for some time, but haven't yet. I hear they're now enough of a problem they have a year round open season in Alberta too.
Yoteboy,
I saw one last year just north of Outlook. Because of that I did some checking with SERM on the legallity of shooting them, and this is what I came up with.
If the RM specifically declares them a problem animal then they are shoot on sight. If they haven't, then they are regulated by agriculture rules which considers them escaped farm animals. It's like if cow gets out of a pasture you can't just shoot it. In my opinion the two situations are completely different, but that is the state of the law at this point. SSS works.
You could talk to Darcy Boyer, due to his ADC work he knows about as much about the situation as anyone.
I saw one last year just north of Outlook. Because of that I did some checking with SERM on the legallity of shooting them, and this is what I came up with.
If the RM specifically declares them a problem animal then they are shoot on sight. If they haven't, then they are regulated by agriculture rules which considers them escaped farm animals. It's like if cow gets out of a pasture you can't just shoot it. In my opinion the two situations are completely different, but that is the state of the law at this point. SSS works.
You could talk to Darcy Boyer, due to his ADC work he knows about as much about the situation as anyone.
Not sure if this is true or not but a hunter I was speaking with said if you see any feral critters out side of pens with tags in ears they are fair game. This was supposedly an issue when the big "elk" craze was on and the market bottomed out, many farmers just opened the gate vs seeing their elk starve and let them run loose. Same thing happened with wild boar in Alta, Sask, Man.
Like I said " this is just hear say" and would be very interesting to get some solid info on this.
Cheers!!
Each RM can make its own rules/bylaw. If they don't, then provincial law applies by default. Personally I'd like to see all the domestic elk on both sides of the fence shot, and the elk farmers charged with eco-terrorism for the CWD fiasco.
Y'know, scott_r,
They don't actually mean the same thing, farming elk, and offering canned hunts.
Canned hunts are a whole different can o worms.
I met a couple guys in the Elk biz, and they got done up the hoop by a pile of regulations that were landed on them, both due to the CWD issue, and the TB.
Of course, the regulations were all put in place like the rest of them, too little, too late, and without any real chance of accomplishing anything useful.
Since then, a lot of folks that should not have been in the elk business anyway, have got out of it. Most of the horror stories that I ever heard were folk that thought they were gonna get rich quick and it wouldn't cost them anything to keep them, "because they can graze off the bush". Idiots. A lot of the same people that shouldn't have livestock or pets, breed their own offspring, and we can't stop that.
http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.overview
http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/cwd.htm
And this one, as a contrast to the scaremongering that goes on about the amount of CWD that is out there in the Elk herds...
http://www.oeba.ca/pages/library/cwd_faq.htm
As to "canned" pig hunts, the guys I know that tried then had low success rates. The pigs know the ground, and the hunters had to learn it. It sure was not a "tiger in a cage" hunt, as implied by the phrase.
There used to be a population of pigs in the Quappelle valley, north of Regina. Dunno if there are any left. The SERM guys would be a really good bunch to phone, and may be able to put you onto RM's that have a problem, and the RM's may be able to get you on to a landowner that isn't a money grubbing POS, like the ones northeast of Edmonton turned out to be after they lobbied so hard to get the County to pay for a bounty on the pigs. Those lot then insisted that the guys that shot the pigs on their property should pay the landowner for the right to solve the landowners problem.
Most of the guys I met, decided they could keep their pigs.
Cheers
Trev
They don't actually mean the same thing, farming elk, and offering canned hunts.
Canned hunts are a whole different can o worms.
I met a couple guys in the Elk biz, and they got done up the hoop by a pile of regulations that were landed on them, both due to the CWD issue, and the TB.
Of course, the regulations were all put in place like the rest of them, too little, too late, and without any real chance of accomplishing anything useful.
Since then, a lot of folks that should not have been in the elk business anyway, have got out of it. Most of the horror stories that I ever heard were folk that thought they were gonna get rich quick and it wouldn't cost them anything to keep them, "because they can graze off the bush". Idiots. A lot of the same people that shouldn't have livestock or pets, breed their own offspring, and we can't stop that.
http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.overview
http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/cwd.htm
And this one, as a contrast to the scaremongering that goes on about the amount of CWD that is out there in the Elk herds...
http://www.oeba.ca/pages/library/cwd_faq.htm
As to "canned" pig hunts, the guys I know that tried then had low success rates. The pigs know the ground, and the hunters had to learn it. It sure was not a "tiger in a cage" hunt, as implied by the phrase.
There used to be a population of pigs in the Quappelle valley, north of Regina. Dunno if there are any left. The SERM guys would be a really good bunch to phone, and may be able to put you onto RM's that have a problem, and the RM's may be able to get you on to a landowner that isn't a money grubbing POS, like the ones northeast of Edmonton turned out to be after they lobbied so hard to get the County to pay for a bounty on the pigs. Those lot then insisted that the guys that shot the pigs on their property should pay the landowner for the right to solve the landowners problem.
Most of the guys I met, decided they could keep their pigs.
Cheers
Trev
I shot 9 of them two weeks ago. Last year at about the same time we got six in one day. They are tasty critters and even better because they are free. Many around the Kamsack, Moose Mountain areas and a few in isolated areas throughout the province. The majority of them are escapees from local wild boar farms and the provincial municipalities have declared them nuisance animals. They do seem to be quite tough to put down and I have shot them with everything from SSG and slugs to .30 cal.
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Alberta has declared war on them, can be shot on sight.
I just got an email from a friend there was a large wild boar shot near Outlook a short time ago it was tearing up the golf course.
