Just curious if anyone here has used either Wild Boar Adventures or DR Outfitters for a wild boar hunt? Wild Boar Adventures is featured on many hunting shows and gets good reviews but a longer drive from Manitoba. DR Outfitters is much closer, just across the Manitoba border but the few reviews I’ve seen sound like they are kind of sketchy. Basically you are just buying a pig from a farmer for $5 a pound and shooting it yourself. My neighbour used to do the wild boar hunts in Manitoba until the Manitoba government put the ban on “penned hunting”.
Saskatchewan wild boar hunts
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My wife got me a "hunt" with Wild Boar Adventures as a gift about 7 years ago. It was alright, the best part of the package was the cabins and having essentially 2-3 nights for the cost of the $100 deposit, if you didn't shoot anything, you had a cheap vacation for the price of the deposit.
The "hunt" itself was very canned and not really a hunt. Kind of like looking for cattle on a wooded quarter section by yourself. I still had fun but wouldn't pay to do it myself.
The "hunt" itself was very canned and not really a hunt. Kind of like looking for cattle on a wooded quarter section by yourself. I still had fun but wouldn't pay to do it myself.
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- Saskatoon Saskatchewan
I went to wild boar adventures a couple years ago. It was fun. Shot a 90lb boar which i was ok paying with. I was using archery and found it to be quite a challenge. I could have sat in one of the many stands or blinds over bait but chose to hunt on the ground doing spot and stalk. Finding them isn't difficult but getting one to present a good shot in archery range was a challenge. Took almost 2 full days of solid hunting. Kelly runs a good operation and won't double book so you get the place to yourselves which is great. I liked the primitive cabins. Really feels like you're in the bush.
- Location
- Saskatoon Saskatchewan
Ya thats basically it. It's a quarter section with lots of different types of habitat, some agriculture, thick bluffs and slough areas. Lots of willow as well. He doesn't have too many pigs in there at a time so it's not exactly shooting fish in a barrel but you will see some. He also has exotic sheep in there as well. It's well managed.
20-30 years ago wild boar farms we’re quite common and if you wanted wild boar meat if only to just buy it was not hard to find. I’ve searched online and I can’t even find wild boar meat for sale. Now about the only way is to go to someone’s farm and buy and shoot one but nobody even keeps them anymore other than these places.
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I live a few miles away from Wild boar adventures and while I’ve never gone myself, I have a friend that has a have heard good things about it. Apparently wild boars are everywhere around here but in all the millions of miles I’ve hiked and roads I’ve cruised getting to hunting spots I’ve never seen one. Shooting one on the farm seems like a good idea to get one if you want to try the meat and have a little fun.
I went to a place in Mayerthorpe and did a quarter section pig hunt. Very different from the deer and moose hunting I was accustomed to. They are kind of wild, but really there was 3 and I put 2 down before the third decided to get outta there. The meat was good. I’d say go once and enjoy yourself. It would be good for introducing a kid to hunting…. It’s not a great challenge but you can make the best of it. The one boar we got had a cool skull with big tusks and made a neat trophy.
I've hunted boar a few times, in Los Estados Unidos, and it's just that...shooting pigs on some guys farm. They were big, stinky and nasty (and an unwanted nuisance) but at the end of the day, if the thought of shooting pigs on a farmers land "cheapens the experience" for you, then boar hunting isn't for you cuz I'm sure that 99% of them are taken on a farmers land.
Anyone know the people who own DR Outfitters, they are a lot closer to me than the other place at North Battleford Sask. Read a few reviews about them but not too positive. I also hear the bigger male boars are stinky with strong meat, good if you want large tusks or a head mount but not good eating.
