Wild boar in Ontario

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Good day.

The other day I saw a post of a boar in the Hamilton area. I'm not 100% certain it was real, there is a lot of fake stuff on social media.

I'm just curious if hunters are potentially getting excited to have another potential game they could hunt?

How long will our government take to create a hunting season for boar? Will we have to purchase tags, or will boar be considered varmint, like coyote?

Last question is, what type of rifle is recommended for boar hunting?

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you and have a great day.
 
Thank you for your response.

Yes Ontario has certain regions that do not allow the use of rifles over .300, only northern ontario essentially allows it.

I grew up in Europe and I've seen boar that are quite big, thats why I'm wondering what caliber will be allowed in Southern Ontario.
 
HuntingChef said:
Good day.

The other day I saw a post of a boar in the Hamilton area. I'm not 100% certain it was real, there is a lot of fake stuff on social media.

I'm just curious if hunters are potentially getting excited to have another potential game they could hunt?

How long will our government take to create a hunting season for boar? Will we have to purchase tags, or will boar be considered varmint, like coyote?

Last question is, what type of rifle is recommended for boar hunting?

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you and have a great day.
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There's already been a ton of feedback and positioning going on with the OMNRF regarding wild boars. The general consensus with the government is that there shall not be hunted.....period,citing dubious scientific theories from other jurisdictions that hunting only serves to accelerate breeding cycles and further widen sounder dispersal areas due to educating hogs,that due to their intelligence,have survival abilities beyond those of conventional mammals thereby increasing populations exponentially.
 
Trimmer 905 said:
There's already been a ton of feedback and positioning going on with the OMNRF regarding wild boars. The general consensus with the government is that there shall not be hunted.....period,citing dubious scientific theories from other jurisdictions that hunting only serves to accelerate breeding cycles and further widen sounder dispersal areas due to educating hogs,that due to their intelligence,have survival abilities beyond those of conventional mammals thereby increasing populations exponentially.
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Hunting does multiple things. Dispersion is a major one, you simply cannot reliably kill them all via hunting, if you could they wouldn't be considered such a major problem. Educating them to fear humans is another, pigs have little issue going nocturnal to avoid us. The science on this is not at all dubious. If you want hogs gone, you need to trap them. Entire sounders, in one go. It is NOT easy work, and the people with the skills to actually do the job successfully is a very small number.

Another major problem is people LIKE TO HUNT HOGS. That means people do #### that they shouldn't (from an ecology standpoint at minimum, usually from a legal standpoint too) so they have huntable populations. Things like feeding them and transporting them to new areas. Hogs didn't walk from Texas to Pennsylvania, someone gave 'em a ride in the back of their truck...
 
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Yes, no hunting boar or feral pigs in Ont. Was allowed under small game 4 or 5 years ago, but no more. Southern Ontario allows nothing larger than .270 except Essex Co. I think which is .243 which would be OK for boar.
 
Although,hunting of feral hogs is illegal in Ontario,it's NOT illegal for landowners to protect their property from the damage they cause. The only stipulation is that landowners must report them to OMNRF. Traps are then set by staffers usually with great success. Thankfully,there's very few sightings or active sounders in the province.
 
HuntingChef said:
Good day.

The other day I saw a post of a boar in the Hamilton area. I'm not 100% certain it was real, there is a lot of fake stuff on social media.

I'm just curious if hunters are potentially getting excited to have another potential game they could hunt?

How long will our government take to create a hunting season for boar? Will we have to purchase tags, or will boar be considered varmint, like coyote?

Last question is, what type of rifle is recommended for boar hunting?

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you and have a great day.
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Wild boar are not indigenous. They are invasive species and vermin and will not be controlled under the hunting regs.

Considering the number of wild board killed from helicopters with AR15's, I'd doubt it matters.



handofzeus said:
Illegal to hunt wild pigs in Ontario.....period.
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Thats stupid.
 
Suther is right. The feral hogs plaguing the U.S., and now parts of Canada are very intelligent and quickly adapt to human pressure. Especially hunting. Trapping them being the most effective way so far....to at least try to reduce their numbers. Though not entirely successful.
As far as killing power required? If feral hogs were legal to hunt in Southern Ontario, .a 270 would be more than adequate to quickly dispatch one. Paying attention to bullet placement.
 
Trimmer 905 said:
There's already been a ton of feedback and positioning going on with the OMNRF regarding wild boars. The general consensus with the government is that there shall not be hunted.....period,citing dubious scientific theories from other jurisdictions that hunting only serves to accelerate breeding cycles and further widen sounder dispersal areas due to educating hogs,that due to their intelligence,have survival abilities beyond those of conventional mammals thereby increasing populations exponentially.
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Yep, start hunting hogs and before you know it it’ll be ‘Pigs In Space’.
Too bad, hog hunting would be fun, and who doesn’t like bacon anyways?
 
If Trudeau offered a decent Tax Credit for each wild boar/coyote bountied, we could have the problem licked by the end of his 5th term.

If there's one thing humans excel at, it's extincting wild animals.

Maybe the U.S. has some surplus 'choppers like the ones used in that Mel Gibson movie, over in 'Nam.

That would do the trick for sure!
 
I can't say what feral hog tastes like but... genuine European('Russian') wild boar are excellent eating. The meat is not "pork". It is darker...with a unique taste of its own. It seems many of the feral hogs roaming the US(and Canada), are actually a cross between wild boar and domesticated animals. So, I suspect the meat might be somewhere in between.
In any case, it might not be such a bad thing to allow hunting the animals. Farmers will be happier. Plus, we get to fill our freezers. The only downside of hunting wild boar is that once hunted, they become extremely wary and adept at avoiding humans. The average white tailed deer, by comparison, is dumber than dirt. So, if the feral hogs are anything like their wild counterparts...good stalking skills and a lot of patience(if hunting from a stand, as in Europe) are definitely a requisite.
 
Would be good if the laws were changed to allow hog hunting 24/7....and we get to use all those fancy night/thermal imaging toys that are useless to us now.
 
I agree. Night hunting would be one viable option. In some parts of the US, night hunting for hogs is the only game in town. Unfortunately, if brought to Canada, I doubt it would take long before some boneheaded 'road warriors' started shooting up the rural pets and livestock... because they were 'bored' at not seeing and shooting hogs right away. Yes...Some mothers do have them.
Years ago, spotlighting raccoons ( tracked and treed with dogs) was a common way of hunting them at night. Not sure whether that is still practiced. Have seen no recent evidence of it on the farms around here.
I certainly have no objection to night hunting...and there are good thermal optics available for the sport. But.....not optimistic at how it would be received. Especially in heavily-populated and urbanized southern Ontario.
 
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Alex McKr said:
I can't say what feral hog tastes like but... genuine European('Russian') wild boar are excellent eating. The meat is not "pork". It is darker...with a unique taste of its own. It seems many of the feral hogs roaming the US(and Canada), are actually a cross between wild boar and domesticated animals. So, I suspect the meat might be somewhere in between.
In any case, it might not be such a bad thing to allow hunting the animals. Farmers will be happier. Plus, we get to fill our freezers. The only downside of hunting wild boar is that once hunted, they become extremely wary and adept at avoiding humans. The average white tailed deer, by comparison, is dumber than dirt. So, if the feral hogs are anything like their wild counterparts...good stalking skills and a lot of patience(if hunting from a stand, as in Europe) are definitely a requisite.
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They're all the same species, just domesticated vs wild.

Ed Smurf said:
Would be good if the laws were changed to allow hog hunting 24/7....and we get to use all those fancy night/thermal imaging toys that are useless to us now.
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Depends. Do you want more hunting opportunity? Then yes. Do you want them kept off the landscape and avoid all the problems they're causing in the US? Then no.

Look at Georgia. No bag limit, night hunting with suppressors, spotlights, and NV, and baiting is allowed. They've still got 200k+ and they cost $150M+ in just crop damage yearly, plus they're disease vectors, and do untold damage to natural habitats.

Hog numbers in the USA are estimated to have tripled between the 80s and mid 2010s. It's NOT a problem we want here.
 
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