Wild boar pose serious risk, warns Sask. researcher

Chuckbuster said:
^Is it just that they are tough and stringy past the weight figure you cite?
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yep the older ones are really tough and take a few weeks to hang.
also i have noticed some i have eaten have been 'gamey' and others been 'porky'

best one i did eat was one of the little baby ones.they are about 20lb or less in weight.
like this one

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WORD OF WARNING
if you are in the bush/bushline and one that size comes running out.
get the f00k from there as there is a large sow very close by and she wont even think twice
about nailing you.

if you do get a sow and babies on your cam and you manage to shoot her without seeing any
of the babies.dont move from your hunting spot.wait...........10 mins the little ones will be come
looking for her and then you will nail them.

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those thinking of baiting them,check the hunting regs because the CO's wont be none to pleased
about baiting out of season.it is an offence.
pigs do like to nest in bales too during the colder months.

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antiqueguy said:
shooting it once in the chest is good enough to move on to the next one with buckshot id aim for chest/neck. the idea is to kill as many as possible id worry about following up after you have put at least one round in as many as possible I follow this practice with every pest animal I hunt
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Buckshot huh??

It's not quite so great unless you are at bad breath range and you pay extra for the buffered copper plated magnum loads.
You should also realign your bullet placement choice into the vitals.
They also will not stand around like cardboard targets after the first shot as you suggest! lol
 
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I have seen one to date up around Hillmond. Was the same colour as the little guy in that pic and maybe twice that size. I figure he was an escapee from a farm about 1.5 miles away on the same road. I drove by the place last day off and there wasn't one in the field to be seen? I think the farmer may have gotten rid of them? I hope he didn't set them loose? There had to be 100 or so of them
 
Remyltyr, cool pics! A few questions if you don't mind... What were the conditions under which you obtained the little package of bacon? Also, did you have to deal with an angry old sow? And, I like the rig you have there; clean and all business. What is it and is it pig specific? Man...I would love to be able to go out and get a couple of these (smaller) guys over the course of the year. Fresh bacon and pork chops...and ham for my homemade pea soup.
 
Chuckbuster said:
Except we are not talking cockroaches, spiny waterfleas or zebra mussels. We are talking about a mammalian vertebrate. And, like it or not, any activity involving firearms is watched very carefully. If the eradication methods are deemed inhumane by the public at large, there will be a large chorus of complaint, and, the squeaky wheel gets greased. That alone should be enough to make those wanting the opportunity to hunt wild boar to do so ethically. As for me, I would hunt them if given a chance. However, I would choose to do so ethically, not because of what other people may think, but because my own standards prevent me from inflicting indiscriminate wounds, pain and suffering, knowing full well that many so wounded will escape to die an excruciating and lingering death.
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I'm with you on that!
 
bearkilr said:
I'm aware of that, but many places use bait, since most European countries can't use artificial light so they hunt them using the moon and the optics you mention at pretty close range. They're actually not nocturnal by nature, they only become that way through hunting pressure.
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i ve hunted them in Poland , France, Germany and Slovenija (it was part of Ex Yugoslavia at that time) and no baits where use. i know in other countries baits can work but only in winter as if other seasons there is food in the field they will be there. never heard too about artificial lights. the other way to hunt them and that is working great is by driven with dogs and beaters-pushers a lot of adrenaline on both side. by nature certainly not but as you said they became nocturnal but in your places where the yre not much hunted they already are so ...
 
corwin-arms said:
For bait brake few apples, works like magic. For best meat try to get the smaller boar. Big male boar meat does not taste good. Use decent caliber to shoot them, 12g a slug or buck shoot works well, for rifle anything bigger then 270 win. Best result with 30 cal or bigger
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the taste is the way to prepare them too ... and i won t try that much between december and January during the rut period if they have the same as in Europe ...

let them sink all night in red wine carrots and onions remove the meat from that and cook it like bear meat and you ll love it.
 
lalunette said:
These are starting to become a problem in Manitoba as well.

Looking forward to eating wild boar, just like my French ancestors did !!
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Where are you hearing that they are in MB. I would sure like to bag afew. especially with the antler only tags this year.
 
burnt_servo said:
also there is the thing about knowing your target , and knowing what is behind your target , so as to not injury others and damage property . how do you do this in the middle of the night ?
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night vision.

You need dogs to hunt hogs during the day just like cats and other animals that you hardly see during the day.
 
Brian46 said:
night vision.

You need dogs to hunt hogs during the day just like cats and other animals that you hardly see during the day.
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there is not need for night vision ... high quality riflescope is working great under the moon even not a full one ... it has benn done that for a long time in old europe

but we are talking about 7 or 8x 50 or 56 like zeiss, SB Kahles meopta etc. nothing that you certainly use before ...
 
Brutus said:
Buckshot huh??

It's not quite so great unless you are at bad breath range and you pay extra for the buffered copper plated magnum loads.
You should also realign your bullet placement choice into the vitals.
They also will not stand around like cardboard targets after the first shot as you suggest! lol
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i use buck on deer i pattern my loads to my gun(i can also play with my loads) and i get results these are plain old lead alloy pellets i cast myself. and of course they are going to be running on the first shot but if you are out there to shoot them you should know how to make a shot on a running target. in the end of the day a dead pig is a dead pig
 
medvedqc said:
there is not need for night vision ... high quality riflescope is working great under the moon even not a full one ... it has benn done that for a long time in old europe

but we are talking about 7 or 8x 50 or 56 like zeiss, SB Kahles meopta etc. nothing that you certainly use before ...
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there are evenings and areas so dark that even those will not work, but if you owned them you would not have posted that. Also navigating the brush is made much easier along with the initial question which was making sure of your target and backdrop that I was answering.
 
Brian46 said:
there are evenings and areas so dark that even those will not work, but if you owned them you would not have posted that. Also navigating the brush is made much easier along with the initial question which was making sure of your target and backdrop that I was answering.
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it worked for me for years before even night vision was available for civilian. when i was in the army we had them but they were illegal for civilian to ownn them. i guarantee you that if you have the moon not a full one you can use them.

target and hunting dont belong together in my words but that is just me.

the way i hunted them was on high seat the shot cant be straight and you need to know the trajectory and identification before shooting and btw if it is too dark you dont hunt and that is very simple ...
 
90% of my hunting back in the UK was of a night with a lamp and the 223.
and yes its all about quarry indentification,backstops and wind direction.

i went out once with a night vision scope and didnt like it.
but its what you get use to i suppose
 
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