Ferral Hogs

That ones Russian.Here is some pics of some we have gotten.We just stalk them.





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Run a few of them across to my side of the river!!
I've never seen any sign of them over here, but shooting free ones would be a lot more fun than raising tame ones
Maybe they are afraid of all the bears over here?

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Theres some on both sides of the river from Maple Cypress back toward New Bern. I know a guy that caught a sow and pigs last winter with a box trap, close to pitch kettle. The place where I said was so many is in the big woods between Ft. Barnwell, Dover and Cove City. Lot of mountain folks bear hunt in there and probably accidently turned loose some hogs. Eddie

there have been wild hogs in the Mark Twain National Forest for years they have escaped from farmers and went roage I killed 3 in the 70's and 80's there south of ava but we use to keep them hunted down pretty good in our area it is just that this generation is a lot more scared of the conservation people that our elders were then and you from there know what I mean hehehe

Surprisingly, we don't have them in eastern Oregon County, Missouri. They've all been killed off.

We do have them in my area of Texas, however. Do NOT hit one with your vehicle. The effect is much like hitting a low brick wall. We were lucky that we hit it right on the front license plate or we would have flipped. $3000 worth of damage to my van.

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They have the Russian hogs wild around Nevada, MO.

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WIHH, Could you elaborate on the traps for the wild hogs? Would you happen to have any pictures of the traps? Were they homemade or bought. How large and what did you use for bait? Do you have plans for the traps? We have a feral hog problem and never see them to be able to shoot them. Thanks

As TedH mentioned above, they are an issue in Kansas also. The Dept. of Wildlife & Parks did try an interesting method of control. They paid a some pro's with helicopters and automatic weapons to fly over some previously baited areas and open up on them. Claimed they killed 200 some odd hogs in a day. Left them laying too.

I know awhile back, in the Smokies, the authorities used to pay per head to hunters that killed them. They were tearing up the forest something fierce.
I watched an interesting program on swine intelligence a few weeks ago..it said the pigs were the only animals with the ability to reconstruct their skull and brains to adjust to either captivity or ferral living. If you take a domestic pig and allow it to go ferral it's jaw will elongate and tusks will grow, The brain pan changes shape as well to accomodate different intelligence needs. Reverse is true if you take ferral and cage it.. Jaw will shorten etc.. fascinating. Had some good parts about what it takes to make a Hogzilla and some great examples of them.

We aren't supposed to have them here yet but the DNR says to kill on sight if you see one.

I'm not sure but I may have spotted one coming out of my timber and into a neighbors field this fall. It was right at dark and he was pretty far away and I couldn't make out what it was exactly. The size wasn't right for the regular creatures and only after thinking about it for a while did the thought of a wild hog enter my mind. The size, color and shape seemed right as did its behavior. I'm going to keep a close watch on tracks in the snow this winter and see if I can find any evidence of them. I sure don't want them in my timber or fields tearing stuff up. They're terribly destructive.

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