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They seem to be a problem everywhere. I read an article a few years ago about how they were tearing up people's yards in Honolulu. A bow hunter was making a living shooting them, bow and arrows being acceptable and guns not within city limits, as I recall the article.

They're an issue in Japan as well, where I saw a news report on them harassing commuters, one running out of an alley and bowling over a guy on the way to the train station.
 
A tough situation for property owners in residential areas. Obviously, hunting is not an option. Firearms would be dangerous. Archery or crossbows might be useful, but even that could be risky. Trapping requires specialized equipment and close monitoring, and poisons might easily affect more domestic pets than feral hogs. Tranquilizer darts might be worth considering, but that is not something readily available to private citizens, only licensed or authorized animal control authorities.
 
Tranquilizer darts sound like a great idea but having a fair amount of experience with the use of such things in reality are not a viable option for many reasons. Trapping is the best option but it has to be done right by people that know how to do it right or mostly what you do is educate the hogs and make the problem worse. Been there done that.
 
I read some years ago that in NJ communities being overrun by deer that contractors were hired to cull them. The method used was to somehow get a net on them and then use a captive bolt gun such as used in slaughterhouses.

Seems it would be hard to net pigs but if deer can be netted....
 
Last week at the deer lease I checked the game
log book.
Since 4-21-21 we have killed/trapped 71 hogs off
7 sections of land in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
Don't think we even made a dent.
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Rustyt1953 said:
From ODNR: "These nuisance animals may be legally harvested year-round by anyone with a valid Ohio hunting license or by landowners on their own property."
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Same here. SCDNR even tried generating more interest in harvesting by tagging ten of them and giving a prize to the hunter that bagged them.
 
bigwheelzip said:
Same here. SCDNR even tried generating more interest in harvesting by tagging ten of them and giving a prize to the hunter that bagged them.
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Now THAT would be a hoot!!
Our problem down here is that we have a large population of protected black bears. To the uninitiated from across a field they can easily be mistaken by a pig. Therefore if you shoot a pig with a tracking collar in it, it is safe to assume you are in deep dodo. Walk away quickly and do NOT breath a word about your misdeed to bubba at the corner stop and rob. Also do NOT take the tracking collar as a trophy.
I do not know what will tear up a cane field quicker bears or pigs, but the farmers down here hate both
 
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I was driving along TX-11 heading southwest towards Winnsboro TX from Sulphur Springs one morning when I came across the scene of a massacre.

My assumption is that one of the many milk tanker trucks that speed through the area early in the morning had hit a herd of pigs. What a mess. Body parts everywhere. I had to hit the first coin-operated car wash and wash the blood spray off the truck.

I notified the Sheriff's Office and a few hours later it was somewhat cleaned up but there sure were a lot of buzzards circling. Probably a few casualties that escaped and lived long enough get into the woods.
 
Friend from high school was Chief of Police for a exclusive mountain residential town. Deer got so bad the rich folks ok’ed him getting a suppressed 308 with night vision scope. He killed so many he spent almost all night shooting them. He had a deal with the local food bank and hunters, When the pickup was full they drove down the mountain where the hunters processed them.
 
I would say a "State of Emergency" exists and the No Discharge of Firearms in City Limit" need suspended until the problem is corrected!

Don't tell me it is too dangerous! Columbus Ohio Is at 187 homicides so far this year! The only bystanders killed were two young children sitting in the car with the gang victim.

Maybe we could take out some of the gang bangers on the same hunt.

Wild Pigs aren't a problem in central, but wild deer are and have been for almost 40 years. ODNR has not solved the problems, if anything they have made them worse (Open season on pigs is only a few years old, but ground hogs has been for several decades!) ODNR makes their living from these problems existing not by eliminating the problem! Possibly the solution is to get "The Professionals" out of the way! Other states may be different, but it does not sound that way. Look what they have done about Canada Geese on your lawn! A very limited season that accomplishes nothing! PIGS AND EXCESS DEER MUST BE DEALT WITH!

Ivan
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
I would say a "State of Emergency" exists and the No Discharge of Firearms in City Limit" need suspended until the problem is corrected!

Don't tell me it is too dangerous! Columbus Ohio Is at 187 homicides so far this year! The only bystanders killed were two young children sitting in the car with the gang victim.

Maybe we could take out some of the gang bangers on the same hunt.

Wild Pigs aren't a problem in central, but wild deer are and have been for almost 40 years. ODNR has not solved the problems, if anything they have made them worse (Open season on pigs is only a few years old, but ground hogs has been for several decades!) ODNR makes their living from these problems existing not by eliminating the problem! Possibly the solution is to get "The Professionals" out of the way! Other states may be different, but it does not sound that way. Look what they have done about Canada Geese on your lawn! A very limited season that accomplishes nothing! PIGS AND EXCESS DEER MUST BE DEALT WITH!

Ivan
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Ivan raises some very valid points worth considering. A problem is perceived, an emergency is declared, a new committee or state agency is created to deal with the problem, but elimination of the problem means that there is no further need for the commissioners, the committee members, or the experts being paid to advise.

Another example of Old Ray's Rule of Bureaucracy: The moment a bureaucracy is created, the purpose for which the bureaucracy was created becomes secondary to the perpetuation of the bureaucracy.

No need to worry, folks! We have the top people in the field evaluating these problems and working out a solution that will be best for the community, for the animals, for the environment, but most importantly good for the press conferences.
 
They aren't up to this part of NY yet, but I've heard stories to the east and south of us and seen roadkill about 40 miles south of here. Our gov, not the current nin-come-poop, but the handsy one who was run out of Albany a couple months back told us they can't be hunted. He mandated that they be trapped so that the breeding population can be removed. His understanding of hogs is on par with his knowledge of covid transmission amongst the elderly or his ability to read females staffers desire to be groped.
 
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No wild hogs around here yet. A guy was killed by a pack of feral dogs on the Cheyenne reservation down by my brothers place last week.

Our city council is doing a study to try to figure out how many deer live in town (lots) and decide what to do about them. Waste of time. If they killed them all, more would move right in. Hills all the way around town with a big creek that runs through it with 3 little ones that join it. Patches of cover all over.
 
About 12 miles from where I sit is a Metro Park that was overrun with deer. They would leave the park grounds and devastate the surrounding neighborhood's vegetation! The freeway system is on two sides and the other two were being devoured. Rather than do nothing because more deer could migrate in, it was decided to actually do something! Two bolt action 308's, two silencers, and two night scopes were purchased. Once the kill off started it went one for weeks, the daily limit was ONE DUMPTRUCK FULL!

There are now about 6 deer allowed to reside in the several hundred acre park. It is maintained the same way it got reduced, by controlled rifle fire!

The damage in steelslaver's town may not warrant such a response, but given time and no plan, IT WILL!

I'm in town now, but when I lived on the farm (only 5 miles away) the deer herd was overburdening the wood areas. In Ohio there is no minimum requirement on being a landowner killing deer. People who live in an 80-acre development that was my grandfather's farm 70 years ago took to shooting every deer they saw during season. That got about 15 deer that first season and the attitude of "Maintenance" has kept that heard in control for about 20 years now. (and several freezers full!) That first season, one housewife shot a nice young buck out her bathroom window! Part of him went in the freezer and a nice part of him adorns the living room wall!

Inside city limits we don't get to do our own Maintenance! And our governments are doing nothing!

Ivan
 
Fortunately, we don't have a problem here in Utah (knock on wood), but apparently some have been located in northern Arizona, so it's probably only a matter of time before they infest our state.

They're nothing to sneeze at because a female can start having babies at six months old, and can have several litters a year. As a result, it's almost impossible to get on top of the problem.

Now you folks from Texas, correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I've heard that in Texas you can shoot them, leave 'em lay, and the coyotes will clean them up by morning. True?

Anyway, bottom line, they're a big problem wherever they are.
 
My buddies in and around JAX have a hunt club N.W. they lease, over run with wild pigs. They have been after me for years and years to come out and shoot some. Some issue always comes up , health, other serious matters, extended family, on and on. May just say ,heck with the other things and go out. Can use any weapon, class 3 but not sure about D.D.’s, LOL. Have had some delicious pork from their shoots, usually kill 8-10 a week end.
 
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Missouri conservation department has a no kill policy on land they own, manage or lease. And they discourage hunting them at all. They want you to call a trapper.
Their reasoning is shooting one or two does not reduce the heard and just scatters the remainders to form multiple herds.

Some of you may remember that my getaway spot is the Mingo swamp in SE mo. Run by the fws.
They trap then shot the captives. Drag them out to high ground to let them return to the earth.
I’ve seen them and there’s plenty of them.
 
I live in the country. Several years ago they started coming in my yard at night and rooting it up. We got sleeping with the bedroom windows open cuz my wife hears everything. I would ease out and kill one with my rifle and drag it off next morning with my 4 wheeler. That didn't stop "em". I put the extension on my Browning A5 and filled it with buckshot. One night I eased out and hosed down a herd of about a dozen. You could hear hogs squeeling for 200 yards. That didn't stop "em" I finally put a 2 wire electric fence around the wooded sides of my yard. They tangled in it twice but never came back into the yard. While doing this I had a trap setup farther in the woods from my house. Overall I caught 27 and killed them all. When you shoot one in a trap you have to move the trap as they will not go in it if they smell hog blood. We finally got rid of them. I hate them worse than rats.
 
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Hogs aren't hard to trap - not like the article claims. You need a high quality trap, and some adjustment time to start the fun. Mine are portable 4x4x8 and super heavy. I've been trapping them for nearly 20 years, and it's the only way to drop their numbers. Hunting will take out a few, but that won't drop the population at all. I have one trap, a corral trap, that is 65 feet long and 36 feet wide that regularly traps entire sounders in one setting. Not just a few, more like 15 - 20 of all sizes. That's when you see the numbers drop. Two ranchers in our area don't have any hogs to speak of because they use methods that are either possibly illegal, or inhumane. Either way, they have solved the problem. Also, the rule of thumb is shoot every one, gut shots if you don't feel like dragging off the carcass, but everything gets shot - and never turning loose a trapped hog. The traps you see at stores like Tractor Supply were not designed by anyone that has been around hogs - they're one use at best traps, then scrap.
 
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Mule Packer said:
Fortunately, we don't have a problem here in Utah (knock on wood), but apparently some have been located in northern Arizona, so it's probably only a matter of time before they infest our state.

They're nothing to sneeze at because a female can start having babies at six months old, and can have several litters a year. As a result, it's almost impossible to get on top of the problem.

Now you folks from Texas, correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I've heard that in Texas you can shoot them, leave 'em lay, and the coyotes will clean them up by morning. True?

Anyway, bottom line, they're a big problem wherever they are.
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Most part true....
Boars...that are shot. Backstrap out...trapped boars to the bone yard.
They get hyped up and musky (rank)
Sow's.....pan sausage.

Boneyard makes this dude happy......
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From XFuzz:
Last week at the deer lease I checked the game
log book.
Since 4-21-21 we have killed/trapped 71 hogs off
7 sections of land in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
Don't think we even made a dent.



Maybe if you didn't give them free food there might not be quite so many of them!
 
Most of the land in Texas is in private hands, so the landowner has the final say about carcass disposal. Our ranch owner wants them dragged to his bone yard, a place we call "porkchop hill", but sometimes it's not possible. The Buzzards will have them clean in a couple of days.
 
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