Michigan Pig Hunting

[Jake Turner]

Has anyone else had any luck finding pigs in Michigan? I killed two a couple years ago with a shotgun but would love to put one down with a selfbow. I have been out at least 4 days a week and find a few tracks but no pigs. I know they are in the area but cant locate them. Mabey some of you guys down south could give me some advice, pigs are a pretty new problem in michigan so there arent alot of people here with any experience. We cant bait so its either sit and wait or spot and stalk.

[2treks]

Ok Jake lets see if we can find em. After you called last week I thought I would ask some of the pros on trad gang to see how WE should go about being the first REAL bowhunters in Michigan to Kill a WILD hog.
So, My thoughts are to locate a food source and set up on it at dawn and dusk. and when the pigs come in... shoot em full of arrows. Do you all think that will work? I am open to all suggestions(please help us, we don't know how to hunt pigs)
Thanks
Chuck

[jacobsladder]

What part of the state are you finding them in..private or public ground?

[kenn1320]

Leave em alone, till we have a good huntable population. I know there are those who dont want that. The deer hunting sucks, so might as well have good pig hunting.

[Chester Thompson]

Not a good idea to leave them alone, they will do a good enough job of establishing a population, so kill all that you see.

[Tim Fishell]

Originally posted by Chester Thompson:
Not a good idea to leave them alone, they will do a good enough job of establishing a population, so kill all that you see.

Amen to that.  Shoot all you see!! Let me know if you need help.

[Ragnarok Forge]

Sounds to me like you are already on the right track.  Just like whitetails.  Find the food, find their trails, set up an ambush.  Hammer the porkers and have a barbeque.

[Rick Butler]

A number of Hogs have been killed in the Gratiot-Saginaw SGA.  We've done some scouting in the area & found some tracks along drainage ditches. No sightings of hogs or rooted up areas though, but still a good excuse to wander the woods and fields with a bow!

[ChuckC]

Are there any sightings (oh... of the hog kind)up in the U.P. lately ?
ChuckC

[Uncle Buck]

here is a link to a DNR report that lists hogs sighted and hogs taken by county:
 http://www.michigan.gov/documents/emergingdiseases/Feralswineupdate101608_256162_7.pdf.

[Jake Turner]

I figured you would jump in there Chuck. Your just waiting for me to do all the leg work and find yhem for you. After the bow explosion the other day I got a little gun shy, I have been carrying my 64 inch osage bow with the 48 inch sinew backed osage in my quiver for a spare. Hate to have a blowup miles from home. A guy killed one here with a bow. But I want to be the first with a real bow. Im hunting the gratiot saginaw area. The two I got so far were on private land near ovid