1.5 billion $ pig problem

[Terry Green]

Originally posted by gringol:
  400# pig ain't a wild pig.  Probably raised in a pen and released.  

Gringol....I have seen plenty of wild pigs that were 300# plus...not just in south GA but in the mountians of N GA in the Cohutta Wilderness.

I also killed one that was 300# plus in SC at what is now called Wild Things...at the time it was Ray's Hog Heaven.

A shielded sow....

     

That sow was named 'The Bride of Horse Tail' by Ray as he had seen her many times...'Horse Tail' was bigger.

A 400# will pig is very possible.

I saw one once at The Paradise hunting camp I called 'Stretch Red' it was so long it looked like it needed legs in the middle.  I only saw it once and didn't get a pic of it.  I was spell bound by it let me tell ya.

I wanted to put a stalk on it so bad, but there were too many hogs in between me and HER, plus there was a matriarch doe in between us as well looking me over real hard.  All I could do was watch her graze in awe.

I also remember RC talking about one he saw that was pushing 400 and I believe it was on a management area in south GA.  That management area is just across the river and east of The Paradise.

And Joe Buck killed one at The Paradise that was a Spanish hog that weighed 387 I believe.

[ozy clint]

[widow sax]

Ya everyone wants them dead but you cant kill them unless you pay them to do it! If you want them dead just let hunters hunt your land and shoot them without charging anything for them to do it. Also you should not need a lic to do so.    Widow

[T Sunstone]

Originally posted by Bowwild:
Pigs should be open season, year round with no license fee. Yep, I know a few poacher-types will use such open regs as cover to be going after game species.

Anyone caught moving live pigs should be prosecuted.

The only way to get rid of these animals would be to allow market hunting of them -- kill all you want and sell them for food.  If there was a financial incentive to go after them, pigs would go the way several game animals almost did more than a 100 years ago.

In Texas they can trap and sell them.  They want them alive and believe it or not we export them to Mexico.  The ranch I hunt on was almost void of hogs a few years ago.  Come to find out the ranch manager and 2 nephews trapped almost 350 in the prior 2 months before we arrived.  Three of us never saw a hog.  The 350 was just from the first of the year and that wasn't counting the fall.  Found this out the next year.  They were getting 35 cents a pound live weight.  If there is enough money to be made they will get them all.

[gringol]

I'll take your word for it Terry, but I've never seen one much over 250# down here in FL.

[Eric Krewson]

Same here in Bama on Mgt areas, 22s, #4 shot or smaller or arrows with field points during small game season, no hog hunting during the off season.

Being pretty close to several of the wildlife biologists I asked "why not broadheads". The answer; because people might be tempted shoot a deer out of season of they were carrying broadheads.

My thinking is anyone who will poach a deer will attempt it with a 22, bird shot or any thing else they are carrying.

[SteveB]

What most are missing is that hunting alone will seldom or ever control the population. Especially bowhunting. Landowners for the most part are not ignoring a viable control solution by not allowing open bowhunting for hogs.

[Wudstix]

Bottom line make it easier to hunt them where they are, in city limits as well.  If you are charging me to help you with your pig problem it is not that big a problem, yet!!!!  Feed the hungry and your self.

[ozy clint]

Originally posted by T Sunstone:


 

They were getting 35 cents a pound live weight.  If there is enough money to be made they will get them all. [/QB][/QUOTE]
Farmers will hardly go forth and eradicate a source of income. Why would anyone eradicate a source of income that is self renewing and requires no cost of production other than harvest and transport? The only other cost would be loss of production of the mainstream business due to pig damage. The farmer will soon find the most profitable balance for himself.

[SAM E. STEPHENS]

I do my part to thin the heard when I'm out and about , one of my favorite animals to chase with my bow...

,,,,Sam,,,,

[Terry Green]

Gringol....here's a FL pig....

I weigh 195....

   

And, this one was not cut...I can show you the nads if need be.

[DanielB89]

Originally posted by Eric Krewson:
Same here in Bama on Mgt areas, 22s, #4 shot or smaller or arrows with field points during small game season, no hog hunting during the off season.

Being pretty close to several of the wildlife biologists I asked "why not broadheads". The answer; because people might be tempted shoot a deer out of season of they were carrying broadheads.

My thinking is anyone who will poach a deer will attempt it with a 22, bird shot or any thing else they are carrying.

EXACTLY!!!

An outlaw isn't going to obey the laws.