Hogs In NY

[NY Yankee]

Yup, they're out! Just saw a mess of them yesterday, unfortunately, no time to go get the recurve. Spring is upon us boys, GROUNDHOGS! Next warm day, lookout little pigs! Yankee's comin! Maybe I will post some pics of the trophies! HA!  

[ishiwannabe]

Now that was funny.

[bbassi]

I saw my first one splatted on the road yesterday. That always makes me laugh.  spent 5+ months underground only to come out a get whacked.   :D

[mcgroundstalker]

So Brent... Are ya gonna have some road kill with your eggs in the morning?  :p

... mike ...

[NY Yankee]

Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the woodchuck it could be done!

[Stone Knife]

There fun to hunt with trad gear, real challenging in the big fields by my place

[swampbuck]

Here I thought you was talkin pigs LOL

Oddly enuff the only pig I've ever shot was in my back yard.

Yea you read that right "my back yard" seems somebody let 5 males go and nobody was claiming ownership.We had caught a couple but they managed to escape and after a month or so they started doing damage....they also started to get shot by the neighbor who just had 50 fresh planted trees rutted up so when they came in my yard again my arrow found it's mark

Wood chucks make good targets and that was my first trad kill as an adult

[woodchucker]

Note to self..... DON'T go "target practicing" with Tom!!!!!  

[swampbuck]

LOL Chuck thats funny

By the way I still as of this morning have snow in my driveway            

Next yr ya gotta get your dirrections a little closer to Shawns house

[Uncas]

you had me thinking feral hogs, seems theres more people hunting them then actual hogs themselves.  ground hogs are fun though

[longbow1]

Scott, NY actually has a population of wild hogs. A Syracuse newspaper had photos of two gun hunters that got lucky while deer hunting, and let me tell you those were some big boars. The population is estimated at about 500 hogs and growing.

[Uncas]

they came from a canned hunt ranch in scott, about 40 got loose. DEC advice prevents farmers from opening up there land to hunt, i believe they are running a trapping program to remove them, they fear hunting pressure will push them all over. I remember there were some loose up here by bloomfield  a few years back.

[Stone Knife]

I know that they can be bad, but I wouldn't mind seeing them all over the place here. Then I could have my own public porker threads like RC  

[Bent Rig]

longbow1 - they multiplied to around 3X the amount you stated - the problem may be too big to reverse at this point . Like the biologist said be careful what you wish for , because the pigs will overrun everything and the only thing left to hunt will be the pigs - very devastating to all native wild life  out there .

[longbow1]

Bent rig, hogs and deer coexist all over the states, why not ny?

[knife river]

Hogs and deer aren't the only things in the woods.  Hogs are tough on a lot of things -- both plants and animals.  For me, it's a love-hate thing.  I love hunting hogs, but they can destroy a lot of fragile habitat very quickly.

[Masham Man]

If you've got 500 give it time and you will have more than you want!

[Bowsey Wails]

Yes, we definitely have big feral hogs here. They do lots of damage to my brother in law's crops and they TOTAL cars when collisions occur.
Tim