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Title: Hogs In NY
Post by: NY Yankee on March 08, 2009, 10:58:00 AM
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!   :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: ishiwannabe on March 08, 2009, 11:27:00 AM
Now that was funny.
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: bbassi on March 08, 2009, 06:59:00 PM
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
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: mcgroundstalker on March 08, 2009, 07:07:00 PM
So Brent... Are ya gonna have some road kill with your eggs in the morning?  :p

... mike ...
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: NY Yankee on March 08, 2009, 09:06:00 PM
Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the woodchuck it could be done!
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: Stone Knife on March 08, 2009, 09:25:00 PM
There fun to hunt with trad gear, real challenging in the big fields by my place
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: swampbuck on March 09, 2009, 09:05:00 AM
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
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: woodchucker on March 09, 2009, 09:08:00 AM
Note to self..... DON'T go "target practicing" with Tom!!!!!   :scared:
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: swampbuck on March 09, 2009, 09:49:00 AM
LOL Chuck thats funny

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

Next yr ya gotta get your dirrections a little closer to Shawns house
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: Uncas on March 09, 2009, 11:00:00 AM
you had me thinking feral hogs, seems theres more people hunting them then actual hogs themselves.  ground hogs are fun though
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: longbow1 on March 09, 2009, 10:16:00 PM
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.
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: Uncas on March 10, 2009, 01:07:00 PM
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.
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: Stone Knife on March 10, 2009, 04:10:00 PM
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   :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: Bent Rig on March 15, 2009, 08:07:00 PM
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 .
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: longbow1 on March 15, 2009, 08:34:00 PM
Bent rig, hogs and deer coexist all over the states, why not ny?
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: knife river on March 15, 2009, 11:38:00 PM
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.
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: Masham Man on March 16, 2009, 06:32:00 AM
If you've got 500 give it time and you will have more than you want!
Title: Re: Hogs In NY
Post by: Bowsey Wails on March 16, 2009, 03:13:00 PM
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