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.
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
What part of the state are you finding them in..private or public ground?
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.
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.
QuoteOriginally 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.
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.
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!
Are there any sightings (oh... of the hog kind)up in the U.P. lately ?
ChuckC
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.
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