I went to the hunt club this morning to make the last minute checks on some sets. I ran into another member he said he had something to show me, he had some trail cam pics of a few hogs on the property. This the first confirmed sighting of hogs I've ever heard of around here. Suits me fine I love hog huntin, I'd rather kill 1 hog then 5 deer.
QuoteOriginally posted by nc recurveman:
I love hog huntin, I'd rather kill 1 hog then 5 deer.
Good thing, cuz in a matter of a few years, hogs is all you'll have. :eek:
Jeff - thats FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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QuoteOriginally posted by Turkeys Fear Me:
QuoteOriginally posted by nc recurveman:
I love hog huntin, I'd rather kill 1 hog then 5 deer.
Good thing, cuz in a matter of a few years, hogs is all you'll have. :eek: [/b]
Yep, you may get your wish. One sure way to have fewer deer is to introduce (or feed and encourage) hogs. Find 'em; kill 'em; look for the rest of them and kill them, too.
call me crazy, but I wouldn't mind having a hog problem up here. I don't own alot of property to have them ruin it, but I would like them just for the simple fact that I would love to hunt some free range close to home.
Like they say- be careful what you wish for, you just might get it! Hogs showed up on my lease about 5 years ago, deer sightings dropped by half at least. It is kind of exciting to stumble into a bunch of em on your way in or out of the woods in the dark. Not in a good way, though.
Hopefully you are down around Carteret County! I know a confirmed kill in Johnston but nutin but unconfirmed stories around here. Have been in hog country and it is hard for them buggers to hide their presence for long.
Yeah when they get a toe hold they will be impoossible to iradicate.
J
Wish we had em ... Freerange of course !!!
You say that now but wait and after a while you will curse them. You better kill them while you can all off them. Do not spare any.
Well maybe the Game Commission & these Insurance Co.'s will introduce HOGS instead of Coyotes ,, to keep the Car/Deer Collisions Down, Least we can EAT the PORK !!
My "next door" neighbor is spending upwards of 50K to clear enough of a path thru the swamp to put up 4' of hog wire around his 60 acres in an effort to keep the hogs out. I doubt it will work and everybody I've talked to has said the same.
But when you are seeing 50 or 60 hogs in 1, two hour sit you have to try and do something.
Well, I'm officially offering my services to anyone who needs these hoge eradicated from their property. I have never hunted one, and would love the opportunity to help thin your herd of them.
J-dog your otta luck bro, lol it was in bertie county. I've spent a pile of time down your in marshalberg. I have heard of few kills in camden, hyde, currituck and dare counties in the last ten or so years. I think our hogs at this point can normally be traced to hurricanes rather then a migration.
Heard a good ole boy tell me that "hogs will birth 7 and raise 8"
That's prolific!
Couple years ago a creek bottom was cleared next to my property in east tx. The pigs moved into my place within 6 months they had it so tore up you can hardly stand to run a tractor across it. Nasty buggers. Bryan
Hogs if i am not mistaken can have upto 4 litters a year and an average of 13 to 15 piglets, a littler. And by the time the last littler is born the first is starting to have there own. So in one year one sow produces about 48 and if half the first littler is sows they add another 76 hogs so. In one year one sow can theoretically contribute to producing 124 pigs or more depending on the boar/sow ratio in the litters. Ty
I can live with chasing hogs in another state... like my deer hunting too much to have those ugly critters ruining it!!
If'n you don't want them pleeese PM me to come down there for free. I am more then willing to come to SC. And I'll shoot little ones- big ones don't matter?? What ever you want?.. Can't afford paid hunts anymore... Might even get acouple other TG'ers to tag along If you want?? :notworthy:
OK Bertie!!!! you have some awesome deer hunting anyway - used to go to a club up there and hunt.
Good luck on the pigs! I agree that most any wild one here is close to his domestic lineage due to a weather event. We killed a domestic boar Saturday (friend raises pigs for slaughter,old fashioned winter time hog killins) that had HUGE tusks and a shield that you could hardly get a knife through. He was every bit of 500 lbs. But still the have that skull of a domie.
J
string, good luck with finding someone who will let you hunt hogs on their place. it's been my experience that people like to bi#ch about their hog problem but guard them like an old man with a young wife. i've had hogs in my area for at least the past 40 years and they only stay in the creek bottoms. i have a major creek that runs about 200 yards from my farm, that has hogs, but i've never seen a hog on my farm. i know that hogs have a huge reproductive rate, but i just don't see it in my area of s.c.
I killed a 400 pounder in Hyde country a few years ago. He had a considerably bigger brother that got away. This was just beyond Fairfield, if you are coming from Engelhard.
Really good eating to everyone's surprise...
The testicles were each 8 inches long. My buddy and I were gutting it on the ground, and I said to him, " If those things were any bigger, I'd stand up and salute."
Had a terrible time dragging him 95 yards out of the woods. We could only makes about 10 yards at at time. Then we floated him across a canal, which worked great until we had to drag him up the bank on the other side. It got worse when we had to get him into the back of the truck. We had to use every muscle we had, including our ear muscles.
Finally got him home and put him on a gambrel hung from a forklift.
My buddy killed a sow in the same area about 8 years ago and managed to capture one of the shoats. It weighed, I dunno, 12 or so pounds. He took it home, and it now goes around 650 lbs. I told him he should have named it "Supper" because now they've come to think of it as part of the family. They kept putting off killing it, but it has become a pain to keep it penned up.
Plenty of big bears in Hyde county too.
There would be even more big hogs and bears in Hyde county if the mosquitoes would quit flying off with them...
QuoteOriginally posted by luv2bowhunt:
I can live with chasing hogs in another state... like my deer hunting too much to have those ugly critters ruining it!!
Amen to that!!
Plenty of folks here at TG have PM'd me for hog hunt help opportunities. I tell them farmers/ranchers are paying to have them killed all along the Gulf states. Not sure hogs compete w/deer; but, you can sure tell where hogs are. They roto-till the landscape & will kill new yards & gardens overnight. That pisses off even the greenies. Eradication is as useless as w/coyotes.
I don`t know where folks get the idea hogs ruin everything. Farm land I guess maybe. I`ve been hunting swamps with deer and hogs for an awful long time...I`m halfahundred in age by the way.Killed six deer and seven pigs last year with the longbow. Deer were fat as the pigs.RC
It has also been my experience hunting the same areas and seeing some of the same sows they will have 3 litters every 2 years.They may have a dozen but seldom will you see a sow with a litter of her own with shoats 30 pounds that will number more than 4-6...usually 3-4. I have seen sows with about a dozen shoats with them but most were from another sow that got snufferized.I`ve seen buzzards eat newborn pigs from a bed while a sow was rooting 40 yards away.RC
Bears everywhere round here - still killin one trad and dogless is another issue. I saw a pig with Shoats on the banks of Lake Mayo one yr but it was a definate escapee - those shoats if not recaptured would have survived and spread. Hogs would be a blast period and get some definant bow time experience in. Where a couple a deer a yr and if lucky maybe another big game animal is cool and I am happy - being able to rack up more kills definantly helps.
J
Cool info RC seen alot of your pics on here! you are truly proof they are hard to eradicate.
I've been lucky to have been able to go hog huntin a few times and I really enjoy it. I respectfully bow to the old-heads ( :wavey: ) on the site that know hogs and what the pit falls are. I didn't mean to spark a ragin debate oops here. Nature has a funny way of balancing herself out, but everything seems to learn how live together.
QuoteWell maybe the Game Commission & these Insurance Co.'s will introduce HOGS instead of Coyotes ,, to keep the Car/Deer Collisions Down, Least we can EAT the PORK !!
I love these conspiracy theories. I guess every other state in the east also introduced coyotes.
I've never hunted hogs, but would love to. I just hope I never get the chance to hunt free range hogs in PA.