1.) DParker - 11/13/2013

Just because some farmer's 350 lb ([I]maybe[/I]) hog gets out of its pen and wanders into your pasture you don't to claim you've bagged a 550 lb "wild boar".

[URL="http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/23946526/550lb-wild-boar-shot-in-nw-north-dakota"] 550lb. Wild Boar Shot in Northwest North Dakota[/URL]

And I was a bit puzzled by this:

[quote]He says he has talked to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department about the incident. He says they don't recommend you shoot wild boars, but he says they told him they also don't want them in the area.[/quote]

Our game and fish people recommend that we shoot the hell out of them. But then again, we don't make a habit of shooting escaped livestock.

2.) Floyd - 11/13/2013

Just a wee bit picky up there, don't cha know.

3.) NEBigAl - 11/13/2013

[QUOTE=DParker;12426]Just because some farmer's 350 lb ([I]maybe[/I]) hog gets out of its pen and wanders into your pasture you don't to claim you've bagged a 550 lb "wild boar".

[URL="http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/23946526/550lb-wild-boar-shot-in-nw-north-dakota"] 550lb. Wild Boar Shot in Northwest North Dakota[/URL]

And I was a bit puzzled by this:



Our game and fish people recommend that we shoot the hell out of them. But then again, we don't make a habit of shooting escaped livestock.[/QUOTE]

States that are not overrun by wild hogs dont recommend (or in my state, even allow) the shooting of hogs because hunting them causes them to fragment, change up patterns and stay solitary. If you dont shoot them, they will stick together in large groups, meaning you can bring a helicopter in and wipe them out en masse.

4.) DParker - 11/13/2013

That's interesting. I've not seen any studies on that. We hunt them pretty hard here, but it doesn't seem to have much if any impact on their tendency to live in groups. At least not that I'm aware of. It's true that it does alter their patterns significantly, causing them to go almost exclusively nocturnal with enough pressure, so I can see how G&F would want to avoid that.

But look at the snout on Porky in that story. That's an escaped domestic slab of bacon, not a feral pig.

5.) bluecat - 11/13/2013

Well that and the fact that some of the town gals go missing everytime there is a big hog shoot.

6.) bluecat - 11/13/2013

There was a show on recently where a guy trapped a wild hog in Texas for a rancher and...




wait for it...



wait for it...













relocated the damn thing a few miles away.

:laugh:

7.) Floyd - 11/13/2013

They stay grouped even after shooting three or four out of the group one afternoon and another the next evening. Then you still see them grouped and very bashful being out and about. But, I understand that could be a peculiar trait to the hogs near Jacksboro, Texas.

Sows, they don't stay single very long. They seem to stay in one mode; pregnant with youngins. Meaning, perpetually grouped.

I'd asked Billy for sure.

8.) billy b - 11/13/2013

Kill em all, we'll sort em out later.

9.) DParker - 11/13/2013

For contrast, here's a local guy (TX, and a friend of my boss) with a good-sized boar he recently took that he weighed at 340 lbs. Granted, he's doing the pose behind the animal that makes it look a little larger than it actually is, but that's still a big pig. Certainly as big as the domestic porker from ND. Also, note the shape of the snout, which is straight rather than the extremely curved one hogs have when domesticated, and is present on the ND hog. He's not only an escaped domestic pig, he's one that hasn't even been on the loose terribly long, as even an adult domesticated hog's skull will gradually revert to the straight-snout configuration over time after going feral:



Of note also is the last line in the article:

[quote]Ganskop says there are rumors that another boar is in the area.[/quote]

If you actually had two "wild boars", with even one of them being that size/age in the area...you'd have hundreds by now, if not thousands. Not just "rumors" of one other.

10.) DParker - 11/13/2013

[QUOTE=billy b;12435]Kill em all, we'll [B][COLOR="#B22222"]BBQ[/COLOR][/B] em later.[/QUOTE]

Fixed it for you. :grin:

11.) NEBigAl - 11/13/2013

And what the hell is he talking about not eating it?! He just got 200 lbs of pork completely free! I didnt know we had a bunch of teetotalers in the boonies of North Dakota.

12.) DParker - 11/13/2013

Bingo. Free range organic pork. The Whole Foods crowd will pay extra for that.

13.) NEBigAl - 11/13/2013

Hell not even free range, this thing is barely wild. Probably better pork than what you would buy in a store.

14.) Floyd - 11/13/2013

[QUOTE=DParker;12437]Fixed it for you. :grin:[/QUOTE]

:tu:

I just bought some Peach wood. Smoke'm if you got'em.

15.) DParker - 11/13/2013

[QUOTE=NEBigAl;12441]Hell not even free range, this thing is barely wild.[/QUOTE]

Shhhhhhhhh!!! I'm working on marketing here. :wink