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Post by Spikehorn11 on Nov 28, 2007 12:23:14 GMT -5
Has anyone ever seen feral pigs/hogs while trapping and hunting?
I always here about them being in the wild but have never seen them. I want to hunt them but don't want to pay the fee's at game clubs.
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Derek
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Post by Derek on Nov 28, 2007 13:24:45 GMT -5
iv never seen one
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Post by hunterchub on Nov 28, 2007 19:56:53 GMT -5
Ive never heard of them in NY (in the wild), I could be wrong. North Carolina on east side of Smokies. Some areas of Tennessee and plenty in Georgia and Alabama. I saw some in Alabama. Very skittish. Would be fun to hunt. Open year round season on them in Tennessee.
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Post by herm on Nov 28, 2007 19:57:55 GMT -5
I just watched a TV program a few days ago on Hogzilla and wild hogs.They are spreading accross the country fast and will be in NY some day but not now.The mape showed them to be as far north as Virgina at present time,but they are comming.
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Post by Spikehorn11 on Nov 28, 2007 21:26:34 GMT -5
I believe they are estimated to be 60-80 in NY. I know there are some in Cortland county. I guess they escape hunting preserves and survive and breed.
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Post by alphatrap on Nov 28, 2007 22:17:07 GMT -5
There is a game farm in sempronius that lost some a few years back that are surviving in bear swamp area near cortland/cayuga county line
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Post by hunterchub on Nov 29, 2007 8:23:03 GMT -5
I have not looked but is there an open season on feral hogs in NY?
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Post by chicken on Nov 29, 2007 10:37:45 GMT -5
we had a guy bring 3 this year to get cut up where we process deer...We turned them away..they can be found in the spaffoerd & bordino areas...Homer & scott also have them...alot of pigs near the east side of skaneateles lake
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Post by rubrahawk on Nov 29, 2007 12:56:14 GMT -5
I have heard of pigs escaping and living wild for a few generations but are there really preserves that have them around. Last summer a few buffaloe escaped a buffaloe farm. Could be some still out there.
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Post by coonhunter92 on Nov 29, 2007 15:11:57 GMT -5
Ive seen feral hogs in NC and i knoe a buddy thats hunted them in cortland on a preserve i also hear there are feral hogs in appalchin Ny..
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Post by king368m on Nov 29, 2007 17:10:30 GMT -5
I have been told that they pigs are about half way up Penn. so far and will be in NY in the next 10-15 years.
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Post by herm on Nov 29, 2007 22:40:36 GMT -5
The same TV program I saw said that once domestic hogs excape in as little as two weeks they go start reverting bach to a wild hog.Their noses start growing longer and they srart growing thick hair and will form tusk shortly after they are out on their own.Thousands of years of domestication is reversed in a period of weeks,
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Post by rubrahawk on Nov 30, 2007 11:25:39 GMT -5
MUTANT PIGS!? lol
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Post by rubrahawk on Nov 30, 2007 11:27:01 GMT -5
What kind of ammo would you use to hunt them? How big do they get?
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Post by Spikehorn11 on Nov 30, 2007 11:59:52 GMT -5
I would use an arrow with a 100 gr broadhead.
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Post by coonhunter92 on Nov 30, 2007 15:03:39 GMT -5
Ive heard of people shootin em with hmr's..
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Post by Spikehorn11 on Nov 30, 2007 18:22:56 GMT -5
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Post by jimd on Dec 2, 2007 0:41:17 GMT -5
There have been lots of sightings around the power lines south of Oneida Lake in the Lakeport and Bridgeport area last summer.
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Post by hunterchub on Dec 2, 2007 21:03:03 GMT -5
I just talked with my buddy in Tennessee/Alabama. he has found a pocket of them in North Alabama and has been hunting them with his longbow. i sure wish he had found them when I lived there. I would have liked to hunt them. he said there was about 40 in the bunch.
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Post by charlielambjr on Dec 2, 2007 22:24:12 GMT -5
open season in ny, dec has talked abot starting a season to get more folks into hunting them. they usually have some each year get taken down around the cortland area, hmr is to small for killin a pig unless you just wanna tick him off. 204 adn up shotguns bows adn arrows, knives are the prefered way of taking them
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Post by coonhunter92 on Dec 3, 2007 19:27:15 GMT -5
I know its to small but i was just saying.. Heck i would use any legal calliber... By the way what is the smallest caliber allowed to hunt deer in ny
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Post by Itrapny on Dec 4, 2007 6:51:09 GMT -5
Any centerfire rifle is legal, but you really need to use some common sense. Even though a .17 will put one down, it isn't ethical in my opinion to use it on deer as it's a bit small for quick humane kills on a consistent basis.
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Post by coonhunter92 on Dec 4, 2007 10:48:12 GMT -5
Oh i thought like it was illegal to use like a 22 caliber like a 223 or a 22-250
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Post by bnolan on Dec 9, 2007 10:35:33 GMT -5
Yup, I've seen them out hunting. But that was in South Carolina where I grew up.
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