Article: Rising Feral Hog population, aka Super-Pigs, worry experts

Amp Mangum said:
I live on the Harnett/Johnston county line and a neighbor down the street showed me photos last night from his trail camera of a bunch of wild hogs. One was a very large boar.
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On Red Hill Church Road? I thought I saw some (a sow and piglets) just south of 27.
 
Climberman said:
Exactly. I was investigating a hog hunt a few years ago and was shocked at how expensive some of the places were.
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Paid hunts are usually 1 of 2 things ... a hunted out piece of farm land where the farmer is just making a little extra money letting anyone hunt for $100 ... or a side business where the owner kinda sorta “raises” game thru maintenance but charges you a pile of money for a “possible trophy” that he shows you a picture of that a kid shot “last week” that you’ll likely not see ... private land hunting where you actually are the sole hunter or one of a few is rare today.

Another thing that cuts into allowing hunting is many farmers are getting more and more hesitant to let hunters on their land for various reasons. There’s the fact many “hunters” are just plain stupid and do not do research on the farm as well as the land bordering it to cut risk of stray damage ... not a good thing to have a stray bullet hit the neighbor’s truck windshield. Another is lack of respect for the farmer and HIS property and wishes ... one farmer only wants does taken unless it’s “weak” buck either genetically or health wise and a 10 pointer walks by you gotta let it go. Years back I and my kid shot squirrels for one owners wife because they were raiding her pecan trees ... not much of a hunt but it sure made her happy and when Momma is happy everybody is happy. Leave the property BETTER than when you entered ... show respect for HIS land.

That’s how you get the hunting rights of many people without paying for it ... respect of their wishes and their land ...
 
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A couple of funny things about pigs. There are some states that don't have pigs that have made it illegal to kill them. It sounds really counterintuitive, but a surprisingly high amount of the cases of introductions have come from locals who either think pigs would be a nice addition to the game species in the area and are "inevitable" so they cut some loose, or people who think they'll be a source of income in the form of paid hunts so they cut some loose. Either way, they arent purely migrating all over the place.

Also, the "super pig" hybrid domesticated and feral strains are mainly hype. Pigs are all the same species. Domestics go feral pretty quickly and they become pretty indistinguishable.
 
My wife had the TV on Kelly Ripa this morning and I heard her talking about how “feral pigs are breeding with normal pigs, like pot belly pigs, to make super pigs” I just kept walking.
 
Majicmike said:
Are they in NC anywhere yet?
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sow and her piglet held up traffic for a minute on tabor church road in cedar creek the other day. course, not a lot of traffic, just me and a dude in a truck coming the other way...
but still, 2 pigs coming from the woods on one side of the road and going to the other side. might have just been somebody's loose farm pigs, but who's to say?
 
DrScaryGuy said:
sow and her piglet held up traffic for a minute on tabor church road in cedar creek the other day. course, not a lot of traffic, just me and a dude in a truck coming the other way...
but still, 2 pigs coming from the woods on one side of the road and going to the other side. might have just been somebody's loose farm pigs, but who's to say?
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I stay near that area and there are hogs there. Also a good number of hogs on highway 53 below the fire tower.
 
303hunter said:
I stay near that area and there are hogs there. Also a good number of hogs on highway 53 below the fire tower.
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We have 2 big pear trees. they produced a LOT this year, but we only pulled one home depot bucket... all the pears are gone and none of the ones that fell stayed on the ground for long. never saw anything, so something was coming at night. I need a good NV trail cam.
 
slow is slow said:
Hogs are delicious, especially when cooked fresh. We used to kill over a hundred a year between about 5 guys and 30 or so dogs. There are many ways to cut down on them including dogs, corral style trapping, and still hunting. Some guys from Florida swore that they had the perfect thing going. They would run their dogs on farmland and castrate every boar they could while killing all the sows. They would do this for about two to three years, and then charge people for a guided hunt to go kill the now trophy sized overgrown "barred" hogs. And split the money with the landowner. Said they paid for all their dog food that way. As for nc, the mountains have plenty and the southern counties in the east along the Waccamaw have plenty,
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JimB said:
My wife had the TV on Kelly Ripa this morning and I heard her talking about how “feral pigs are breeding with normal pigs, like pot belly pigs, to make super pigs” I just kept walking.
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Now come on Kelly's belly ain't so big I'd call her a pot belly! Lol
 
DrScaryGuy said:
We have 2 big pear trees. they produced a LOT this year, but we only pulled one home depot bucket... all the pears are gone and none of the ones that fell stayed on the ground for long. never saw anything, so something was coming at night. I need a good NV trail cam.
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I’ve got a friend who had a house about a mile below the fire tower on NC53. He couldn’t keep deer corn or plots planted because of hogs. He shot a few and they went nocturnal, still destroying his food plots. This has been 5-6 years ago, so I imagine it’s worse now. His ex now owns the land, and I have no access.
 
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