Canadian Pigloos

[two_bit_score]

If you shoot at a group and kill one the rest of the group will move from the danger area to a new area.

My experience is that they will run off but not that far. They may only go over the next hill. Pigs travel in wide circles, 'they' say. Some will come through and will be all over the place for a while but eventually leave and later another sounder will swing in.

My brother and I were leaving our place one evening when we saw a small group of about 4-5 hogs in a small pasture near the road gate.We decided to shoot one from the truck. These were wary hogs. As soon as he pointed the rifle at them they ran back across the road and into the trees. We drove on out onto the road slowly and just as we went past a tree line on the left I looked over and saw the pigs standing there, watching.

We turned around up the road a little way and came back. Pigs still there, watching us. I think they were not frightened because they had gotten accustomed to traffic passing them by on that road.

We pulled back into the drive to the Farm Gate and turned around, positioned our selves for a good shot if they came back to the same spot. We waited about 20 minutes and no pigs came out.

Drove back down the road and the pigs were still hanging out in that same clearing just past the tree line. They waited us out. I'm sure the same ones returned to the pasture because we found fresh rooted up ground there the next day.

Feral hogs are fascinating creatures.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I would think they would be good to eat. Anyone know?

Lots of guys will shoot them for meat and some for 吐un? I know guys who travel hundreds of miles to shoot prairie dogs.

Most are riddled with worms. Not worth eating.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

My experience is that they will run off but not that far. They may only go over the next hill. Pigs travel in wide circles, 'they' say. Some will come through and will be all over the place for a while but eventually leave and later another sounder will swing in.

My brother and I were leaving our place one evening when we saw a small group of about 4-5 hogs in a small pasture near the road gate.We decided to shoot one from the truck. These were wary hogs. As soon as he pointed the rifle at them they ran back across the road and into the trees. We drove on out onto the road slowly and just as we went past a tree line on the left I looked over and saw the pigs standing there, watching.

We turned around up the road a little way and came back. Pigs still there, watching us. I think they were not frightened because they had gotten accustomed to traffic passing them by on that road.

We pulled back into the drive to the Farm Gate and turned around, positioned our selves for a good shot if they came back to the same spot. We waited about 20 minutes and no pigs came out.

Drove back down the road and the pigs were still hanging out in that same clearing just past the tree line. They waited us out. I'm sure the same ones returned to the pasture because we found fresh rooted up ground there the next day.

Feral hogs are fascinating creatures.

Sounds like they out smarted you. Don't forget, pigs are supposed to be highly intelligent.

 

[Lgim]

It is truly amazing how these stories carry on . Last summer there was an article in the local Saskatoon paper similar to this one. The general consensus of the comments were that the two people from the U of S got paid for 3 years to look for pigs, if they didn't find any and sound the alarm it might be hard to get paid for another 3 years.

Later in the fall there was an article in the same paper about a fellow from the west coast who wanted to come to Saskatchewan to help out the farmers and maybe take some bacon back to his family (he had read the original article).

He contacted the government about getting a license to hunt them - they don't have such a thing.
He talked to SGI, where were the most instances of pigs being hit by cars - it might have happened but not enough to keep track of.
He talked to crop insurance - they had paid out less then a $100,000 in the last ten years so they didn't tack it.
He went to Facebook - a few people said they had heard about wild pigs but it was all third or forth hand might have seen something.
So he decided to not go hunting in SK.

I'm not sure what National Geographic hope to gain with this story but I guess it did sell a few magazines?

 

[two_bit_score]

They kinda make Saskatchewan sound like ground zero in the pig invasion of Canada:

>>>The hog explosion is a new problem, and until recently, “no one even knew where they were,” says Ruth Aschim, a doctoral candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. She and her advisor Brook spent three years mapping their distribution using trail camera images, GPS collar data, and interviews with local landowners, farmers, and hunters.<<<



Maybe it's like the elusive Big Foot? Pigs are good at avoiding people for the most part.

 

[Lgim]

I have no doubt there are some wild pigs out there but I'm sure that any farmer that has a problem will solve the problem in short order. It's kinda like coyotes, sure there gets to be a bunch around but then a few get shot and its no longer a problem.

I have read National Geographic for years and always assumed it was someone going to an area and writing a honest story. This is more of a rehash of a story they read online. I guess I'm just questioning all the magazines I've read over the years.

 

[1965]

I posted a link to a hog watch site on this thread and a lot of these sightings are supposably within 30-40 miles of me and pics of tracks which look a lot like whitetail tracks too me on my road. I spend a bit of time coyote hunting and in the woods. If there are that many here that they have that many photos I would think I would see some evidence. Hunters are like fishermen which I am both, if they have an opertunity to BS someone they will lol. It is easy enough to find hog pictures off the web and claim you saw it, so you need to take it with a grain of salt. Until I see one with my own eyes I am no quite a believer.

 

[Sigarms]

Generally speaking, when issues like this occur, it's man who has screwed around with nature and a wild animals habitat...

 

[1965]

Yes, the Ministry of Natural resorces decided to reintroduce Fishers to control a racoon problem in an area and now the Fishers are the problem and have spread for sever hundred miles. They are much more agressive than racoons, they are like small wolverines.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Most are riddled with worms. Not worth eating.

I volunteered to be a judge at the local chili cook off a couple years ago; after I found out there was no prohibition on using wild game in the recipe, I simply declined thereafter...which brings me to another realization...

My Mother and Father's generation of country folks always wanted their meat, even steaks, cooked well done. It makes sense in the world before parasite free beef and pork; in fact, I have heard it stated that today's animal culture practices produce parasite free pork, and undercooked meat is OK. I don't buy it, I guess I was raised too country and too long ago.