Paula Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/31/deer-hunters-face-unwanted-competition-as-feral-hog-explosion-thins-herds.html Edited March 31, 2016 by Paula Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Man Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Yep bad new , most people do not know how nasty pigs are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyslowhand Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 ... or just how prolific breeders they are!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 But, where has the news coverage of NYS hogs gone. Word has it that if you have a breeding population in the wild, before you know it you will be buried in them. And yet, we are not seeing any proliferation, in fact they seem to be disappearing. Maybe it's because the new DEC edict of "don't shoot them, let us do it" has worked. Who knows? Nobody in the DEC is making any of their results public. At least not that I have heard anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wooly Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Yep bad new , most people do not know how nasty pigs are I have more experience than I ever hoped for on that topic. I was married TWICE,lol They can be down right vicious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 But, where has the news coverage of NYS hogs gone. Word has it that if you have a breeding population in the wild, before you know it you will be buried in them. And yet, we are not seeing any proliferation, in fact they seem to be disappearing. Maybe it's because the new DEC edict of "don't shoot them, let us do it" has worked. Who knows? Nobody in the DEC is making any of their results public. At least not that I have heard anyway. You should probably ask DEC. They contracted with APHIS to eliminate them during the winter of 2013-14. Maybe they did. Maybe they are gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas0218 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 You mean you weren't supposed to shoot them?!?! Just kidding... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Few years ago many were being sighted in the Homer, Scot, Sempronious area. I know several who shot one when it was legal - always as a target of opportunity hunting something else. Never heard of any one targeting them and and then taking one. Too few, too scattered and always moving for food. Not heard of any the last couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas0218 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Here are the 2014 numbers for crossbow. Even if they they were all anterless (doe) harvest it would have had a minimal effect on herd numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four Season Whitetail's Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 You should probably ask DEC. They contracted with APHIS to eliminate them during the winter of 2013-14. Maybe they did. Maybe they are gone. Why bother...They blew the pig population in Ny way out of the water in their move to take some breeds of hogs out of the high fence hunting world. Guess it came as quite a shock to them when some just started cross breeding other types of hogs to make them fair game to hunters once again. If half of what they said was true we would have been seeing them everywhere years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culvercreek hunt club Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Here are the 2014 numbers for crossbow. Even if they they were all anterless (doe) harvest it would have had a minimal effect on herd numbers.Deer take.JPG huh? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 (edited) You should probably ask DEC. They contracted with APHIS to eliminate them during the winter of 2013-14. Maybe they did. Maybe they are gone. I would have thought that if their policy was a blazing success, we would have heard that by now. They sure could use the positive PR ..... lol. Edited April 3, 2016 by Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweet old bill Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Pigs can be a real issue, ask the Myrtle beach SC bow club , if they are pushing out the deer and turkey. They breed several times a year, have a 6+ each time. They do cause a lot of damage to the local farmers as well. Should be a open season all year, but they again manage by having the season in the same time as deer hunting, so then the pigs go just out in the night hours.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas0218 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) huh? That was supposed to be in a different thread, not sure how it got here. Edited April 4, 2016 by chas0218 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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