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[Paula]

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

[G-Man]

Yep bad new , most people do not know how nasty pigs are

[nyslowhand]

... or just how prolific breeders they are!!

[Doc]

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.

[wooly]

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!

[Curmudgeon]

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.

 

[chas0218]

You mean you weren't supposed to shoot them?!?! 

 

 

 

Just kidding...

[SteveB]

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.

[chas0218]

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.

[Four Season Whitetail's]

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.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

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?

[Doc]

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

[sweet old bill]

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....

[chas0218]

huh?

That was supposed to be in a different thread, not sure how it got here.

Edited April 4, 2016 by chas0218