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Feral Swine in Oregon
duffontap:
This sounds great! Keenan, if I remember right, last year the game regulations said that Oregon was losing the fight against feral swine. Let's work together on organizing a hunt. I'd like a chance to brush up my skills (or obtain some) before I subject myself to another Elk season. We're going to need some ankle tape. :D
J. D. Duff
Hillbilly:
I don't really understand the contradictory regulations and management tactics for wild hogs in NC, but they can sure tear hell out of an area in a short time, one of the most destructive things out there. Here in the Smokies, we have a large population of pretty much pure-bred Russian wild boar. They originated from a small herd that escaped from a game preserve back in the early 1900's. I live beside the Smoky Mountains National Park, and inside the park boundaries, they are classed as an invasive exotic species, and they have people paid to shoot and trap them full-time. Since the program started in the '70's, over 10,000 boar have been killed or removed from the park, but they are still there in large numbers, and during that time have expanded into many areas where they previously didn't live. When one steps outside the park boundary, though, they are a protected game animal. The private and national forest lands around here have healthy boar populations, but you can only hunt them during a short season-mid Oct-mid Nov. and mid-Dec-Jan.1. You can kill two a year, and that's within some pretty strict regulations and restrictions on hunting methods.
Justin Snyder:
Not only do they reproduce twice a year, the females can start breeding at 3 months. :o So the spring piglets will produce a litter in the fall. They say you would have to kill 85% each year to stop them from increasing. And that does not even begin to reduce the numbers. Justin
D. Tiller:
JD if you would like a hunting partner let me know. I still would like to go after some swine before the year is out.
David T.
mullet:
In the last few years Florida has finally got serious about pigs.On private property we can hunt year round,non-residents too with out a hunting license.On the Mngt Areas there is no size or bag limit.I've known guys that went on Mngt Area special hunts that had hogs stacked above the bed of their pick-ups.
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