Feral Hog Sightings?

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Hello, all you hunters, I was wondering if any of you have seen any feral hogs, or their sign while out hunting this season? Thanks.
 
HAHAHA, Yea a bunch in middle georgia. KILL everyone you see or there gonna take over in a few years. A sow comes in to estrous 3 times a year and can have pigs twice a year and can have anywhere from 8-14 or 15 pigs. Then the sows that she had can breed and come into estrous after about six mounths. There born about 4 or 5 pounds and at six mounths there around 100 depnding on the food source. The wild hog is the fastest adapting animal in the wild and the fastest breeding. SO KILL THEM!!! They compete with the deer for food and mess up farm land.
 
We see and kill a lot of hogs in SW OK. This boar got in the scope of my .50 Encore muzzleloader at a distance of about 30 yards. He ran about 100 yards after being hit, fell over, kicked for about 30 seconds and expired. Hog
was 19" wide at the shoulders.

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Not many this year where I do most of my hunting. Some areas near here are loaded, but others have a lack of oinkers. When the Mississippi tries to crawl out of its banks they are everywhere. This year we barely had a rise so it seems that they bunched up in only certain areas. Got a few pics on my trail camera and have seen a couple running thru the fields, but haven’t killed any. Big change from last year when we had killed 25+ by this time....... However+1 on Wal-Mart.
 
they are such a nuisance animal to farmers and ranchers yet they CHARGE a fortune to let us help get rid of them..........
 
Central Florida is "LOADED" with hogs...We have a bunch of guys who hunt and trap them, as it's easy to get a permit to possess them and there is no season on them, but they still seem to be growing in population.
 
There’s no closed season on them here, plus you can now hunt them at night with lights, night vision or what ever. Coyotes too. The LDWF set a season for night hunting however. It runs from the last day of Feb. to the last day of Aug. I guess that’s to try and keep the poachers from head lighting deer. Looks like I may have to purchase some night vision optics.
 
they are all over the north and eastern parts of the state. i was run up on a herd of 13 while dove hunting on public lands. they had rooted about 5 acres. i saw more hoggs then dove!
 
I've never seen one anywhere that I hunt in NY.

There have been rumors of them for many years. They're always "one ridge over". Given the way these things breed, they would be everywhere by now if they were "one ridge over" 5 and even 10 years ago. No one I know has ever shot one.
 
If anyone wants to hunt one, I can put you on a PILE of them, in Sumter County, Florida.....We've counted more than 50 on several occasions, here.

They can destroy an acre of land a night, at those numbers...
 
Just about everytime I go out hunting I see 10 to 12. I've counted 30 and 32 hogs on two different occassions. As soon as deer season is over, the hogs better watch out. We kill a few during deer season, but there is just so many of them. Do yourself a favor, if you see hogs on your land and you haven't had any before, kill them, all.
 
Hogbuster, just remember that we are limited to .22RF and shotguns. Trust the DWF to come up with a way to not control them. Goatwhiskers
 
Ohio has them classified as a nuisance and non-native animal. Open all year round for them, no permits, any weapons or ways. They're primarily in the South Eastern part of Ohio for now. I live in the Mid-west and have never seen one yet.
 
Goatwhiskers

Yeah, I know about the shotgun or .22 RF only limitation so I got myself a hog retriever to track the cripples down. Only problem is getting him to let go...... Are you seeing any hogs over there?
 

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