Wild Boar Head

[Bigcypresshunter]

I would think they would be fun to hunt. Not supposed to be there killing off native species. Maybe a big Gig of sorts at night with a rope on the end. Make it like a night rodeo event with an entry fee and winners takes all. Have most gigged winner and biggest Gig winner. Its a problem for sure that does not look like it wil ever go away.

They are beautiful snakes for sure but they need to be killed on site. It appears they are threatening the ecological balance. The Alligator and Python are fighting for top of the food chain.

A Yellow Anaconda has been found in the Park by workers. They dont know if its breeding or an isolated case.

 

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[Tnmountains]

I would think they would be fun to hunt. Not supposed to be there killing off native species. Maybe a big Gig of sorts at night with a rope on the end. Make it like a night rodeo event with an entry fee and winners takes all. Have most gigged winner and biggest Gig winner. Its a problem for sure that does not look like it wil ever go away.

They are beautiful snakes for sure but they need to be killed on site. It appears they are threatening the ecological balance. The Alligator and Python are fighting for top of the food chain.

A Yellow Anaconda has been found in the Park by workers. They dont know if its breeding or an isolated case.

I saw on outdoor channel or versus thay found a very large albino as well. I am thinking a boot factory in Fla is whats needed.

 

[fossis]

I find all of these stories to be very intresting, so 'high-jack' away.

Fossis.............

 

[steve71]

No they aint that tuff. Most of we kill we shoot with a .22, in the head. The only time I use anything bigger is when they come by my deer stand during deer season. Now when we are useing dogs I carry my .40 but havent had to use it yet. The boar hogs have a "shield" of gristle behind their shoulders and it's hard to put a .22 ball thru that and into the vitals. So if you are gonna shoot 'em behind the shoulder you something a little bigger than a .22. When the dogs bay 'em we usually catch 'em, put them in a pen and fatten 'em up for a while and BBQ 'em and make sausage...d2

my friend shot on about 75 yards with a 22 it dropped it on the spot but by the time we got there it was gone.

 

[sniffer]

if I had one coming at me, my 9 has more than one shot in it, I'd be using them too
and besides, I had some in Texas at TC's place, tastes just like beef

 

[crazyjarhead]

I'd hate to run into that monster out in the woods

 

[allen]

one ugly critter !

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

No they aint that tuff. Most of we kill we shoot with a .22, in the head. The only time I use anything bigger is when they come by my deer stand during deer season. Now when we are useing dogs I carry my .40 but havent had to use it yet. The boar hogs have a "shield" of gristle behind their shoulders and it's hard to put a .22 ball thru that and into the vitals. So if you are gonna shoot 'em behind the shoulder you something a little bigger than a .22. When the dogs bay 'em we usually catch 'em, put them in a pen and fatten 'em up for a while and BBQ 'em and make sausage...d2

my friend shot on about 75 yards with a 22 it dropped it on the spot but by the time we got there it was gone.

It happens.

 

[Magil]

Man, this topic has gotten quite a bit of attention! Kinda like sittin' around the campfire and trying to
out story one another.
Here's one for ya.
Back in the '50's my aunt and uncle had a farm in far northern Minnesota. They had a hired man
named Arnold. Friday night's Arnold would walk the several miles to town and get drunk.
One Saturday, Arnold wasn't back to work, and he never came back.
They figured he had left his few possessions and skipped out on them.
When it got around to butchering time, they found Arnold's belt and some shoe parts
in several of the hogs.
The theory is that he came home drunk and fell into the hog pen somehow. The hogs literally
ate EVERYTHING! Never thought to ask them how their Easter ham tasted.

 

[Tnmountains]

Man, this topic has gotten quite a bit of attention! Kinda like sittin' around the campfire and trying to
out story one another.
Here's one for ya.
Back in the '50's my aunt and uncle had a farm in far northern Minnesota. They had a hired man
named Arnold. Friday night's Arnold would walk the several miles to town and get drunk.
One Saturday, Arnold wasn't back to work, and he never came back.
They figured he had left his few possessions and skipped out on them.
When it got around to butchering time, they found Arnold's belt and some shoe parts
in several of the hogs.
The theory is that he came home drunk and fell into the hog pen somehow. The hogs literally
ate EVERYTHING! Never thought to ask them how their Easter ham tasted.

I believe that story is probably true.

 

[Willie_Beth_Charlie]

Hay Fossis long time no talk that's a mighty good hog but no way i would go near it
well hope to hear from you guys

 

[texan connection]

Killed this one at my feeder this yr, I was sitting in my kitchen. He was around 120 yds I hit him with a 25.06, 100 grain bullet. (aimened maybe 6 inches high)
He was walking away from me and The bullet entered behind his ribs a little above midway,going forward, No exit wound.
He ran about 50 yds and went feet up.

 

[naturegirl]

What an awsome skull! I've never seen one before. I'm gonna have to pass this on to some local, passionate, hog-hunters I know. Thanks for posting!

naturegirl

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Here is a pic of some hogs I took last week. I have it on video but dont know how to post. A Large black one and a smaller brown one quartering away.

 

[texan connection]

Very Cool, the spotted ones tatse the best I got lucky on this one, as all his Tusks were intact. usally there broken off.

 

[Tnmountains]

Here is a pic of some hogs I took last week. I have it on video but dont know how to post. A Large black one and a smaller brown one quartering away.

Big Cyp? Was that in your swamp? Nice to see them again.
TnMtns

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Here is a pic of some hogs I took last week. I have it on video but dont know how to post. A Large black one and a smaller brown one quartering away.

Big Cyp? Was that in your swamp? Nice to see them again.
TnMtns

The Big Cypress still mysteriously has no hogs. This is just a bit north in the Okaloacoochee Slough which has plenty of wild hogs. Both areas have panthers. Maybe its the Pythons.

 

[fossis]

Hay Fossis long time no talk that's a mighty good hog but no way i would go near it
well hope to hear from you guys

Welcome to Treasure-Net, Willie_Beth_Char

Fossis.................

 

[steve71]

They are fun to hunt. You will only see them in the early morning and at dusk. Ive killed too many to count in the South Florida swamps, farms and cattle ranches. They are hard to exterminate once they start breeding. They learn fast and will not eat just anything so it is hard to poison them. They can be caught with traps. The Florida panther also loves to eat them. The biologists here are trying to expand the panthers range to keep them from extinction and I believe Arkansas is on the list of possible locations. Oh BTW I eat the meat of anything I kill, of course.

i see them in the daytime also as i'm looking for artifacts.i think they will eat just about everything.i seen one eat the chit as it was falling out of one of the other hogs,lol. poisioning them?wouldnt that be dangerous on other animals that might eat the poision?i'm not trying to give you a hard time or make you mad.just shooting the bull.i known of ranchers telling hunters to gut shoot them all so they can run off and die.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

They are fun to hunt. You will only see them in the early morning and at dusk. Ive killed too many to count in the South Florida swamps, farms and cattle ranches. They are hard to exterminate once they start breeding. They learn fast and will not eat just anything so it is hard to poison them. They can be caught with traps. The Florida panther also loves to eat them. The biologists here are trying to expand the panthers range to keep them from extinction and I believe Arkansas is on the list of possible locations. Oh BTW I eat the meat of anything I kill, of course.

i see them in the daytime also as i'm looking for artifacts.i think they will eat just about everything.i seen one eat the chit as it was falling out of one of the other hogs,lol. poisioning them?wouldnt that be dangerous on other animals that might eat the poision?i'm not trying to give you a hard time or make you mad.just shooting the bull.i known of ranchers telling hunters to gut shoot them all so they can run off and die.

Absolutely no problem lol. 8) Why would I get mad?

The best time to see hogs active would be at dawn or dusk but you can jump them at anytime of day.

I really dont know the best way to poison them without harming other animals. All I can say is that the National Park Service has tried different methods without success in an attempt to erradicate the wild hogs from the Big Cypress National Preserve. I have found baited traps. Poison has been rumored to have been used but may be only a rumor. They would be very hard to poison because they learn fast was what I meant. It appears that they are now successful in the erradication because no hogs were harvested last year at my check station. I dont know what methods were used. BTW all the racoons are also gone.