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Post by tenring on Sept 24, 2009 20:02:49 GMT -5
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 24, 2009 20:18:45 GMT -5
Would be a good site if it was more usable. The restriction for unregistered users kind of screws that up. Was interesting to see that there weren't feral hogs being shown in MI-I know that MI has feral hogs and that state is also very proactive in reporting sightings and kills which is the exact opposite of what Indiana does!! Just try to get info from our BOAH about feral hogs and sightings here...talk about a bureaucratic "run around"...you might as well go talk to a brick wall!!
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Post by tenring on Sept 24, 2009 21:10:50 GMT -5
I get to spend all three days at the Hoosier Outdoor Experience this weekend, so I expect to see several COs' up there, and fully intend to bend their ears about the feral swine subject. Did a little snooping on Google tonight, seems they reproduce at an alarming rate, and could very well spread some diseases that would decimate the swine industry here. There are at least 3 confirmed counties east of Bedford, with several sightings around Seymour, North Vernon, and others in the far north that seem to have migrated from Michigan. Hope to get in on this new form of hunting one of these days. Sounds like a hoot.
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 24, 2009 22:00:56 GMT -5
A wildlife biologist in South Florida told me that approximately 50% of their wild hogs had brucellosis which is a disease that is passed by breeding and renders both sexes sterile. Humans can get it from their blood threw an open sore or scratch and makes you very sick and hard to cure. Everyone at camp there wears rubber gloves while butchering hogs. h.h.
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 25, 2009 6:11:07 GMT -5
Unfortunately they're going to continue to spread.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Sept 25, 2009 8:04:03 GMT -5
Unfortunately they're going to continue to spread. I sure hope not. A lot of people don't understand the severe damage that they do. |
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Post by Decatur on Sept 25, 2009 8:05:43 GMT -5
We as hunters have an issue with controlling deer numbers. I can't imagine how well we would control hogs!
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Post by oldhoyt on Sept 25, 2009 16:03:47 GMT -5
Once farmer see damage from hogs, they may welcome more hunters.
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Post by danf on Sept 25, 2009 20:23:46 GMT -5
I can't imagine how well we would control hogs! In all honesty, you won't control them.  Once a population gets established there won't be any way to knock them back for good. The damage they do is astounding. You couldn't walk 100 yards on places on the WMA dadfsr and I hunted in South Carolina earlier this year without seeing evidence of rooting. |
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 25, 2009 21:35:29 GMT -5
When Dan talks about rooting it's not like they make a hole here and then another hole over there-they can literally uproot everything by several hundreds of square feet. The two that I shot this spring I had easily trailed just by following the damage that they were doing but it took me close to two hours to do it. Now imagine me walking at a slow speed for two hours following a hundred foot wide swath of damage....your talking acres of damage and that was in the woods! Imagine what a dozen of them would do in a bean or cornfield in one night!! I just can not understand why the people in that have them in S. IN are so secretive about them and why our own wildlife people are not more proactive in getting rid of them!!!!!
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Post by duff on Sept 25, 2009 21:50:58 GMT -5
I can tell you I don't have any in my spots! I see Lawrence Co. is identified as having them. Lots of HNF here, just got to get out there and find em LOL. I have not heard of anyone finding them around where I am but I have not been around here for very long.
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 25, 2009 21:53:44 GMT -5
The Lawrence county CO flat out told me there were feral hogs there but they were on private property and the owners didn't want anyone there...
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Post by duff on Sept 25, 2009 22:33:12 GMT -5
How long ago and wouldn't they spread? I guess if they are here and they've been here for a while you'd think they would turn up in the HNF, Martin State Forest, or Crane.
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 25, 2009 22:52:39 GMT -5
This was just a year ago this spring when I was trying to find someplace closer to home than driving to SC. I was also told this last weekend by a father of one of my Scouts that a farm manager friend of his in southern IN goes hunting for them in this same area-I know it's a friend of a friend report but my contact works all over the state on the insect side of pest control so he has a lot of contacts. He said he would try to see what he could do about hooking me up with this other guy so maybe I'll have something to report on one of these days.
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Post by duff on Sept 25, 2009 22:55:08 GMT -5
Good luck. I'll let you know if I find anything. I plan to put some time in the various portions of the HNF around here for deer this year. Sounds like if I find some sign it will be easy enough to figure out.
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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Sept 25, 2009 23:56:05 GMT -5
I took a couple hogs a several years ago near Tunnelton & Leesville areas in eastern Lawrence co.My old supervisor from work shot several on his farm also.I haven't seen any in years, but hear they are still close by to one place I hunt so I always keep an eye out for them.I have seen the damage they do and it's crazy to say the least.It's hard getting permission to hunt them.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Sept 26, 2009 6:59:03 GMT -5
I took a couple hogs a several years ago near Tunnelton & Leesville areas in eastern Lawrence co.My old supervisor from work shot several on his farm also.I haven't seen any in years, but hear they are still close by to one place I hunt so I always keep an eye out for them.I have seen the damage they do and it's crazy to say the least.It's hard getting permission to hunt them. Definitely have heard them flathead fishing out of Lawrenceport. |
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Post by mbogo on Sept 26, 2009 12:57:27 GMT -5
How long ago and wouldn't they spread? I guess if they are here and they've been here for a while you'd think they would turn up in the HNF, Martin State Forest, or Crane. They are spreading but it is a relatively slow spread and mostly confined to river corridors. Your best bet of finding them would probably be to hunt as close to the E FK White River as possible. Every hog sighted or killed in this area that I have heard of has been within a mile of the White River. |
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Once a population gets established there won't be any way to knock them back for good.
