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Post by greyhair on Aug 15, 2019 22:17:06 GMT -5
I was just passing time reading several o line articles about feral hogs in Indiana. I did not know that it is proven that one or more guys were bringing them up from Mississippi and releasing them. DNA testing verified it. One guy was poaching big bucks up here and taking them back south for big buck contests. He would release hogs up here and then if he was approached about poaching he would say he was after hogs.
I guess this transplanting has occurred other places in the Midwest. This explains how a hog with the same genetics as a group in Mississippi or Georgia magically gets to Ohio or Indiana.
Unless pigs really do fly...
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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 16, 2019 0:43:00 GMT -5
I was just passing time reading several o line articles about feral hogs in Indiana. I did not know that it is proven that one or more guys were bringing them up from Mississippi and releasing them. DNA testing verified it. One guy was poaching big bucks up here and taking them back south for big buck contests. He would release hogs up here and then if he was approached about poaching he would say he was after hogs. I guess this transplanting has occurred other places in the Midwest. This explains how a hog with the same genetics as a group in Mississippi or Georgia magically gets to Ohio or Indiana. Unless pigs really do fly... And you don’t believe that solar panels are draining the sun of its energy?
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 16, 2019 6:05:13 GMT -5
I don't know anything about buck poaching or contests, but hogs were definitely trucked in. Steve Backs told me though, while pulling samples from a hog that I'd killed, that the genetics traced back to TN/NC area. Our hogs do bear more of a resemblance to ones from that area than MS.. Ours are a higher % Eurasian boar, not as much domestic mixed in. I've never seen much variation in them, where as hogs in most of the south can be just about any shape, size, color, hair length/coarseness, etc. There are still some around here, but it's been several years since I've seen one. The USDA has, I believe, knocked them back some. A few still get shot every year though by deer hunters, coon hunters bump into them sometimes, and people with private access that the USDA hasn't gotten into are still shooting them during corn-picking time and afterwards at night.
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Aug 16, 2019 7:36:34 GMT -5
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Post by greyhair on Aug 16, 2019 7:36:34 GMT -5
Ee need to stop those solar panels before they suck all the energy out of the sun. Windmills would be good but they cause cancer you know...
Is Steve Backs still at DNR?
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 16, 2019 7:49:44 GMT -5
Ee need to stop those solar panels before they suck all the energy out of the sun. Windmills would be good but they cause cancer you know... Is Steve Backs still at DNR? He was as of turkey season, I haven't heard anything about his retirement so I'm assuming he still is.
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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 16, 2019 10:23:36 GMT -5
Ee need to stop those solar panels before they suck all the energy out of the sun. Windmills would be good but they cause cancer you know... Is Steve Backs still at DNR? Yeah except they are causing negative effect on the earths rotation 🙄 Yes as far as I know he still is I think I was reading an article this spring about turkey that mentioned him with a Dnr title
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Post by swetz on Aug 16, 2019 11:28:33 GMT -5
I was just passing time reading several o line articles about feral hogs in Indiana. I did not know that it is proven that one or more guys were bringing them up from Mississippi and releasing them. DNA testing verified it. One guy was poaching big bucks up here and taking them back south for big buck contests. He would release hogs up here and then if he was approached about poaching he would say he was after hogs. I guess this transplanting has occurred other places in the Midwest. This explains how a hog with the same genetics as a group in Mississippi or Georgia magically gets to Ohio or Indiana. Unless pigs really do fly... Do you have any links to the articles you read? I had heard similar things about them being brought in, but never anything about genetics linking them back to a source location.
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Aug 16, 2019 12:01:18 GMT -5
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Post by greyhair on Aug 16, 2019 12:01:18 GMT -5
Yeah let me work on that
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Post by greyhair on Aug 16, 2019 12:07:37 GMT -5
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Post by swetz on Aug 16, 2019 16:23:58 GMT -5
That's pretty interesting. I had read some stories around wild pigs in Indiana and they all pretty much said someone brought them in to hunt, but they never said anything about it being a cover to poach deer.
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Post by greyhair on Aug 20, 2019 11:46:33 GMT -5
Odd, I just got a text today from a guy not far from me asking if I had seen a hog around my place. He swears he was driving by here the other day and saw one cross the road about 100 yards from my place. He guessed it at 80-90#. There is nothing around me but means, corn and woods.
He is the pastor at our little local church, good outdoorsman and stand-up guy.
I am putting new batteries and clean SD cards in my cameras today, and setting them up.
Parke County around Bridgeton BTW.
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Aug 20, 2019 11:47:25 GMT -5
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Post by greyhair on Aug 20, 2019 11:47:25 GMT -5
beans, not means
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Post by greyhair on Aug 21, 2019 10:40:22 GMT -5
Turns out my neighbor got a ell phone picture of the critter. Poor quality though since it had gone partially into the woods. We searched for sign and found tracks and a rooted up area in the corn, and scat.
I will try to post pictures. I am putting out 5 cameras today. He said it was kind of hairy with a long snout, 80-100#.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 21, 2019 10:42:14 GMT -5
Turns out my neighbor got a ell phone picture of the critter. Poor quality though since it had gone partially into the woods. We searched for sign and found tracks and a rooted up area in the corn, and scat. I will try to post pictures. I am putting out 5 cameras today. He said it was kind of hairy with a long snout, 80-100#. Dump some corn out on the ground. If it's still around it'll find the corn.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2019 11:14:25 GMT -5
Here bacon, bacon, bacon!
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Post by greyhair on Aug 21, 2019 12:11:08 GMT -5
There is an isolated grain bin nearby with some freshly spilled corn, I will put one there
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Post by freedomhunter on Aug 21, 2019 14:26:58 GMT -5
I've never heard of any wild pigs being anywhere near Parke County. I hunt a couple different areas and have worked all over the county and know a lot of the big farmers. Nada, must be a rogue hog? Maybe I am missing something, kill it anyway, we don't need hogs and rabid amish
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Post by HighCotton on Aug 21, 2019 14:30:43 GMT -5
Rabid Amish!?!?
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Post by freedomhunter on Aug 21, 2019 14:47:05 GMT -5
Your spot must not be near them lol. Sorry if I offended you.
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Aug 21, 2019 21:36:17 GMT -5
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Post by greyhair on Aug 21, 2019 21:36:17 GMT -5
I have never heard feral hogs in Parke either, except for a couple of escaped domestics over the years.
However there is at least one now. I set cameras today. My guess is that somebody brought it in from the south. That is definitely going on around the midwest, it is not a myth.
I hate the idea of them being here. They are nightmares.
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