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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 8:22:53 GMT -5
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Post by bartiks on Sept 21, 2020 8:31:58 GMT -5
None in Indiana yet, correct?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 8:46:07 GMT -5
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Sept 21, 2020 9:04:20 GMT -5
There are hogs in indiana. I knew of a guy who killed a few in Jackson county.
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Post by parrothead on Sept 21, 2020 9:37:20 GMT -5
Hogs in Jackson Co. around Medora and Lawerence Co too. They are fun to hunt but we dont want them established here. I have killed over 300 at my hunting club in Alabama. Those guys dont want to mess up their deer hunts by shooting them. We finally got some member that trap them and that helps.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 16:15:34 GMT -5
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Post by beermaker on Sept 21, 2020 17:05:25 GMT -5
I'll do my best to pitch in and help the cause. Six of us are heading to Texas Wednesday morning. Hunting from a helicopter Thursday morning and afternoon then with thermal and night vision gear that night.
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Post by medic22 on Sept 21, 2020 18:06:33 GMT -5
I can verify there are wild hogs in Indiana. I saw some from the air a couple weeks ago, rooting in an Ag field. It was either northern Perry or Spencer county.
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Post by span870 on Sept 21, 2020 18:31:06 GMT -5
I can verify there are wild hogs in Indiana. I saw some from the air a couple weeks ago, rooting in an Ag field. It was either northern Perry or Spencer county. Those were pot belly pigs and they were on the lot behind the barn. Every time you fly over the my house you say the same thing and every time I tell you the same. |
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Post by medic22 on Sept 21, 2020 19:03:52 GMT -5
I can verify there are wild hogs in Indiana. I saw some from the air a couple weeks ago, rooting in an Ag field. It was either northern Perry or Spencer county. Those were pot belly pigs and they were on the lot behind the barn. Every time you fly over the my house you say the same thing and every time I tell you the same.  Did I miss the joke? |
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Post by beermaker on Sept 21, 2020 19:32:43 GMT -5
I've never seen a wild hog or the evidence of any in IN. I was talking to some guys from Scottsburg the other day and they both mentioned hogs being in the Medora area. They would have no reason to BS me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 19:47:30 GMT -5
I've never seen a wild hog or the evidence of any in IN. I was talking to some guys from Scottsburg the other day and they both mentioned hogs being in the Medora area. They would have no reason to BS me. |
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Post by span870 on Sept 21, 2020 20:19:06 GMT -5
Those were pot belly pigs and they were on the lot behind the barn. Every time you fly over the my house you say the same thing and every time I tell you the same. Did I miss the joke? Nah, just messing with ya |
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Post by span870 on Sept 21, 2020 20:20:16 GMT -5
I've never seen a wild hog or the evidence of any in IN. I was talking to some guys from Scottsburg the other day and they both mentioned hogs being in the Medora area. They would have no reason to BS me. We used to hunt washington county south of medora. Had some come through, seen the sign. Never seen them though |
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Post by Russ Koon on Sept 25, 2020 11:53:25 GMT -5
Looked into reports of hog activity east of Bedford about twenty years ago. Found one landowner who would allow me to hunt his place, and went down there to scout it with my younger brother a few days later. We walked a mile or so on his place, and discovered a spot where the hogs had apparently been rooting in one of his fields, and another place where they had been feeding on acorns and rooting in an area with several oaks, but nothing freshly done.
That was in the late fall. Life interfered and we didn't get back down there to follow up further for a couple years. In the meantime the farmer who had given his permission had passed on, and the new owner didn't want anyone hunting on his place.
A good friend and hunting buddy killed a couple near Spencer, sometime around that time, but he was a neighbor to the landowner where he hunted, and couldn't get the invitation extended to others. He said the hogs in his area had pretty much only been there a few years and then apparently moved on, which seemed to be typical of the fringe areas of their core areas. He had taken two, and had been given another killed by the landowner, and said in his opinion the smaller ones were much better eating. His first one was about eighty pounds and was the best of the three.
Heard of a few guys who were taking a lot of them at night, especially one fellow who used a mule to get around on safely while hunting and packing them out.
Haven't followed up on any hog activity since as all the later activity I heard about seemed to be further away and less intense. Still seems like something I'd like to pursue, although now I'd pretty much need to access an area by canoe and would probably hunt it by establishing a bait site and taking a treestand. Long hikes at night and long drags with heavy game are probably not in my future. I'd still like to try it with my bow, but a more realistic approach now would likely be my ML or 12ga. Or maybe that other noisy contraption I won't mention here that I bought a couple years ago but still haven't hunted with 8^) .
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Did I miss the joke?