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[yote300wsm]

After the Nuclear Holocaust, the only critters left will be wild hogs, coyotes, cockroaches and mosquito's.

[RedFeather]

Those hogs such as Arkansas razor backs can truly grow huge.  A friend of my dad's was driving on a Georgia back road in his 1965 Pontiac Bonneville when he rounded a corner and came directly on one in the middle of the bend.  Hit it dead center.  Said the hog was so solid it broke the engine mounts.

Was at the county fair a few years back and there was a midway side show with a big brown hog that weighed either 800 or 1000 pounds.  They had him in a narrow pen.  You could pet him on the back (he was very tame) and that bad boy was solid as a rock.  Maybe three to four feet across the shoulders.  Looked just like a jumbo barnyard pig only on steroids.  I'll bet that's what this wild hog had in him.  But, you know, those are just really big pigs.  I'll bet the ones with the European boar may be smaller but a heckuva lot tougher.  Be sure to carry some truffles if you go after one.  Maybe distract it if it charges.  Think so?  Yeah, I doubted that one, myself.  Milkyway bar?

[Scooter B]

They are out of control down here in South Louisiana.  They can destroy an entire lease if not controlled.  My brother in law holds the land lease and the law is to shoot every hog that moves.  They are getting smarter, and you don't see the monsters during the day anymore.

Rumor has it, that they started the same way down here.  Someone had 10 or so domestic pigs down on their land for whatever reason, and they got out during a hurricane in the late 60's  (no wild boar here before then) and went ferrel in a few short years.  Now they have truned into the full blown "hogzilla" type.

[a1Bogey]

Down here in Georgia the european type hogs got started because they were brought in and released into the countryside. Think hunt clubs.   Certain individuals transported them from Arkansas .  They thought they would be great hunting.

Now they are everywhere.  Ruining fields and destroying habitat.  They are mostly nocturnal  creatures which makes them difficult to hunt.

Bogey

[shady816]

i have a 300 acre hunt lease in maddison va. which boarders culpepper county where the pigs have been spotted. i personnaly have never seen one but it looks like it wont be long most likely next season. i know they are not around my lease for we used to dump 1000 pounds of corn up and down logging roads during the summer to help hold the deer and with trail cams going all season we never got one pic of a pig but plenty of bears though. i would be curious to khow how the pigs would co exist on the property with the deer or bear for example it did not take long to figure out that when we were seeing bears we would not see a single deer and when we saw plenty of deer there were no bears to be found.

[JonnyReb]

  This topic got me wondering how close hogs were to where i live in N.C.  I googled it and was excited to find that the county workers has found wild boar in all of their outskirting parks within the county. I know i shouldn't be excited about an invasive species but i can't help it, i'd love to hunt them behind the house. One of the parks, mountain island park, is only a mile or so through the woods from my house. So they are here now, just in small numbers. This got me thinking about all the upturned ground in the river bottom behind me, i assumed it was all turkey but now i'm wondering, i got one pic on my game cam last year that for all the world looked like a boars back, no tail or head visable as it walked right in front of the camera, set a little higher for deer. Now i'm thinking i could already have a few back there. Looks like a corn pile and a camera set out should tell me in short order.  J