When is Ontario going to have a full out hog season.

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November 28th, 2019, 04:46 PM
Snowwalker

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

Please post the pictures here,too. I'd like to see what they were...escaped farm hogs or the real deal Wild Boars. Hopefully,they're the former and not the latter and .270Win is what I'd be using on them,without doubt.

Here is what he sent me..
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November 28th, 2019, 04:58 PM
Snowwalker

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Originally Posted by punkrockerpj

i wake up in a cold sweat sometimes when i have nightmares of my hogs escaping the pig pen and into the cornfield...

Well I am sure you could lots of help tracking them down for the freezer. But lets keep them inside.
November 28th, 2019, 05:01 PM
fishfood

Nice work

Enjoy the good eats

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November 28th, 2019, 05:28 PM
trimmer21

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

Here is what he sent me..
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WOW!! They sure look like the real deal to me. That ain't good,but,I know they're damn good eatin'.
November 28th, 2019, 05:35 PM
fishfood

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

WOW!! They sure look like the real deal to me. That ain't good,but,I know they're damn good eatin'.

That map in post 2 first link.

Check it out might be sightings near you . Maybe find a few public lands near by to check out for some extra time in the woods. . Maybe their is signs of then contact the neighboring homes to inform them? Might lead to extra property opportunities close by .

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November 28th, 2019, 05:52 PM
Snowwalker

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Originally Posted by fishfood

That map in post 2 first link.

Check it out might be sightings near you . Maybe find a few public lands near by to check out for some extra time in the woods. . Maybe their is signs of then contact the neighboring homes to inform them? Might lead to extra property opportunities close by .

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Thing is.....you have to know what pig sign looks like.
Just like deer sign, or bear sign. If you don't know what to look for you may not see it.

Say your walking some low land near a river or creek. You see mud holes and some mud on tree trunks, but you figure it's just from flooding. You don't know your walking past a pig wallow.
November 28th, 2019, 06:02 PM
fishfood

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

Thing is.....you have to know what pig sign looks like.
Just like deer sign, or bear sign. If you don't know what to look for you may not see it.

They leave well done trails when there is a heard.
Usually something out there if they walk the woods they leave the some tracks.

Wild pigs are new so yeah we will have some learning to do yes . But if you start looking for it you will learn . You dont have to go out looking just for pigs ,check out the area. We will eventually have to learn their tracks are different. They like a water source and there will be dug up areas. It's a start lol.

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November 28th, 2019, 06:10 PM
jaycee

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Originally Posted by canadaman30

It's already happened decades ago, so where are all of them?By now we should be in a pig apocalypse in Ontario...lol

About 40 years ago, a bunch of pigs escaped from a farm east of us, they were lose for about 3 years, my buddy shot 4 with his .222 , I got 2 with my .243 and a few were shot by other coyote hunters. They did not expand their range nor did they expand the herd greatly to any extent.
Fast forward another 20 odd years, I shot an escapee black boar , broken off tusks , and the butcher said that it appeared to be a wild boar type due to it's looks, long snout , bristly black hair, this I shot while hunting/calling coyotes. From what I found out was that a couple more were shot in the area and again while they were there they did not proliferate to any degree and have people yelling " the sky is falling ".

I have always maintained that If they are here, It's just something else that I /we can hunt and enjoy the meat , the meat is very tasty .
If you see tracks that look like small deer tracks, but more rounded , with dew claw prints wider than deers, this is what I saw when we shot ours 40 and 20 years ago.
November 28th, 2019, 07:04 PM
fishfood

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Originally Posted by Matt86

i shot one and my girl friends dad shot another when we recovered mine, second one had hair up like a dog ready to charge from what i could tell and was shot at 5 yards, these were shot in nolfolk county, the boar weighted 185 pounds. Probably the only 2 around as no more have been sighted this was the week after thanksgiving and now the corns down so better odds of spotting them if there was more where we shot these 2

These guys look like yours

Spotted near Waterford on on Oct 17th 2019.

What was the gender on them ? Both the same ? Or able to breed?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34513676

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November 28th, 2019, 07:27 PM
Snowwalker

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As Jaycee just pointed out. The tracks could be mistaken for deer.

I am wondering if it would be worth getting a jug or two of pig oil( a bait ) and setting out a few trail cams. One cam per oiled tree.

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