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Hey guys, hopefully everyone is safe and enjoying the weather out there while chasing gobblers. I was talking to avid angler who's buddy buddy with the local MNR officer...it seems boar sightings are up this spring and was told in 5-10 years the province will be overrun as southern Ontario farms are ideal with no predators....anybody see anything?:D
More curious...or just vicious rumours
Thanks
If I see one while turkey hunting it'll be sausage before day end
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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers
Not seen or heard anything in my part of the world.... But sure sounds like they will be tasty.
X3. We lifted our old 10x15' outdated concrete patio off the kitchen last summer,tripling the size with with interlocking,new planters,shrubs and trees and furniture. I bought a new combo smoker-BBQ this spring to go with that's just screaming out for smoked bacon and hams with copious amounts of cold beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers
Seen a video of a black pig running across a cut corn field in Port Perry from less than a week ago.
Can't say for certain it was a feral pig, But looked like it and it wasn't anyone I personally know that took the video, so take it for what it's worth....
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I hope it’s really close !! A load of #5 might just tick it off !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers
How many point I need to get a Boar tag ?.....
I have heard this rumour for over 20 years. I have yet to see a wild �� boar
ROFL!! Wild Boars,so far,are just like Sasquatch,the best protection against them is a camera.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilly
Their bellies are too thin for bacon, they are too lean.Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
There were a couple shot in Chatham-Kent a while back.
What type of shot would it take to take them down? buck shot? BB? #2?
Wouldn't matter. I read an article yesterday about the MNR and their so called Invasive Species plans in Ontario when dealing with these "feral pigs". It's suggested that it include a ban on incidental hunting of them.
Not that it's going to actually stop anyone but just food for thought.
The State of New York declared a moratorium on hunting Wild Boars except for protection of livestock and property by landowners in an effort to determine if hunting causes a population explosion by increased breeding rates. It's been an unmitigated disaster. There's Hogs everywhere tearing up the countryside. It's becoming a very hot issue politically both on the local scene and in state politics. This should be very interesting to see how it shakes out.Quote:
Originally Posted by smokin'stoegie
I shot 2 around waterford ontario in October 2019, boar and a sow.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilly
people been seeing them for a week before I seen them, They did not taste good compare to a raised pig, if there is a next one I will leave in the ditch for the coyotes to chew on.
So the big question, did the 2 you shot escape from a 'boar farm' in the area? come up from the US? or are these the invasive boars from Saskatchewan?
I'm trying to understand if they cause such devastation why is the MNR staying tip lipped about situation :silly:
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Originally Posted by Matt86
Heck call me I'll come pick it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt86
Guess the 5 that my son and i shot in Texas failed to get that memo. The bacon we smoked off them was definitely leaner than conventional bacon but there was no mistaking it for anything other than bacon. Smoked a bunch of ham as well and it was decent too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
I've had Wild Boar bacon and chops from a smoker and it was delicious. BIL shot a couple in Pennsylvania a few years ago that I'd defy anyone to tell the difference between wild and domestic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Like all wild game,the trick is to not shoot them after they've been running. It's the build up of lactic acid in the muscles that gives game meat that "gamey" taste. If you watch the Wild Boar hunts from Eastern Europe on YouTube videos,you'll notice that they use a driven hunt and shoot hogs on the run. They keep them for trophies,but,they don't eat them. Wild pork served in hunting lodges and restaurants are grown domestically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt86
Wild boar hunt is mostly presented (as EXCELLENT sales pitch for Outfitters or Scope Mfg or Gun /Gear Mfg ) as driven boar hunt.With experts shooting boars on a run.Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
They aim (and hit)the boar "behind the ear"to make the boar cartwheel,and expire in seconds.
Which is one way of hunting wild boars ,at least in Central/Eastern Europe+the Balkans.
Other ways(very popular and very widely practiced)is hunting them from elevated stands (European style wooden towers )at feeding spots(bait and feed as food substitute) or at watering holes. Many countries let you hunt them with searchlights at feeders/watering holes. Does require little shooting skill(versus shooting them on drives)and it is almost a slam dunk thing.
They are also hunted from stands(mostly again from wooden towers)on field edges and established trails.
Heck-they are even hunted spot and stalk. Many times, especially in thick bush or rolling land.
As for not eating wild boar meat - i am not sure where they do not eat them,but the countries i know of,they do. Happily.
Trophy is the hide ,made in a rug,similar to bear trophies............and the tusks,professionally set on wooden plaques.
"If" there are trophies-mostly the small or average boars are harvested(numbers game).Old boars are as smart as old bears.
side note:
A local guy from my place built a hang on treestand like "contraption",and in a 1 sq km wooded area (1.5 km from my birthplace)shot one year (few years back) 8 wild boars in a season. Just sat on a right spot and waited. Definitely earned major fame locally.
There are many horror stories about wild boars being destructive.
They are-but in a way,i think that is also a sales pitch of a sort.
Their way of life is quite noticeable on the landscape, and the local farmers from back home do not hate them less, then the farmers from let's say ,Texas,. Yet, they are part of the balanced landscape and they fit nicely in the ecosystem(they are not invasive species in Europe).
If they would be so unbearably destructive, they would be wiped out from populated areas in Europe many hundred years ago .
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Originally Posted by gbk
Awesome posts,gbk. There's nothing like information from folks who grew up in different areas. Thanks for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbk
If science could come up with something that would sterilize the wild pigs and not bother other species it might solve some of the problems. I have never seen one in the many years I have hunted Deer and Turkeys in 68a..........................Daniel
The bacon is thin, they do not get nearly as fat, although maybe the ones you got down south were an exception. I shot a 250lb Eurasian boar and the belly was like 3/4in thick, yes I turned it into bacon but it is not bacon as most would expect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Species8472
The meat is dark, it is a red meat and not a white meat, there is a difference and most of that comes with age. Domestic pigs that go to market are just babies.Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
The one I had ended up with boar taint, of the 3 pigs taken out that day mine was the only one with taint :(, glad I did not pay for it.
The animal was much leaner than a domestic pig, much darker meat (similar to the heritage pork we bought locally) but even with the taint the chops done up on the BBQ were amazing. The stink from taint comes when cooking, if you eat it cold and or cook it outside the stink is not nearly as bad, plus smoking covers up most of it. The hams and bacon we had done, yes bacon but when cured and smoked worked out to about 1/2" wide strips, are not bad at all, a fine way to deal with an animal with taint.
Bacon without fat ...might as well turn it into jerky :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Think about the belly on a large buck white tail, add a bit more fat, that is what it looked like.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
I'm starving now....I would think the legs would be good cured and smoked like a prosciutto, but won't know until on walks across my runway in 58.....:)
If you are starving now you would be dead before the prosciutto was ready, ha ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiveBates
If I'm right in thinking what the taint is, my grandma called it "brimmin".
Our church had until covid hit, an annual pancake and sausage supper in April. All the church ladies would get 10 lbs of sausage to roast. One year grandma got a batch that was brimmin. I hadn't heard that term before, I was a teenager. She said it's from boar/ male pigs that aren't de-nutted. Said sometimes they only got 1 nut and it affected the smell of the meat cooking and flavour.
Well we served it. The men of the church put on the supper, alot were farmer's that at 1 time raised pigs or grew up on a farm that did. Some had 1 bite and that was enough for them. I did the same. One lady said it was the best sausage she ever had.
Some one was raising them to be killed and they got out in June, once crops started coming off is when sightings started, But that's how it all starts I guess, If they would have bred while out would have been the beginning in our areaQuote:
Originally Posted by FISH-ON
My wife could eat it until she got pregnant, than no dice. We had some smoked sausage and hams made with what was left.Quote:
Originally Posted by cramadog2
OFAH is not supporting hunting them. HAH!! They'll be s-o-r-r-y.Quote:
Originally Posted by FISH-ON
If it has nuts intact doesn’t matter what it is not good eating
LMAO That's hilarious!!! and I completely agree!!Quote:
Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers
I sure hope like hell this is all just a rumor - like a bad dream. These things are a menace and I can only hope they never make their way down to Niagara.
As far as predation goes I saw lots of these this spring - this particular one came in for a closer look.
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