Wild Boar Hunting ...in Ontario

[Mr.Boiler]

My brother in law from Texas was going to hook me up with a few landowners he knew that would have given me free reign and the ammo to eradicate hogs from their land. Very destructive animals. He passed away and so did the invite but a lesson was learned.
These critters can be a royal terror. A couple of them lost some loyal dogs/pets to these hogs not to mention the other livestock and crops.
So it’s not something I look forward to. That being said, I’ll be more than ready to help out.
Wild boar is tasty. Just be careful what you wish for. Too much of a good thing ain’t a good thing. Remember that sugar high we all got from too many bowls of Frosted Flakes or worse... that first hangover from too much Southern Comfort? Gawd I hate that now. Just thinking of it makes me sick...


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[Fenelon]

First off the pigs in the US are not wild boar, they are feral pigs from the start of the Spanish expansion through to modern times, yes, they can survive in Canada and they are in some places.

They are very destructive, they will wreck farmers fields, creeks, native marshland, pretty much everything, they are very invasive and very bad, look at the southern US for that.

Any suggestion of introduction is stupid, farmers would lose their minds on anyone even thinking about it.

This info above is not correct. The hogs that have/are destroying much of the Carolinas are indeed wild boar (European boar). The ones that have/are devastating Smoky Mountains nat. Park are the result of a game preserve escape back in the 20's. There's been some hybridization with local feral pigs since then but the core genetics are still European. They've pretty much destroyed much of the Carolinian habitat in the park and are threatening a lot of the native plant species. I've had a lot of people take SCA jobs for the summer down in the park doing European boar eradication. Pretty cool summer job - getting put up in a state park cabin, getting paid to sitt on shelled corn bait piles with NVG goggles at night, armed with a shotgun and 000 with a laser sight. You first wax the sow with the first shot then you shoot the balance of "the sounder" when the little hogs make their way back to dead mamma. In daytime you visit the mud wallows and crawl through rhododendron thickets in a pair of shorts, with a Llama .357 pistol.

[fratri]

This info above is not correct. The hogs that have/are destroying much of the Carolinas are indeed wild boar (European boar). The ones that have/are devastating Smoky Mountains nat. Park are the result of a game preserve escape back in the 20's. There's been some hybridization with local feral pigs since then but the core genetics are still European. They've pretty much destroyed much of the Carolinian habitat in the park and are threatening a lot of the native plant species. I've had a lot of people take SCA jobs for the summer down in the park doing European boar eradication. Pretty cool summer job - getting put up in a state park cabin, getting paid to sitt on shelled corn bait piles with NVG goggles at night, armed with a shotgun and 000 with a laser sight. You first wax the sow with the first shot then you shoot the balance of "the sounder" when the little hogs make their way back to dead mamma. In daytime you visit the mud wallows and crawl through rhododendron thickets in a pair of shorts, with a Llama .357 pistol.

Sounds like a pretty cool job.
Where do I sign up

[Snowwalker]

Sounds like a pretty cool job.
Where do I sign up

Ya pretty cool, .....till you are in thick bush and get charged. Then it's new underwear time.

[Fenelon]

Here you go Frank!
https://www.nps.gov/grsm/getinvolved...STING-2015.pdf. The last guy I know that worked the pig job said most of the guys he had with him were ex US marines who were back from the desert wars. Read the fine print and you'll see that they want you to bring down a Speedo to wear when you're crawling through the mud wallows (hunting attire would consist of : Gen 4 $38,000USD NVG head unit, .357 handgun with Hollosight, Winchester marine stainless with extender tube, neoprene shell belt on your gut, nylon dress socks to the knee, Speedo, Birkenstock sandles, and an athletic jock cup to protect your parts from the timber rattlesnakes). Deer and coyote hunting would suddenly become boring!

[Lum 24]

No would not want it.

[MikePal]

Here you go Frank!

Holly Crap.... room and board and $125 week..that's huge money back in 2015...HaHa..

I guess having free firearms , unlimited ammo and a target enriched environment makes up for the need for money

"Interns receive dorm housing, uniform shirt, and a weekly stipend ($125)"

[dilly]

Honest question for anyone who’s knows (not trying to be a smart azz). How is it the US is being seemingly overrun and destroyed by invasive wild boar, while Eurasia just treats them like another game animal?
I remember being a little kid in the late 70s believing killer bees would be the death of everyone...could it be there is some level of hysteria going on here?

[Snowwalker]

Honest question for anyone who’s knows (not trying to be a smart azz). How is it the US is being seemingly overrun and destroyed by invasive wild boar, while Eurasia just treats them like another game animal?
I remember being a little kid in the late 70s believing killer bees would be the death of everyone...could it be there is some level of hysteria going on here?

It think it may have more to do with Europe having a more "Pure" breed strain of hogs, which is natural to it's environment and has natural predators. Europeans hunt them like we hunt deer.
Like in North America 9 out of 10 hunters are deer hunting, 9 out of 10 Europeans are boar hunters.

In Europe boar hunting is the sport of kings, in North America only Rednecks, cajuns, and weirdos hunt hogs.

[Species8472]

could it be there is some level of hysteria going on here?

Yep.

Texas the epicenter of the hog apocalypse with somewhere between 2 and 4 million feral/wild hogs on the loose still has a whitetail population of 3.6 million. That's 10 times our whitetail population in a state with a smaller land base than Ontario. That being said not all of Ontario is whitetail habitat but if say 1/3 of the province is whitetail habitat than Texas has maybe double our area of suitable habitat. That translates to a deer density 5x higher than ours in spite of all those hogs. Are the hogs impacting the population of deer? Who knows but it doesn't seem to be significant in the case in Texas.