New "WILD BOAR" rumor

[mallard79]

Someone is spreading a rumor around Redmond that the Wild Boar are getting out of hand up around Concrete   Anyone else here this one yet?   

[GrainfedMuley]

    let me know if anybody needs help getting rid of the critters

[jackmaster]

ooooohhhhh pick me, pick me, that would be sweet, another critter we could hunt year around

[nontypical176]

Friend of mine found a wild boar lying dead near the end of a landing around Castle Rock.  He took the tusks and called the WDFW.  The WDFW didn't investigate or say anything to him about his find.  I wouldn't have believed him....except for the bone he showed me, looked to be a large animal.  He said it hadn't been dead long when he found it and was a long way from any houses. 

[mallard79]

I hadn't heard it until yesterday when my uncle called me all excited wanting to go hunting in Concrete for wild board. (he is new to hunting and very gullible) i just kinda laughed it off.  He is in a city planning department and a client was telling him about the "problem" they are currently having up there.    I told him I would have to see or get some hard evidence before I went after them. 

It would be fun if we did have some true wild board somewhere in Washington to hunt but I dont think we need those any more than we need the wolves. 

[wsucowboy]

wild boar in Washington would be a bad thing  not really sure why people want them here, there fun to hunt but they destroy a lot of land and they bred like rabbits

[jackmaster]

hell yeah they would be fun to hunt, but they dont eat deer and elk like the wolf does, i do agree however that they do destroy alnd but back in the south they have way more deer than we do and they also have *censored*loads of wild hogs, and they seem to live together quite well, when the pigs root up the earth better vegitation grows back, so i am all for the pigs, wdfw can keep the wolves though 

[KopperBuck]

hell yeah they would be fun to hunt, but they dont eat deer and elk like the wolf does, i do agree however that they do destroy alnd but back in the south they have way more deer than we do and they also have *censored*loads of wild hogs, and they seem to live together quite well, when the pigs root up the earth better vegitation grows back, so i am all for the pigs, wdfw can keep the wolves though 

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's obvious you're not in agriculture. They destroy crops, trees, vegetation... you name it. They are a terrible idea and population control is just about impossible. Losses would be high and provide further unbalance to the current ecosystem. I hope we never see them. Sure they'd be fun to hunt, but do that where they're already established. Last thing we need is some bucket biologest diversifying into hogs.

[colockumelk]

hell yeah they would be fun to hunt, but they dont eat deer and elk like the wolf does, i do agree however that they do destroy alnd but back in the south they have way more deer than we do and they also have *censored*loads of wild hogs, and they seem to live together quite well, when the pigs root up the earth better vegitation grows back, so i am all for the pigs, wdfw can keep the wolves though 

Actually here in Southern Alabama they are a big problem.  Actually they directly compete with deer and eat their food sources.  Deer and elk have a hard enough time without something else easting their food.  Once they take root they are impossible to control.  The game wardens on base constantly are trapping for them and the season is year round with no limit and you can use dogs. 

The boar the member found on here is most likely this:  A domestic pig if it escapes almost immediately grows hair and starts to grow tusks.  Withing 6 months of escaping they look just like a wild pig.  Watch the video "Pig Bomb" on National Geographic and it talks all about it.  Pig are a 

[Birdguy]

Actually here in Southern Alabama they are a big problem.  Actually they directly compete with deer and eat their food sources.  Deer and elk have a hard enough time without something else easting their food.  Once they take root they are impossible to control.  The game wardens on base constantly are trapping for them and the season is year round with no limit and you can use dogs. 

The boar the member found on here is most likely this:  A domestic pig if it escapes almost immediately grows hair and starts to grow tusks.  Withing 6 months of escaping they look just like a wild pig.  Watch the video "Pig Bomb" on National Geographic and it talks all about it.  Pig are a 

I can directly dispute the claim that a domestic pig will look just like a wild pig in 6 months of being in the wild. We raised literally thousands of pigs growing up. We had several boars we used for breeding (mobile stud service) and occasionally we would have one escape while at another farm. On two different occasions we lost the boar for several months in the brush and tangle of western WA, one time 8 months one time 13 months. After relocating the animal a weekend pig hunt was had and we shot them and butchered them as they would no longer let you get close enough to get them back into a pen. While they were a little thinner then when they escaped they were still obviously domestic pigs. I can pick out domestic pigs just about anywhere. We watched the show "Hogs gone Wild " and most of them are wild strain pigs but the really big ones they talk about are mostly domestics that got away. All pigs are born with tusks, boars will develop into impressive tusks given time, We actually used to clip the tusks as piglets and they would not develop like unclipped ones would. I had tusks from boars we butchered as kids that were 6-8 inches long and very sharp. It had nothing to do with them being domestic or wild.

[Heredoggydoggy]

I agree with birdguy.  Back when I still lived in New England, (over 40 years ago), some kids were playing in a marshy area of woods, and saw a huge pig rooting around in the swamp.  They quietly backed out an the police went in and shot the hog.  They figure it escaped from a nearby pig farm and had been living in the swamp for about 5 years, judging by its size.  In the picture in the newspaper, it looked like a big white domestic pig.  Only it weighed nearly 1,000 lbs.

[grundy53]

Someone is spreading a rumor around Redmond that the Wild Boar are getting out of hand up around Concrete   Anyone else here this one yet?   

Nope those are just some local gals...

[Phantom Gobbler]

Did it look like this one?  This one had a flattop and got a bloody nose!

[huntnnw]

not to include errosion around salmon and steelhead rivers

[NWBREW]

OH know........here we go again. O.P all over again.