New "WILD BOAR" rumor

[BOWHUNTER45]

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...

  now that made me laugh but I worn you , the gals in concrete are mean ..just like the boars.....

[denali]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015013103_apornorthwestferalpigs.html

Washington state is keeping a close eye on the feral pig populations in Oregon, where the fish and wildlife department has ordered farmers to determine the size of the destructive pig populations on their land and get rid of them.

An Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife official says the feral pig populations are likely moving north from groups in California, where they are hunted as game.

The Capital Press reports a group of between 50 and 100 feral pigs in southwestern Idaho was culled to 20 through surveillance and tracking in the area, and Oregon hopes to duplicate that success.

States in the Midwest and Southeast suffer from massive feral pig populations that wreak havoc on valuable crop land.

Oregon officials hope to eradicate them before that happens.


SSS early and often, we don't want them    my  

[lokidog]

SSS for wild boar?   Shoot, Skin, Sizzle? 

[denali]

Yep, exactly what i meant, invite your friends     

[MP123]

That thing is huge!  What did he weigh in at?

[tsimp1211]

whatever, i have been in the south and its seems the deer and pigs get along just fine, i would love to have pigs to hunt but whatever, but i can say this with absolute fact that the wolves would be harder on the deer and elk, but ok dont let the pigs in here, but if they are here what do we do about them since they breed like rabbits and are soon to take over the state.

I live in South Carolina and I can assure you that pigs and deer do not get along.  Luckily we do not have any pigs on our property.  Other properties that I hunt do however, and the pigs will eat everything and run the deer off.  It is legal to bait for deer in the part of South Carolina in which I live, and if hogs get on the corn pile you can forget about shooting a deer.  Hogs would be awful for Washington.  You guys don't want them, I promise!

[firecrotch]

whatever, i have been in the south and its seems the deer and pigs get along just fine, i would love to have pigs to hunt but whatever, but i can say this with absolute fact that the wolves would be harder on the deer and elk, but ok dont let the pigs in here, but if they are here what do we do about them since they breed like rabbits and are soon to take over the state.

I live in South Carolina and I can assure you that pigs and deer do not get along.  Luckily we do not have any pigs on our property.  Other properties that I hunt do however, and the pigs will eat everything and run the deer off.  It is legal to bait for deer in the part of South Carolina in which I live, and if hogs get on the corn pile you can forget about shooting a deer.  Hogs would be awful for Washington.  You guys don't want them, I promise!

I agree with you. I was a hunting guide all last year in Texas.  I had spent many hours in different seminars about the hog problems in Texas throughout the year. If you guys want hogs here you can say good-bye to our quail and pheasant population, and even see the population of deer go down. I cant speak for the elk because there isn't many down there. But hogs will eat anything they can get their snout on. Everything from fawns to mice. At my house in San Angelo i had a few hogs that were coming up to my house nightly and grubbing around. One night they tore things up around the house so bad that they had chewed through the main power box for electricity to my house. I was out of power for 6 days. Like said above everyone knows how devastating they are to any habitat, but with the lack of deer population we have here we will take a serious loss to our deer population.

[Elkrunner]

I say leave them for the rest of the states.  If you want to go hunt pigs, then go out of state.  Sometimes we ask for things that we truly do not know the ramifications of.  I watched a special on Nat Geo awhile back about the growing pig problems in the U.S.  From what I saw, I would not want them in back yard. 

[pianoman9701]

Take a vacation to Hawaii. I believe you can hunt them there without a license.

[ORCA_SIX]

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[Donaye37]

Wild boar in WA haha ill beleive it when I see it. But if there are any it would be fun to get the ol fox hounds and pit bulls out on some good boar, thats some fun. Let us know if there really is some.