conga line?

[muldoon]

what the?  look towards the left side.. 

[StinkerBell]

I see where the term "Piggy Back Ride" comes from.

[SkagitDrifter]

More like a "love train"

[peternap]

That must be like heaven. No seasons, unlimited bacon and hams for the taking......

[benevolance]

Can you hunt wild boar year round out there?

[desdawg]

Are those wild boars or feral pigs. I had read somewhere that feral pigs had become a nuisance some places. In AZ we have Javelina. They have poor vision and a great sense of smell. Their main food source is prickly pear cactus. I see prickly pear with bites taken out of the pads fairly often. Yummmy.

[Squirl]

They have become a serious problem in PA.  They are kill on sight by the game commision.  They encourage people to hunt them anyway anyhow.  I heard they taste horrible though.

[muldoon]

benevolance - yes, they are considered a nuisance animal and can be hunted year round with any firearm day or night.  There is no limit on them.  These animals are not native and have no true natural predators, they are very invasive and destructive to the environment.  They also reach sexual maturity at 6 months and have litters between 10 and 13 piglets twice a year.  Simply put, once they establish themselves in an area they cannot be removed, only managed.  They destroy pastures and fences daily. 

desdawg - for me at least the terms wild boars and feral pigs are the same thing, also would add razorbacks, rooters, and some rather colorful names.  These are mostly european pigs that came over centuries ago and have spread across the country mostly in the south over the years.  These include the feral pigs and domesticated hogs that have escaped and gone wild.  Usually the domesticated pigs are the very big ones (bred for meat afterall), and the wild ones are much smaller.  They will breed together and both are common.  Javelinas on the other hand are much smaller and skinnier, they are native to south Texas (terrain that looks just like Mexico and Arizona). 

I also wouldn't really call it "hunting" as much as pest control.  It's not uncommon to bait them, and I have seen them trapped overnight and shot the next morning, in fact some ranches do that every morning and have for years.  It's not for sport, it's farmers just trying to keep their livelihoods from being destroyed. 

They taste delicious when slow cooked over smoke with a good rub.  Squirl, I'd be happy to post up some prep instructions and a recipe for you if they are in your area. 

[glenn kangiser]

We have them too altough I have only seen thm a couple times.  Seems they are regulated here though. 

Yup - 17.75 per tag plus license unless you are a non-resident, in which case you will need a loan.

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/pdffiles/fg320_08.pdf

[apaknad]

open season on feral pigs in MI. we don't have wild boars.

[benevolance]

A lot of people go wild boar hunting in the Upstate of SC...A few times people asked me to go...I said no thank you... They get the dogs let em run and chase after them when they signal that they have found something.

There are native wild boar here... not sure how bad the feral pig problem is in this part of the country...warm as it is I suspect there would be a decent amount of feral pigs on the loose... But I cannot see why the feral pigs would not interbreed and integrate themselves completely with the native wild boar. ...And I suspect that if you examined the wild boars here that they would all be infact some sort of hybrid between the 2 types of pig

[peternap]

While there were Russan Black Boar brought in for sporting purposes, most of the wild hogs we see today are the result of allowing hogs to run loose. At one time, people didn't pen their hogs. They would mark or brand them, usually with a certain notch in the eat, and allow them to run loose. They fed on wild plants (and animals, hogs will eat anything they can kill). The meat of acorn fed hogs is bitter so a month or so before butchering time, they would be rounded up with the help of dogs trained just for that. They would be fed corn until butchered.

[benevolance]

Back home in Canada they used to let the hogs roam loose and the hogs would come back as they would eventually get hungry and they were smart enough to know there was food and drink back at the farm...of course this was a couple hundred years ago when there was plenty of open land and no chance of your neighbor being burdened by your animals running loose.