Id rather take on a bear than a pissed off Male hog.... Impressive beasts indeed..

come on guys don't you see wolves are the cure for the hog problem...


That was a joke by the way I dn't need to be flamed.

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Here in California if the land owner does not charge a fee to hunt pigs on there land and something happens to you (get killed ect.) the land owner can not be seued...Good luck finding one that don't charge.I'm still looking...

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This past fall, I was hunting public land north of Madras on the dove opener and we ran across the carcass of a 400 - 500 pound boar. Huge tusks and looked like the yotes had gotten the entrails but not much more than that. That's the only wild pig I've seen in Oregon, dead or alive.

I agree, boars are like armor-plated angry tanks. They can also run 30 - 40 MPH.

*Cough* *cough* Crane Prairie was ruined by bass, although the trout population is doing okay now. My dad actually caught a ****ing channel cat in Crane Prairie Res. I hope they catch the idiots who are doing this.

As a professional wildlife biologist and former guide on wild pigs in California, let me add my 2 cents.

1) Hogs are, environmentally, a disaster. I have seen areas about an acre in size where hogs have rooted and it looked roto-tilled. Wild onions, they'll scoop them out. Acorns, ditto. That's what the areas I saw were. They'll kill calves. The predation on cattle is greater than wolves. Also eat fawns and calf elk. Grain? We weighed the stomach of one we shot=35 lbs of barley consumed in one night. I've seen 2 inch oak saplings uprooted.

2)They also carry diseases (trichinosis and other worms). Possibly distemper and Parvo. They also spread other alien plants.

3) Dr Reginald Barrett at Univ of California worked as a hunting guide while in college. He had 11 years of data from every hog he or his clients killed. He worked on eradicating pigs from a park they had overran. It was one of the finger lakes south of San Francisco (where the San Andreas fault comes ashore. Look at a map and you'll see that the San Andreas forms Tomales Bay, SF Bay, the finger lakes-all in a straight line). Started out pretty cheap with trapping, then sniping them, then running them with dogs. The last hogs amortized at about $2000 if I remember right. After they stopped trying to get rid of them, they were back within 5 years as bad as ever! Of, the very first thing they did was fence the little park.

I live in Klamath Falls, maybe you know something the rest of us don't know. I've never talked to a hunter here, and I know many, who knows anything about feral hogs in the area. I was told there are a few, at times, in the Klamath River Canyon, but the many times I've been down there looking, have been unproductive, not even any sign. So where do I look in Klamath or Jackson County?

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I say the Oregon Legislature and the Fish & Wildlife Commission are taking a lot for granted. Why do they think they have the authority to dictate to people who are tax payers. We need a bounty impossed, and I'm not saying on who...

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Tonight I ran into a fellow who is a butcher by trade. He hunts pigs just out of Dorris in the Klamath River Canyon, and says he sees them just about anytime he decides to drive down there. He said these pigs are no good to eat and seem to be greasy and not much edible meat compared to the ones living in a drier climate like Red Bluff.

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I spent several years in florida and hunted them a lot. I heard there were hogs east of Klamath Falls, so since we couldn't find any elk last year we spent three days looking for pigs. We never even saw a track, so I'm not sure where they are supposed to be.

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By the questions we pose, ourselves we deceive..........
So limited in thought, by what we choose to perceive...

If ya wanna hunt hogs young man, go East, keep them out of Oregon. Couger and Bear attacks are on the upswing and now I gotta worry about gettin ate by Hogzilla. Just kiddin. Really, we do not need invasive hogs in Oregon. Wipe them out before they get started.

Javelina is a name for collared peccary if I remember correctly. They're like a really smaller but far more aggressive pig, they taste foul, and smell worse. Not on my list of priority animals to hunt anymore.

That my friend would one of the biggest mistakes you ever made in your life. They are extremely tough on the natural habitat. Not to mention competition for food with the native wildlife. Come to Texas and kill as many as you want.

AZ has hogs...across the river from Mesquite, or thereabouts. You don't need a license to hunt them. If you do a vigurous search, you'll find the GPS coordinates.

If you do a search on the AZ Maim and Squish website, you'll find a bunch of info on them.

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The javelina is not a pig or anywhere near one. It just happens to look a little like a pig. Corner one or come across a wounded one and you had better be nippy on your feet, because they have two sets of cutters not just one. A young javie carcase, properly handled can be delicious, but like hogs the older the get the less palatable. Also the javie has a musk gland on its rear haunches and this must be carefully removed if you don't want the meat spoiled. They have every concievable creeping crawling biting bug on them you can imagine and it is not unusual to see the hairs on a dead javies body moving as these little friends start to jump off. The hair is superb for fly tying and the leather makes some of the finest glove leather available(peccary). Hunting them and hogs would have to be top of my list, particularly with a handgun and on foot.

I heard that "there is a kid that works at a gas station over in Madras that knows where the feral hogs are" and beyond that I've heard NOTHING!, before the ODFW got control of them the USDA had control of them, I was #14 on the list to get called to hunt them!, my buddy that called me at work was in front of me! the calls NEVER!! came, the "Oregon Field Guide" show on PBS even did a story on them and they came to the conclusion that there are really none?, some may have been released from a game ranch over there??, but beyond that they simply don't seem to exist?

As many guys here that want to hut them I don't believe that they could become a problem here??

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I hear ya Wrench man, been wanting to hunt hogs for a long time, but there aint none here! i'm in
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