I’ll definitely be following this, mainly just to see if they make it to those that wanted them. They are manageable, but they are also nomadic. We may go months without seeing them, then we’ll have 4-5 sounders on the property at one time. The trap stays active year round. Thermals are used. Dogs are used. Yet, we still have them. And y’all can eat all those stinking things y’all want. Just use your best coyote recipe and they should turn out just fine. There are NO love for hogs down here.

LOL BMPs = Best Management Practices

They breed very young have aton of young and can have more than one litter a year. The old county prosicuter and his big wig friend had a large lease for years. Wild hogs just showed up running near that lease and were around for about 6 years but they never took off. I was young and when I told people I saw wild Hogs they said I was full of it. A few year later some were being shot by deer hunters and made the news. I was not full of it any more. I guess they were two to establish a problem population or maybe that were all male ? Ever Kenedy the prosicuter let them lose to hunt with his friends but.....

I'm glad they never got a solid foot hold after seeing the damage they did to the place in Florida where I hunted them.

I spent a month up in that area trapping beaver. It was the year after Belcourt flooded. I can see that there would be a chance of pigs getting a foot hold up there in the timber. There are very few pigs sighted in ND and the majority are shot or trapped by WS pretty quick. At this point WS does not spend much time dealing with wild hogs, because there are so few of them. I just don't see them doing well in open prairie with our winters.

The wild pigs were originally spread from escaping from high fence hunt places or farms. That goes for the entire US. They were not here until man had them in a fence and they got loose. Making it illegal to hunt them cuts down on the number escaping and populating the country side because of people selling high fence hog hunts. To me it make scenes. The ones that were coming to ND came from Canadian high fence hunts, is what the train of thought.

Here in Minnesota they might want to save them. They would be very rare.

I see the source of this news is Fiels and Stream magazine. Hmm, not a real trustworthy source imo.

Pigs were first brought to Cuba by Columbus then Spanish explorers took some from Cuba and brought the to North America.
Years later folks started bringing in the Eurasian types for hunting purposes and they escaped and bred with the feral domestic hogs folks let loose.

In much of the south, rural folks free ranged hogs in the bottoms - hogs fattened up on acorns, then trapped them and put them on corn for a few weeks and then butchered them. They did this for years. I have talked to some old timers who said they were doing in in the 1930’s and their grand dads did it before them. They free ranged hogs where I lived up until about 1990. Those hogs were just left to fend for themselves. The hog doggers took the brunt of the blame for transporting hogs - but hogs also have legs and they know how to use them.

Once they are in the area, they cannot be eradicated. We kill, kill and kill more every chance we get. They are smart and produce a lot of offspring. We shoot them. We trap them. I even try to hit the little ones with the truck and have.

Some neighbors share the same goal. Some don't. They may leave for a bit seeking a different food source. They come back.

I have not eaten one in years. I leave them where I shot them.

One bonus is that my fur is much better than others in the area. My buyer and I speculate it's the pork.

I too thought it was cool when I saw my first 20 years ago at my place. Do not wish for them.

Groendyke's had them for years on the ranch on the South Canadian, people around Fay were catching them in the early 80's.

A spring flood in 96 the Russian wild pigs swam over the fences. They were raised at that time for the European dining experience, go figure. The big 7 inch tusk males went to game farms in Tenn. The federal vets were not happy taking blood samples before export.

My first encounter was when squirrel hunting in a black spruce forest, the 22 cooey with big swales dug out in the sphaagum moss they were eating- it was not a moose because the snow was still in the 3 foot height= I backed out nothing like under gunned at the time.

They can swim faster than you can paddle a canoe, because we went after some in the marsh for 30 minutes and 3 miles later.

All of the old timers around me blame him for the hogs.

It’s already illegal to kill wild hogs here in Minnesota, yes we have a few , I have run into a few over the years, not many it’s true but they are out there, according to the DNR your supposed to notify them if you run across one, most hunters and know just shoot and shut up about it

Supposedly the MN DNR had the state make it illegal to shoot wild hogs as a way to prevent canned hog hunts

They probably want to establish enough of them to have a season on them so they can charge a separate fee to hunt them like they do with turkeys, trapping, pheasants, etc. With them it's all about the money. Then when they start to invade the Twin City suburbs they might realize too late what a mistake they made.

Wild, dangerous pig attacks farmer in North Dakota
The wild pig put down after trying to attack a farmer.
The wild pig put down after trying to attack a farmer.(Nelson County, ND Sheriff's Dept

Sorry, but tried linking a story and this is all I got. But watch out, here they come!! Lol

You gots a better chance to see a polar bear in ND than a super pig.



You guys are supposed to be outdoorsmen.


Your supposed to have a better grasp of nature than the avg urban idiot.






It's called click bait. FFS!

Texas as others are the problem, they charge guy's to hunt or lease there ground to a couple wealthy guy's, it's hard to keep hogs in check if you don't let people do it.
The times I went to TX I would set in the cafe and listen to the local whine how much trouble the hogs caused them, then I would say I can go kill a few or run them off, the response, well I don't have an y on my place. Lol

in Manitoba they are mostly in the spruce woods area.
They are spreading out and travel the river valleys.
Here is a map of a boar that was radio collared & he put on some miles.
He got within 2 miles of my place.... we get the odd one passing through.

Watch out Marty, they’re coming for ya.