NC hog hunting

Chuckman

Chuckman

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Just looking around on NCwildlife and read that this past Dec they made it legal (with a free and downloadable) permit to hunt feral hogs AT NIGHT AND WITH LIGHTS. hell yeah!! :bounce2::bounce2::bounce2:
 
Get the Bastards!!! they are an incredible nusance just like the damn Coyotes. The are killing all the native wildlife babies and destroying habitat rapidly. Kill them all!!:uzi::poop::sniper::smokin:
 
I saw some pics of w wealthy Texas landowner who is at war w the beasts. He and buddies mounted a machinegun to a sidebyside 4wheeler and slaughtered a pile of pigs in one trip around his place. They are piled up like pulpwood in the pics and the Old rancher has a tiny, dead piglet hanging from his grinning teeth by it's tail!! I hear some jackasses are actually releasing them in some areas of our state, to hunt them. That is disturbing to me.
 
Do any of y'all know if there are hogs around where i live? I am in whiteville which is about 45 minutes north of wilmington, i hunt a good bit but I never see any hogs.
 
They are very warry and do alot of movement-feeding at night. You can see the damage they do rooting/digging up the ground in swampy areas and farm fields as a clue to where they are in numbers. I'm sure you co wildlife agent can tell you where some are nearby.
 
Chuckman said:
Just looking around on NCwildlife and read that this past Dec they made it legal (with a free and downloadable) permit to hunt feral hogs AT NIGHT AND WITH LIGHTS. hell yeah!! :bounce2::bounce2::bounce2:
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I also live in huntersville....anytime you wanna do some hunting I'm game!!! Ima avid bow hunter!!
 
zjguy said:
Do any of y'all know if there are hogs around where i live?
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Friends of mine have been seeing/shooting them on their lease near Rockingham. I'm sure they've made it to Whiteville by now. Won't take long for them to multiply & spread out! Destructive bastards.....
 
yea i always hear that they multiply like rabbits but i just haven't seen any around here or heard of anyone killing any but I'm sure it won't be long.
 
I have heard there are wild hogs all over eastern N.C. swamps and wetlands since thousands were released by Hurricane Floyd? A friend has trailcam pics from near here of a huge black pig that looks like a bear at first glance in the nightime only photos.
 
When I was young there used to be plenty of these things around here, near and in the south Mountains. There are none now. All hunted out thankfully. They are mean. Unlike other wildlife, they will come right up into a yard and not easily run off. They will mangle a dog and a man if given the chance.
Once while camping in Spivey Cove, Tn side of Tellico. I noticed the whole campground looked like it was tilled up, as in ready to plant grass. I asked a Ranger about it and he said it was Hogs! Seriously EVERYTHING was rooted up except where it was graveled in the campground.
 
Hey would any of you fellas let me come down your way and do a weekend night hunt this summer Id pay for your time/landuse and roast a hog too i also would bring > :beer: :beer::beer:
 
Ill take a bunch of em back with me get em out of yalls way!!!
 
I have heard conflicting stories of whether these hogs are good to eat, any of you have any experience? Or are they just nuisance animals like coyotes?
 
In Tennessee, they made it illegal to hunt them for the fact people were importing them to hunt. I feel the same will happen here too eventually. You still can hunt them in TN but you have to get a permit and it has to be from land you own and farm and there's a small limit to make sure you're not importing them.
 
They are pretty much everywhere now. But they will stay close to a water source like the rivers/creeks etc. They are good eating too.
 
When I was in FL, we used to hunt them at night with dogs as a sport and for meat. Dogs would bay the hog (stop it from running) then we would bring in the catch dog (which was a possessed psycho dog that just had a natural hate for pigs) or dogs depending on size of pig and release it/them to "catch" the hogs (which is basically runing in and grabbing the ears and hanging on). Then, while the hog was preoccupied trying to get the dogs off of it, we would run in grab the back legs and flop them over and tie their feet, yes "hog tie" them :lol:. This all happens in a less than a minute normally. If it was a boar hog, it would get "cut" and released. This kept the reproduction in check and if someone caught it down the road, made for some good eatin. The good ole days! Haven't seen any sign in out areas. They will destroy an area in short order and reproduce rapidly. I wouldn't mind finding a place to hunt as well. Heck a few phone calls and can probably get some dogs as well.
 
Many years ago Russian Wild Boars were imported and released in the mountains by wealthy landowners so they could hunt them like the Eropean arristocrats did. I believe some were released around Biltmore and a few other places and the decendents are still around in some remote areas. Any domestic pigs like the ones escaped from hogfarms in the Hurricane floods will quickly, in a few generations, start to show wildboar traits like longer hair,coloring-brown,spotted,black etc. longer snouts-tusks, humps on their backs and bad dispositions. They are not the same as the Russian strain though, but still dangerous and sometimes unafraid of man when they are large. Not what you want to encounter or suprise up close in a thick swamp or other dense wooded area w/o some good firepower!
 
I've always heard that if the hog smells like shit, it will taste like shit and it's hit or miss. I'm sure just like any animal, it has a lot to do with what it's been eating.
 
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