Update on the Super Pigs

[K9TXS]

CBS

USA Today

 

[Mrvmax]

Bring them on, I'm ready. Just sighted in the 500 S&W revolver yesterday and it's ready for its first kill.

I'm heading to a deer hunt next week but it's unlimited feral hogs too, same the following week.

 

[snox801]

Ya I'm kinda selfishly hoping they get to much asap. I need something to pokes holes in year round

 

[snox801]

What a poor writing article. Michigan does not have a problem. I actively search and ask everyone and not a soul has seen or killed one. Of course a few are here but nothing that could be called a problem.

 

[Taco John]

You never see wild hogs where there's real winters.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

You never see wild hogs where there's real winters.

Saskatchewan doesn't have real winters?

Wild pigs invade Canadian provinces—an emerging crisis for agriculture and the environment - College of Agriculture and Bioresources

Wild pigs—a mix of wild boar and domestic swine—are spreading rapidly across Canada, threatening native species such as nesting birds, deer, agricultural crops, and farm livestock, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) shows.

agbio.usask.ca

 

[Darryle]

You never see wild hogs where there's real winters.

You are wrong, the most adaptable animal on the planet, they are the zebra mussel of the 4 legged critter world.

Also, you think you want them right up to the point you actually get them and realize how destructive they are. They will push deer and other animals out of an area, they'll do the same with elk. They will literally eat anything, plant or animal, including each other.

Also, you will have them before you realize that you have a problem, because when you see the signs, they are already established in the area.

 

[59FLH]

What a poor writing article. Michigan does not have a problem. I actively search and ask everyone and not a soul has seen or killed one. Of course a few are here but nothing that could be called a problem.

Yet.

 

[bdlesh]

Think of them as the illegals on 4 feet. They invade, destroy everything and breed like flies....

 

[snox801]

Yet.

Well it been the same since I was out of high school. Be very tough to have them here. Just the fact Michigan is mostly small tracts of land and they are almost all hunted. We've been told since the 90's we would have a pig problem it's just never happened. In fact it's very rare I think we had less than 10 total sighting last year. And how many were just domestics pigs that were out

 

[snox801]

Just as a thought experiment. Would you think it would be that bad? It would allow sportsman to get in the field much more than the several weeks a year. Yes they cause damage sure but so do deer.

 

[Lee7588]

You never see wild hogs where there's real winters.

Do you mean those Russian boars are domesticated hogs?

 

[Small Lady]

I've traveled, hiked, camped, back country skied and snowmobiled a lot of BC Canada, and never seen even 1 wild pig. So if they are here, they sure are hard to spot.

 

[Reelamin]

I have no doubt these SUPER PIGS wont make it because a BOMB STORM or some other made up media grab ya title will wipe them out. Now if they were just regular wild pigs.....a standard blizzard should take care of them.