Eliminating pigs

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Sounds like a two step process -

1.  Shoot.
2.  Repeat.

Or is it three when you add "Eat" in there some place?

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Was hoping for some miracle odor they don't like   LOL   Shooting them could be a lot of fun but am trying to be quiet with only 3 weeks until archery.  Maybe if they get shot at enough, they catch on and leave the area...  is that wishful thinking?

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I think the idea of stopping feeding them is a good one.  No free food, no wild pigs, but I also realize that you're also trying to bring deer in.  In Michigan, they banned recreational feeding and baiting for deer, due to the DNR finding one case of chronic wasting disease in a game farm.  A lot of hunters started howling about how the ban was going to hurt their chances.  I don't know what the final deer kill was for 2008, but I think most hunters found that the ban didn't really hurt.

Is it legal in NC to put salt blocks out?  I know the deer would be attracted to it, but I don't know whether pigs like salt, too.

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I'm not aware of anything we can't put out.  Can tell you that whatever is tearing my area up also likes the Whitetail Institute 3006 minerals. 

I think the idea of stopping feeding them is a good one.  No free food, no wild pigs, but I also realize that you're also trying to bring deer in.  In Michigan, they banned recreational feeding and baiting for deer, due to the DNR finding one case of chronic wasting disease in a game farm.  A lot of hunters started howling about how the ban was going to hurt their chances.  I don't know what the final deer kill was for 2008, but I think most hunters found that the ban didn't really hurt.

Is it legal in NC to put salt blocks out?  I know the deer would be attracted to it, but I don't know whether pigs like salt, too.

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Wild pork blows venison away, IMHO. -Bill

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I had some at a bar down in Florida several years ago and I agree.  Now living in NC that is one of the biggest pork producers in the country, I have access to several whole pig cookers and hope to try cooking one of these babies soon.  Still have to verify via the cam that my problem is pigs, but if I was up in PA, based upon the damage, would say I have a bear problem and cannot find anyone here saying they have ever seen a bear...thus the pig theory.

Wild pork blows venison away, IMHO. -Bill

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Whitetail...if you need someone who is willing come down and take care of some of those porkers for you let me know!!!  I will be available to do some damage to that population!!!  HAHAHA I have an AR 10 that would help cut down on some of them pigs for ya!!! 

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Could also bring a bow down there too!!!  Are you allowed to kill them all year round or only for a specific season? 

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Sounds like a good day or two of target practice.  Go shoot hogs don't go to the range.  COULD BE another TH Challenge here.  Everyone get together on someone's place with a hog problem and have a prize for the biggest hog, most hogs, etc.  I am sure we have a few member who would like those braggin' rights.

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I'm in!  I love me some pork...and bacon...and sausage...!!!  LOL. 

I wanna hunt some pigs.  Who has a good pig population??  Georgia?  Florida?? 

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I checked with the game commission and the only pig population that is regulated in NC is a wild boar population in the western part of the state.  The remainder are open season year round.  The pigs in our area are hybrids in they started as escapees from the local pig farms and have become wild.  In some areas, they do lots of crop damage so shooting them is encouraged.  I have even heard of farmers who don't normally allow hunters on their property for regular type hunting, allow them on to take out pigs.

Could also bring a bow down there too!!!  Are you allowed to kill them all year round or only for a specific season? 

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Being from florida we trap them,shoot them,and I put up field fence around any area that i dont want them to get into. I have killed 20 hogs in the last 3 weeks. It is great fun in the off season.

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They won't go away. How to make 'em leave the corn for the deer? LOTS OF BULLETS!!! The only people who want these things in their area are the ones that don't have 'em in their areas yet! Once they get 'em, they'll be sorry! Shoot straight, shoot often!                         

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Being from florida we trap them,shoot them,and I put up field fence around any area that i dont want them to get into. I have killed 20 hogs in the last 3 weeks. It is great fun in the off season.

20 pigs in 3 weeks makes....a lot of bacon!  What do you do with it all?

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Well..tomorrow is the day I recover the camera disk so we'll see.  Hope to post some pictures of whatever it is...