Posted on 04/14/2016 12:48:53 PM PDT by w1n1
There are many hog facts, some for hunting, some for conservation issues, but these are good to know during a cocktail party or just to put more porkers on the table.
1. Wild hogs have roamed America since Hernando de Soto introduced them to Florida in 1539.
2. Male and female wild hogs have tusks. They have extremely sharp edges because the upper and lower tusks overlap. The constant gnashing of teeth sharpens the tusks, which make formidable weapons.
3. Wild hogs are just that, domestic pigs gone wild for several generations. Javelinas or collared peccaries are an entirely different animal, native to the Southwest U.S. Contrary to much popular opinion, almost no pure-strain so-called Russian or Prussian wild boar roam America’s forests.
4. Pigs don’t sweat, so they can’t take much hot, bright, sunny weather. They must seek cool, moist areas to maintain normal body temperatures in hot weather. This is why boggy, muddy swamp and creek bottoms are such prime spots for wild hogs. Read the rest of the story here.
Wild pigs don’t have much/any bacon.
They eat anything including mammals and people.
Being from East Tennessee, I know the Russian Hogs...They are, like you said, very few pure bred Russians left, but we had plenty of them until around the 1980’s...
When I was younger, I ran a string of Plott Hounds and hunted them and black bear in the E. Tennessee mountains...
They would do tremendous amount of damage in the Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park...Rooting up huge amounts of ground...
Morons released pigs into the National Forest near the Appalachian Trail in Walnut Flats, Virginia. They would hunt them during the Fall and Spring.
Here is a wild hog FACT: Yum,Yum.Tastey
“They eat anything including mammals and people.”
Reminds me of the movie “Hannibal”
My Father-in-Law (who grew up on a farm) would tell me that the best way to dispose of a body was to throw it to the pigs.
He passed on this bit of knowledge while I was still dating his daughter. The fact that he is now my Father-in-Law speaks volumes...
As I understand in some areas, Russian Boars were set loose and when they breed the hybrid’s growth switch never turns off. That supposedly accounts for some of the giants that have been found. Similar to the Liger.
Unlike muslims, hogs don’t discriminate. Hogs will eat a muslim!
I hear Tim Allen did his own stunts.
I was told that they are already there
I grew up with a neighbor who was tusked/gored by a wild boar. Nasty wound that caused him to lose a large part of his calf muscle. Do not underestimate their attack abilities or how stubborn they can become. The one that attacked my neighbor took six from a .357, gored him as he was climbing a tree and then walked another 75 yards before collapsing.
Well, yes...They’ve been in the Smokies for over 100 years...
“As I understand in some areas, Russian Boars were set loose and when they breed the hybrid’s growth switch never turns off. That supposedly accounts for some of the giants that have been found. Similar to the Liger.”
Centuries ago, the Russians settled in N. California and established a fort called Fort Ross. Depending on the stories, some of the original Russian settlers and later ones brought in Russian Boars, who got loose. There are what appear to be pure blood descendents and part breeds,
There is a good population of the mixed breeds in Sonoma and Mendocino counties. They are fairly wise critters and good tasting if up to 100 #’s.
The pure breed adult hogs are about twice the size of our coastal deer. I saw a big adult Russian Boar, while deer hunting by the Russian River in a remote area.
Two times a couple of decades later, I was watched by separate Russian Boars while steelhead fishing, standing in a small river, both times I was armed with a 6 ounce fly rod.
One left me alone after watching me for a few minutes. The second one stared at me and waded into the water down stream from me. I was armed with a 6 ounce fly rod. I did what a friend did in a similar situation. I made some false casts towards it while yelling at it and slapping the fly into the water near it.
After what seemed like a long time and probably less than a minute, it turned around and went into the woods and disappeared.
I have been advised that my procedure might have been safer than using a 357.
Yearly, one of our younger relatives bags 3-4 of these half breeds with his compound bow in that area. He has bacon and sausage made from the hogs and barbeques the backstraps. The meat is great tasting and really organic. Even lung to lung shots from a powerful compound bow, take a long time to be fatal for the pigs. He has had some get away with an arrow sticking out of both sides of a hog’s chest or passing through the chest of the hog.
Capture terror leaders, stake them out naked on the ground, film them being eaten alive (genitals first) by wild hogs. distribute said footage in the “Islamic State” as a promise of future treatment of terrorists.
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