Posted on 03/12/2012 4:51:11 PM PDT by dynachrome
PERU, N.Y. — They roam by night, picking cornstalks clean, making off with apple crops. They have almost no natural predators, but they have razor-sharp tusks and a seemingly bottomless appetite for plants and animals. Their population can triple in one year.
They are feral pigs, and while they have long plagued parts of the Southern and Western United States, now they have become a problem in the peaceful Champlain Valley of New York, an agricultural heartland on the edge of the Adirondacks.
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You have Eastern Cougars that the state fish & game people swear don’t exist? Like they do here in Va.
Thats the best idea, ‘cause you never know...( a .223 )
Nice tagline, btw.
not true - threre is a variant called the pygmy rattler
takes a dozen or so, not one.
SARANAC (and not the lake!)
So, I guess Hillary's back in town, eh?
“Gotta have a lisence to shoot ‘em on your own land I guess.”
Here in NC no license is required 24/7, 365 for feral pigs.
“Nice tagline”
Stolen from an anonymous poster on survivalblog.com
Hey - you’re from Saranac!
The folks up in Peru are tough. Not sure about the apple growers but everybody else is. How else would they survive up there.
Problem will be solved shortly by the locals.
So, I guess Hillary’s back in town, eh?
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Hmm, took 48 posts to make this connection.
I was going to say that the Clintons weren’t the only pigs that Arkansas thrust upon the citizens of New York....
Maybe they will run for the Senate??
but since you already made the reference, I won’t.
OK : )
Wooooo, pigs, soooo, Razorbacks, Go Hogs! lol!
Y U M
” You know nothing of wild pig. I have been eating on them a long time, dude. Please stop with the misinformation, you make yourself look foolish.”
I stand corrected....chastised.....maybe embalmed : )
coyote vs boar:
check this write up from a hunt we did a year or so back:
Across the canyon bottom, and going up to the top of a big hill beyond, is a huge slope, maybe 1000 yards of open uphill ground to a patch of deep brush cover at the top. A herd of big sows and piglets has broken from the canyon bottom and is going up hill, has gotten 200 yards from the top, in single file. Last in line is huge black and white sow, with a bunch of piglets, one piglet trailing. From no-where, a big coyote rushes the piglet and grabs it.
The sow spins and charges back down the trail, slamming the coyote, and knocking it back, the piglet gets away. The sow moves back up the trail, with the piglet taking cover between her legs. The coyote hangs back. The sow gets another 10 yards up the trail before the coyote attacks again. Same result, the sow fights him off, then gets a little farther up the trail. It seems obvious to both the sow and the coyote that the battle will turn on whether the sow can get the piglet to deep cover. She has around 150 yards to go. It’s also clear that the coyote is overmatched. The sow is really fast, and very aggressive. Coyote attacks another couple times, but the sow fights him off. Sow gains another 30 yards to the brush.
Now a second coyote shows up, smaller than the first coyote. It seems the first coyote must be the alpha dog. The coyotes attack together, but the smaller coyote, whether being younger or less experienced, misjudges the sow. He hangs in too long, and she rolls him, catches him on the ground on his back, bites down and is stomping him. But in charging the coyote, the sow has moved off the piglet, the piglet is exposed, and the alpha dog makes a run at grabbing it, the piglet wrestles a little, keeping the coyote from getting a good hold. The sow sees this, pulls off coyote two and charges the alpha, knocking him back. She gains another 10 yards, backing up the trail with the piglet under her. She is still too strong, too determined. If she can stay tight on the piglet, she can make it up the trail.
Now I think about what I should do. I am admiring the sow. She is putting up an incredible battle, against stacked odds. Can I get over there and shoot the coyotes? I look at the ground to cover, I want to shoot those coyotes so bad, but it’s just too far. Over 1000 yards. A lot of it uphill over two gullies. Looks like I am just a spectator today.
The sow continues to back up the trail, battling every step, the two coyotes attacking every 20 seconds. The smaller coyote has learned his lesson and hangs back enough so he doesn’t get caught again.
Now a third coyote shows up, about the same size as coyote two. For a bit all three hang back. And then the alpha dog does something really smart. Up to now he has led the attacks, but this time he hangs back. The two smaller dogs rush the sow, she fights them off, and like lightning alpha rushes in, sweeps up piglet in one bite, and takes a dead run down the trail. The sow takes a few steps, stops and moves slowly up the hill to the other hogs at the top. Its over.
“They’ve tried that in some southern states, as well as no bag-limits for hunters. It still hasn’t been enough.”
One has to kill some 60% of the feral hogs just to keep the numbers from increasing.
Google “Aporkalypse Now”.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/09/01/090111-news-helicopter-hogs-1-10/
We don’t have them where we live it is too dry here and they couldn’t survive. We have peccaries and rabbits but mother nature really did a job on them last year with no rain for 11 months and then extremely cold weather and it will take a while for their populations to grow again.
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