The BOARPOCALYPSE Has Come To Toronto

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17 Nov 2021, 6:43 pm

People in the south really do seem to have a love/hate relationship with them, as they do tons of damage to agriculture, but they're also a no limit any season animal that you can legally hunt from a helicopter with a machine gun, and they're delicious. Judging from some of the guys I know, they're also an excellent rationalization for spending vast sums of money on night vision and thermal optics to hunt them at night, a good pig rig can easily get into decent car pricing.

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17 Nov 2021, 6:53 pm

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Judging from some of the guys I know, they're also an excellent rationalization for spending vast sums of money on night vision and thermal optics to hunt them at night, a good pig rig can easily get into decent car pricing.

I've seen some of those videos before and it seems like a pretty handy way to deal with an invasive pest.

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17 Nov 2021, 11:18 pm

Cur dog and a knife is cheaper.

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17 Nov 2021, 11:51 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

I've seen some of those videos before and it seems like a pretty handy way to deal with an invasive pest.

Oh, it definitely is, but it's also an excellent way to convince your wife that you need an $8,000 thermal imager to go with your $12,000 NODs and to spend thousands more putting silencers on all your rifles so the flash doesn't damage the optics; I mean, I'd buy all that stuff if I had the extra cash just because I want it, but the pigs make a handy excuse for convincing a spouse. I almost wish we had hogs around here just because I'm a meat curing wizard and the idea of putting bacon on the table with a rifle is appealing, but I get that they really are dangerous and damaging to the environment.

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18 Nov 2021, 12:12 am

Trapping them and fattening them on corn is better if you want high quality meat.Boars also taste musky since they aren’t clipped.
People hog hunt here without any expensive toys.
Hog trap design.
https://feralhogs.tamu.edu/trap-design/

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18 Nov 2021, 12:36 am

I have so many questions. Where did all the wild boars come from? Are they an invasive species? Is it because of climate change? Did animal "rights" activists set a bunch of domestic pigs free and now they've gone feral? Will they start a new swine flu pandemic right on top of Covid?

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18 Nov 2021, 12:56 am

Kermit the frog is on his way to Toronto.

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18 Nov 2021, 6:30 am

lostonearth35 wrote:

Thats a good question.

I dont know how Canada got them.

In the American south early settlers brought their hogs with them. And over the centuries wild escaped hogs began to breed in the wild, and they began revert to something like their European wild boar ancestors- lean and fierce.

On top of that there was at least one guy- the playboy scion of gilded age robber baron in New York in the 1890s who started a private fenced in game preserve in the North Carolina mountains and stocked it with actual imported Russian wild boars- so he and his friends could have fun hunting them. He eventually got bored with the boars, and abandoned the preserve, and the fences collapsed. So there are now also populations of actual Russian boars in the moutains. And there has probably been interbreeding between them and the aforementioned widespread feral descendants of domestic pigs of the south.

Some similar Victorian playboy may have also imported boars to the Canadian woods as well.

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18 Nov 2021, 10:30 am

This dog does it all.Mine looks like the blue one.

https://bestofswla.com/2019/12/05/much- ... nting-dog/

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21 Nov 2021, 2:20 am

Also in HK now

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21 Nov 2021, 9:32 am

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Also in HK now

What is "HK"?

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21 Nov 2021, 9:34 am

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collectoritis wrote:

Also in HK now

What is "HK"?

Hong Kong.

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21 Nov 2021, 6:09 pm

Hong Kong is pretty much all built up, high rise, and urban. How can they have wild boars?

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21 Nov 2021, 7:06 pm

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Hong Kong is pretty much all built up, high rise, and urban. How can they have wild boars?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inside ... 1-11%3famp

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21 Nov 2021, 7:13 pm

Gosh.

Three thousand boars in...a place like Blackburn Lancashire. Now they know how many hogs it takes to fill the Albert Hall!

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22 Nov 2021, 8:59 am

https://www.thestar.com/local-burlingto ... -club.html

It seems the boars have the 6 in a pincer. Soon it will be overran and turned into their boar capital.

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