Wild hogs could be past point of elimination in Ohio

• Apple

  

  Can't say I've ever seen any here in Montgomery County...
  

  They’re in 26 of 88 counties including Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and Washington in the southeast.
  
  They’re also in Adams, Brown, Butler, Darke, Preble and Shelby counties.
  
  Reports also have located them in Auglaize, Champaign, Fayette, Logan, Mercer and Pickaway counties, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

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• Hammerin'Hank

  Any of these that see on my farm will be dead in a matter of a few hours. They have no business in these parts.
• gerb131

  

  If I saw them I would shoot them as well. My grandparents in Guernsey haven't seen them yet but then again they only venture on about 1/2 of their 300 acres.
• LJ

  

  Yeah Wild Hogs have been a problem in Ohio for a few years now. I used to have a long unpublished internal ODNR report on them from 2005, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, I am afraid it was on my old comp that crashed. It basically talked about all the disease possibilities the wild herd presented and ways to eradicate them including making the "season" open to everyone and not requiring a license to hunt public land for them during the spring and summer and paying wild boar hunters from the south to bring their dogs up here and hunting them.
• Society

  LJ wrote: Yeah Wild Hogs have been a problem in Ohio for a few years now. I used to have a long unpublished internal ODNR report on them from 2005, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, I am afraid it was on my old comp that crashed. It basically talked about all the disease possibilities the wild herd presented and ways to eradicate them including making the "season" open to everyone and not requiring a license to hunt public land for them during the spring and summer and paying wild boar hunters from the south to bring their dogs up here and hunting them.

  Sounds like a redneck's paradise.
• LJ

  

  Society wrote:
  
  Sounds like a redneck's paradise.

  I wouldn't know.
• Mr. 300

  

  Tim Allen, John Travolta....I really liked those wild hogs!!!
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  They already are a problem in Columbus. I almost got trampled by a herd of about six of them at the breakfast buffet at Frisch's this morning when they brought out a fresh pan of French Toast sticks.
  
  For crying out load - if you're a size 26, buy size 26 sweatpants. Like, still being able to squeeze into your old 22's is going to impress us?
• darbypitcher22

  

  I've never even seen one of these things... do they kind of look like a razorback?
• I Wear Pants

  Are you saying I can go hunt for bacon?
• gerb131

  

  darbypitcher22 wrote: I've never even seen one of these things... do they kind of look like a razorback?

  Pretty much like that or a wild boar. They have used pit bulls in the past to hunt them.
• Flash

  

  Haven't seen any ,but last year we saw some pot bellied pigs that had probably escaped from some Amish mans fence. I wanted to go hunt them down because they were "wild pigs", but everyone else just laughed.
• Apple

  

  I Wear Pants wrote: Are you saying I can go hunt for bacon?

  What's better than bacon and huntin? (...besides banging of coarse.)
• LJ

  

  I Wear Pants wrote: Are you saying I can go hunt for bacon?

  If you want to risk disease, of course.
• I Wear Pants

  LJ wrote:

  I Wear Pants wrote: Are you saying I can go hunt for bacon?

  If you want to risk disease, of course.

  Definitely worth the risk.
• LJ

  

  I Wear Pants wrote:

  LJ wrote:

  I Wear Pants wrote: Are you saying I can go hunt for bacon?

  If you want to risk disease, of course.

  Definitely worth the risk.

  Not many people eat them.
  
  Wild Hog doesn't taste anything like your store bought pork.
• hang_loose

  Anybody have any receipes for "wild bacon"? My dogs love those deep fried pigs ears that they sell at Meijers.......
• I Wear Pants

  LJ wrote:

  I Wear Pants wrote:

  LJ wrote:

  I Wear Pants wrote: Are you saying I can go hunt for bacon?

  If you want to risk disease, of course.

  Definitely worth the risk.

  Not many people eat them.
  
  Wild Hog doesn't taste anything like your store bought pork.

  STOP CRUSHING MY DREAM!
• Ironman92

  

  About 6 months ago we had an article in our Jackson CO paper about wild hogs destroying many crops of local famrs on the Jackson/Vinton/Ross borders....farmers said they saw dozens at a time.
  
  Sp apparently they are still around here.
• Nate

  I lived in Ross County for 20 years and never saw one. I lived right next to Great Seal Park also. Saw plenty of deer never any hogs.
• SportsAndLady

  

  In the words of Billy Madison..."Who gives a shit"
• 4cards

  

  Cat Food Flambe' wrote: They already are a problem in Columbus. I almost got trampled by a herd of about six of them at the breakfast buffet at Frisch's this morning when they brought out a fresh pan of French Toast sticks.
  
  For crying out load - if you're a size 26, buy size 26 sweatpants. Like, still being able to squeeze into your old 22's is going to impress us?

  ...No one commented, but I thought this was funny & probably true
• hilliardfan

  As long as we have Walmarts we will have wild hogs!
• Hammerin'Hank

  "Here's you sign."