An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.
In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boars with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that’s spreading out of control.
Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada’s leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, “the most invasive animal on the planet” and “an ecological train wreck.”
Just declare open season and no bag limit on pigs in all northern states. I guarantee you all the Bubbas and outdoorsmen will take care of it.
They’re not able to keep up with the breeding in Texas, and there’s even helicopter tours where you can try and wipe out whole herds at a time.
To your point, I ran across this video of an eradication attempt. Insane numbers being killed but they keep coming.
I have seen this in Louisiana, too. They will use helicopters(I even saw one mounted with a light machine gun) and gun down hundreds at a time. It still isn’t enough, and they have a lot of Bubbas down there hunting them in one way or another.
This is already the case in Saskatchewan and it hasn’t managed to curb the population.
Right, under Canadian gun laws, so they’re plinking them with bolt action .308s
Wait til SuperPork wanders into AR country…
Actually, some states ban hunting with AR-15’s because the round isn’t deadly enough for a clean kill.
My smart-assed comparison:
https://imgur.com/a/kolUESz
But to be fair, if you want to engage multiple targets, the AR is far more controllable.
In many states it is, not just northern. Iirc Texas will pay you to take an AR into a field and take out as many as you can. People even organize hunts from helicopters hunting herds like they should have Fortunate Son playing (no full auto though just ARs and typically BYOAR and ammo iirc.)
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Not in the US, unless you have proof I haven’t seen. They literally don’t need to, as per the article they already breed faster in the wild than we can kill them, seems like a waste of money to breed them when you can just use the wild ones that are already there.
They are bred with domestic pigs so they have less survival instinct and the clients can find them (i.e. they don’t avoid blinds and feeders). One-off clients would give your ranch bad reviews if they didn’t see anything all weekend. Meanwhile regular hunters understand truly wild animals can elude you for days. If a visiting group has come up dry all weekend they might even release a sacrificial domestic pig (just out of sight) that will then walk right towards the clients, innocently arranging it’s own death. Source: am Texan who hunted pigs.
So the releaser is standing downrange? Not buying your source, sorry, I’m Stephen Hawking.
“just out of sight” was an exaggeration. They could be on the other end of the property to release a pig and its going to head towards the feed and the people… Just like a hungry dog would. Also, blinds usually face a single direction.
Next you’re gonna have me call your uncle Larry to corroborate your story, right?
Uncle Larry is a pig, he can’t use a phone!
Never underestimate Cletus
So just making shit up, got it.
How!? Why!? It’s meat. There shouldn’t be a surplus of meat.
Guns, invasive, and well they breed in surplus so talk to the boars.
I am just shocked. The South is pretty freaken good at authentic BBQ and they have a wild boar problem. Can’t you guys just like eat them all?
I mean it isn’t like none get eaten, just not all of them. It isn’t just regular hunting, it’s basically an Emu War but instead of the Aus military it’s militias of angry farmers tired of hogs tearing up their crops.
They reach maturity fast, are basically always fertile, short gestational periods, and have large litters. It’s like trying to eradicate mice/rats by shooting them.