Wild hogs in SD county

[SDHNTR]

I have mixed feelings about this.

http://archives.signonsandiego.com/uniontr...12outdoors.html

 

[MJB]

Same as last year just more of them!!!!

In 2 years Cuyamaca will be loaded! And our taxes will be paying some company to kill them.

Their here for good now.

 

[SDHNTR]

probably right. There are enough in that picture alone to expand rapidly.

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

Would be nice if you local SD guys could slip an arrow or a round in one of those guys. I have a feelin that some local conservation group will put a stop to any pig huntin around those parts. Guess only time will tell....

 

[One Track]

In five years, there could be 10,000 hogs. Three litters per year. 4 to 5 per litter, (not 12 like the article says.) Half die to predators. Do the math. There's plenty of food and cover. They can live in the snow and in the desert. They will adapt. I won't have to pay $500 to hunt hogs. I'm going to get my guides license. C'mon. $250 a day, $250 trophy fee, $100 surcharge for boneheads.

 

[Batch61]

Wild pigs have been in California since the early 1700s, when Russian and Spanish settlers introduced them. Places such as Tejon Ranch have been overrun by hogs to the point the ranch game manager offers generous hunts every year.
Funny i didn't think $500 for an unguided 1 pig hunt was that generous.

 

[Huntr Pat]

Its funny they mention the amount of tags sold and not returned, But they don't mention the fact that a tag was$7.90 for a book of 5 now cost $18+ for 1 tag. Whats generous? $500 is pay check for some of us. For me thats still to much. Who can afford it after paying mortgage.

 

[Norm]

Funny thing about the SD wild hog picture. Last October when we had the fires roar through the east county, the local Valley Center newpaper had a front page picture of two Russian/European hogs (boars i think) walking along the street...in front of the Sheriff's substation. I just about ruptured a hernia I was laughing so hard. I think they were pushed by the fire and other activity westward into town. I just about ruptured again when the next week the paper published an article wherein a local gal thought they were her two Vietnamese Pot Bellied pigs and did anyone know where they were?
Wild Hogs are here.

 

[hogassasen]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (One Track @ Sep 12 2008, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

In five years, there could be 10,000 hogs. Three litters per year. 4 to 5 per litter, (not 12 like the article says.) Half die to predators. Do the math. There's plenty of food and cover. They can live in the snow and in the desert. They will adapt. I won't have to pay $500 to hunt hogs. I'm going to get my guides license. C'mon. $250 a day, $250 trophy fee, $100 surcharge for boneheads.[/b]

I'm in. Just drop the $100.00 surcharge.

 

[socalgobblerhunter]

About a year ago while hunting turkeys I found pig tracks near Julian. I think they have already started making their way towards suitable habitat in the east. I think I will go get some tags and run my dogs up there.

 

[Coues]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (One Track @ Sep 12 2008, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

In five years, there could be 10,000 hogs. Three litters per year. 4 to 5 per litter, (not 12 like the article says.) Half die to predators. Do the math. There's plenty of food and cover. They can live in the snow and in the desert. They will adapt. I won't have to pay $500 to hunt hogs. I'm going to get my guides license. C'mon. $250 a day, $250 trophy fee, $100 surcharge for boneheads.[/b]

Sign me up! I'll pay 2x the bonehead charge. Do you furnish the Beam and ice?

 

[acousticmood]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Batch61 @ Sep 12 2008, 12:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Wild pigs have been in California since the early 1700s, when Russian and Spanish settlers introduced them. Places such as Tejon Ranch have been overrun by hogs to the point the ranch game manager offers generous hunts every year.
Funny i didn't think $500 for an unguided 1 pig hunt was that generous.[/b]

So true, plus you have to leave as soon as you tag is filled.

 

[Raully]

I got the inside scoop from a famliy member who works for one of the water districts here in town earlier this week. Told me exactly where their at. Don't know if its legal to hunt there though. Just wish there was more public oppurtunitys for hogs to hunt.

 

[spectr17]

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Just wish there was more public oppurtunitys for hogs to hunt.[/b]

Just give them hogs a year or two to fornicate and there will be some to hunt on public land

 

[Raully]

For sure! When they hit Cuyamaca state park I'm sure they'll spread real quick. Once they move there I know just where to go and be believe me I'm already on the phone trying to get the low down. Heard from a reliable source that they actually started in the Reservation and migrated to the lake.

 

[SDhunter2]

I'm hunting them Sunday.

 

[ozstriker22]

I've been waiting for this!

I was at the Wal Mart in Santee buying ammo for the 2005 or 2006 JHO POR (can't remember) This kid was in line next to me and he asked what type of ammo to shoot wild boar... we started talking and he said he was going to hunt them that weekend. I asked where? And he was elusive. I could tell he was from The Reservation so I asked if thats where the hogs where.

He said yes.

I said Cool! And asked how they got there.

His uncle had "obtained" a bunch of young russian hogs in the 30 to 50 lb range and released them in the river bed on the reservation near the lake, with the goal of starting his own little game ranch so he wouldn't have to drive 4 hours to hunt hogs. LOL. Of course the Hogs turned completely ferral and then territorial. They were coming up out of the bushes near the fishing pond and chomping their teeth at the kids. They had also doubled in population, grown to over a hundred pounds and the uncle was afraid they would get out of control, bite someone, and he would get in trouble. He had gathered a little hunting party to try and wipe them out.

I volunteered to join them, of course. We exchanged #'s and I helped him pick out some good ammo.

There is no happy ending to this story - I dropped my phone a few days later and all of the data on it was unrecoverable. I never heard from the kid and I didn't have his phone #. I have kicked myself for that for the last two or three years. I knew they wouldn't wipe them out, and I knew they would eventually make their way out of the reservation.

Well, it looks like I'll have a chance to chase those hogs after all...! I can't friggin wait!!!

Well SD2, let us know how it goes

Jesse