Something Wicked This Way Comes

Been reading more reports like this. Sounds like these things can become a real problem if a population takes hold

Wild ‘super pigs’ are rooting toward Minnesota. The state wants to keep them out. 

Thought this was gonna be about the next winter storm coming this week.

Sounds like I should get ready to start the first airborne hog hunting business in MN. Those hunts in TX look insane!

mahtofire14 wrote:

Sounds like I should get ready to start the first airborne hog hunting business in MN. Those hunts in TX look insane!

When you need a shooter to help ya get the logistics dialed in, give me a shout. I’m all in

Personally I’d love to hunt them. However, knowing our DNR you will need to apply for one of 8 seasons, and after years accumulating the appropriate amount of points to get a license they will open it up to unlimited harvest, $100 tag and you have to register their tooth and first born in order to process them legally… :rotflol:

I doubt they will open it up to hunting until it becomes uncontrollable. I read in some articles that they prefer not having hunting pressure on them because trapping them is easier if they arent afraid of people. My guess is they will become an issue either way. Id bow hunt them.

I believe it would be open season since its considered an invasive species. Technically if there were wild hogs in MN you could shoot them at will I believe so this would be no different. WIld hogs have made their way to Iowa. These super pigs have been seen in ND and even SD I think. So to think they arent here or close is probably wishful thinking.

This would be pretty easy to get out in front of. Offer a $5 hog stamp on any license purchase through the MNDNR for unlimited harvest. Sure people are just going to shoot them regardless, but I’d probably throw in the $5 feel good move with a license purchase. Then, publish a map or two with known sightings and nearby public land online. With the right setup early on before they became wise to the masses it’d be relatively easy. They may get “smarter”, but they are huge and love to eat…making baiting a slam dunk.

It really does not matter what the MNDNR has to say on the matter. If one comes walking across our property it’d be fertilizer on sight and buried within 10-15 minutes, depending how close by a tractor is.

Has anyone ever seen one here?

gimruis wrote:

Has anyone ever seen one here?

I hunt some land that the owner used to have ferral hog loose on… that was an open eyed walk to the woods in the dark.

IDK for sure if these super hogs have made their way into MN yet, but its inevitable with the sheer numbers up in Canada. Its funny this post came up because I just watched a video about it last Friday.

Is there going to be a x-over movie with SuperPig and SpiderPig?

Where is this link from? When I click on it nothing happens, would like to read the full story.

ThunderLund78 wrote:

Where is this link from? When I click on it nothing happens, would like to read the full story.

try right clicking on it and open in new tab. that works for me.

reading the story you get a different idea. Sounds like these pigs cause more than 2.5 billion dollars in damage in the US alone every year and with MN being the 2nd largest pork producer in the nation, we should be concerned about diseases being spread impacting the pork industry, not to mention damage to the farm crops, and water supplies.

Hunting is not an effective means of control, the southern guys would have taken care of this decades ago if it were. Allowing hunting also creates an incentive to have pigs around and offer paid hunts, so it seems very unlikely that MN or the Dakotas will sanction any type of recreational hunts. Aside from the billions in damage to ag producers, they are invading the most important waterfowl nesting area of the country.

topshotta wrote:

Hunting is not an effective means of control, the southern guys would have taken care of this decades ago if it were. Allowing hunting also creates an incentive to have pigs around and offer paid hunts, so it seems very unlikely that MN or the Dakotas will sanction any type of recreational hunts. Aside from the billions in damage to ag producers, they are invading the most important waterfowl nesting area of the country.

Neither have any of the controls the wildlife services have tried down south, hence the hunting.

topshotta wrote:

Hunting is not an effective means of control, the southern guys would have taken care of this decades ago if it were. Allowing hunting also creates an incentive to have pigs around and offer paid hunts, so it seems very unlikely that MN or the Dakotas will sanction any type of recreational hunts. Aside from the billions in damage to ag producers, they are invading the most important waterfowl nesting area of the country.

One big difference between the South and Minnesota is the amount of public land available. Ranchers and farmers in the South biatch about the damage done by hogs but don’t let hunters on unless they have leased the land. Minnesota has significantly more public land than most states, albeit more in the northern part of the state than in the agricultural areas. Access to hunt hogs will be easier (not necessarily easy) in Minnesota.

We could clean them out pretty quickly in MN. Texas is some dang thick ground with very little public land. You cannot see squat in most areas down there and only the trails and baiting make it feasible. It would be much different here.

Riverrat wrote:

Is there going to be a x-over movie with SuperPig and SpiderPig?

Yeah, they meet up and hang out with cocaine bear. Kind of like Hangover.
DT

Brad Dimond wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>topshotta wrote:</div>
Hunting is not an effective means of control, the southern guys would have taken care of this decades ago if it were. Allowing hunting also creates an incentive to have pigs around and offer paid hunts, so it seems very unlikely that MN or the Dakotas will sanction any type of recreational hunts. Aside from the billions in damage to ag producers, they are invading the most important waterfowl nesting area of the country.

One big difference between the South and Minnesota is the amount of public land available. Ranchers and farmers in the South biatch about the damage done by hogs but don’t let hunters on unless they have leased the land. Minnesota has significantly more public land than most states, albeit more in the northern part of the state than in the agricultural areas. Access to hunt hogs will be easier (not necessarily easy) in Minnesota.

We don’t let anyone on our ag land parcels or the wooded acreage despite being asked for turkey geese deer and small game regularly.

The hogs wouldn’t be an issue for us. I can offer up free beer and brats and have a small army of friends and family assembled here to shoot blackbirds off sweet corn. People would beg to come shoot hogs even without the free beer

^^^^^^ :rotflol: :rotflol: :rotflol:

hey i heard there’s a sequel to cocaine bear……its rehab bear!!!!!! :devil:

i did see cocane bear…..though t it was a comedy…..nope!!!!!! but still good.

wild pig hunting…..i be in..but not from no chopper!!!!!! :doah:

In response to the thread, “How much ammo should we stock.” My answer is, enough to keep a vigilante watch for feral bacon on our property.

WI has had areas of wild hogs and they turned us loose on them. They were coming in through Upper MI. We kept the numbers in check, but it was never confirmed if we were back to zero, or if the MI invasion was over, so they just let the feral allowances to continue, until farm pigs started getting shot. Next thing you know, WI started encouraging hunters not to shoot any hog found in the woods because it could be an escaped farm pig or someone’s pot-bellied pet. From what I understand, it’s not an increasing problem because of the initial hunter response and changes from MI. If they get across MN or IA, WI is going to have to change their tune again.