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9/7/17 - Hunters Permitted to Take Feral Hogs During Deer Seasons in Zones 25 and 65


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Wow - I wasn't aware this was becoming an issue in NJ.

 

Anyone with experience care to comment? From what I understand  - once they are there, nearly impossible if not completely impossible to eradicate?

 

Just how bad is it?

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Wow - I wasn't aware this was becoming an issue in NJ.

 

Anyone with experience care to comment? From what I understand  - once they are there, nearly impossible if not completely impossible to eradicate?

 

Just how bad is it?

A friend of mine in Oklahoma (Cast & Bang) has the permits to shoot them with night vision equipment...  it is at the point it is not for hunting but for control/eradication.

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I'll see if I can dig up the news articles on it from the time. This is for down here mainly in Gloucester County. Small pig population that got out of a control (IIRC, I think they escaped from a pig farm, which we used to have down here, and the population got out of control). Happened years ago. I hear you can still find a few, but of all the times I've been around that area, never even saw signs of them. I think they hover within private lands where they feel safe, whatever is left. Hunters wiped most of them out once the tide turned on the pigs when they started digging up White Oaks Golf Course doing lots of $$$ damage. Don't piss off golf course superintendents. :)

 

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Wow - I wasn't aware this was becoming an issue in NJ.

 

Anyone with experience care to comment? From what I understand  - once they are there, nearly impossible if not completely impossible to eradicate?

 

Just how bad is it?

 

Here's an article on it, from 2009:

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/hunters_shrink_new_jerseys_wil.html

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A friend of mine in Oklahoma (Cast & Bang) has the permits to shoot them with night vision equipment...  it is at the point it is not for hunting but for control/eradication.

Unfortunately, they are not manageable, and all we can do is slow them down. I spoke with a biologist the other day and he told me that we would need to kill 400,000 this year alone to sustain the current population. Basically, they aren't going anywhere and the best we can do is kill as many as we can to try and slow the progress.

 

Here is a picture of my "deer" feeder this past week. It's pretty much my pig feeder anymore.

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The jersey pig population has been somewhat of an anomaly... They were released by a farmer years ago and really haven't taken off like other states for whatever reason .. The club boys had one really good year and the majority of the golf coarse routing issues ended. Understand though that they were hunted for many years before the state put rules and regs to paper and they regularly spent time on state property..

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Builders in NJ do more damage than hogs. And if NJ can make a $ doing somthing they will capitalize. Even SC has tight regs on hogs compared to texas,ga. Ga is anytime, any hour,anywhere (except WMAs) and it falls under a small game lisence. Id welcome the chance to kill em here instead of traveling. I know many will argue but geese do a lot of $ in damage as well and theres less squawk about them and they are an uncontrollable population. I jave ammo and freezer space let me know when they get here!

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Surprised so many here didn't know that this has been going on in those 2 deer zones for over a decade if memory serves.  I agree with Rusty and with the state of PA, shoot on site, no license, no limits.  Kill, kill and kill before deer/bear/turkey/etc. numbers crash.  

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Shouldn't have to have any kind of permit or license Pigs are not indigenous to America they were originaly brought here from Europe so  how can they make you get a license to kill them or regulate it in any way your regular hunting license should cover you for having a weapon in the woods on public land  Pigs are just a bonus kill as far as I'm concerned I've Hunted them in Pa and Florida and never paid for any permit or license 

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