"Back before 1980, we didn't have many coyotes either. We have them now."
That's only because they were re-introduced in the '70's. You can thank insurance companies for apppying enough pressure to the DNR to bring them back.
As far as the hogs go I read that each one causes about $17,000 damage to crops each year. I just wonder how many of them migrated this way from some of the Southern states.
The fun is to find the entry point into these fields, set up before dusk and begin shooting.
the one I posted pics of was killed in an area that is well populated. now it is dead people are rethinking damage that in the past was never attributed to a wild boar. No one I have spoken to had ever seen the hog around so you may have them around and not know it, but when they populate they distroy everything so kill them before they explode in numbers. Once they get a foot hold they are almost impossible to get rid of.
I wonder how many of the hogs were brought up here cause someons didn't want to drive Tennessee to hunt them...
ok this thread intrigued me so I asked my best friends dad who lives in Lawrence county if this was true and he seemed to verify the story of a rich guy from the south bringing hogs to hunt for sport. his brother has a HUGE swatch of land around there and said he would ask him if he has seen any, and he said if he did I could go hunting
A couple of brothers in southern Indiana with a lot of money, and a lot of land bought some, had them trucked up here to their farms, turned them loose to have a new form of hunting, forgot to realize that the hogs didn't understand the trespassing laws, and started doing what wild animals will do, go where the food was at. They were later arrested for poaching deer at night using night vision scopes, but the problem is still there. Straight talk, face to face, with a DNR CO from that area who was in on the bust. Would like to have a reference on the importation of coyotes, the "I heard" position would not be a valid point.
This would be a new challenge for me! I always thought it would be fun to go boar hunting but didnt want to go on a "planned" hunting trip. How cool would it be to grab the nagant and walk through the woods and come home with fresh pork!
I know of an area called Devils Backbone, west of Pleasant, but no hog problem there that I know of, but with all the Amish in the area, well, someday that might be possible.
south east of Ellettsville major road. big bugger was just crossing the road I guess