Wild Boar Hunting?

[ColtKollect]

I wanted to look into hunting ferrel pigs. From what i gathered online you have to have a license to hunt another game and take pigs as an oppurtunistic game. does this sound right? and if so where can i find a place to hunt them without them being on an organized hunt on some ranch.

thanks

[pkuptruck]

do a search here, as there are at least three or four threads on the topic..

like..
http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=225195&highlight=feral

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=204624&highlight=feral

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=82684&highlight=feral

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=195512&highlight=feral

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=190668&highlight=feral

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=187946&highlight=feral

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=175281&highlight=feral


and there are more...

[Kilt Guy]

In Michigan your CPL will also work but good luck finding them here.

[Howard000003]

In Michigan your CPL will also work but good luck finding them here.

Friend in Lennon has a couple running around her area. Her husband, son, and neighbor have been trying to get them.

[mortneff]

I am not a member, but if you are, the Saginaw Field and Stream Club is offering a reward...

"REWARD
The Saginaw Field and Stream Club will offer a $50 cash reward to any club member who takes a free ranging feral swine in the State of Michigan.
Requirements: must be a SFSC club member in good standing.
No game farm kills. Furnishes both ears and a tail. Or the complete head.
Furnishes proof of kill being report-ed to the DNR-E Wildlife Div.
Contact Tom Heritier with any Ques-tions 989-799-7574"

http://www.saginawfieldandstream.com/Newsletters/20130101%20Newsletter.pdf

[Howard000003]

Friend in Lennon has a couple running around her area. Her husband, son, and neighbor have been trying to get them.


One of her neighbors took the boar a couple days ago. Judging from the picture I was shown, (boar was hanging from it's feet from the rafters of a garage and the gentleman who took it standing next to it) I'd say the boar was at at least 300 pounds. I don't think I could wrap my arms fully around the waist of the animal and I'm 6'2.

[Jackam]

One of her neighbors took the boar a couple days ago.

I am laughing so hard right now! I was stopped by the State Police last Wednesday to help them with a 300 pound boar that had gotten into a local horse pasture. It had hurt some of the horses (I guess that his cutters sliced the horse's snout as they approached.) We chased that damn pig for an hour with the Trooper vocalizing many times that he was going to shoot it. I had my catch pole and was thinking Bacon.

A car pulls up and two kids get out, saying that it's their pig. We finally captured the dang thing and they take it away. The Trooper follows them because there will be a lawsuit if it was their pig. I guess they denied ownership when this was brought forth and the pig manged to disappear again.

I'll bet this is the same boar and its brother/sister. They lived on Old Miller Road near M13.

[Howard000003]

I am laughing so hard right now! I was stopped by the State Police last Wednesday to help them with a 300 pound boar that had gotten into a local horse pasture. It had hurt some of the horses (I guess that his cutters sliced the horse's snout as they approached.) We chased that damn pig for an hour with the Trooper vocalizing many times that he was going to shoot it. I had my catch pole and was thinking Bacon.

A car pulls up and two kids get out, saying that it's their pig. We finally captured the dang thing and they take it away. The Trooper follows them because there will be a lawsuit if it was their pig. I guess they denied ownership when this was brought forth and the pig manged to disappear again.

I'll bet this is the same boar and its brother/sister. They lived on Old Miller Road near M13.

Haha! Yep - Has to be the same pig, right around where this gal lives! I asked her who took it and she was not sure - her son's friend had a FB picture of it.

[snowmoreso]

I heard somewhere of sightings in Lapeer

[Roundballer]

I heard somewhere of sightings in Lapeer
Nope...

The closest place there have been sightings is in Emmet, St. Claire Co., a place called "Bisco's".

[mechredd]

Nope...

The closest place there have been sightings is in Emmet, St. Claire Co., a place called "Bisco's".

I've heard enough tales of the horrors of Bisco's to stay away. It's a legendary place in these parts.

[oldmann1967]

Nope...

The closest place there have been sightings is in Emmet, St. Claire Co., a place called "Bisco's".

Went to a wild pig meeting in North Branch on Thursday. One was taken at 53 & burnside. The guy running the show said there is an infestation in Saginaw and Gratiot county. These things are BAAAD news. Best way to shoot them is to trap first.

[Roundballer]

Went to a wild pig meeting in North Branch on Thursday. One was taken at 53 & burnside. The guy running the show said there is an infestation in Saginaw and Gratiot county. These things are BAAAD news. Best way to shoot them is to trap first.
Yes, there was also one taken about a year ago some where closer to the North Branch area. But I also understand that both of these were of the domestic variety that had escaped the pen, rather than the more wild variety that have escaped from "hunting preserves". We don't really have any form of a breeding population in this area, YET.

I am not trying to belittle the seriousness of the issue, but you are not going to cruise around Lapeer Co. looking for a feral pig or two and have any great success. There is no real problem here.

So, the best place to see the "hogs" remains, Bisco's

[patriotmrd]

I wanted to look into hunting ferrel pigs. From what i gathered online you have to have a license to hunt another game and take pigs as an oppurtunistic game. does this sound right? and if so where can i find a place to hunt them without them being on an organized hunt on some ranch.

thanks

Ferral pigs may be taken with a valid small game hunting license or CPL in any area open to hunting using any method legal in the area where they are taken.

[oldmann1967]

You also have to mind rules of what is in season and time of day. Right now you can hunt woodchucks with a rifle, so you can use a rifle. At night rimfire or shotgun just like coon hunting.

[doublekrossd]

I didn't think it was legal to shoot the "pigs" at Biscoe's:razz: :razz: :razz: