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"They're tearing my land up! They're destroying my crops! We've already lost thousands of dollars this year because of them, please help !  "


"Hey, I'll come hunt them if you want ???  "


"Sure . Pay me a 500.00 per hunter, come kill all you want"

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Challenge Accepted!

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Where do you live?

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Finally, REAL Canadian bacon!

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I have an MH25 on my helmet. Just dragging my feet on NV.

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Bring 'em on... I'm ready.

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More importantly, what round for Super Pigs? I'm thinking something unnecessarily big .30 cal or .40 cal rifles?

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when will they get into NH and Maine so I can hunt them.

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You don’t want em.

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The pigs survive extreme weather by tunneling up to 2m under snow, Brook said, creating a snow cave.

"They'll use their razor-sharp tusks to cut down cattails [a native plant], and line the bottom of the cave with cattails as a nice warm insulating layer.

"And in fact, they're so warm inside that one of the ways we use to find these pigs is to fly first thing in the morning when it's really cold, colder than -30, and you will actually see steam just pouring out the top of the snow."

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That’s just ignorant

I figured it was NY, MA, etc.

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Anyone know if a wolf will take them on?

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For decades, wild pigs have been antagonizing flora and fauna in the US: gobbling up crops, spreading disease, and even killing deer and elk.

Now, as fears over the potential of the pig impact in the US grow, North America is also facing a new swine-related threat, as a Canadian "super pig", a giant, "incredibly intelligent, highly elusive" beast capable of surviving cold climates by tunneling under snow, is poised to infiltrate the north of the country.

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The emergence of the so-called super pig, a result of cross-breeding domestic pigs with wild boars, only adds to the problems the US faces from the swine invasion.

Pigs are not native to the US, but have wrought havoc in recent decades: the government estimates the country's approximately 6m wild, or feral, pigs cause $1.5bn of damage each year.

In parts of the country, the pigs' prevalence has sparked a whole hog hunting industry, where people pay thousands of dollars to mow down boar and sow with machine guns. But overall, the impact of the pigs, first introduced to the US in the 16th century, has very much been a negative, as the undiscerning swine has chomped its way across the country.

"We see direct competition for our native species for food," said Michael Marlow, assistant program manager for the Department of Agriculture's National feral swine damage management program.

In Canada, like in the US, wild pigs are a relatively recent problem. Up until 2002 there were barely any wild pigs in the country, but Brook said the population has exploded in the past eight years. The animals are now spread across 1 million sq km of Canada, predominantly in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

"Wild pigs are easily the worst invasive large mammal on the planet," said Ryan Brook.

"They're incredibly intelligent. They're highly elusive, and also when there's any pressure on them, especially if people start hunting them, they become almost completely nocturnal, and they become very elusive   hiding in heavy forest cover, and they disappear into wetlands and they can be very hard to locate."

Brook and others are particularly troubled by the emergence of a "super pig", created by farmers cross-breeding wild boar and domestic pigs in the 1980s. The result was a larger swine, which produced more meat, and was easier for people to shoot in Canadian hunting reserves.

These pigs escaped captivity and swiftly spread across Canada, with the super pig proving to be an incredibly proficient breeder, Brook said, while its giant size   one pig has been clocked at more than 300kg (661lbs)   makes it able to survive the frigid western Canada winters, where the wind chill can be -50C.

"All the experts said at that time: 'Well, no worries. If a wild pig or a wild boar ever escaped from a farm, there's no way it would survive a western Canadian winter. It would just freeze to death.'

"Well, it turns out that being big is a huge advantage to surviving in the cold."

The pigs survive extreme weather by tunneling up to 2m under snow, Brook said, creating a snow cave.

"They'll use their razor-sharp tusks to cut down cattails [a native plant], and line the bottom of the cave with cattails as a nice warm insulating layer.

"And in fact, they're so warm inside that one of the ways we use to find these pigs is to fly first thing in the morning when it's really cold, colder than -30, and you will actually see steam just pouring out the top of the snow."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar

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Bring 'em on... I'm ready.

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Make it difficult for for the People to harvest them, then complain about ‘em taking over.

Sounds about right.

Open up night hunting, and vehicle access, and they’ll start disappearing.

Ain’t dragging one of them out of the woods on a cart or hiking 15K acres on foot for a pig.
Fuck that, hire some biologists to fix the problem.

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when will they get into NH and Maine so I can hunt them.

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"Wild pigs are easily the worst invasive large mammal on the planet," said Ryan Brook.

No Mr. Brook, that title belongs to humanity.  The pigs are in a distant second place.

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Everyone says that.

Then it happens.

Then you realize you didn’t want them to begin with.

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We have just under 2000AC.  We kill a lot of hogs.  We have someone there pretty much every day of the year.  Sometimes there are 6 of us with thermal, etc.

You CANNOT keep up with killing them.  It is impossible, even with traps (at one point we had 15+ traps going). They are horribly destructive.  They fuck everything up.

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"Wild pigs are easily the worst invasive large mammal on the planet," said Ryan Brook.

No Mr. Brook, that title belongs to humanity.  The pigs are in a distant second place.

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"Wild pigs are easily the worst invasive large mammal on the planet," said Ryan Brook.

No Mr. Brook, that title belongs to humanity.  The pigs are in a distant second place.

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"Wild pigs are easily the worst invasive large mammal on the planet," said Ryan Brook.

No Mr. Brook, that title belongs to humanity.  The pigs are in a distant second place.