Pure European Boar Hunts?

[bow777]

Has anyone hunted any pure Euro swine or hybrids that they recommend in Florida or the southern states? I have seen a good one in Penn. but would like something closer.

thnx

[rem700-3]

Most places with good Euro blood hogs are fenced in and are shipped to the U.S. now from Canada.  We kill a good many Here in Alabama that are pretty strong Euro blood and alot in Tennessee. Most of the ones killed in Tennessee Are escapees from the many enclosures. If you want to hunt in the southeast free chase, I recommend Rockin R in Alabama. They kill alot of feral hogs and alot of good hogs as well.  He runs a good place and very inexpensive ( $150 a day $1 a pound on harvest) compared to most places. If you want contact info p.m. me.

[lrs]

I was talking to a fellow last year who used to guide at a place in South Carolina that had the European boar hunts.
He stated that when you went into the woods, you did not need to hunt these hogs, they were hunting you !

[Ole Man Dan]

I've killed hogs in Tennessee and Alabama.  None hunted me, Most ran at the scent of humans.  The hogs I've encountered were smart, tough, and wise to the ways of hunters. 
All bets may be off when a wounded animal begins to run.  He may come at you.

I use game cams at our hunting lease in Alabama and have many photos of what appear to be European type boars.  After the boars escape and breed with our feral hogs a lot of the next generation pigs no longer look like a domestic pig.  We've got some hogs that are tall and lean with long hackles on their back.  These look just plain ole mean... Many of the places that advertise hunting for Russian Boars are in reality letting you hunt Americanized feral hogs that may have some European bloodlines in their background. A lot of the hogs on our lease breed and inbreed and start to look like the European or Russian hogs. On our lease we have a few that look as big as a 4-wheeler, and lots of little squealers types too. 
Some look European and some don't...
Hogs have taken over a lot of good Deer range, and eat all the acorns. Hogs have trashed some of our green fields and bedded down in the middle to be near the chow. Some of our best creek bottom land has been turned into hog wallows.  I hog hunt year round, and we can't make a dent in the population.

Last summer I ran into a group of sows and small pigglets (about 20) that were trashing one of my deer feeders.  I shot a sow and the rest scattered.  (I was carrying a pistol, while I was carrying feed to one of my feeders.)
 
Game cams show many of the same hogs returning every night to check the feeders.  Did I mention that hogs are very smart and learn as they go... Unlike a lot of our hunters...

[alsaqr]

I hog hunt year round, and we can't make a dent in the population.

So do I.  I have killed over 40 hogs this year.  Wild hogs in this area have reached epidemic proportions.  They have trashed thousands of acres of bottom grazing land.  The deer population is suffering because of the hog problem.   We have had two years with lots of acorns and pecans:  The hog population has exploded.  I have seen wild hogs chase deer off game plots and away from feeders.  Coyotes and bobcats cannot deal with hogs.  Watched a big boar come running in and kill a big bobcat when the sow whose pigs the bobcat was hassling let out a blood curdling distress call. 


Every state that ever had a small hog problem refused to really do anything about it because they were afraid someone would poach a deer.  OK still refuses to let us hunt hogs at night. 

There are very few purebred European/Russian boars in the US.  Most of the hog hunting ranches that advertise "pure" European boar hunts are lying.   When a young domestic hog is released in the wild it will soon undergo some rather drastic changes.  The shoulders will become wider and the butt will narrow.  The tail may even lose its curl.  The grand sons and grand daughters of that domestic sow will have most of the characteristics of a European boar. 

I hunt in one area where there is European/Russian boar blood in the wild hog line.  This is because a guy ordered 100 pairs from Germany and turned them loose all over SW Oklahoma.  Some of the wild hogs that I kill look like purebred boars but they most likely are not.  This wild boar was very old and he is a European/Russian boar hog.  He had a tag in his ear from a game farm in Germany. 

[rem700-3]

To have a tag in his ear from Germany he would need to be a little over 30 years old. Canada would be more likley. Hogs coming from Europe was stopped in 1976, since then Canadian farmers have raised pure European bred hogs and trucked them in every fall to destinations all across the U.S. for 95 +/- cents a pound delievered. They look great when they get here shaggy as can be, long noses, long hair and 140-160 pound average. During the summer they lose most of the hair of course and get less back each year.