NY hogs with SKS
07-26-2011, 07:58 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Orange county, NY
Posts: 2,949
Also, the DEC and the land owners and farmers in the northern Cortland County and southern Onondaga County area do all the complaining about how much damage the hogs are doing, yet neither are willing to help hunters hunt them. My friends and I called the DEC's Cortland office time and time again. All they tell us is how to legally hunt them, not where to hunt them.
They've actually said that hunting them will push them around more and they really don't want hunters to hunt them specifically. If you happen to come across them while hunting something else, they don't have a problem with you shooting them. It really seems as if they're trying to keep hunters from specifically hunting them.
NYH!
it says "hunters with a small game licence may shoot and keep feral swine at anytime in any number....goal is to eradicate fral swine from the landscape."
07-27-2011, 04:32 AM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Downwind, New York
Posts: 578
I've hunted them up there a few times.We saw some sign but, couldn't seal the deal. I saw one earlier this spring while Morel mushroom hunting. I know they are spreading. The one I saw was about a 1 hour drive from Scott. The NYSDEC better get a move on if they ever hope to put them in check. From browsing around in public forums like this one it seems that alot of NY hunters want to chase em'! I'm all for year round hunting and some fine Pork in the freezer but, all in all I think the hogs will put a hurt on other wildlife if they get out of control!!! THWACK!!HOGBOY DOWN!!!!
07-27-2011, 07:26 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
As the others have said in regards to the use of PSP rounds will work just fine for the hog, it is only a hog, not a tank. I have taken several with my AK just for S&G's with steel core and they dropped DRT. Head shots only either facing directly towards me or broadside and take the eye/ear shot and its all over except the gravy!!!!!!!
Speaking of, I had wild porker last night in the crock pot from my Feb. hunt to OK. Meat, taters, carrots, gravy and then topped off with homade blackberry cobbler!!!!!!! Talk about two pigs in the same house!!!!!!! Good shootn and if in doubt, take the 300 and be done with it.
Speaking of, I had wild porker last night in the crock pot from my Feb. hunt to OK. Meat, taters, carrots, gravy and then topped off with homade blackberry cobbler!!!!!!! Talk about two pigs in the same house!!!!!!! Good shootn and if in doubt, take the 300 and be done with it.
07-29-2011, 08:10 AM
#14
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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yes but there is no ' organized season'.. so wouldn't it be like using an SKS for woodchucks? same thing with them, I believe a small game license is needed for them as well. So can I not shoot woodchucks with my SKS? doubtfull
07-29-2011, 01:40 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 170
According to this article on Yahoo.com, hogs are definitely present in central NY state. They don't seem to have populated too heavily yet, but you can bet they're working on it full time!
http://news.yahoo.com/wild-boars-invade-farms-attack-pets-152731899.html
http://news.yahoo.com/wild-boars-invade-farms-attack-pets-152731899.html
07-31-2011, 10:57 AM
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Central New York
Posts: 271
From the DEC's web site-
http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/28182.html
General Hunting Regulations
Manner of taking
It is illegal to take or hunt wildlife:
- while in or on a motor vehicle (except by the holder of a Non Ambulatory Hunter Permit).
- with the aid of a vehicle's lights.
- on or from any public road.
- with any firearm equipped with a silencer.
- with any firearm which continues to fire as long as the trigger is held back (an automatic firearm).
- with a spear.
- with a bow equipped with any mechanical device which is attached to the bow (other than the bowstring) for drawing, holding or releasing the bowstring, except for a hunter with a disability who is in possession of a Modified Longbow Authorization (compound bows are legal).
- with a spear gun or crossbow except for a hunter with a disability who is in possession of a Modified Crossbow Permit.
- with an arrow with an explosive head or shaft.
- with any device designed or intended to deliver drugs to an animal.
- with any semi-automatic firearm with a capacity to hold more than 6 rounds, EXCEPT the following semi-automatic firearms:
- firearms using .22 or .17 caliber rimfire ammunition, or
- firearms altered to reduce their capacity to no more than 6 shells at one time in the magazine and chamber combined, or
- autoloading pistols with a barrel length of less than eight inches.
Deer and Bear Hunting Regulations
Manner of Taking
It is unlawful to:
- Take big game while the deer or bear is in water.
- Possess a firearm of any description when bowhunting or when accompanying a person bowhunting during special archery seasons.
- Make, set or use a salt lick on land inhabited by deer or bear.
- A firearm or bow aided by any artificial light or a laser that projects a beam toward the target.
- An autoloading firearm with a capacity of more than 6 shells (one which requires that the trigger be pulled separately for each shot), except an autoloading pistol with a barrel length of less than 8 inches.
- A firearm using rimfire ammunition.
- A shotgun of less than 20 gauge or any shotgun loaded with shells other than those carrying a single projectile.
- A bow with a draw weight of 35 lbs or less.
- Arrows with barbed broadheads; arrowheads less than 7/8 inches at the widest point or with less than 2 sharp cutting edges.
- Dogs.
- Aircraft of any kind.
- Bait.
Last edited by New York Hunter; 07-31-2011 at 11:00 AM.
07-31-2011, 11:03 AM
#17
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Central New York
Posts: 271
http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/70843.html
it says "hunters with a small game licence may shoot and keep feral swine at anytime in any number....goal is to eradicate fral swine from the landscape."
it says "hunters with a small game licence may shoot and keep feral swine at anytime in any number....goal is to eradicate fral swine from the landscape."
Last edited by New York Hunter; 08-01-2011 at 10:37 PM.
07-31-2011, 11:41 AM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Central New York
Posts: 271
I'm not trying to be a downer. I'd just hate to see someone get jammed up by the DEC because they didn't know the rules and regs. I've run into some radical DEC officers and some cool ones. You never know which type you come across.
07-31-2011, 09:08 PM
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Central New York
Posts: 271
Yep, they sure makes things tough on us here in New Yorkistan. I had to buy a 5 round mag. for my AR-15 to hunt with it. At the time it cost more then pre ban 30 round mags. I use to buy used but in good condition pre ban 30 round mags. from Bradley's Army/Navy Surplus Store just outside Fort Drum.
