southern indiana hogs
 

I have heard 3 people tell me about wild pigs around the Norman,Medora, and Hoosier Nat Forest.....Is this true? and how do you get permitted to hunt them?

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

10-15 years ago, some wealthy hunters in the Warrick County area (I'm not sure where) brought some European boars in to have a hunt. It was some type of hunt club. The hogs were supposed to be fenced in. They got loose. I remember reading a story about a guy killing two while bowhunting.

Anyhow, I'm not sure if you are supposed to hunt them. But I'm pretty sure that there are some around the Hoosier Forrest.

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

You can find some hogs in Warrick and some of the surrounding counties , I'm not aware of any in the Hoosier Natl . They're not classed as game animals , so you can hunt them all year with any weapon according to IDNR .

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my wife made a phone call to her grandmother in Norman In and confirmed the hogs and yes people have been hunting them in HNF but the majority of the hogs have been taken on the northern part of the forest she also mentioned "yellowood forest"? Anyway I'm going to try and find out from DNR about this think it could be fun I used to hunt them in Georgia

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Heres a link , but don't expect much from them , apparently they don't keep up with the hogs much:
IDNR

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Here is an idea that may work to find out where and approx how many wild hogs are in those area. If anyone knows someone that lives around there have them contact the local farm co-ops. They may/should have an idea because the farmers that utilize them would be talking about crop damage caused by the hogs. Farmers talk about deer so my guess is they also talk about hogs. Then if you find out post it for the rest of us. Okay.

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I have hunted them and killed them. There are over around Bedford, in a small town I am not going to mention. It got to the point the everyone and there brother was going over there and asking to hunt them. People got PO'd quick. That is why it is hard to find a spot. I havent been over there since around 2001. I talk to the guy I hunted them on and he still has them and kills some during deer season and at other time.There are not as many but they will nevercleaned them out they reproduce to quickly. Bogans on highway 50 use to have lots of hog pictures and some on the wall that were killed around that area.

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Parrot you don't have to reveal any secret sources....But would it be possible that you could verify that there are hogs in the HNF around the Norman area... and what and where on 50 is Brogans...I havn't gotten nyone to say if there are really hogs in there or not they all keep telling me private farm land but hogs rome and I can't see them not being in the forest.......thanks

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Hogs go where the food is , and farms have a lot more food than the HNF . Access to private land can be frustrating to get unless the hogs are doing a lot of damage , then access usally goes to local hunters known to the farmer .

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Look at Hunting Indiana and go to hunting reports in S. Indiana. That very thing is being talked about.

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I have a link to Hunting Indiana in my sig line .

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Parrot Head
Could you post a link to the hunting Indiana site you mentioned.I couldent find what you were talking about

Thanks
Bill

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

OOPS
Sorry Kevin 1.Ididn't see your post before submitting mine

Bill

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

SURE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Hunt hard, kill 'em dead.

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Sorry Jack,butThere Are... Went up there lastFriday and scouted around a little and ran into a guy shed hunting he said the hogs are there and we went back to his house he showed us pics of 3 hogs that he had killed and took us to a place where he shot two.One of them was in Dec while deer hunting

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Hunt hard, kill 'em dead.

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Better question , where in the HNF ? Details man , we need details ! :)

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technically yes and no the pigs are on forest prop, but the place the guy took us was not. Now he said go ahead and hunt it,but I don't do that. he did say one of the three pigs he killed was on forest property,and somewhat showed us the place,but said we would have better luck hunting the other area. Anyway I'm going to hunt the forest land whenever I get a day off. I might set there all day any see nothing of a hog except the ham sandwhich i pack along..............but hey thats hunting sometimes

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

There are at least three different stretches of the HNF , to which one are you referring ? The only one that I've hunted personally is just off I-64 in Crawford Co. near Tell City and I saw no sign of pig damage there , plenty of deer and turkey sign though .

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

far north end

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Hunt hard, kill 'em dead.

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Well I'm sure you would no all about that too. you seem to have a smart azz comment on everythingelse i have posted on this topic.

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Hunt hard, kill 'em dead.

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Jack.. All of this started by some rumors that I had heard,and then recieved this mesage after posting a question about hogs in southern indiana so I checked out a little more made a phone call to my wife's grandma in Norman she said she has heard before about the hogs in that area. Then we drove up to Norman one weekend found the old guy hunting sheds and told us he had killed a hog on forest prop and 2 off forest property we followed him back to his place when we left he lives off 50 he showed us pics of the 3 hogs he had killed. Thats the info I'm going off of. Am I personally saying there are hogs there? No,just going off of what people inYOUR areahave said and showed me. So i'm not going to get into a pissing contest with you over hogs.This is simply what has been told to me maybe you just don't noYOUR area as well as you think.

RE: southern indiana hogs
 

Hunt hard, kill 'em dead.