Wild Boars in NYS
 

This article was in Syracuse Post Standard this past Friday. I was waiting to see if somebody else would post it. Here's the link.
www.syracuse.com/outdoors/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1136540268194581.xml&coll=1

I'd arrow one those bad boys if came my way!!!!

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My neighbor told me he see`s them near elmira(SP) in open corn fields. I`d like to take one and have a pig roast.:D

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Very interesting article, but some won't beleive it is true unless they see some sort of billboard in the backgroundto validate it being truly from NY and not some southern state. ;) Either that or confirmation from a major university or NY government agency.

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I posted this on Syracuse.com in the outdoors forum to. I would love a chance to take a boar without paying the high price for one.

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How far north can those things spread? NY is just one state away and I'd rather not have them in VT. The deer population here has it hard enough without having to copete with wild hogs. I'm hoping that the average winter would kill off any hogs that make it this far.

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Wild boars. News to me. Im 8 miles from elmira and never hurd nor seen any boars down this way. but if i did there would be a nice little pig roast party put on by me. bring your own beer of course!:D

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Well if they make it up to Northern NY you can bet i am gonna drop one! ;)

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As the Post Standard article stated, there is a breeding population in central NY according to the DEC. As far as moving further north, I wonder how well they tolerate the cold weather. I realize they are Russian boars which probably means their ancestors were a pretty hardy animal, but they seem to flourish more in the Southern states. As long as the DEC doesn't regulate them, they could fill in the gaps for hunting between the big game seasons. The thing I wonder about however is the fact that most states that have large populations of them are not usually that happy about it. Will similar problems come to NY if the population of hogs grows to the levels of some of the southern states?

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Well, if it is anything like the European, and probably is similar, they can thrive in cold. I am betting they will spread too, because they were right, they can have a litter twice a year and have from 3 to like 12 in each litter, and I think if I am not mistaken can breed at 1 year, so that means lots of piglets running around and then more and then more......

and I am sure as they spread they will determine they must be exterminated....... hey maybe we can start "Pig Busters" go all over the state looking for Russian boars! :D:D[8D]

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You are absolutely correct, fight4yourguns. That's all it takes to convince me and others. Simple verificationfrom a reliable source,and in the case of wild boar it's already been done. Small sustainable populations have been verified by both the New York DEC and the PA game commission. In fact the PGC will verify they have become a nuisance in some western counties. With regard to mountain lions however, and that's what your little remark is about, both will tell you they have noverifiable evidence and reports by uncle Harry's 2nd cousin who has a friend who works for an insurance company just doesn't cut it for me!

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A guy I hunt with saw one in 5n 2 years ago and a guy shot one just over the border in VT the same year. It is rumored they got out from the battenkill hunting club, which has elk, stag, boars, bison, fallow, whitetail etc...

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Not sure where they came from but usually as some one says they get off a hunting preserve/area, and then breed or mix in with domestics that have gotten loose, and at the breeding rate doesnt take long.

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not real shocking to hear. There are several preserves that offer boar hunting (one in Homer - near Cortland, 1 in norther PA - near Elmira, and others), so it isn't a stretch that some can get out of the fences and roam free.

one thing I am not quite sure about is the statement early on about being able to shoot the animal. My understanding is this - if there is no season, you cannot harvest the animal whether it's a boar, monkey or elephant. Take moose for example or even mountain lions for that matter - say you happen to see one, you just can't shoot it because "its not protected by state game laws". not sure, but......

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Now I would be curious about that one myself, but if I ain't mistaken it was a game officer that shot one, and sure they would know!

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I hunted them in Tioga county PA. Never killed one, but did see them with my own eyes. Locals said they escaped from a local high fence game farm, and were actually breeding on their own. The destroyed a farmers corn field the year we hunted them, and they were VERY smart.

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i think it depends on the animal.

if its an escaped domestic animal, then it isnt protected by game laws.

i know that around me some guy had some fallow deer, and when he died his wife let them go. thinkt here was three of them. I saw them once or twice out in a field, and then a local redneck yahoo shot them, or at least the buck. And he didnt get in trouble for it because they werent a wild animal, and nobody was claiming them. I highly doubt he was the type of guy to check into it before hand, but im pretty sure someone did after he bragged about it all over town.

my dad is always talking about how he wants to go on a boar hunt, but doesnt want to go to a high fence ranch around here. Maybe in a year or two we can jsut head down state.

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Well take me with you! I live pretty close to you. Bet by then they won't be hard to find!

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I live in Delaware County...and cannot wait for them to show up here...
Pig Roast, I will buy the keg...
Man, it would be endless fun hunting those things, and I am sure that farmers would be more than willing to let you take them!

Here piggy, piggy, piggy:)

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i had an incident where I hunt with a couple of fallow deer that got loose on a guy I know and it was right before rifle season in WNY - the local DEC officer said that fallow deer could breed with whitetail and they did not want that happening and told the guy to do what he could to get them penned up or they were free game come hunting season.

Same guy that had these just had an Emu get loose a couple of weeks ago and still cann't catch it - he told me that if I see it to shoot it because it has been spotted all over town and he tried to get it once and it kicked him square in the chest and sent him sailling. Imagin calling that thing in during spring turkey.

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can you imagine what would be going through a newbies face if that happened! We always tell em they look bigger close up, but I can just see the Emu coming out of the trees and the newbie, well having an accident or running so fast their legs wouldnt catch them....... something for funniest home videos! Me, I would shoot and say dang that is small this year! [8D]:D:D:D

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Stretchhunts, what is the name of your neighbor? I have lived in Elmira for 40 yrs I might know him. I would be real interested in knowing where he saw them.

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according to an article in the ny sportsman, (a few months ago) they said these critters would be present in ALL the states by like 2010 or something like thAT .. i guess they spead quickly once established....

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ny sportsman???? that went out of business a couple years ago???