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How bad are feral pigs in Louisiana?
Posted on 2/18/20 at 10:52 am
Posted on 2/18/20 at 10:52 am
Looking to purchase property to make a camp in the Florida Parishes and just curious about the possibility of property damage.
This post was edited on 2/18/20 at 10:53 am
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 10:53 am to Parmen
You'll have to shoot some for sure.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 11:00 am to Parmen
They are pretty much everywhere in Louisiana.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 11:12 am to Parmen
Anywhere near a river bottom, large area drain, some creeks are prime areas for pigs in area you are asking about. I live in northeast section of E. Feliciana and they have consistently tore up my yard.Within 50 yds of my house. What parish are you considering?
Posted on 2/18/20 at 11:34 am to Parmen
They're going to be around. May tear up a food plot but it wouldn't sway me from buying
ETA: year long fresh meat
ETA: year long fresh meat
This post was edited on 2/18/20 at 11:35 am
Posted on 2/18/20 at 11:37 am to mylsuhat
Invest in a thermal and hunt year-round. It’s cheaper than a side-by-side and worrying with doing plots once a year. I don’t hardly ever deer hunt anymore and shoot the crap out of pigs all year round.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 11:52 am to EFHogman
Thermal is my next big investment as I have plenty pigs at my place in Pearl River County. Would be nice to be able to consistently put three to four a year in the freezer
Posted on 2/18/20 at 11:54 am to EFHogman
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EFHogman
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I don’t hardly ever deer hunt anymore and shoot the crap out of pigs all year round.
Checks out.
I wouldn't let pigs deter me from buying land. If you don't invest in a thermal off the bat, the Cyclops green light that mounts on your gun works well.
I killed this one at 100 yards last weekend and could see him clear as day through the scope.
This post was edited on 2/18/20 at 11:55 am
Posted on 2/18/20 at 12:24 pm to Parmen
They are taking over the entire south. They are land nutria rats, and basically unstoppable. Their zillion man army hit bama about 10 years ago now they are everywhere. Even with bounty in Mississippi they can’t put a dent in them. A single sow will start dropping piglets in 6 months and can have 3 litters a year which average 6-9 piglets or something close to that. They breed like rabbits. So do the math. You can’t avoid them
Posted on 2/18/20 at 12:32 pm to Parmen
Honestly that is not and never would be an area of the state id be looking toward too purchase land to make a camp. Large hog population YES. Very low deer herd numbers so much so the bag limit has been restricted in that area by the state. Not to mention the outlaw population in the area.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 12:49 pm to Parmen
LoL, you will run out of arrows and bullets before you run out of pigs
This post was edited on 2/18/20 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 2/18/20 at 12:58 pm to Parmen
Friend of a friend's kid just got a job in SC paying $15/hr hunting pigs all day. Sounds like it would be a fun part time gig once I retire. Wonder if Alabama has a position like that.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:05 pm to EFHogman
Hog huntin is the way to go! I never deer hunt any more
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:27 pm to Parmen
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Looking to purchase property to make a camp
What does this mean in Louisiana? Not to derail. To me make a camp means fish camp or camp along the river you take a boat to hunt. As in, not a lot of land.
"looking to buy a farm" or purchase a tract of land, is buying acreage to actually privately hunt.
Needless to say, for small tracts of land Hogs are completely overblow as far as a nuisance. There's countless people that will hunt them for you and they don't cause that much problem for small tracts. Large tracts are a different issue.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 2:23 pm to baldona
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What does this mean in Louisiana? Not to derail. To me make a camp means fish camp or camp along the river you take a boat to hunt. As in, not a lot of land.
They don't have hunting camps where you come from? Like a place to live in for a weekend(possibly longer) in the woods to far away from you primary dwelling to drive there every day?
Camps in Louisiana can be either what you describe or a place on private land that you either lease or own in order to have a base of operation to hunt and/or fish.
Sometimes it's a house, cabin or a very basic shack. Other times it's a mobile home or even an RV or camper, especially at a hunting lease which may comprise of multiple of these on a shared lease.
I am a party in none of these but know many who own one sort or another.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 2:55 pm to mdomingue
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They don't have hunting camps where you come from? Like a place to live in for a weekend(possibly longer) in the woods to far away from you primary dwelling to drive there every day?
Yes certainly. When you already have a camp I get calling it "going to my camp". But OP said "buying a camp". Its always buying land, farm, timberland, hunting property, etc.
OP said he was buying a camp. That doesn't mean an extensive piece of land to me. That's why I was asking. Buying a camp is like buying a place on the river, or lake, or somewhere next to public land. Buying a camp is basically buying a small lot with a camp, in which you then go elsewhere to hunt and fish.
The reason I ask is if the OP is buying 40 acres, he probably shouldn't worry about hogs. I've never heard buying 400 acres a "camp". That's all.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 3:37 pm to baldona
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OP said he was buying a camp. That doesn't mean an extensive piece of land to me. That's why I was asking. Buying a camp is like buying a place on the river, or lake, or somewhere next to public land. Buying a camp is basically buying a small lot with a camp, in which you then go elsewhere to hunt and fish.
The reason I ask is if the OP is buying 40 acres, he probably shouldn't worry about hogs. I've never heard buying 400 acres a "camp". That's all.
Got it but there are few places in Louisiana where there are enough concentrations of feral hogs to reek havoc on even 40 acres and to particularly do so if you border larger acreage. Or if you are buying a "camp" that is part of a hunting club on large leased acreage that is shared by the group. Just guesses though, perhaps the OP can elaborate (or has, I haven't looked back to see)?
Posted on 2/18/20 at 3:39 pm to Parmen
I usually kill 10 or 15 a year just casually walking with a boom stick. They are pretty bad in some areas.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 3:54 pm to Parmen
Im really starting to see numbers increasing in my area. For years they were just along the river but now I drive by fields that over night look like someone was drunk and dragging a disc through them.
So far Ive been lucky to not see big numbers on my place but im sure it coming. Southwest miss is loaded with them all along the Miss/Lou line
So far Ive been lucky to not see big numbers on my place but im sure it coming. Southwest miss is loaded with them all along the Miss/Lou line
Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:18 pm to TutHillTiger
Just curious since I found this thread. Are these domestic pigs that got out and went feral or a completely different animal?
AFAIK, we don't have them up north although some people raise pasture hogs where they have shelters with straw in them.
AFAIK, we don't have them up north although some people raise pasture hogs where they have shelters with straw in them.
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