Hogs In Moore Co Area?

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Does anyone live or hunt in the Jackson Springs area of Moore Co? We have a fair bit of land up that way that we've hunted for yrs. A couple yrs ago we found what we thought were hog tracks but got the proof we needed yesterday. We run 8-10 trail cameras almost yr around and this is the first and only pic we have gotten.20171007_175717.jpg
 
So, what exactly are you asking? Are you looking for help thinning them?

Or, just wanting to know who lives/hunts in the area?

-R
 
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Just wondering if anyone else in the area has seen any..... We've hunted the area for 15yrs and run cameras almost constantly for the last 7-8 yrs and never seen one before. I checked the camera yesterday and this was the only pic (taken Oct 1) and it was in a spot baited fairly heavily with shell corn and sweet potatoes. At this point I can't imagine there being one killed unless it's a chance happening.
 
Jackson Springs I right on the Moore, Richmond, Montgomery Co border. Might want to ask someone from those areas also. My hunting land, family farm, is in northern Moore County, between Carthage and Robins, close to Putnam and Glendon. No pigs yet. Dad has heard reports of pigs north of Moore County, first I have heard of them coming up from the south.
But, you know what they say about pigs. "There's only two kinds of land, land with pigs and land that is gonna have pigs."

If you have that many cameras out you may be able to pattern him and take him out of the gene pool.
CF

OK, just called down and talked to Dad. There appear to be two groups of pigs, one coming down Deep River from the north and one coming down Richland Creek from the south. Group from Richland Creek area around camp Reeves near Samarcand. most likely where yours came from.
Group from Deep River should hit family farm first.
Meanwhile we are getting fox and coyote picts on game cams.
 
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We actually have land in all 3 counties but the hog was on the Moore side of Drowning Creek. I talked to the local game warden a little bit ago and he said that there are a few small pockets of them in the area but few sightings are reported. I really hate that but I guess we'll have them full force sooner than later.
 
We actually have land in all 3 counties but the hog was on the Moore side of Drowning Creek. I talked to the local game warden a little bit ago and he said that there are a few small pockets of them in the area but few sightings are reported. I really hate that but I guess we'll have them full force sooner than later.
That's what I was thinking. Ya better get to killing or you will get covered up.
 
We'll kill all we see, but I hope we don't see anymore. I know that's highly unlikely at this point.
 
The hog pictured looks quite a few generations from feral. Don’t know the area well but western Anson Co did have a fair population a couple years back and the way those things are spreading it wouldn’t surprise me if they have invaded. They were in Duplin a couple years back and next thing we knew they were in Pender ...

KILL EVERY ONE YOU SEE ESPECIALLY THE SOWS!
 
The hog pictured looks quite a few generations from feral.
I was thinking the same thing. Here's a better look at the same pic. First one was a cell phone pic off my card reader, this one is off the computer.20171008_210956.png
 
Hogs in NC have no season, no limit, can be hunted at night ... they are the plague to other game. Feral hogs have damaged the quail and other upland game because they beat anything ... there have been a couple cases of larger ferals even taking fawn. They spread disease to wildlife, livestock and even humans.

Some relatives in Pender had a few a couple years back and we hunted them and would get 5 or so over a weekend but they still kept showing up ... we couldn’t hunt them fast enough to keep up with the sows piglet production. Now it’s catch pens and baiting them in ... and that is slowly working.

I am an ethical hunter except when it comes to feral pigs and there I bait (which is completely legal), use whatever I need from a suppressed bolt gun to get the smarter sows and boar that won’t go near the pen to AR-10 and send rounds quick and in volume ... and finish off what needs to be after the dust clears. If we could use Claymores we would.

Again ... SHOOT ALL PIGS YOU SEE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE!
 
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I've always wanted to shoot a few, but I've never wanted them on our land.
 
Do not hunt ... eradicate! A good bait is take corn and lightly dampen it in a bucket. Add a couple packets of strawberry Jello, shake to coat it well and spread it out on butcher paper to dry. You toss that stuff out in your spot and sprinkle a couple more packets of strawberry Jello around it on the ground and the damn things will hang around pretty much while you pick off other pigs with a suppressed bolt gun ... they may step of 10-20 feet but that coated corn and smell of strawberry in the dirt is like crack to them.
 
If I was you I would try to find someone to trap them. Keep in mind I have no first hand expereince dealing with them but from what family members in texas have told me trapping is about the only way to remove them from a property. Shooting them just makes them nocturnal and from they have said hogs can be smarter than a deer.
 
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