EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Does anyone know how far up north hogs range. I'm in North Dakota and there is none. Where do they tapper off. I have a friend in Kansas and he doesn't have any near Wichita Kansas

Give it time and they will be in Canada.


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Not sure why they are not here. There lots of crops and cover unless it's the cold.

My dad works for farm bureau in Boston, MA and he cuts out adds from magazines and saves them and shows me about feral hogs and in northern New York that escaped out of game preserves. I think with time they will be all over. You'd be suprised at how much of the country up there looks like the piney woods in east texas

Ft riley ks introduced hogs a couple yrs ago and canada has european blooded hogs.

Croydon, New Hampshire has a wild population of European Boar that escaped from a preserve up there.
  Some parts of Michigan have a wild population of Russian boar, same story.
  I know Ind., & Ohio has a small pocket of hogs with russian influence.
  I would think they would have to have the wool, a good russian has to survive the winters up there & also a good mast crop.

   yeah they have advertised hog hunts in Pennsylvania since I was old enough to read my first outdoor life and sports afield magazines . and that's been a long time  lol .

Kansas has hogs but if game and fish gets word they do there best to eliminate them. It's against the law for civilian to kill a wild hog in Kansas. That's what I was told when I went deer hunting up there anyway.


Shotgun
Arkansas

When i was stationed in ks, i was told the same thing shotgun, its illegal to hunt/kill them.
When i was a frog (ft riley outdoor group) member, i sat in on a meeting and discussion bout introducing feral hogs onto the installation. The fish n game wanted to intro a need species to be hunted when the population reach over 1000. I argued against it, stating the competition for food amongst the small elk herd, whitetails, turkeys and other critters. Not to mention the destructive nature of hogs towards crops, but was overruled n they voted for intorducing them. Bout the time i was getting ready to leave, i helped offload 100 sows and 20 boars, ranging in wt from 50-150lbs.
The last word i got from a couple guys i was stationed n hunted with, hogs were tearing the land apart with the abundant amount of seasonal crops. Farmers were getting mad.

Thanks for the input. It has shocked me how a turkey can live here. There's days when it twenty below but with a windchill factor of minus fifty and my face burns the minute I stand in it. I don't see what keeps the turkeys head and neck from frostbite. So I guess the hogs would be fine.

I grew up in N. Dak and I think food would be an issue thru the winters as it would be hard rooting where the ground freezes a couple ft. deep and there are nut trees at all. We have hogs that have come up in Oregon now clear to the Columbia River but the state is trying to keep it in ck. By the way, there was one shot a few yrs back near Stanley N.Dak. Not sure how it got there but it sure was a feral hog by the looks.

Ive hunted hogs in northern OK, not far from the KS border. There are hogs in ks, but not too kany from my understanding. But could you imagine how the hogs could grow in the corn crop lands of Nebraska and Iowa. Could make for some monster hogs.

Read an article in fur fish and game about them in canada. 

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