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« on: March 22, 2015, 04:24:28 pm » |
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Am I right in thinking boars have a territory or area they tend to stay in ?
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halfbreed
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2015, 04:31:46 pm » |
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yep but it's pretty large most times . used to have a real good boar hog come thru the farm time to time . you couldn't help but notice him for the size of his tracks . and I used to cut his sign at wallows and telephone poles all thru the area he ran .he all ways travelled the same path about every month hunting sows .
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2015, 06:05:49 pm » |
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I used to have a tracking collar on about a 180-200# boar. For the most part he would stay in the 12000 acre hunting club, but several times we have tracked him about 6 miles out of the club but every time we dogged him, he would run back to the club. I believe hogs move for a number of reasons. Number one, food & then receptive sows. I also believe they will move out of a area that gets dogged a lot. All hogs will.
I had a collar on a Barr & he was very content to stay on the same branch. We would go in & bay him with pups, then leave him alone & just mess with him about every 3 weeks or so & he stayed put.
Hogs are very nomadic & travel with the food.
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Reuben
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2015, 07:40:12 pm » |
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back when I hunted quite a bit more the hogs would move around...seems to me they moved according to food source...sometimes it was water during drought conditions...some of the places I get invited on now always have hogs because the woods are thick and plenty of water close by...
over the years I have observed that some the biggest boars live way out away from where they would get dogged and sometimes they live not too far from neighborhoods...
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2015, 09:23:36 pm » |
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I used to have a tracking collar on about a 180-200# boar. For the most part he would stay in the 12000 acre hunting club, but several times we have tracked him about 6 miles out of the club but every time we dogged him, he would run back to the club. I believe hogs move for a number of reasons. Number one, food & then receptive sows. I also believe they will move out of a area that gets dogged a lot. All hogs will.
I had a collar on a Barr & he was very content to stay on the same branch. We would go in & bay him with pups, then leave him alone & just mess with him about every 3 weeks or so & he stayed put.
Hogs are very nomadic & travel with the food.
cajun i always enjoy reading your posts. A tracking collar on a hog would be an AWESOME way to train some pups ! |
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2015, 09:23:19 am » |
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What kinda tracking collar and were can I get one that is freaking sweet deal there
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Cajun
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2015, 12:58:10 pm » |
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I just used regular Wildlife Material Collars. I would join a regular collar to the tracking collar to make it big enough & punch holes as I needed. Now, let me tell you what is going to happen. If you run him half a dozen times, he is going to get a whole bag of tricks. One of the things we found out about this one boar, like Reuben said, he would bed up near houses. Never could understand that but we found him twice in a overgrown lot, bedded down between two houses. Another time I was tracking him down the road & I thought he had been hit on the highway, he was that close. Turns out he was bedded down in a overgrown fence row 20 yards off the highway. This hog would run threw a herd of cows, run down a dirt road for a ways or find some sows & shoats. The main thing, he just ran. A deer hunter finally shot him & called me to return the collar.
Another boar we had a collar on would just run & I mean all day. We learned where every briar patch in the country was at. We would never have caught either hog with dogs after they had been educated but this hog got hit by a truck & we found him dead in the ditch. In both instances, that was about the only way we were going to get our collars back.
In both instances, a lot of times we jumped other hogs, tracking these two. If you just want to find hogs, I would put a collar on a sow & she will get with a group. If I would do it again, I would probably use Barrs, they just do not roam that much.
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Reuben
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2015, 06:05:27 pm » |
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we used to run one at night...he would run straight to where 4 pasture were connected to each other at the corners...he ran here because there were for sets of cows and he ran right through them and then head out to a neighborhood...gave us the slip...we finally caught one of the biggest sows in that area...close to 300 pounds...she made it half way to the neighborhood and she had to turn back... on account she was not at a location to where she could run through the cows...I can't say she was that hog that ran through the cows because we stopped hunting that place soon after on account the land was split up amongst the siblings of the owner...
I once saw a huge hog running crouched to the ground because he knew he would be seen running normally...I saw a big boar hog hugging the fence line when he was walking to keep him hidden as he walked...he just walked around the bushes...it was more trouble to walk that way but he wasn't taking any chances of getting shot at...
I think all animals have a territory...some have a larger range in their territory...
I believe the big boars get right next to hiways and houses because those places are safe from hog dogs...no one in there right mind will turn a pack of long range dogs in those areas...
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2015, 06:14:13 pm » |
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Yall keep talking about hogs running through cattle. I posted on here a while back about a hog i tried to catch and he kept running into the middle of a small herd. I would give the bulldog the command to stop. Even though i knew he wouldnt fool with those cows i didnt want to chance it. I would grab his collar and walk him close to the hog. Real close. It was like the hog felt safe amoung those cows. We did that same thing 3 or 4 times before the hog made a b line for the woods. They got out of sight and i heard the dog catch and the pig squeal but the hog ended up getting away. I dont know what happend. But we lost that day. I wander whats up with the hogs and the cows though. I've seen hogs grazing with cows on another spot as well.  ?? |
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2015, 07:17:56 pm » |
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I saw what seemed to be a pretty legitimate paper on hog territories. If I remember right the study's were on hogs in Hawaii I believe.
Also...IF I remember right one of the study's showed a group of hogs covering a 25 mile area in their travels.
I could be remembering wrong...but I bet the info is still available on the www. Google it
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