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Title:The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:SALEM::PAPPALARDO
Created:Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1561
Total number of notes:17784

391.0. "BOAR?" by SMOKIE::WITCHEY (I'm the NRA) Wed May 03 1989 20:22

    At a recent outdoorsman's show I got a line on a place here in Colorado
    where one can hunt either razorback or Russian boar. This sounds
    interesting to me but ...
    
    1) Is either good to eat? (I don't kill for trophy.)
    
    2) Has anyone out there hunted them with short gun? Would a .41
    Mag have a place in this scenario?
    
    I appreciate any answers/info at all. (My significant other would
    appreciate you talking me out of it.)
    
    Thanks,
    Bill
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391.1Wild PorkATEAM::AYOTTEThu May 04 1989 14:1119
    I've had the opportunity to eat boar on a couple of occasions and
    it was excellent.  A friend of mine hunted a preserve stocked with
    these creatures.  I've never hunted them and couldn't help you on
    weapon choice.  One would think that a properly placed bullet from
    your .41 magnum would do the job.  I think my friend used a .44mag
    carbine.  I'd like to try hunting them someday...... would be a
    great way to bridge the gap between fall to fall hunting seasons.
    
    Believe it or not, but:
    NH offers wild boar hunting in a truely limited fashion.  There
    are small numbers of them in the Claremont area near the VT border.
    The hurricane that knock down the fence of a large hunting preserve
    back in the '30s let out enough of them to get them started.  The
    F&G department doesn't manage them and doesn't list a controlled
    season on them.  The few that are taken are killed by deer hunters
    that happen upon them in thick swamps.  
    
    Dave
    
391.21 in 50 yearsSALEM::MACGREGORI'm the NRA/GONH/NAHCThu May 04 1989 14:558
    I believe that about 2 or 3 years ago the first wild boar in 50
    years was taken in Coos county, N.H. The southern states offers
    quite a bit of wild boar hunting but here in N.H. there is an open
    season on them. I think there are only about 8 animals that have
    no closed seasons on them. Coyote is another, along with skunk and
    porcupine. In the rules book that comes with a hunting license tells
    what animals have open seasons. 
    							Bret
391.3Reference 3.* in this fileATEAM::AYOTTEFri May 05 1989 10:361
     
391.4????????SALEM::MACGREGORI'm the NRA/GONH/NAHCSat May 06 1989 12:316
    .3 I seem to recall an article in a Union Leader about a year or
    2 back that mentioned the first boar killed in 50 years. it may
    have been in just Coos county but thought it was the whole state.
    Will look it up though.
    							Bret
    
391.5thxSMOKIE::WITCHEYI'm the NRAThu Jun 01 1989 20:418
    Just wanted to say thanks for the info and the insight. I'll post
    a note as to how it turns out, hopefully I won't be signing it 
    "Peg".
    
    'gards,
    Bill