deer or boar
hey everybody,
i was scouting an area for upland game birds a couple days ago. at about 6pm i was relaxing in my truck glassing a pair of quails, then all of a sudden i hear snorts about 4 or 5 snorts. i couldnt believe this was a wild pig because the land is arid desert and not known for pigs. there are hardly any watering holes just intermittent brackish streams.
could this be a wild pig? after a minute or so i left my truck and went into the bushes to see if it was a pig but i guess it left already left. im not telling where i saw it because i still have a pig tag to fill. but its in socal
murrietahunter
Could be a pig. There are pigs all over socal, just spread very thin.
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any tracks or sign?
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Deer will snort in alarm. That's probably what you heard. They'll blow too.
It's good to have a plan. That way you have something to change.......
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PM me with a location and I'll ask my unit biologist if he/she's heard of any pigs in that area.
Marc
Yeah, yeah, I er um have accsess to top secret satalite imagery and I can give you a detailed readout on the wearwithall and um local of swine in the area forthwith. So just um PM me with that pig location and I'll get started on the hunt er um rather intel gathering and whatnot...Originally Posted by DFG_Bear
but don't tell anyone else this is Top Secret.
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck
Brackish streams in Southern CA? Salten sea or by the coast? It's possible to find hogs anywhere in CA these days...
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theres all sorts of tracks and scat but im not an expert at identifying scat, what does pig scat look like? its not salton sea, sorry still cant tell you the location, if i did everybody and there mother will be hunting this area.
im gonna put a trail camera and see what i find. hopefully nobody steals it.
Hog droppings look like your neighbor squatted down in the bushes. When the grasses are in it looks like horse apples. The rest of the time more like human scat.
It's good to have a plan. That way you have something to change.......
410, You should go to the doc for a checkup!!! I could maybe see describing hog scat as "human-like" but that's even a little stretch.
If you google wild hog scat you should be blessed with a better explanation.
Coming to a National Forest near you!
Probably deer...............but with the rains last month...........you never know!!!! A trail camera is your best bet............and some studying of hog scat pictures in the internet. I hope you fill your tag............but could be a long shot.
'Nuff said
larrysogla
i put up the trail camera yesterday, im gonna check tomorrow to see if it took any pictures, btw thanks for all the advice guys, ive never heard of deer snorting before i thought they just grunt.
I've only heard a buck grunt a few times but I've heard deer blow (snort) more times than I care to remember. Usually it's them sounding the alarm once they smell/hear/see you.
Coming to a National Forest near you!
Was pig hunting last year up around Hopland, CA and was glassing a ridge. Heard some movement in the brush and "snorting". I thought forsure it was hogs, it was two does that showed themselves.
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wtf is he gonna do with the location? Check and see if pigs could live there? This is california, Hope that was a joke gone bad.
Deer make a snorting sound thats sent many a pig hunter into the frenzy...usually, but not always its a deer.
I used to hunt out near Temecula, and I saw some sign out there, but never lucky enough to see any pigs. They're out there, sometimes where it seems they could never survive.
Temecula?! Come on, with all those vineyards? There are hogs there for sure...
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Both pigs and deer "grunt" at times, so do alot of other animals. Deer poop is pellets or packed clumps, pigs looks like human logs.
Deer tracks are more arrow head shape, pigs are more wide and rounded like cattle. Pigs stink when you get up close to them or near their fresh poop.
And the sightings of wild hogs is getting more wide spread every year...
Stop Global Whining...
Too bad it never seems to be me having all these pig sightings....crosshairs are getting cold.
Grapes do always seem to equal piggys...maybe I could bring a small baggy of snacks along for my next nature hike....
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Marc is the state biologist for bear, pigs and mountian lions. I believe he was going to help and I for one would not pass up any help from him.
Ouch, now I feel like an a-hole. Thanks, and sorry.
I see so many people asking where someone last saw something, I figured this was yet another.
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how did the trail cam do for you?
i put my trail cam out twice already, first time it took pictures of a black animal, to me it looked like a pig head or dogs head my cam didnt take pictures of its body though, second time it took pictures of birds.
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