Pure bred free range wild boar in NH.

[nastygunz]

If you punch up wild boar or feral pig places on the internet youll find NH listed as one of the few places with pure bred russian wild boar living in the wild, not fenced in. The reason for this is escapees from a wild game place called Corbin Park which is a fascinating place where people like Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt hunted. I t was also instrumental in restoring the buffalo..heres the link, http://brian76.mystarband.net/CorbinPark.htm,
     I also have a couple of pictures of 2 hogs taken this month and 1 taken last month by a NH hunter...every now and then someone nails a big black brute with hair like a black bear, they are not feral pigs from domesticated stock they were imported long ago from the Black Forest in Germany, if you read the link its a fascinating story, enjoy:

[cathryn]

do they have a year round season up there for hogs?

[nastygunz]

Well they are not recognized as a game or native species so people pretty much hunt em year round....they are wicked smart and stay in the thickest swamps and cover...they get very few of them...this one guy seems to know where they bed and how to get em pretty well....they had a 200+ pounder get hit by a car in Mass. recently...the thing that makes em unique is that they are not feral domesticated hogs gone wild but pure russian boar....wild looking critters.

[nastygunz]

By Anne Baker, Boston Globe Correspondent

Lancaster commuters got a startling sight on their trip to work: a view of what is believed to be a Russian wild boar.

A state trooper spotted the 200-pound animal lying alongside Route 2 in Lancaster around 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, said David Procopio, a spokesman for the State Police. Procopio said the reddish-brown boar was so large that the trooper initially thought it was a baby moose.

The trooper discovered the animal was badly injured, likely because it had been hit by a car, Procopio said. The trooper called for back-up. Authorities then redirected traffic and put the animal down, largely out of concern that it could wander into traffic and cause an accident, but also because the animal appeared to be in pain.

Chet Hall, a farmer in Royalston, arrived to claim the animal to use to bait coyotes, which he aggressively hunts. He identified the animal as a Russian wild boar because of its cinnamon-colored collar and rodent-like snout.

"It looked like a combination of a wild pig and a grizzly bear," he said.

Hall said it was obvious to him that the animal was wild because of the condition of its tusks and feet. He said they are extremely aggressive animals and are hard to contain.

"This an animal with an attitude that most people wouldn't even go near here," he said.

Hall said he will not waste the animal and plans to make boar steaks and sausage.

Lisa Capone, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, confirmed that the animal was a wild boar. The animal likely escaped from a game farm because Massachusetts does not have a native, free-roaming wild boar population, she said.

Wild boars are considered exotic wildlife in the Commonwealth and require a permit, she said.

"It's not at all likely we would issue a permit for a wild boar because it's not an animal we'd want to escape," she said.

[cathryn]

they sure are ugly and hairy.

i wonder if theyre as tasty as wild hogs from down south?

[nastygunz]

ive had wild boar its good..never had feral hog .send me some haha