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I would appear that many folks shoot pigs as an extra offering on a African trip. Hunters seem to shoot them everywhere over there. wart hogs, forest hogs, red pigs. Are there any areas in sub saharan Africa where they do not exist? Are the African variety of pigs as prolific as those here in the states where a sow can have as many as 3 litters a year? I realize you have a few more critters (Lions, Leopards, crocs and perhaps Hyenas?) munching on them over there to keep them in check. Are they a "problem" in Africa? Do you have feral hogs over there? EZ | ||
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Can't answer your question, but I love hunting hogs, here in the states. My one safari, so far, included a wartie. He is my favorite trophy! My son and I are going to Zim, for our 2nd african hunt. It's for DG. However, I asked Mart if there were any warties, or bushpig, they are always on my menu!  Matter of fact, if I had the money, I would love to make a multi country hunt for every different species of porker on the continent I'm addicted! Mad Dog | |||
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Ruark said that birds were so much fun to shoot because they "set lightly on the conscience." I maintain that pigs are much the same. | |||
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Warthog and/or bushpig are a regular item on my African Safaris! | |||
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I love hunting warthogs and I have taken six of them so far. For whatever reason I come closer to feeling remorse over killing a warthog than almost any other animal. Killing a warthog affects me more than killing a elephant. Truth be told, baboons are the only animal that I feel remorse for killing. Jason "You're not hard-core, unless you live hard-core." _______________________ Hunting in Africa is an adventure. The number of variables involved preclude the possibility of a perfect hunt. Some problems will arise. How you decide to handle them will determine how much you enjoy your hunt. Just tell yourself, "it's all part of the adventure." Remember, if Robert Ruark had gotten upset every time problems with Harry Selby's flat bed truck delayed the safari, Horn of the Hunter would have read like an indictment of Selby. But Ruark rolled with the punches, poured some gin, and enjoyed the adventure. -Jason Brown | |||
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There are indeed lots of species of pigs in Africa. Obviously the two main species are the Bushpig and the Warthog. Bushpig certainly roamed around in huge numbers , especially in agricultural lands where maize and other food stuffs attract them. I grew up roaming around maize lands at night with a semi auto shottie shooting wild pigs and having a blast. Warthogs also were around in quite big numbers, but numbers have fallen as they are easy prey for poachers with dogs. Great animals to hunt and they can be real characters if you ever get a chance to just sit and watch them in the bush. | |||
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see my answers to your questions in caps in the quote -
"The greatest threat to our wildlife is the thought that someone else will save it” www.facebook.com/ivancartersafrica www.ivancarterwca.org www.ivancarter.com ivan@ivancarter.com | |||
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Ivan, if you talk to the sugar cane farmers and maize farmers around here, you will discover that the bushpig is more than "somewhat" of a problem.  In some areas they have been declared a major problem and the provincial parks have been asked to help eliminate them. But much easier said than done. They are very wily nocturnal critters, and give hunters a heck of a lot of challenging fun. The best way to successfully hunt them if you are fit, is with dogs. Generally a high success ratio. Baiting is only ok in terms of success. Harris Safaris PO Box 853 Gillitts RSA 3603 www.southernafricansafaris.co.za https://www.facebook.com/pages...=aymt_homepage_panel "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne." - Karen Blixen, | |||
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To add a bit to what Ivan said, there are some parts of the Kalahari that could probably support them in terms of fodder and water but you still don't get them there. I've been told it is because the sand is so loose that they cannot make their huge burrows. These are essential to their social success & survival (I'm talking specifically about warthogs) A recent and not too good phenomenon in SA is the huge amount of Spannish hunters coming in big parties on warthog hunts. They pay a hundred euros or more per pig which at the exchange rate is about 2 1/2 times what the local hunter used to pay. They shoot all sizes in huge numbers. I've seen photos and it cannot be sustainable in my opinion. A few years back a pig cost less than half what an impala ram costs. They're priced about the same now! This is predomonantly happening in the Limpopo & Northwest Province but I've no doubt that it occurs wherever warthog numbers are fair. http://www.bigbore.org/ http://www.chasa.co.za Addicted to Recoil ! I hunt because I am human. Hunting is the expression of my humanity... | |||
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agree apologies for my loose wording -i guess i should have said "as compared to the states"- here in the states a feral pig problem can result in hundreds of acres of damage - we killed 79 in 5 hours from a chopper !!!!!! nowhere in africa has it to that degree!!!!! "The greatest threat to our wildlife is the thought that someone else will save it” www.facebook.com/ivancartersafrica www.ivancarterwca.org www.ivancarter.com ivan@ivancarter.com | |||
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TAA this week features 3 types of hogs hunted in CAR. Caleb | |||
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By the way, the Orange Groves in Southern Zimbabwe are also targets of warthogs who root and dig up water lines and perform other destruction to the Groves. I've ridden with Orange Grove Managers in the late afternoon/early evening through the Groves shooting warthog, at their specific request, because of the destruction that the warthogs cause to the Groves. Note: You have to be extremely fast, and have to be able to shoot full-on-running pigs as they scatter down the narrow Orange Grove "lanes"! | |||
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Yes, we do have feral hogs. After living 30 years in Africa I'm almost exclusively interested in buffalo and bushpig. But because of the price for buffalo I'm concentrating on bushpig... I have hunted lots of bushpig in state forests and on farms, under oak trees and in milie fields. Never used an artificial light or dogs, only relied on the moonshine plus the Zeiss telescope 2,5 - 10 X 52 on my Sauer Drilling .30-06. There is nothing more exciting for me than hunting bushpig this way, me alone in the moonlit night in Africa. http://www.kapstadt.de/schindlers-africa Raffle Save Valley Conservancy: 10 day buffalo/plains game hunt for $ 125: http://forums.accuratereloadin...1411043/m/5211027831 | |||
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An African safari just wouldn't be the same without a wartie in the salt! They're just so darned "African"! Love to hunt them as well as Bushpig and someday maybe I'll get a Giant Forest Hog and complete the "African Grand Slam O' Ham"!!!  jorgeUSN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Ya Stephen you are right about the Spaniards, I have also spoken to a number of farmers whos neighbours have allowed PH's to "hunt" on their properties. They build blinds at waterholes and put their clients in them for a whole day along with cooler boxes to keep them hydrated  the one farmer counted in excess of 50 shots the one day!! Interesting though I have a mate who farms about 100ks north of Kuruman in the heart of the Kalahari and they have noticed a big increase in the amount of warties in the area, no doubt due to the good rains they have had over the last couple of seasons. | |||
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i've been with a couple outfits that wouldn't allow spanish hunters because of killing warthogs. seems as the ones they took out were just interested in killing pigs, big little male female didn't any difference, plus then they didn't even want them, just leave them lay. didn't sit very well | |||
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Though bushpig are reputed to be nocturnal in most of their range, in Mozambique they wander around in broad daylight. Whenever I went out with Bahati, there were so many warthog and bushpig in Coutada 10 that I sometimes felt like I was hunting in a barnyard! I would like to add Red River hog and Giant Forest to my life list but those countries are expensive hunts and the Giants are hard to connect with. Sarge Holland's .375: One Planet, One Rifle . . . for one hundred years! | |||
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