Hogs in CO?

[Byte Stryke]

probably going to have to go into TX or OK

[mc223]

I didn't read thru all the posts in this thread so forgive me if this is a duplicate of someones info.

Way back when I lived and hunted most of the eastern prairie. I hunted hogs in baca county south of the Cimmaron river and along the three state borders.
Once when I was there I was approached by a Kansas DOW ranger from Grasslands National Park. Now remember I am in Colorado. He told me I could take hogs on the other side of the line in Ks and since there was no clear jurisdiction in Oklahoma in the vicinity I could hunt there too. I did hunt that area for years and was never again visited by any type of ranger warden or other law enforcement. The area is very desolate and the farms are mostly corporate owned and managed by people that don't hunt.

That was in 94. The last time I was there to hunt was 2000.

[tmjohnson]

Wildlife Services has been killing feral hogs in SE Colorado. They have been taking blood samples and submitting for Brucellosis testing
Locals east of Trinadad say there are some down there. Likely come up Canadian River. Canadian river had a lot of them in NM.
Best chance is talk to a local fish and game warden in SE Colorado to get you in touch with locals who have feral hogs on their ranches
Just be very careful when butchering wild hogs, they can carrry some very nasty diseases and be sure to cook meat completely.

[tmjohnson]

Updating Feral Hogs Colorado


The Colorado DOW says there is no problem right now with feral Hogs in Colorado.

Remember reading about a Feral Hog problem in the news paper 4 years ago in Kiowa County. Kiowa County commissioners have told me that the winter of 2007 killed little more then half of them off and the Dow came in a kill off the last of them in that area. they tell me work with USDA-APHIS has done an aerial view and has stated there is no issue at this time.
So I'm not able to find a place in Coloardo that has a feral Hogs problem

As of 3 weeks ago Wildlife Services has been killing hogs in Colorado

[Bill]

As of 3 weeks ago Wildlife Services has been killing hogs in Colorado

Who did you talk to at the Colo DOW?

[sniper7]

I am interested to know as well.

[BigMat]

I don't think I have ever paid so much attention to a thread in my life! I really hope for a hog problem we can solve. I hear DOW handled them all and I just think "that's so greedy of them."

[tmjohnson]

Who did you talk to at the Colo DOW?

You will come more getting info if you talk to local brand inspectors.
The last thing a DOW guy wants is somebody running around hunting.
Brand Inspectors know all the ranchers and all the local gossip, so if you make a good impression on them you are in.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

You will come more getting info if you talk to local brand inspectors.
The last thing a DOW guy wants is somebody running around hunting.
Brand Inspectors know all the ranchers and all the local gossip, so if you make a good impression on them you are in.

Let us know!! I dont know who to contact or where. But alot of us want to KILL some FNG Hogs!!
Let us know.

Thanks!!

[tmjohnson]

Get on the internet
Go to Colorado Department of Agriculture
Click on livestock inspection, that will give you a list of brand inspectors by district and county with their phone numbers