Submitted by Vivid-Construction93 t3_118i6ru in newhampshire
Edit: im not advocating for illegal behavior but is it feasible to get inside the park or do they have like high end thermal cameras and movement sensors everywhere monitoring the grounds
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wetsockssuckass t1_j9h9q9a wrote
Sorry to reply with “Not me but”… my uncle has hunted it several times with a family friend who is a member. He said it was pretty underwhelming but vast. They have gotten boar and deer, didn’t see anything else. (About 15yrs ago)
smartest_kobold t1_j9hclh2 wrote
Once, but it's easier to escape than you'd think.
Vivid-Construction93 OP t1_j9hdvot wrote
Idk if this is a joke or if your saying the private security sucks
SomeSortofDisaster t1_j9hemeg wrote
No, and I certainly never hunted people there.
Automatic-Raspberry3 t1_j9hinr3 wrote
I haven’t a friend who was a hunting guide. (Since passed) he used to get invited in there fairly regularly to help members meet hunting quotas. This was the early 00s.
skudak t1_j9hjn10 wrote
My butcher/guy I buy piglets from works there. It's really nothing special or mysterious like people want to believe
Umbert360 t1_j9hl2c8 wrote
My wife is from a nearby town and claims she saw a boar in the woods behind her house when she was a kid, her dad thinks it might have escaped from there
PM_Georgia_Okeefe t1_j9htnaw wrote
No. I've never met Corbin Park, let along "be inside" him.
Burger-King-Covid t1_j9hvtpw wrote
I found a wild boar skull in the woods near the park on my old property in Claremont 5-8 years ago. Nothing really special but have always wanted to go in it.
DeerFlyHater t1_j9hxzc6 wrote
>her dad thinks it might have escaped from there
It is likely. No other reasons for them to be there. NH classifies them as escaped private property so doesn't allow a hunting season. VT, on the other hand has a season. NH's stance will bight us in the ass if a few pregnant sows escape.
Some neat maps. Not just the local area, but to see the incremental expansion of territory. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/operational-activities/feral-swine/sa-fs-history
Umbert360 t1_j9i0ia2 wrote
Yikes! Looks likely that a whole population originated from there, I can’t think of another explanation. It’s shocking such an invasive species wouldn’t be allowed to be hunted. This would have been late 80’s/ early 90’s she saw it. Ps I like your username, I too hate those little buggers
EmeraldMoose12 t1_j9ibub8 wrote
Do they still have elk?
thefivepercent t1_j9j83hm wrote
a few years back a woman hit a boar on I-89 near there. One even showed up in a back yard in Lebanon.
akmjolnir t1_j9jk55x wrote
I know folks that have harvested Corbin Park boar.
The fence along the perimeter has really old spots, and pigs are smart.
Umbert360 t1_j9js07x wrote
Yeah my buddy used to raise regular domesticated pigs, they are wicked escape artists, you have to bury fencing like two feet underground or they’ll burrow under it
DigTreasure t1_j9jsyfy wrote
There's a great blog about Corbin Park and the history of it. Really interesting and there's certainly some mystery to it. And a lot of suffering associated with it. I get spooky vibes when you are outside looking up at Croydon mtn. My friend hunted outside of it and heard the elk bugleing back in the 80s.
glockster19m t1_j9jv2qf wrote
Yes, there animal popations have been self sustaining for half a century now
ggtffhhhjhg t1_j9jvjbf wrote
Is this the massive hunting reserve by Cornish?
EmeraldMoose12 t1_j9k5fon wrote
It would be a shame if about half of them escaped and made a population in the NH wilderness.
GRADIUSIC_CYBER t1_j9ldbf6 wrote
>What is Corbin Park?
>It’s 26,000 acres of rocky New Hampshire land, fenced off, stocked with elk, eurasian wild boar and white-tailed deer. It’s private, but you can get in if invited by a member, or if you ask on the right day. It was built over 100 years ago, by a super-wealthy banker. Every year, hunters inside shoot somewhere between 200 and 600 wild boar, and between 40 and 120 elk and deer. The animals are fed through the winter to help keep the populations up, but you’re not allowed to hunt around the feeding sites.
>Members can get the meat butchered and smoked on site. They can stay in cabins and old farmhouses - the ones that are still standing - that are sprinkled throughout the park. They can hike up Croydon and Grantham peaks, the two tallest mountains in Sullivan County, which are inside the fence.
>It’s expensive to be a member, and only 30 people are allowed to be members. When someone wants to sell their shares, you’ve got to know a guy who knows a guy if you want to buy them; there’s no announcement in the papers.
>And we also know that most of the people who live near this park, folks like Brian Meyette, have no problem with the place and tend to say it’s a good neighbor. The park is quiet, pays its taxes.
>However you feel about all that… it’s up to you.
>In the end, I don’t think Corbin Park is actually a mystery. At one point, I spoke to Heidi Murphy a lieutenant with Fish and Game, who has been inside to help the park staff with occasional issues with bears.
>“It’s just you know a big huge patch of woods with some hunters that are camping out in some cabin,” she said, laughing at my insistence that it must be more interesting than that.
>“It’s, you know, it’s New Hampshire woods,” she shrugged.
Millionaires Hunt Club, for those like me that had no idea what this place is.
Troutflash t1_j9mcc0d wrote
Wish I was rich n connected!
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attacknapkin t1_j9pcq53 wrote
Like you got invited in or snuck in?
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DeerFlyHater t1_j9ql5bg wrote
lol
dang it.
At least I didn't put byte.
akmjolnir t1_j9h841o wrote
No, I've just driven the trails along its fence line. Half the time an old guy in a truck will mirror you for a while on the trail just inside the fence.
I do know some folks who have been in the park, both invited and uninvited.
It's nothing crazy or special, just a private hunting camp with a mountain in the middle of it. People with tiny brains will believe anything you tell them about it though. You can see it all using Google Earth, and there's not a lot going on.