Hunting Wild Hogs

We have about 20 wild hogs starting to devastate our property in stockdale. looking for someone experienced to come out to hunt them. I need to get this controlled before spring.....

the meat is excellent - I have more than I can eat before it goes bad in the freezer, so all the meat is yours.

it's a small property, so I am definitely looking for -experienced- people, for safety reasons.

Sounds like fun...might have to get a small group together.

for safety, I'd rather just one or two at a time. I'm happy to go down during the week too. if we get setup by 5ish, we should be in place before they start roaming. then after dark, head back to town.

That might be fun. Here piggy, piggy, piggy!

Chris and I can set up a pop up blind and bow hunt them. Or set up a trap and try that way. Or spot light with rifle, I have a 220 swift that is fucking dead nuts on!!!! any day works let us know

have a trap down there already. we can bow hunt anytime.

Bowhunting is my life! Oh ya Jeeps too.

PMs sent.

Bow hunting is one skill I never developed. I'd prolly love it, but I have a hard enough time funding my current hobbies. I bet either my .30-06 or 7mm mag will drop one of them piggies though.

Drop hell it'll blow their head off!

I might have to get in on this too. My .308 should do the trick. Only problem for me is time ... the two rug rats seem to require two parents to handle or then run us ragged when it's only 1 parent.


... or anyone going have too much extra Javalina meat, I'd gladly help take it off your hands.

Chris wrote:

Drop hell it'll blow their head off!

Funny you should say that. I almost decapitated a doe once with my 7mm mag and a neck shot. Bullet fragmented when it hit the neck. Not pretty, but effective.

Hook-Em wrote:

Chris wrote:

Drop hell it'll blow their head off!

Funny you should say that. I almost decapitated a doe once with my 7mm mag and a neck shot. Bullet fragmented when it hit the neck. Not pretty, but effective.

That's the same thing with my 220 swift. 3600fps, you wait until they turn away from you, put the cross hairs on the back of the neck, squeeeezzz the trigger and baammmm all you have left is two ears and MAYBE the skin of the nose.... a few teeth stuck in the skin

That thing is sick .22 cal. bullet sitting in a .243 cal. casing.

Here piggy piggy!!!! Matt thanks again for showing us the area. Those pigs sure did surprised us

Hell yeah they did. Last time I was there, they were LITTLE. OH F... See you Sat! Tell your pop Thanks! He's one smart cookie!

Chris - let me know when you want to do a scouting mission, too. Thinking of driving back down tomorrow if you're game.

excellent tips for hog hunting day or night

http://www.texasboars.com/hunting/huntingtips.html

My grandfather used to take my cousin & I to the produce terminal over off Zarzamora and Laredo. He'd pull up to a dumpster and have us pull out bad fruit with a pitch fork (sometimes we'd have to jump in ) until we filled up 3 buckets of bad fruit. Then head out to his land out in Cotula. Added some water to the buckets and let them sit in the sun all day. Late afternoon we'd dump that stink bait on the side of the road. Always had hogs eating after night fall.

Feral hogs can be a HUGE problem. We have been shooting and trapping them on our ranch for over a year and are just now making a dent in them. We will be doing some shooting and trapping this weekend. We don't like to waste the meat, but we are in a war with them. We eat all that we can, freeze some, and give any away that we can. But some does go to waste. We have to control them, they push the deer away and eat quail and turkey eggs and youngens.
Texas Boars is an excellent place to get info on hog hunting, but you have to watch what you say there big time. I got banned for sticking up for a new guy that got hammered. The site owner went on a huge rant, personal attacks with outright lies. So you really have to watch it. But there are some really good folks that hang out there and know their stuff.
This is what one of our feed sites looked like last year:



We don't see that many at once anymore, but they are still there. My favorite tactic is to stalk up on them under a full moon with one of our AR15's mounted with an Aimpoint. I get right on them and go to shooting. It is actually pretty fun.

I love to eat Javelina ( hint hint )




I'm sure Randy could whip up a batch of his super awesome ribs with them bad boys !!

RichSA- yeah, that's what ours looks like. Just bigger hogs. And more.

jkx- you get to keep all you shoot! PM me, and I'll get you on the schedule.

It looks like we'll have quite a mixture of people coming down to have their way with these little F'ers. Rifle hunters, bow hunters, sport hunters, and a couple guys with ARs/AKs. And yes, its WAR. I, too, don't like to waste meat. I have always subscribed to what's killed gets eaten. But at some point, they must go. And sooner the better.....

So angry!

just wait till you get down here, man!

Got me some slugs for the 12g and finally got me a rifle bigger than a 22, courtesy of my buddy. Good little 30-06

Feral hog

Javelina


What we saw were feral hogs but Matt could also have some javelinas.

Let's kill 'em all!

DangerMouse Jr. and Sr. came out this afternoon and put up their blind. Sr. hung out till the sun went down, but the little bastards never came to say Hi tonight.....

Of those planning trips down, chat with Ray about using his setup.