Do you like hog hunting?

[Rube Shooter]

View attachment 1117149 I hunt south of Loraine which is just west of Sweetwater TX. The hogs showed up about 5 years ago. It is fun to thump one or two now and then. I have heard they put a ass whoppin on the rattle snakes. That might be true but we still have a few rattle bugs around, maybe not as many but they are still around. The big boars we just drag off. If a hog stinks, that is how they taste to me. I'll keep a smaller sows. They usually eat good. The hog issue has made me change my bullet selection abit. I load stouter constructed bullets than i used to for just deer. Hogs are tough animals. There is a deer processor that I occasionally use that has a jar of broad heads that they have pulled out of hogs. When my son was still shooting a light loaded 6.5 Creed with a 120 Prohunter, we had a big boar rodeo. He hit it twice in the head, it went down both times and got up both times. I tracked it about 20 yrds in the brush. He was still alive. My son shot it in the back of the neck about 7 yrds away. It got up and wanted to fight. I shot it 2 more times behind the shoulder and them a buddy of mine ran up and shot it with a 38spl. in the back of the head and finally killed that big bastard. I loaded a full load with a 120 TTSX and he got better kills on hogs. I usually shot a 7 Mag with 150 TTSX or a 30-06 with 150 TTSX's when I'm after swine. I have killed em with 7mm-08, 270 and a few others but, that 7 Mag with the 150 TTSX knocks the hell out of the hogs. PIc was from October of 2017. He was a mean SOB!

I have heard the hogs have put a hurtin on rattler populations and that the snakes have started to rattle less or even at all since that gave away their location to the pigs. I hunt northwest San Saba county and we are swarming with wild hogs, except for a few babies I have not seen any rattlers for quite some time to see if the story about them not rattling is true.
I agree with you about pigs stinking, I only keep sows for the freezer and all the others go to the spot where we dispose of the deer guts on our lease

 

[littlebuddybr]

So are there any good places a guy could go hunt em over there?

 

[Mark W]

So are there any good places a guy could go hunt em over there?

There are lots of good places, but you’ve gotta know someone or drop a wad of cash.

 

[338 dude]

I used to love to hunt hogs originally from Florida plenty of hogs there now in middle Tennessee our local game warden’s have trapped them to extinction in my area don’t ever see a Hogg for at least three years now this is a pic of my earlier days probably 20 years ago my first hog with a bow from 20 yards on the ground with him Sorry for the quality it is a picture of a picture 375#

 

[wildfowler]

That’s a whopper!!

 

[338 dude]

That’s a whopper!!

Thanks the first one was the biggest never got one that big again but I will never forget it either

 

[wildfowler]

Thanks the first one was the biggest never got one that big again but I will never forget it either

Did that one have his nuts intact?

Biggest one I’ve ever killed had a heart girth measurement weight estimate of 356 lbs did and not have his nuts.

Took me a year before I crossed paths after first seeing his picture on trail cam.

 

[338 dude]

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Did that one have his nuts intact?

Biggest one I’ve ever killed had a heart girth measurement weight estimate of 356 lbs did and not have his nuts.

Took me a year before I crossed paths after first seeing his picture on trail cam.

Yes He was the king of that area completely intact some friends saw him but we’re not very smart and their attempts to bag him they were in tree stand too low and too close to his trails I sat in the bushes in a different place along the ditch 20 yards from his trail and he stepped out You have a nice hog as well cutters are approximately the same length as mine and your estimate on weight is very close they are very comparable

 

[338 dude]

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Did that one have his nuts intact?

Biggest one I’ve ever killed had a heart girth measurement weight estimate of 356 lbs did and not have his nuts.

Took me a year before I crossed paths after first seeing his picture on trail cam.

A boar with nuts we call a boar obviously one that has been nutted and released we always called a bar

 

[wildfowler]

A boar with nuts we call a boar obviously one that has been nutted and released we always called a bar

I’ve heard that terminology before but couldn’t think of it today and had to be crude in my description.

I only know one person who hunts them with dogs who has taken me hunting a couple times with their group and that sport is definitely not for me.

Those guys definitely don’t catch and release, and I am not about to go stick a knife in one. Waaaayyy too intimate for me.

Although if had they invited me a fourth time I was going to show up with a bayonet on my AR15. Haha

I like my method of shooting in them at night with high tech gadgets a lot better.

 

[338 dude]

I’ve heard that terminology before but couldn’t think of it today and had to be crude in my description.

I only know one person who hunts them with dogs who has taken me hunting a couple times with their group and that sport is definitely not for me.

Those guys definitely don’t catch and release, and I am not about to go stick a knife in one. Waaaayyy too intimate for me.

Although if had they invited me a fourth time I was going to show up with a bayonet on my AR15. Haha

I like my method of shooting in them at night with high tech gadgets a lot better.

I’ve hunted them any which way you can trap them etc. like everything else I like the challenge of a hunt I don’t need a dog to hold them for me But I have stuck several it is pretty intense especially when it’s your dog you’re worried about not to mention yourself

 

[pirate ammo]

i will only hunt what i would eat and i love eating pigs, they are the most delicious meat ever, wild Pigs are so good. i have to hunt them. i have never been so lucky on getting big ones but a few of my friends have...they even made the local news.

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My wife says that's really a Hippopotamus in disguise.

 

[Stepsjframe]

My wife says that's really a Hippopotamus in disguise.

HAHAHAHAHA, nope its not a Hippopotamus, i saw it with my two eyes. packing the meat was something.

 

[pirate ammo]

HAHAHAHAHA, nope its not a Hippopotamus, i saw it with my two eyes. packing the meat was something.

We'll just call it HOGASAURUS.

 

[Stepsjframe]

We'll just call it HOGASAURUS.

A justifiable name

 

[ormandj]

HAHAHAHAHA, nope its not a Hippopotamus, i saw it with my two eyes. packing the meat was something.

Interesting. I had seen that one before... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Pig

This a fishing thread, too?

 

[Terry]

Hog hunting is something that I really want to do. But I'm not paying fees that exceed what I could buy it for.

I'll find a way.

 

[ebb]

I love shooting them, dragging them to the truck, lifting them up to the bed, cleaning and cutting them up not so much. I used to have a picture from an oak hammock on the Kissimmee River with 7 hogs hanging from 3 or 4 different trees. We were up till 2 in the morning dealing with them and swatting mosquitoes.

 

[ebb]

Now that I think of it I have more understanding of Bear Claws statement "Skin that one pilgrim and I'll get ya another one."

 

[mikecockcroft]

Someone above is full of shit.
Thanks for ruining a fun thread