KILLED 10 OPENING WEEKEND OF DEER SEASON


SHOT THROUGH THE EYE


TUSKER OVER 230 LBS THATS ALL MY SCALE WILL WEIGH

Sonds like you are making a dent. Can you stay on them after the season? Sometimes it is hard to focus while deer hunting, although you have done some good work so far.

You definitely have to work hard to stay ahead of them (or keep from falling too far behind).

Need some help with those?

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
Need some help with those?

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jeffe you have an open invite as you well know .

Let me get some of this deer hunting out of the way and I will gladly take some of you fellas for a pig hunt.

I had one group of 20 under a feeder at once all about 50 to 80 lbs benelli r1 in 300 will scater them out pretty well. hunting them under lights at night too have one feeder that stinks like a feed lot under it.

knock the deer down, let me get through THIS year, and january looks like piggie killin..

you want to come down for the plywood pachyderm shoot

jeffe

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conifer where are you located

They sure are pest to land owners. They also multiply faster than rabbits.

Hog Kiler

"Conifer" (that would be me) is in Gainesville, Florida.

I sure would like to be included in the invite. My 375H&H needs some hog blood. There ain't no hogs, thank God, on my lease.

I got em bad too.

Although half the time I just gut shoot em, don't want to bother dragging them off if I drop em-thay ain't worth my time/energy. Fucking bastards!

There are a lot of us in TX that would jump at the opportunity to get rid of some pigs...

Sad statement of fact is this: they have only one natural enemy: man. A gator may get one now and then, but that is not nearly enough pressure to keep the numbers down.

And they are never going to be controlled by hog cholera because they are never penned up, they run wild... The females are breeding by six months, and have 2-1/2 litters a year. They get trap smart pretty quickly. Put a bit of gun pressure on them they go completely nocturnal, and they will readily travel several miles in a day or night's time to find food. They are rapidly becoming a menace on the highways down here now, and they are wreaking havoc on grain fields, hay meadows, newborn calves, sheep and goats, and anything and everything else they find. They are totally omnivorous, and will eat ground bird eggs, carrion, you name it. They are also the reason the once very plentiful marsh rabbit (commonly called swamp rabbit) is now very uncommonly seen... I routinely travel the same highway daily to and from work, and I am seeing rootings on the sides of the highways now, less than half a mile from $300-$400,000 homes that are having their front yards rooted up from pigs chasing june bug larvae (grub worms).

I love wild pork, but am of the opinion feral pigs are as big a blight on the land as kudzu vine, tallow trees or fire ants...

And finally, there are "not so brights" that are consciously trapping them, transporting and releasing them into areas that do not have them already!!!

Wonder if we could figure out how to get a program started for the poor; there has to be a way to get feral pork processed for feeding those less fortunate than we all are... I think that is how Hunters for the Hungry got started, wasn't it? There are no limits and no closed seasons on pigs. What do you guys think?

(Luckily) I don't have them on my place here in (Brown county) Texas. I don't want them on my place either. I do, however, love to hunt anything... especially if it is as tasty as wild hog.

I'd like to be able to shoot them with my bow on a consistent basis to eat, and if you twisted my arm, I might be convinced to try and lead-poison as many as I could to help a landowner out.

Trouble around here is that people that have the hogs either want me to PAY to shoot them Or they have done a poor job hunting them and all you can find is the damage they leave. (educated, nocturnal hogs are hard to hunt with a bow - or a gun for that matter)

North of Abilene, they trap the hogs and sell them to a processor. The story I heard is that they are slaughtered and the meat shipped overseas for $$. All I know is I saw a pen full of the critters and trucks pick that many up several times a week.

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Originally posted by FMC:
I got em bad too.

Although half the time I just gut shoot em, don't want to bother dragging them off if I drop em-thay ain't worth my time/energy.

do you need a hand with those?

jeffe

Anyone care to host a DRSS weekend hunt?

We'll pay for lodging and food; just give us permission to hunt on your land with expensive rifles.

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Sad statement of fact is this: they have only one natural enemy: man.

Actually, man is sometimes more help to their proliferation than hinderance: Everybody wants to shoot the biggest, meanest boar they can find. I'm told that it is the big boars that are the harshest predators on the young -- they cannibalize them. So, when you shoot the big old boars, many more of the young live to a viable age. Just one of the ironies of hogs, and it helps to explain why they seem to be getting thicker and thicker the more of them we try to shoot!

Despite the drouthy year, we're getting more hog pictures than ever on our game cams (this is in the Rolling Plains of West Texas.)

Our 6 o'clock news tonight[network] did a piece on Texas feral hogs. The Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist says you either have them or you will soon have them. They said that they are worse than fireants. The road to my house has dead ones that cars have hit all the time. We haven't decided what we are going to do on our hunting property yet. We have had a strict rule on nonfamily hunting on it, but we may have to change our minds. We are just over run with them.
Butch

To feed the poor..noble thought...they are all over. I go down to Momma and Daddys place a couple of times a year and I just kill and bulldoze them under. Daddy is 80 y.o. My brothers go down the times I am not there. In point of fact, one of my brothers is there now. They are bad news, but they do keep the coyotes down or so it seems. But they kill everyting else too. The analogy with fireants seems appropriate.

Hate to jump in or sound like a broken record, but I'll happily "volunteer" to help out with pig problems. I don't even shoot feeders or tear up the country in my jacked up four wheel drive.

seems to be lots of intrest in this hunt. I think i can make this happen for some of you.

keep me informed on who wants to go and where you are. as for schedule in jan and logistics.
no large groups please

Definately interested. Have three big revolvers that need to draw blood. Could get down there from Rapid City, SD with little problem. Never shot a pig, helped butcher a couple as a kid. As I remember the neighbor put a .22 up against the head and instant pork chops. Disassembly required.

Crusher,

I can likely find my way down there from SW Idaho, made it to Austin several years back. Perhaps we could add live pig testing to the shootout between 500gr and Jeffe...?

Rich

I'd like to be included but I'll willingly give up my spot for some of these "Northern" guys if they come down here. I'm in San Antonio.

I would certainly be interested, so I sent CRUSHER a PM.

Eager to join you and I may be in Texas in
January for the Dallas SC show. I am in Arizona.

Crusher, you have a PM...

Regards,

Doubless

I remember hunting them with dogs in the early 90's with dogs and leaving them lay. too hot to butcher them! always more in the winter in the trap that were shot with 22 and not bloodshot like dog/knife killed pigs.

Crusher

Ever shot a Double Rifle?
You could probably get some of the Double Rifle Shooters Society fellas here in TX and other States as well to help you out.

We are always looking for a place to do a little hunting/shooting/cooking/socializing.

What part of Texas are these pigs in?

yeah billinthewild you will only be about 700 miles from uvalded texas when your in dallas

A big part of wiping them out -- we did it succesfully on our place -- is get your neighbors together and agree to let free roam across your properties while shooting, kill EVERY pig you see -- piglets, sows, every last one, WHEN EVER you see one. That, and plenty of highschool boys in jeeps and spotlights got rid of ours after about 4 years.

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Originally posted by CRUSHER:
yeah billinthewild you will only be about 700 miles from uvalded texas when your in dallas

About 1/2 that distance is more like it.
This sounds like a fun hog shoot may happen.

Crusher saying "help me kill hogs" is like a cute <female> blonde 18 yr old saying "Wow I can't believe I'm this drunk and horny!" at a college party.

I bet he is covered up in PMs by now.

My opinion is my own and it can't be wrong because it is my opinion . Here it is:

Crusher will make plenty of friends, have a few really good hunts/social events, and maybe get rid of a few hogs. BUT -- A local hunter that is consistent and dedicated will be better at reducing his hog population.

So Crusher, (again... my opinion... see above) if you really want to get rid of your hogs -- get someone local to eradicate them (I'm not local BTW). If you want to have a bunch of new friends bring you beer and carry you around on their shoulders... load us up!

In either case, I hope you end up thinking you did the right thing!

Big Ed is probably right. I hate to say that, cuz I'm one of the PMers volunteering to help with the pig problem. Consistent pressure will have a solid impact I'm sure. However, in absence of consistent moderate pressure, hopefully some inconsistent significant pressure can also help a little. Some of us, even though we're not local, wouldn't mind burning a few dead dinosaurs several times a year to kill off some pigs. I go to Texas twice a year to shoot pigs anyway, why not do it somewhere that it'll have in impact?

not realy trying to eradicate them I hunt them year round and it keeps me in fine rifle practice but they are getting ahead of me right now. so like you say i could use some new friends and I want to be an ambasador of my sport. never been one to do things the easy way. I could kill every one without fireing a shot but wheres the fun in that

plus now im on the hook to make this happen cause I said I would

walker I know its not that far but it seems for f-ing ever to drive it

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Originally posted by CRUSHER:
walker I know its not that far but it seems for f-ing ever to drive it

Know what you mean. I'd rather yank my fingernails out than drive that damn IH35

Crusher, if this hunt comes together I'd be glad to pick up anyone who flies in at the San Antonio Airport.

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That, and plenty of highschool boys in jeeps and spotlights got rid of ours after about 4 years.

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

Just hunted for the first time this season on our deer lease on the Texas Rolling Plains. One partner shot a hog on Saturday evening. The next morning (fairly late, not at dawn), I had a couple of hogs come onto the wheatfield I was watching and shot one. Almost immediately on the next door property I heard shots, followed by anguished squeals. Thirty minutes later another hunting partner shot a wounded hog coming off of the neighboring property.

This a lease we've hunted for more than twenty years and never saw a hog until just about eight years ago. Now they seem to be bubbling up out of the ground. I doubt that our opportunistic shooting can even start to suppress the population.

The only "leveling" device is disease, such as cholera, which is certain to get a start as population densities reach "critical mass".

I got my buck last weekend....frees me up to kill a few pigs if help is needed.
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