I live in Round Rock, just outside of Austin. If some of the hunters who have requested to hunt can't make it, I will be happy to volunteer. I would rather hunt pigs than deer. Send me a PM if this is a possibility. Thanks, Jerry Hoover

this would be a great occasion to host a DRSS and friends get together...if I bring two single shots, does that make me DRSS eligible? The perfect occasion to "blood" the 550 Gibbs.

Crusher, what kind of whiskey/scotch do you prefer...that means somebody else pays for it?

regards,

Rich

how many people in the drss?

if its a large group ill have to decline.

everyone understand that this is a camp on site hunt

you will need a tx hunting license

you will have to find your own way to kinney county texas at the agreed on time

we seem to need to do two hunts I would like to do the out of state guys first and let them see texas hunting if you live in texas lets make that a seperate deal all together

all hunting arangements to be kept private
and land owner rules to be followed to the letter

I am working on a date in late jan early feb for this

OK THIS IS IT FOR FIRST HUNT
DESERTRAM , GEORGEGELD , SNELLSTROM +1 , JEFFEOSSO , CONIFER

FEB 23 THRU 26

ARIVE FRIDAY LEAVE MONDAY

YOU WILL BE READY TO:
CAMP ON SITE
EAT AND DRINK WHAT YOU BROUGHT WITH YOU
PROVIDE A TEXAS HUNTING LICENSE
PROVIDE PERSONAL INFO AND SIGN THE RELEASE
ABIDE BY RULES OF YOUR HOST
KILL PIGS AND NOTHING ELSE
HAVE A GREAT TIME

ANY OF YOU THAT CAN MAKE THIS HUNT LET ME KNOW AND WE WILL HASH OUT THE DETAILS.

I'm in. Looking forward to meeting you chaps and whacking some pigs. As you say, let's hash out the details. Thanks!

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

They say you can't get rid of pigs but you can come pretty close using this method. Because there's a fair amount of farming around my ranch pigs are regarded as vermin (they wiped out about a third of a neighbor's corn & milo crop). So, about twice a year the locals run up and down the Guadalupe River with dogs killing everything in sight (pigs). I don't particularly like it cause I enjoy hunting but I have to get along and remember my neighbors' livelihoods depend upon farming and cattle.

I'm always availible to shoot pigs

As far as we could tell it worked for us -- no more holes in fences, deer pop went back up, and so did the calf survival rate. I'm sure we didn't kill every hog, but the ones that were left moved on.

Now, I think one of the reasons why it worked was we were in the hill country, during a drought, so there were only a few supplies of water -- they had to come there to drink, and we killed them when they did. If you can deny pigs water, you can get eliminate them/greatly reduce their number.

With that said, "have gun, will travel" and I don't need any of the meat, provided I don't have to butcher them.

jeffeosso , conifer , desert ram, georgeld,snellstrom

you have a pm

Crusher:

Replied to your pm.
To keep things a bit more private, switch to e/mail instead, what do you think?

georgeld@hotmail.com

I'm in, and will help all I can regardless what's needed. BUT: had back surgery just over a year ago so my ability to walk, lift and such may very well be restricted at time's. I'll make it, but, suffer like hell from it, but, won't completely stop me.

I agree about killing only hogs/piglets etc.

What about snakes & coyotes? They out, or game too??? That's the things we need to find out about.

How big a place is this we'll be on? Well fenced, well marked etc??

Thanks, George

great george just use pm for contact and glad to hear your gonna make it

Crusher that was very nice of ya to invite the guys to hunt . tell us about the hunt . how many piggys did you manage to get rid of . thanks Bob

only two guys made it but got 4 more pigs gone will ask them for after action report with pics I just worked on fence and played guide did not hunt.

Yep, a great time was had by all. I'd like to be able to say that we really dented the population of hogs, but they weren't as cooperative as they should have been. We managed to kill a few though. I'll post a few pictures and some more detail a bit later.

Excellent! Looking forward to the report and pictures!

I wish we had the same problem here in Wyoming!

I don't really think you do, Pop... You don't want pigs up there. They destroy EVERYTHING, eat ANYTHING, and are pure vermin...

Nothing personal, but sometimes the only thing worse than wanting something is getting it...

Regards,
Doubless

40 hogs in a 5 days of hunting in outback australia. useing dogs of course.

more from the same trip.

That's great DB!

Culling is a whole different deal ain't it??

George

no george, this was not culling, when times were good (we are in a drought at the moment)that would be a normal weeks hunting.

The photo below is when we were culling, and that usually meant 40 per day!!

nice its an ok problem to have if youve not much else to hunt.

you have any more hunting days coming up. I'd like to come out. Been trying to find someplace to hunt Pigs like that. Would like to try out my 338/06 loads on them.

Wow, that's the way we do prairie dogs, but, it take's a whole lot more than 40 of those to fill up a truck bed like this!!

So, what did you do with these? Is there money in it? or just kill 'em to get rid of 'em? I was told most hogs over there are full of worms and not good to eat. IS that true?

Thanks for sharing the picture.
Crusher, ain't you glad that's not at your place??

George

George, we were selling the pigs in the last photo for the human consumption export market.

The Germans and Polish folk love the taste of wild pork. There was good money to be made, but it was also hard work.

as for the worms, well yes old out back boars taken during drought conditions usually resort to eating carrion (dead animals like KANGAROOS AND SHEEP) and would then have intestinal worms, however each pig shot for human consumption would be tested before exporting them.