I havent had the opportunity to hunt in about three weeks so I was suffering from a severe case of SDD (shooting deficit disorder) I informed my dear wife of my affliciton and she said it sounded to her like I needed to go to the deer lease and cure what ails me. And whackin hogs is just the ticket.
I haven’t shot my sako 7 mag in several years. So many rifles and so little time. I decided to load up some 140 gr accubonds and go and see if I couldn't get some relief. Got to my lease in Vanderpool Texas last Thursday afternoon. Got on the stand at 3:00 pm. First hog came in at 3:30. Whacked him at 125 yds. He was DRT. Four more hogs came in about 4:30. Lined two up and got both with one shot. About 5:10 a group of about 20 more hogs came in and I got another double. Five hogs in two hours. Not a bad afternoons work.I was feeling better already.
Friday morning I left and went to Concan,Tx. I got in the stand about 3:30. About 4 pm a single came in and I nailed him. Ten minutes later another single came in. I nailed him. Finally about 5:15 a group of about 10 hogs came in. I lined up two trying to get a double. I heard the bullet hit and saw them scatter. Then I put the crosshairs on a big sow that was running away. I nailed her. Got down and went to look. I found 4 hogs. It was getting dark so I didn’t go look to see if I could find the second half of the double. Nine hogs in two days is my personal best. My camera was on the blink and the pix aren't the best
GWB

Beautiful wood on that rifle and good shootin!

Nice.. i am jealous..

watch the blood on the blue... very few things take bluing off quicker

Bravo x 4

Man I am so happy we don't have hogs to wreak havoc in MT like other places. At the same time I am envious because I have got a severe hog huntin' itch.

What do you do with most of your hogs?

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Originally posted by GrosVentreGeorge:
Man I am so happy we don't have hogs to wreak havoc in MT like other places. At the same time I am envious because I have got a severe hog huntin' itch.

Even though they are a pain when it comes to deer hunting around them, they sure are fun when everything else is out of season! Nothing like summertime and knocking down 200+lb animals day or night!

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Originally posted by Buglemintoday:
Even though they are a pain when it comes to deer hunting around them, they sure are fun when everything else is out of season! Nothing like summertime and knocking down 200+lb animals day or night!

Hell yeah! I was supposed to go to Texas this winter for work. It's looking like I won't get to go now. IDK. The only reason I volunteered to go was so I could go hog hunting and possibly Aoudad hunting. Guess there's always next year.

PM Whitworth and talk him into coming down and I bet I could get you and him in for a weekend of hog hunting for cheap

*edit* - woohoo 1,000 posts!

GWB
What do you do with all the hog meat?

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Originally posted by Buglemintoday:
PM Whitworth and talk him into coming down and I bet I could get you and him in for a weekend of hog hunting for cheap

*edit* - woohoo 1,000 posts!

Actually I have another friend who is also aching to plug some hogs. For the two of us what are you thinking?

P.S. Congrats on the 1K! I still have a ways to go.

Weidmannsheil, and nice gun!

I'm surprised that "doubles" are knowingly attempted. At home, if they happen it is by accident and something to be avoided. Your comment about not looking for a part of a double also seems to point in the direction that this is more culling than hunting. Ethics differ from place to place, but this is not what I have become used to encountering in US hunting??

- mike

Congrats on the pork!!

They are all good eating size too!!

Bob

hey guys,

in answer to a couple of your questions.

What do I do with all the meat. Well, boars that are old, stink like crazy, or are over 200 lbs, I typically let lay. Sows and young boars I skin out, put in a freezer, eat as much as I want and give the rest away.
I do not skin and eat every hog I kill. To some this may seen unethical but it is not to me. In the immortal words of the outlaw Josey Wales,"the buzzards gotta eat, same as the worms."

Hogs in Texas are both game animals as well as pests or vermin. They are excellent table fare and can be added with venison to make salami, and different types of sausage. The meat can be cooked just about anyway you want to. This weekend I will take the ribs from two hogs and slow cook them on a pit and make a roast out of a hindquarter for my wifes family get togather.

Hogs in Texas can be taken day or night by any legal means which includes just about anything but automatic wepons and dynomite.

To offer an aside, I started hunting a deer lease in Vanderpool Texas five years ago. It is a low fenced 3,000 acre property. At that time the lease rules stated we could shoot one white-tail buck, two does, one turkey and one hog. However there has been such a proliferation of hogs that the landowner now wants every hog that we see shot, and he has openly stated he doesn't care whether we leave them lay, or if we gut shoot them and let them run off.

As to whether this is hunting or culling, I would say its both. I find it challenging to see if I can get two or three hogs with one shot. A good bonded core bullet or a triple shock will go through three hogs. The smaller hogs are constantly on the move so it is a challenge to get a shot off quick enough to make a clean kill on both. . I generally shoot hogs two to three inches below the ear on a line between the ear and shoulder. It severs their vertebrae and they are DRT. As you may see in one of the picture of a "double" posted above, that from the time my brain said squeeze the trigger until the bullet impacted the hogs, say 135 yards away, they had already moved about a foot. I have shot numerous pairs but only one triple.
GWB

Good explanation to the poster that doesn't know about how pigs are classed. Pigs are considered varmints and are treated as such. They can destroy acres upon acres of usable farmland or forage that they can turn a property into a desert in no time. When it comes to varmints, there're no ethics.

Very good post Geedubya!

If you were watching my videos I recently put up, in the 300 mag one my friend asks if I think he can get 2 with one shot which I reply yes, but both hogs move before the shot is taken. They are considered pests as well as game animals. The landowners in the area that we usually hog hunt in consider them pests, and can tear up plowed fields and fences extremely quickly.

I think that is one of the awesome things about hunting around the world. In one place a trophy could be a pest, or the opposite. In some lands, animals are taken not by size of horn but by age, etc etc

Lot of Russian in that one. Nice pigs!

I yield my nickname--I am now no longer the "Pig-Murderin Fool"

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Originally posted by 475Guy1:
Good explanation to the poster that doesn't know about how pigs are classed. Pigs are considered varmints and are treated as such. They can destroy acres upon acres of usable farmland or forage that they can turn a property into a desert in no time. When it comes to varmints, there're no ethics.

Which is exactly why I am happy they are not in MT. I am sure the MFWP would deal with them appropriately but we have enough problems as is with our now (I Believe) 8th year of drought.

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When it comes to varmints, there're no ethics.

Even as a rancher with many varmints and predators, I cannot DISagree more. There is a right and a wrong way.

Yeeee Ha! Sounds like a Cull Hunt to me. Nothing wrong with that.