I was able to do my first hog hunt in Georgia. I shot these two pigs at 100 yards using a 115 ballistic tip handloaded from my 25.06. DRT!

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Good shooting, head shots make a DRT everytime it seems.
where'd you go to do this deed? At what cost too IF I may ask.

I didn't know how soft the ballistic tips would be and didn't want to take any chances so I took head shots only. Can't wait to go back and do it again! These will be some tasty pigs. Now does anyone have any good recipes they care to share?
I went to Yellow Bluff in Georgia. Mike Williams owns the place. Great people, free range land (3500 acres) of it. Prices are very reasonable at 250 a day, google them.

Nice work, Esox! Congratulations!

Thanks guys, can't wait to do it again.

Pay to hunt pigs? I'm so happy I have 3 landowners hollerin' at me to come "kill 'em all!"

Just a good reason to live in Texas (besides granddaughter being here too).

Glad you had a good hunt--and I stick to head shots although I'm shooting at relatively close and known ranges off bipod.

Dustoffer,
I noticed the circular trap in another of your posts.
The circular trap seems to not have a gate to lock the pigs in after they enter.
Is that true.
It looks like it's a functional trap.
How does it compare in effectiveness to a locking-door trap.
Also, what did you use as bait to get the pigs into that circular trap.
Can you send me dimensions of that trap. I have a couple of hundred acres in East Texas and would like to try that trap style.

Nicely done, congrats.

Thankyou.

Bob--sent you a PM with details about the trap--let me know if you need more info-

with so many land owners trying despretly to get the hogs off there land there is no reason to pay to hunt boar unless your doing it from a helicopter there are a number of members here that im should would love to have another member of the board come by and smoke a few hogs heck i posted a wtt a hunt in this forum not to long ago and got alot of responses had at least 7 offers of free texas and oklahoma boar hunts.

Thanks, 700 Nitro I guess I would have to consider gas or plane ticket and lodging, compared to where I hunted? But I will explore that option in the future.

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Originally posted by 700 nitro:
with so many land owners trying despretly to get the hogs off there land there is no reason to pay to hunt boar unless your doing it from a helicopter there are a number of members here that im should would love to have another member of the board come by and smoke a few hogs heck i posted a wtt a hunt in this forum not to long ago and got alot of responses had at least 7 offers of free texas and oklahoma boar hunts.

Gone are the days of free hunts. Everybody thinks they are going to get nigger-rich by charging to "hunt" their pigs. I have an outstanding reputation as responsible and courteous hunter and I have not had an invite to hunt for free since high school that is 20+years now. The outcome will be the landowners demanding the govt step in and eradicate their self made problem and I sincerely hope the govt tells them to fug off!

I have heard so many tales of free hunts it is ridiculous. I have offered to mend fences, change tractor tires, clear brush/fence lines, mow senderos, watch the youngins' so ma and pa can have a night on the town with no avail.

I think doing a favor for the land owners would be appreciated and shouldn't have to pay to rid them of vermin such as pigs. I guess they only see dollar signs.

dude i dont know what your doing wrong but i have had 7 offers with in the last month for free hunts

thats means "YOU" are doing something wrong

there wild boar a pest a varmint a peice of shit that land owners want gone off there land i laugh in the face of farmers that bitch and moan that they want the hogs gone but the asshats will charge 200-300$ a day for hunting boar and they qq becuae no 1 shows up.....i say to those farmers to fucking bad they deserve to lose even more money for being so god damn greedy

ask in this forum post a note on this forum if you look just a little lower into this forum "hog hunting" you will see a thread i posted called wtt a hunt from that post i had 7 offers of free texas and oklahoma hunts

and who the hell needs lodging its warm enuff in the usa exp in texas year round to set up a tent and camp it out i camp in -30 degree weather up here in canada no problem so your texan 30-50 F should be a walk in the park

drewhenry is right. 700, what I think you are running into is friendly forum members hooking up someone who wants to make the trip down to hunt hogs. Not typical any more, and I hunt them year round as many of us do here who live in the
South. Everyone seems to want to make a quick buck.

well i cant argue that point your prbabaly right then i must be extreamly lucky becuase when ever i ask for free hunts just about any where i get them i guess you just have to be both persistant and patient

and your right most of them see $$$$$ then when they ask for for $$$ i laugh at them and drive away and watch as more of there $$$ gose down the drain as the boars tear the land out from underneath them poetic justice...