When y'all go hunting do you use ear protection, suppresors, or go all natural. I don't think I've seen anyone hunt with the ear muff style hearing protection on.
From what I'm reading
Leptospirosis
Brucellosis
E. coli
Salmonellosis
Toxoplasmosis
Rabies
Swine Influenza viruses
Trichinosis
Giardiasis
Cryptosporidiosis
Are all "common" illness carried by hogs have any of y'all caught any of these I'm just asking for health reasons I want to make sure I...
Feral hogs may be hunted on our WMAs during any open season and with the gear allowed for those seasons. High powered rifles may only be used during the dates of firearms deer season.
In southeast Louisiana, feral hogs can be found on Pearl River WMA.
You don’t need tags for hogs, but you...
Again more great advice thanks! I have an uncle that is a chef at a major restaurant and often butchers whole animals I'll see if I can get him to help me. If it wasent for this zoning change that just happened two weeks ago I would be able to hunt hogs in my back yard in the bayou. How do you...
Thanks for the info bukwild3 I just emailed a game warden to find out when firearm season is for hogs the hunters rules online didn't have much on hogs. I just want to make sure everything is safe legal and humane so any tips or advice helps a lot. I'll need to look at those WMA's near the...
Great! I got three boxes of Remington to sight in I hope that's enough to sight in... after looking at those ammo prices I might need to get into reloading later on I'll just save my brass till that day. Don you are awesome thank you for your help. I just passed my hunters course to get my...
Now the toughest part... picking out ammo so many options there must be a guide out there that's on picking ammo. Round nose vs spitzer. Partions vs solid copper vs FMJ vs soft point vs hollow point. Flat base vs boat tail.
Thats good to know! My father is of the opinion that boar is to wild and the meat tastes rancid which I never understood because if the meat tasted bad why would people hunt it. I admit I'm not much of a cook but I can follow directions really well.
It looks like it will last me a long time the only minor issue with it is the free float is not really free floated I can't stick a dollar between the stock and barrel. I'm not sure what effect on the accuracy it will have.
There is a wild life management area within 10 minutes of my house! I'll be waiting till the temperature gets into the 70's before I go hunting I don't think my health would allow me to go when it's any hotter and I'll be bringing lots of ice to cool the meat down.
I spent some time on YouTube...
I must say the people on this forum are the nicest that I have ever met on a forum and after reading around I went out and bought my first rifle today a Ruger American in 308 Winchester with a vortex 3-9x40 scope. It's no Remington 700 or falkor petra or a howa but I think it will work.