Good deal hog hunt.

[Tom]

This is a good ranch and a good deal, act quickly, if you want to go. Brad posted this yesterday at Texas Bowhunter. The out of state over the counter liscense is $45 bought from Texas Parks and Wildlife.
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Hello Folks....

I am needing to thin the herd a little and I am running a special for hogs. Please see below for info.....

DAY HUNTS ONLY
-$50 PER HOG (NO KILL / NO PAY) (NO TROPHY FEE)
-NORMAL PRICE IS $100 PLUS $150 FOR TROPHY HOGS OVER 250LBS.

So, if you are in the area and are looking for a hog. Give me a shout at 830-279-4758.

Thanks,
Brad
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[Tom]

Well, if that place is full or gets done culling out hogs, here's a place to go. I went here once and got two deer and a hog, its not a bad place, but its blind hunting, despite being like 40K acres. They have unlimited hog hunts for $200/day and could handle a larger group.

www.karankawa.com

 

[John Robe]

I, my son, and a good friend will be in Raton, New Mexico the second week of January on an elk hunt. How far are you from there?, and is there lodging available in the area for a couple of days while we hunt? I would love to be able to tie in a hog hunt when I am done with my elk hunt.........it would be a first for me.

John Robe
Jackson, Michigan

 

[Bio Bo]

I, my son, and a good friend will be in Raton, New Mexico the second week of January on an elk hunt. How far are you from there?, and is there lodging available in the area for a couple of days while we hunt? I would love to be able to tie in a hog hunt when I am done with my elk hunt.........it would be a first for me.

John Robe
Jackson, Michigan

Uvalde, TX is SW of San Antonio and the Gulf Coast is further yet... a long way from Raton, depending on how you travel.

 

[noharleyyet]

11-04-2008, 08:22 AM

Tom's post is 13 months old. Hogs ain't near as easy to hunt/kill as most people think. We have plenty of em but they don't pose for many shots twice in the same place or time.

 

[Bio Bo]

Tom's post is 13 months old. Hogs ain't near as easy to hunt/kill as most people think. We have plenty of em but they don't pose for many shots twice in the same place or time.

I'll second that opinion. Hog hunting can be very difficult, but we need to kill as many as we can because they are breeding so fast and doing so much damage to crops and habitat. They are a very serious problem in increasing parts of this country. It's not hard to find where they have uprooted the ground, but getting a shot is a completely different thing.

 

[Oak]

These guys have no problems getting shots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiHmYsyVniE

 

[noharleyyet]

...nor these night-gamers. The large ranch adjacent to some ground I hunt west of here did a heli-kill Oak....think they tallied over 1400.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymHKsaOpRg

 

[Bio Bo]

These guys have no problems getting shots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiHmYsyVniE

That should give everyone a good idea of how bad the problem has become. If I'm not mistaken, it took an act of the TX legislature to allow the heli hunting.
It would be hard to repeat that episode in the woods of E.TX where the trees are bigger and the brush is thicker. They might be able to do some damage w/ a street sweeper and 00 buckshot during the winter when the leaves are gone, but it wood be much harder and much more dangerous.
Sure appeared that those guys were having too much fun. And that guy w/ that rifle was pretty good... shooting at a moving target from a moving target...

 

[Dinkshooter]

Questions

1. If the pigs are so horrible, why do they charge you to hunt them?

2. Why do you wear camo when shooting pigs out of a heli?

Man they smoke alot of porkies in that vid.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Makes one wonder why the hell we don't allow Texas to go back to Mexico....

 

[Bio Bo]

Questions

1. If the pigs are so horrible, why do they charge you to hunt them?

2. Why do you wear camo when shooting pigs out of a heli?

Man they smoke alot of porkies in that vid.

This is a classic example of man meddling w/ nature. Hog hunters have caused the spread of feral hogs by introducing them in areas that had no hogs heretofore and then introducing the Russian breed to increase the size. The Russian breed has cross bred w/ the native hogs and produced a much wilder and, at times, more aggressive animal that breeds like rabbits.
It parallels the introductions of noxious weeds, foreign grasses, walking catfish, nutria, and grass carp... just to name a few. If you haven't witnessed the destruction by feral hogs, or any of the other things mentioned, you won't understand just how big the problem has become.
As for why they charge you, there are some who still are trying to make a buck on the situation. But that's what started the problem in the first place. There are many landowners that will allow you to hunt or trap hogs for free, but you have to make your own arrangements w/ them. There are also hog buying stations, but they want the live trapped hogs only.

 

[Bio Bo]

Makes one wonder why the hell we don't allow Texas to go back to Mexico....

TX isn't the only place that has this problem, hotshot. Someday we might hear that you went to $&!%... and the hogs ate YOU...

 

[noharleyyet]

Makes one wonder why the hell we don't allow Texas to go back to Mexico....

"we" who? You pissant states'd sure miss us.

 

[1_pointer]

There are many landowners that will allow you to hunt or trap hogs for free, but you have to make your own arrangements w/ them.

Any suggestions on how to locate said landowners?

I know that I would LOVE to do some heli-hunting like that!!! 1 Benelli and 10 crates of ammo!!

 

[noharleyyet]

Any suggestions on how to locate said landowners?

Pointer, I've heard the same thing for years but sure ain't found any. IMO, free hog hunting went the way of 3 dollar per acre deer leases.

 

[Dinkshooter]

If they don't let ya on for free........................I hope the hoggies eat them out of house and home.

 

[Bio Bo]

Pointer, I've heard the same thing for years but sure ain't found any. IMO, free hog hunting went the way of 3 dollar per acre deer leases.

According to one of our local wildlife biologists who was talking to me on the phone about trapping hogs for people, there are any number of people who would allow hunting or trapping for free, at least in E. TX, but you have to secure permission on an individual basis.
The hogs do so much damage to crops and pastures that these people just want to be rid of them. There are guys around here who hunt them w/ infrared scopes at night. I doubt anyone around here would allow heli-hunting, but I wouldn't be pessimistic about asking permission. But there are also plenty of hogs on public land... that I've explained before.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but that's been my experience around this part of the country.

 

[1_pointer]

Pointer, I've heard the same thing for years but sure ain't found any. IMO, free hog hunting went the way of 3 dollar per acre deer leases.

That's what I've found out in doing a bit of research. Maybe I'll have to give the biologist that Bo talks with a call and see if he can help me get in touch with some free pork.

 

[choc dogs]

Road trip!!!