Hog Hunting Site

Hey Guys and Gals,
 I am not trying to take anything away from this site but would like for all of you out there to look at a site that has mainly hog hunting in it forums. We at the site, right now are also involved in putting a hog hunt together for some of our wounded vets. The 1st hunt for them will be next month here in Texas. If you decide to join us there, please use my txbhunter1 as a referal. The site is TexasHogHunter.com. Hope some of you will join me there.
 
Thanks,
Gary

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

I'll check it out, Gary ... we've actually got a small population of Feral Swine here in Nodak ... and the Lege is acting on some new rules about 'em, even as we speak ...

Interestin' article in American Hunter this month about feral hogs and the situation in various places around the country.

Jeezely! Texas is almost ENTIRELY red! Y'all must have a LOT of 'em down there!

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

NRA, REMF, PF, NAHC-L, NAFC-L, KC, NPPA

Signed on this evening Gary!!!

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

I don't know much about hog hunting but I can always read up on it.
Thanks for the input Gary.

Hunt Hard, Hunt Safe and enjoy what you got in life
Paul Snyder
LM NAHC,NRA,SCI,DU

TopGun, I see you have signed in, thanks. O the Umanity, you have no idea how bad the hogs are down here. They are everywhere here in this state. Even the wardens hate them. I have been paid bounties on them by homeowners assoc.'s to come in and kill every one I saw. Hell shot one under the bedroom window of the assoc pres at 12:15am one night.  LOL   Made for some good mad money when it came for hunting season. Duck, once you try it, you'll be hooked. You can do it down here 24/7-365 a yr. On private lands, you can even hunt them at night by spots.  You can hunt them with whatever you want, rifle,pistol,shotgun, bow,spear or knife if you like adventure. Alot of fun and keeps you going in the downtime between spring gobbler and fall deer season.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

Yah, Gary ... from that map in AH mag, it would seem y'all have an epidemic down there ...

Our "herd" is in a rather limited area ... it won't show up on any map, really, but if one looks @ a pic of our state, it's right up along the border (with Manitoba), and slightly to the right of the middle ...

That's the Turtle Mountains mostly ... with "Mountains" bein' merely a name, we don't have any real mountains here, merely a few high buttes in the Badlands ...

What our Lege is considerin' at the moment is making it illegal to "profit" from promoting huntin' of feral hogs ... tho it's allowin' landowners to shoot on sight ... dunno if that would include "designated shooters chosen by landowners" ... but up in that region, with the hills and lotsa trees, it'd be perty difficult to track down a shooter ...

I don't get the impression that our G&F is tryin' to gain control over a potential license revenue situation, but that they've seen the problems of the hogs in other states and merely hope to contain/eliminate 'em, while @ the same time not encouraging illegal imports of hogs to maintain a "hog hunting industry" type situation ...

From whut I've heard/seen, the problems encountered far outweigh the slight advantages of adding one more critter to the huntin' license list ... more of a "pest removal" situation than anything else ... that's my take on it, @ least, from our Nodak POV ...

The Texas stuff does look a bit interesting, tho I doubt I'll ever get down there to actually consder the activity ... I used to raise hogs ( a small scale operation) and we'd butcher our own, mostly ... but I had one escape from me once when I wuz takin' it to the butcher shop ... I hadda borrow a rifle and knock it down, in order to reload it (boy wuz THAT an experience!) and take it in ... borrowed rifle, NOT the caliber I'd suggest, but managed to do it on the first shot (between the eyes, just like when butcherin' @ home) ... of course that wuz only a stunning shot, and I cut it's throat @ the same time ... yeah, I wuz mad enuf about it that I had NO REMORSE @ needin' to shoot it ...

So ... it's kinda interestin' ... but unless our local herd expands, I doubt I'll get another chance to try it out ... (that pseudorabies situation down there is another factor that sorta would keep me away ... last time I looked, our state is still pseudo/parvo/rhino-free, and I'd hesitate to do sumthin' that might, somehow, bring that into the state ... unlikely, I know, but still an item where caution might be the better choice ...

Also ... they's tuff critters ... I rassled many a time with a recalcitrant sow, and both the boars and sows managed to get some perty sharp teeth showin' before I'd cull 'em out ... and they're SMART ... sometimes smarter than the humans, the only difference bein' that they don't have opposed thumbs for usage of tools ... that'd be a scary propostion ...

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

NRA, REMF, PF, NAHC-L, NAFC-L, KC, NPPA

They are a very smart animal and if they have enough to eat without going out during the daylight hours you just about have to spotlight them at night, run them with dogs, or trap them.  They do an awful lot of damage and they can populate an area quickly since they reproduce year around and have huge litters.  I miss not being able to hunt them down in the brush country, but Dad is 86 and quit the leases he was on about 5 or 6 years ago.

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

 
 
We have a ton of Hogs down in South Florida as well.  Here is a picture of my dog retrieving my last hog....
 



Sometimes it's hard getting him to release your kill. LOL

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

mneptune:
 
That is a great picture!  Thanks for sharing!
 
It must be interesting walking through the woods down in that part of the Country in the dark.  I can't say that I would be in any hurry to get down there and try it for myself!  Geeez!!
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve

Yea well.... Whether your on the water or in the woods, Florida is loaded with things that will either bite you, sting you or scratch you.  (or shoot you, stab you, rob you, hijack you, blah, blah blah, you get the idea)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

O,
When I lived in Cali for that time, we never had to have any tags to hunt the hogs but then the state started to see that they could make money from it and decided to issue tags for them. They came in books of 5 for whatever the dollar was and once you used them up, you could go and get another book. Down here, if a landowner deems them to be a nuisance and damaging his property, you can go in and hunt them WITHOUT A LICENSE. But only on private lands. All others you need to have either an exotic 5 day one or just a plain small game license and that is it. For the out of state guys that equate to $45.00 to shoot as many hogs in 5 days as possible.  LOL  Come on down.  By the way, I have used my bow on them for alongtime and at $15.00 per including BH, I have decided that I can buy alot of .22 shells for that money. I have killed them at 50yds with a head shot more times than I can remeber. I still shoot them with my bow on ocassions but perfer the cheaper ammo.  LOL or my .44 mag. 

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

I'll keep it in mind, Gary ... price is right ... it's getting there, and havin' the time in the first place to make the trip that makes it unlikely that I'll ever get there ... but I could bring a trailer and small freezer and fill it up ... if I could hit anything ...

I s'pose if I'd try this out, I'd hafta bring as many different weapons as possible, merely to try as many out as I could ... merely a good excuse to work on all the different types and styles I've got in the vault ...

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

NRA, REMF, PF, NAHC-L, NAFC-L, KC, NPPA

mneptune

You have a very interesting pup there.  Does he heel well?  Or chew your heels OFF?!?!

LOL

Love playing that string music and sending a Muzzy flying!

No he does not heel to well.  He also has a habit of nipping.  Here he is retrieving a deer...

 
 

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

I had to get rid of my retriever like that awhile ago. He just kept bringing me home, all the neighbors dogs and cats. Yard was littered with them.  LOL

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

O,
 I'll  tell you what, You find me a good late season BP hunt along with maybe some good fishing on Devils Lake and we may be able to work something out for you down here.  LOL  Or maybe I'll have to send you some of the other WHITE meat to try out.  NODAK is short for North Dakota right?

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

Man those are some big gators in those pictures.  Yea Gary, he lives in southwest ND and I think they are flooding around where he is right now---Beulah?

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

Sorry, not trying to hijack this thread but the gator with the deer was actually in Alabama.  The gator was a 28 footer.  Below is a link to a very short story on the gator and it's demise.  Pretty freaky actually...

pictures.streakr.com/gaterskiing.htm

Personally, I would haved loved to harvest that animal, would have been a lot of tail meat for the freezor, a lot of hide for new boots and maybe a couple of jackets as well.  They did mention that the deer was 11 feet long.  WTF an 11 foot deer?????  I have been in the woods all my life and have never seen or heard of an 11 foot deer!!!!  I am asking all my outdoor brethern here that if they have 11 foot deer on their property to please contact me, I will pay whatever fees you are asking to harvest one!!!!!

Cheers,

Martin.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

It just depends on how many drinks you've had before it becomes an 11 footer

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

Drinks, who's drinking?  LOL  All of my stories are of the "Big ONE"  Top, I see that they are getting alot of flooding up there right now, and then just got snow and wind also so they are in for a world of hurt here soon. Hopefully, it will not be a repeat of last yr's midwest flooding.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member