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Title: Hunting Hogs for Meat
Post by: LostArrow on August 28, 2013, 12:05:31 PM

This is not for sport , done that with dogs & knives etc.
This is for meat & population control???
The wild hogs in our area when pressured become nocturnal & hard to find.
To hunt its best to trap with bait or hunt over bait.
Traps should be without a top & the walls short enough for a deer to jump.
We clean all the females & immature males ( to about 100 lbs)
In pens they are dispatched with a 22 behind the ear.
Hunting over a feeder is more fun , set up 75-100 yards downwind of feeder & trail. You can wear anything ( hogs have poor vision) & we do as a party hunt with a couple people/ stand.
We rarely clean more than 5 at a time , it just becomes so much work ::)

Title: Hunting Hogs for Meat
Post by: Pappymn on August 28, 2013, 12:11:04 PM

Good info. We have a deer population problem.....

Title: Re: Hunting Hogs for Meat
Post by: Ka Honu on August 28, 2013, 04:29:33 PM

I don't know that many folks would clean and eat them but I wonder if that would work for tourists (in season, of course).

Title: Re: Hunting Hogs for Meat
Post by: muebe on August 28, 2013, 04:46:57 PM

Quote from: Ka Honu on August 28, 2013, 04:29:33 PM

I don't know that many folks would clean and eat them but I wonder if that would work for tourists (in season, of course).

You have a unlimited supply on the island Turtle! And your tourist season runs all year long ???

Title: Hunting Hogs for Meat
Post by: Pappymn on August 28, 2013, 06:33:32 PM

Quote from: CaptJack on August 28, 2013, 04:44:06 PM

there's no season for feral hogs in Texas
they are classified as pest
you don't even need a hunting license if you are hunting them on your own land
we can hunt them 365/24/7 by just about any means
gun, bow, dogs, traps, helicopters

Always been a sore spot for me. A license to hunt on your own land......