How we kill hogs in Texas!

[mif_slim]

People talk as if hogs shoulder blades are made of titanium and their skin plated with AR1200 steel.

Nice hunt OP!

[BC9696]

Let me just say I am green with envy. I love Texas and the way Texans do things. I can only dream of such a night...God that's gotta be fun! Maybe some day some cool Texan will invite me to come play HOGS GONE WILD TEXAS. Congratulations bud, that's some serious porkin'.

[theseacow]

I know for a fact that wild hogs rarely live past 6-7 years. So what do you rank this hog which was taken by one of my clients on one of our guided hog hunts last year? I have yet to see one picture of a hog coming from California that gets as big as this.

This is pic I got on my tree cam a couple of years ago. I have many more like this one. Both the dead hog above and the hog in this picture are no more than 4 years old at best.

Your gonna be a good asset to this forum. It's good to see new people posting up kill pics in here. Also, sounds like you've got a ton of experience to so it'll be good to hear some more stories.

Besides the bragging rights thread, there are a number of posters here who have killed hogs in California that are larger and even significantly larger than that and have photo's for you to check out if your interested.

Here's a few of mine if you sort through it, from small to oversize. There are plenty in there much larger than that pig, and all from California. If you want to see more small-oversize pigs, let me know and I'll go through the numerous hard drives I have laying around and pull off a few hundred more.

Also, since it appears you enjoy game camera footage, here's a few stupid game cam videos of pigs with a few large ones walking around here and there. I literally have hundreds of hours of decent video on disk of pigs much much larger than that.

In regards to age, we've killed pigs with 6 teeth on a side all grinded down to the base with the 6th tooth having a fully matured base and being grinded down all the way as well. It isn't unheard of for some of these pigs to go past 10 years. We have habitat here in different places where there is no hunting, day or night, and a pig might have access to barley fields and acorns without ever having to really move around. Pigs start living a long time in these spots and continue to pass on their genetics; and according to a DFG study I read years back, can actually die of starvation from their jaw bones just falling apart. A 7 year old pig is not yet at that point.

Keep your pics and stories rollin in. It's good to have discussions with different hunters.

[theseacow]

Let me just say I am green with envy. I love Texas and the way Texans do things. I can only dream of such a night...God that's gotta be fun! Maybe some day some cool Texan will invite me to come play HOGS GONE WILD TEXAS. Congratulations bud, that's some serious porkin'.

They sure do have more exciting ways for your average hunter to hunt pigs over there, that's for sure!

[theseacow]

I'm leaving my house right now and driving to SJ to hug you. PM Me your addy.


Also is that gay that I want to hug a male stranger?

Good pics and post some more.

PM sent. Can I be on top this time?

[Nookieaki]

I can only wish...

[WestForkKnives]

lol at everyone up talking the .223 here and saying how good it is for killing hogs when he said he shot 6 and only recovered 4, did we forget that? Is that a good example of how effective the .223 is? I bet you if he was using a .300 win mag he would have found all 6 im not saying it cant be done ethically but you just lower your chances and its the animal that ends up paying the price.

Thanks for sharing by the way, looks like fun.

Well actually, I didn't even look for the 2 that got hit and ran away. They are not worth my time or tracking. They most likely were down just beyond the tree line and off of public property. So regardless, I wouldn't be able to retrieve them. Also keep in mind that all 6 were shot within 8 - 10 seconds, not over time. All but 2 hogs were at full run in semi heavy cover. This was not done in a open field, but a river bed. We are not shooting these hog for harvest, these are killed strickly for depeciation purposes. The only reason the 2 got away is they were most likely shot in hind quarter and surely bled to death with minutes of a partition bullet entering them.

[WestForkKnives]

Can out of staters hunt hogs in texas?

Yes, a non-resident non-game hunting license is like $48.

[WestForkKnives]

Nice shootin'.

OP where are you located that you have vultures?
We call 'em Buzzards 'round here.

-Mark

Lol, we call them buzzards here too. I used term vultures, because I figured y'all wouldn't know what buzzards were. Go figure.

[WestForkKnives]

They feed those hogs in Texas before they shoot em. Good shootin op, good eating hogs. The smaller ones like those are great.

All the ones in these pictures were not baited, the tree cam pictures are from a piece of property I guide on every once in a while.

[WestForkKnives]

Sweet! How does wild hog taste?

It tastes ok, but it's really only good when cooked on a smoker for 6 to 10 hours and if the hog is under 150 pounds.

[WestForkKnives]

I actually just got back from another hunt tonight which had to be cut short because some idiots were at my house trying to break into my wife's car, but my dog saw them and wife stood at the door with a XD 45. They are lucky I wasn't there, I would have shot them both.

[Abesnake]

I've heard rumors of a local area that may be ripe for this. One can only hope.

Where? I'm ready!

[Abesnake]

This is from last night on public property with no limits, no special license, no tags, no restrictions. I walked on 12 - 15 hogs at 11:30 PM and shot 6, recovered 4 all while using a suppressed POF-415 in 5.56 with 60gr Nosler Partitions. The vultures have plenty to eat today! I can only wish that one day Californian's will be able to enjoy hunting like this.

Hi WestFork nice work! Now you did say "no special license", so does that hold for out of State hunters who want to come Texas way and harvest some pork? Or, what do we need...just a Texas hunting license?

[Abesnake]

I actually just got back from another hunt tonight which had to be cut short because some idiots were at my house trying to break into my wife's car, but my dog saw them and wife stood at the door with a XD 45. They are lucky I wasn't there, I would have shot them both.

Yep! And that's legal in Texas too! No muss mo fuss no bother. LOL but do you field dress those too?