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Anyone been on the TX swine hunt?

bitlockerbitlocker Member Posts: 299 ✭✭

Youtube vids abound ............

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  • Texas1911DETexas1911DE Member Posts: 683 ✭✭✭✭

    ...Yeah, but never paid for one...always gone on some of my friends ranches...easy to know if hogs are around, a handful can root up and ruin a good size pasture overnight, I think some outfitters have guaranteed hunts...big sows/boars are trophy's, several hundred pounds...small ones, piglets, are good to eat, though some folks dont think so...I dont care to hunt 'em anymore, you just hit 'em with a light, and a pretty long shot, and its over...always thought shooting 'em from a helicopter would be a hoot...The small Javelinas are fun to hunt, used to go to Big Bend area and shoot those...no limits or restrictions on the hogs, the Javelinas have hunting restrictions, of course need a Texas hunting license for both...

  • mstrblastermstrblaster Member Posts: 249 ✭✭✭

    I want to go!!

    To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go out into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness, how cheap, how cowardly, how pathetic. Ted Nugent.
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,381 ******

    Is it your plan to do a hunt or to just watch a video?

    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,452 ✭✭✭✭

    No hogs but wanting to go to Texas and shoot a Nilgai Antelope


  • Texas1911DETexas1911DE Member Posts: 683 ✭✭✭✭

    ...Select...

    ...Lots of Pronghorns out around Marfa, and big Muleys, great hunting... the Nilgai Antelope are on private ranches in South Texas, pay to shoot $$...those Antelope are monsters...it would be like skinning and butchering a huge cow!..:), but butchering is included with the hunt...lots of meat though, and would be a hoot to hunt and shoot one of those suckers, and supposed to be really good eatin'...I haven't found too many critters I wouldnt eat, if it swims, crawls or walks, I'll eat it....no, havent & wont eat a skunk...:)

  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,622 ✭✭✭✭

    I killed a lot of wild hogs in Georgia. The ham from a 95 pound wild sow, ten hours on the smoker with pecan wood, is the best meat I ever ate. Delicious flavor and less fat than commercial pork.

  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,002 ******

    A hog hunt would be really cool, I'd enjoy that.

  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,622 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2022

    They were easy to hunt in Georgia. They are not as wary as deer. I shot a lot of them from my tree stand.

    Any gun was legal for hogs in Georgia, one day I went hog hunting with a 1911 Colt. Just walking through the woods with a pistol in a holster, didn't have to carry that heavy rifle. Walked up on a 110 pound boar and killed it with 2 shots. The small boar was not as good as a sow, but it was pretty good.

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