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Anyone else? This has been a great thread to me. Love all the pics and stories.

i'm going in the morning maybe i'll have something to post tomorrow

good luck! i will be plowing snow starting about 3 AM. Hope to get done in time for nap and get out for some tree rats.

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Tbear,
I just found this thread, doing a search on hog pipe feeders!
I sure am glad we don't have any of these in VA, because I've killed about 15 of these figments of my imagination in the last few months, and getting ready to seriously kill a whole lot more!



Wild, free roaming, and doing major damage to agriculture! Not on any Federal refuge either...and much closer than you think!
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....I've had hogs under my deer stands a number of times, never wanted to kill one and foul my deer hunt. I reckon if I felt more comfortable about eating pigs I'd have bagged a bunch by now seeing as how I could have often hit'em with a coke bottle.

....I've finally decided to take my sons, John, Elijah, and Hiram down to west shore of lake Okeechobee, back into the sugar cane fields and swamps there where there are a million hogs. We'll go down for a buggy hunt with a pack of red bone hounds. We'll be heading down in a couple of months now. Hiram wants to take his hog with a Bowie knife I got for graduating to Patron member of the NRA, Elijah will use a Winchester model 92 repo in 45 Colt, John his Ruger Black Hawk in 41 Rem Mag. Me I'll back them up with my Remington 760 (Maybe my 141) in 35 Remington. I'll post our results here on the campfire..

.....The dogs of course do the hunting, we'll take care of the slaughter.

i've killed hogs from my blind while hunting deer.if you let the hog lay the deer will still come out.i've seen a deer come up and sniff a dead pig that i had shot about 20 minutes earlier

Great looking pigs. Look like you are having fun. I guess they are getting ready to come into Wash.,D.C. with all the other pork we have here. Recently had a friend I hunt with in Scotland send me a news story of boars attacking several people outside of London. Boar were exterminated from the UK sometime in the late 1800's. Apparently these were so called free roaming domestic hogs that got loose & of course, the rest is history. The UK is big on any meat that is raised free roaming like hogs, chickens, etc. No one seems to know why they are so aggressive. One attack occurred near a school.

These started out as all wild stock that was imported, and bred with American feral(razorback). The owner was killed and the hogs escaped almost ten years ago. They have since bred with domestics as they could be found. There are hundreds, if not thousands roaming over a couple counties. They are here forever!
They really aren't that far from DC!
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My second biggest problem with hogs, besides them tearing up fields I plant or rooting up the pastures until they can't be mowed, is the predatory nature.
A wild hog has the same appetite as a bear. Anything it can catch or find it will eat. Plant or animal. New born fawns and nesting turkeys and quail are screwed.
I kill them on sight. I love the meat of a fat sow, but have cleaned my last boar. Regardless of the good stories I have heard about boar meat.

stumpy

Hog hunting is fun because there is no season end and no limits. i have done it in FLorida (Yeehaw Junction) and in Georgia as of late. I prefer spot and stalk to stand hunting as hogs arent as wary as deer although they do have a great nose, they cant see too well...

Ahhh, they aint all that bad.

1_deuce,

Care to share which counties these pigs are in? Or is it a secret?

Hog hunting is all fun and good if you can somewhere else and do it. Once they are where you are the fun is gone for the most part and the heartache begins.

Well, if you say so, Nathan. But the folks in that mass hogicide picture still seem to be smiling...

They're from out of town....like I said. It's fun to shoot someone elses pigs.

They're fun to hunt, but man are they are destructive little monsters.

I sure hope they never make it into Montana.

OK you guys make me mad! No not really but you guys are going out getting this hogs for free. I am going to SC with the wife for 2 weeks to visit the in-laws and have been looking for a guide service there. You guys in Texas and Florida are nailing them. Must be nice. Jealous I am I say.

Most of the time when I was getting "free" hogs, it was just shooting them, not hunting. But the sausage and hams still tasted pretty good..

I'm hoping to get out to California to do a real hunt this spring.

My son got this one recently.

Great picture!