Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Autopsy: Caretaker found dead was attacked, killed by wild hogs in Anahuac

Well then he took my post wrong also, when I quoted him originally I was using the term "dickweed" generally to cover the hoards that want to use my properties for free, have little night hunting experience, leave trash all over the place, can't tell a feral hog from a calf and don't leave gates like they found them. Just because feral hogs are a nuisance doesn't mean some $#!thead with a rifle might not be a far larger issue. If he had ever had to deal with "dude" hunters he would know what I am talking about. Unless you are running a hog breeding/canned hunt setup there is very little money in trying to set up clients for a shot at some hogs. I let my friends hunt hogs whenever they want as I know there won't be some big issue like one of them closing a gate and shutting down water access to my cows. They usually put a few bags of corn in the feeders and bring good bourbon too.

Yep, crossfire happens. Looks like I read it the wrong way, too.

BTW, I agree with your definition of "dickweed".

I grew up about 25 miles from there! We were on a deer lease 10 miles north of Devers ( about halfway) .When I was 16yrs old, they changed the stock law, and people could no longer "run hogs" in the woods ( ear marked) unless they owned the property. Any hogs "left" after a certain date, were considered "feral" and open season. Deer Leases on paper company land were the norm in most of East Texas, since they are the biggest land owners, as a rule. But now, 50yrs later...people are just now figuring out how dangerous those things are, and how destructive they are. They can be very difficult to get rid of too! The smaller ones are exceptionally good on the BBQ. However, if you "eat all you want" of it ( we called it "green pork" i.e fresh pork) you WILL be able to crap through the eye of a needle from across the room! Am I right, Hanco and Rick?

Hah! I don't see us getting rid of them as they are pretty smart and mostly nocturnal. As for destructive mostly for me they don't cause a lot of problems since I hardly farm anything other than food plots but the pigs can dig them up for sure. As for the eye of the needle I seem to be ok but my brother in law......... For some reason I guess being in my 60's I always called them feral hogs, sort of thinking it is funny to call them "Wild Boars". I remember waking up one morning on some timber company land in Anderson county after an evening of a bit of Rebel Yell bourbon, getting out of the tent and the whole area around camp was tilled by feral hogs! I mean duckfeet followed by discs pulled behind a tractor couldn't have done a better job. I have to take a leak so I walk maybe 15 feet to a tree and on the other side another ten feet is a huge hog. Soon as I start whizzing he takes off and ten minutes later a solid fog rolls in. For 2 hours we can't see more than 15 feet but we can hear hogs all around us. I loved that place. Killed my first archery buck there, several years later a hunting club leased it and that was that.

My 7 year old grand daughter and I were at the farm checking the cows yesterday when we got a call notifying me that our security alarm had gone off at the house 3 miles away. On the way to the house she asked me if I was going to shoot them if someone was robbing the house. I replied "probably". She said "well good, then we can feed them to the hogs".

Sounds like a Bayou Girl to me! ha Between the Gators and the hogs...no body, no crime. Ha

The only good pig is a dead pig!!

That's a skinny boar!

'Baiting is hard work and such a tedious bother, i'd hardly have time to shoot the baited animals'

Holy fugk

It was very dry all summer, cows,deer, all look poor. We got some rain at the end of summer. We have a bumper acorn crop, ground under live oaks covered with acorns. Live oaks on this place are every 25 feet, so they should fatten up. Bumper pecan crop in creek bottom too. Nothing moving much, they don’t have far to go for food.

I couldn’t help but chortle reading this thread and the other thread on the subject at hand. Thought of the parallels in the mathematical numbers between hunters "killing off the hogs" and hunters "decimating the buffalo". An interesting dichotomy.

Hog shooting/hunting must be part of Texans GNP. Corn, gas, meat processing......

I feel sorry for the guys who has crops and property ruined by hogs though. The greedy $300 a day guys, not so much.

There is very little of that lease that isn’t rooted up.