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I guess they're coming. Eventually we'll start seeing damage at the farm. Sigh!
Not necessarily. They can live anywhere but I think they tend to gravitate towards swampy areas, around rivers, creeks, etc. Last place I hunted, it was near a large river swamp ecosystem but a couple of miles upland from it and there are plenty of hogs in that swamp. I expected to see a lot of them but in 8 years I only saw a pair one afternoon and killed one of them. One was caught on a game cam. There was one instance of them rooting around one of our stands. I knew a guy on a neighboring club which leased land closer to the river and they saw hogs all the time. One of our members from Australia posted some wild hog hunting videos not long ago. I commented to him about the dry arid country in the videos. He replied that was water available out there. Hogs can eat just about anything from mushrooms to deer guts to grain, to clover, and a bunch more. Their diet will also include anything a buzzard would eat. As I got to know them I quit eating pork. Moses was right.
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There’s 2 types of hunting spots.
Those that have hogs...
Those that don’t have hogs **yet**.
My wife and I bought just under 200 acres in rural North Texas some years ago. A retired vet who had a place down the road stopped by one day not long after we bought our property. Upon leaving he asked if I'd seen any hogs and I told him I hadn't. He said, "You will". A very true statement. I've eaten wild hog and couldn't tell it from store bought pork. After going to a seminar and slide show presentation on feral hogs about twenty years ago, I decided I'd never eat wild hog again.
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Buddy has a place about 17 miles north of Del Rio, Tx.
That part of the country is basically rock and desert.
Lots of cedars, a few mesquites, some cactus and Soto bushes.
Only water on the place is in water troughs thy gravity feed from a storage tank.
The place has been in the family since the mid 80s and they never had hogs until 4 or 5 years ago.
Now they are catching or killing them every time they go down there.
And in the same frame of time their deer population has dropped dramatically.
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People here in South Carolina are always complaining about how destructive the hogs are on their fields. But when you volunteer to come and take care of the hogs they like oh no I don't want anyone hunting on my place. I have even offered to trap them same answer no.
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Buddy has a place about 17 miles north of Del Rio, Tx.
That part of the country is basically rock and desert.
Lots of cedars, a few mesquites, some cactus and Soto bushes.
Only water on the place is in water troughs thy gravity feed from a storage tank.
The place has been in the family since the mid 80s and they never had hogs until 4 or 5 years ago.
Now they are catching or killing them every time they go down there.
And in the same frame of time their deer population has dropped dramatically. Yep, Hanco always puts up pictures of all the hogs they trap and kill in his part of Texas which seems quite arid. I know nothing of the area, I haven't made it west of Houston. Even though I know hogs will eat ANY THING, it always puzzles me what they thrive on out there.
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Hogs do well in dry places as long as they can get water.
Like stock tanks,fish ponds and other pools.
So far i have killed the only hog in this area but there are a bunch in the north,north/east part.
They do mess up the cotton fields.
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Buddy has a place about 17 miles north of Del Rio, Tx.
That part of the country is basically rock and desert.
Lots of cedars, a few mesquites, some cactus and Soto bushes.
Only water on the place is in water troughs thy gravity feed from a storage tank.
The place has been in the family since the mid 80s and they never had hogs until 4 or 5 years ago.
Now they are catching or killing them every time they go down there.
And in the same frame of time their deer population has dropped dramatically. Yep, Hanco always puts up pictures of all the hogs they trap and kill in his part of Texas which seems quite arid. I know nothing of the area, I haven't made it west of Houston. Even though I know hogs will eat ANY THING, it always puzzles me what they thrive on out there. We have a good size running creek that runs through the place I hunt. That’s why we have so many. I don’t know how there is enough food to support so many. We can see into Lake Buchanan from our lease. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/ZYLs9Vgw/1-E5011-BA-F85-A-4-B91-8-A16-C916-C96-BD484.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/pdYz01K7/973-D114-D-51-EA-441-A-AE40-52-AAC45-C21-B2.jpg)
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The GW informed me that snares were illegal to use on hogs when trapping season is closed. A person needs to kill every hog - pig they see.
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Buddy has a place about 17 miles north of Del Rio, Tx.
That part of the country is basically rock and desert.
Lots of cedars, a few mesquites, some cactus and Soto bushes.
Only water on the place is in water troughs thy gravity feed from a storage tank.
The place has been in the family since the mid 80s and they never had hogs until 4 or 5 years ago.
Now they are catching or killing them every time they go down there.
And in the same frame of time their deer population has dropped dramatically. That’s too bad on the deer population. Those are some huge deer there around Del Rio!
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I ceased going to the beach because the quantities of hogs on the beach.
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We watched a spotter plane last month come over it was soon joined by a helicopter . We sat on the front porch and watched them shoot for at least 25 minutes just a mile north of us then they moved off to the southeast. We went out a few nights later with thermals and saw over 50 in a couple of hours. Hard to control even from the air.
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I saw one taking a dirt nap Friday.
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No hogs in this neck of the woods. They are in neighboring counties, but not in big numbers.
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I love to hunt them - there were lots of them in Florida .
I'd like to buy some hogs and get a start of them here , not too many just a few here and there .
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I love to hunt them - there were lots of them in Florida .
I'd like to buy some hogs and get a start of them here , not too many just a few here and there . Good Lord that's stupid.
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I love to hunt them - there were lots of them in Florida .
I'd like to buy some hogs and get a start of them here , not too many just a few here and there . Good Lord that's stupid. 
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
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The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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If you have seen 1 or 2 hogs today, there will be 20 next week. Rio7
Yep.
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Really large cockroaches!!
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