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Not feral hogs, but there was a restaurant here that used to make what they called pork wings. They were bone-in small pork shanks that they cooked like Buffalo chicken wings. Like a big ol' meaty chicken wing.

They were outstanding but they don't make 'em any more. WIsh I had a source for those pork shanks.

I’ve had those, good stuff. I personally ain’t into butchering into cuts anymore. It just meat to me, might grind some.

My experience in TX was similar.

As long as ranchers can get $500 a day from pig hunters,they are not going away

Yeah.

Thats the thing…

Farmer / Rancher / timber man “hogs gonna be the end of me”….

Want them killed? Sure. I offer trophy hog hunting for $350 a day…..

You dont want them gone too bad….


Last yeah I went to one of the “outdoor / hunting “ shows. Vendors, guides, sporting goods .. etc..

Outffiter, semi local to me was there. Stopped to BS with him. Honestly, just curios what size deer they killed….

He said hogs were really messing him up. Destroying food plots. Eating acorns.

Cool, I’d pay a reasonble fee hunt them.

His “guaranteed to kill trophy” hunt was $500.

All you wanted……


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I think its MO that has banned hog hunting.

Maybe just on Public land??

Take away the monetary value of them.

Don't confuse the two types.

Type 1 is into agriculture serious for a livelihood. Hogs threaten that livelihood, and they want them gone.
You won't find Type 1 charging for hogs. They are the ones you see asking for help controlling them though. But, they may or may not let just anyone with an AR15 in to hunt them. I don't.

Type 2 is a hunting outfitter that sells hog hunts. THEY absolutely WANT hogs. The more the better. That way they can sell more hunts.


It's sad that intelligent people can't tell the difference in someone who sells hunts, and someone who wants hogs gone because they cost them money... But I see people confuse the two all the time.

FYI... It's the ones that sell hunts that have cause much of the hog spread. Why? Because they sell hunts! They want more hogs.

But I read that all ranchers bitch about hogs, but charge you hunt them. Total BS.

Show me ONE real rancher bitching about hogs, but charging.

Show me ONE hunting outfitter bitching about the number of hogs.

Barry nails it as per usual !!!

I don't doubt it, Barry. I didn't contact folks (to my knowledge) advertising hog hunts. I contacted land owners directly, tho they may or may not have been in the business of selling hog hunts. It just wasn't apparent, perhaps.

I might have found someone who didn't require a tresspass fee had I kept at it- I just wasn't THAT interested.

Also, there is the landowner's liability and damage concerns related to some bozo they don't know. Can't blame them for that.

Their land, they can run it anyway they want, but I don't have to pay to play in their sandbox.

Unless I want to.

Did some google and found this. applies to all states tho.


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What part of Texas has the most wild pigs?
The Texas legislature.

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Lots of ranches that lease the hunting for deer let the hunters hunt hogs too. Many turn away other hunters if that's part of the deal. But if they don't do the hogs some damage, I've had them call me to come kill hogs. Usually after deer season is over, as to not interfere with deer hunting. My hog hunting land picks up quite a bit after deer season ends.

Don’t blame the land owners too much, property taxes are so high a fella has to make ends.

There are many hunters that would rather kill a big hog than a big deer, what ever floats your boat is ok with me. Rio7

I was/am one of those folk. A big lone boar is smarter and a better challenge than an old buck. I learned just how quiet you need to be and I also learned to call them up with the help of Glen Guess
and Convergent calls.

I also discovered a pair of your woman’s dirty panties and a bottle of her piss will get you a trophy. Wish I were joking but I ain’t!

I’m actually an expert now.

I read a couple other things, too. One guy has permission to hunt several properties, each with it's own restrictions and requirements. He says he has a 95% refusal rate when asking.

Another guy made note that folks (like rockinbar's clients perhaps), don't want guys like me to come out and shoot one hog and leave for parts unknown, or one or two a year for bacon and chops. They want guys that will come out once or twice a month and shoot a dozen or more, when feasible. Makes sense too.

Certainly not someone who bought an AR and two 30 round magazines yesterday....

I don't own an AR, by the way....

I have met very few folks that have a high multiple kill rate on a sounder at one time. They usually scatter so fast most average shooters don’t get a second shot.

Conditions have to be right.

My highest one time kill is 17 with a single shot 12 gauge chasing them around a valley.

I don't blame you, I stay away from those things too.

There are thousands of feral hogs around where I sit right now, all on public land. There is no agricultural or supplemental feeding. There are a few hardcore kids with dogs and mud boats that hunt them a little, but switch cane marsh is hell to navigate. About the only ones that die are the ones you see crossing the highway every night.

Hogs killed that woman in her driveway out that way couple years ago.

Probably the largest hog concentration in Texas is north of Bolivar Peninsula.

AR, comes in handy when shooting pigs, Rio7

Yep. One lives in my truck for exactly that reason. And on the Ranger too.

Purdy