My first official hog hunt starts Wednesday.

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165 accubond from my 308. Penetrated from end to end of a pig from a range of 20yds. Found under the hide between the rear legs. Roughly 18inches of penetration.
 
It's nice you connected with some pigs. Will you be going back there again?
My brother wants to do a guided pig hunt just not sure where to go.
What did the airline charge you for bringing the meat back?
 
Highland Lofts said:
It's nice you connected with some pigs. Will you be going back there again?
My brother wants to do a guided pig hunt just not sure where to go.
What did the airline charge you for bringing the meat back?
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Yes I'll be going back with some friends. Maybe next spring, maybe earlier. My cooler weighed over 100lbs so it cost $200. It was worth it!
 
I live in Washington State, forty miles north of Seattle. I go deer hunting for a month every year in Upstate New York. I always bring back a cooler of deer meat and it cost me $35.
I make a bunch of deer jerky and mail it back in the flat rate USPS boxes.

If you go with friends next time maybe you can drive & split the cost and bring a bunch of meat back.
 
Larry in wyoming said:
Sitting here in DFW waiting for my flight home. I had an incredible time with cheating fool outfitter. My cooler weighed 100 pounds at check in. That's most of the meat from four sows. We killed a total of 9 hogs. We used a combination of spot and stalk, drives, and thermal sights. Awesome folks incredible experience.

NEVER USE PAYLESS CAR RENTAL in DFW. What a miserable experience. It took me 2 hours after check in to finally get a vehicle and it wasn't even the truck that I reserved. View attachment 1059072
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Congrats. I trap hogs and love to eat them. Fennel seed and other Italian spices mixed with molasses make great breakfast sausage patties.
 
Timing has everything to do with the success of a raindance. And for me, hog hunting too. I've hunted hogs near Houston for the last 18 years. I hunt with a cousin who is a Game Warden. We always hunt in February. We started that initially because we had deer seasons and waterfowl seasons still going and we wanted those to be done. February turned out to be the best time. A couple of years life got in the way and we didn't get to hunt until into March. What a difference just a couple or three weeks makes. In March the grass was high, the bugs and snakes were out, and we found what we thought was hot weather. Of course here in Colorado March is a big snow month for us, so hot is a relative term here.
My point here is that for me, I'd avoid any spring hog hunts down that way. It'll be a different world. We found it was hard to see the hogs in the tall grass and the leaves on the trees were out and that didn't help either. We always did February, but January would have worked too, if other seasons aren't in play.
 
chickasaw_hunter said:
Timing has everything to do with the success of a raindance. And for me, hog hunting too. I've hunted hogs near Houston for the last 18 years. I hunt with a cousin who is a Game Warden. We always hunt in February. We started that initially because we had deer seasons and waterfowl seasons still going and we wanted those to be done. February turned out to be the best time. A couple of years life got in the way and we didn't get to hunt until into March. What a difference just a couple or three weeks makes. In March the grass was high, the bugs and snakes were out, and we found what we thought was hot weather. Of course here in Colorado March is a big snow month for us, so hot is a relative term here.
My point here is that for me, I'd avoid any spring hog hunts down that way. It'll be a different world. We found it was hard to see the hogs in the tall grass and the leaves on the trees were out and that didn't help either. We always did February, but January would have worked too, if other seasons aren't in play.
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And the warmer the weather the more chance of meat spoilage.
 
yep there's the meat thing and cooler is better. We use a multi-pronged attack on the hogs. We use corn feeders and we also have a vehicle mounted corn spreader. We spread corn on trails and in areas of the pastures to get the hogs out of the swamps and out into the open where we can see/shoot them. As stuff greens up the hogs start to lose interest in the corn and find other stuff to eat. When it's cold and still brown out the corn attracks them better.
 
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