Hog hunting: Backup sidearm.

[tx_pistolero]

Figured with all this talking I have been doing, I should show some damn boars too...haha. So here you go, these are a few pics of some of the boars I have taken over the years.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

tx_pistolero, Texas hog hunting is actually the exception. Most all other southern states, where hogs are prevalent, are swampy or heavily wooded. Most either spot and stalk or hunt hogs with dogs in most other places. In Texas, you are correct. Most hunt from blinds and stands over feeders or in known hog fields (which in Texas is pretty much any field).

You haven't seen much of Texas, have you? We have a goodly amount of swamps and we have more forested area than Louisiana has total area, LOL.

 

[MCgunner]

Yeah, come on down to the coastal bend. I'll show you marshland and hogs. Texas habitats are VERY diverse sometimes even within a region. It's a big state.

GDWMA, a APH hunting area, is marsh/woods, no feeders, strictly spot and stalk/still hunting, and buckshot only. There's hogs out the wazz down there, but it's hard hunting. You have to be close with buckshot and with no corn, that ain't easy.

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

You haven't seen much of Texas, have you? We have a goodly amount of swamps and we have more forested area than Louisiana has total area, LOL.

I've hunted a pretty good bit of Texas and yes it is diversified but as I stated, the vast majority that hog hunt Texas tend to hunt over feeders and fields. Just as you do DNS. Granted you now are starting to get the eradication groups out there with the choppers and the dog hunters, but you still have to admit there are many more that hunt from blinds and stands over feeders than any other way in Texas.

MCgunner, I actually hunted in the area of which you speak several years ago. And boy you aren't kidding about it being rough hunting. With 5 of us for 5 days we only took 22 hogs (and yes for us that is a LOW number). As I said this was several years ago when the WMA was just starting to figure out that hogs were a serious problem and they allowed us, and several others over a period of 2 months, to come in and try to drop the numbers. They told us that our group was actually one of the more successful groups. Don't know if they still do that now or not but I would actually like to do it again. Them were some tasty hogs!

 

[darrell walling]

it aint what you shoot but where you shoot em--most times

 

[tx_pistolero]

starting to get the eradication groups out there with the choppers and the dog hunters

Folks have been hunting hogs with dogs down here for 50+ years.
I grew up in the coastal bend, and have hunted in east texas. In east texas they still use fire lanes and feeders, and I am willing to bet it is 90% that way and 10% any other. Same with the coastal bend. 90% feeders, 10% any other.

Been doing this a long time guys, I'm not pulling this out of my butt. I realize you might do it different, but understand how the vast majority hunts. Think of what I-10, or Highway 16, or I-37 looks like right before hunting season. How many trucks towing trailers with box blinds and bags and upon bags corn.