calaverasslim
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Been chasing them off for the last 4 nites, at about 10 PM. Using a handgun to scare them off but tonite I am gonna load up some 00 buck. Range about 25 yards...
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They're BAACCCKKKKK
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OilyPablo
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I fail to see the problem here.
Is it not legal to shoot/trap/shoot them?
Sausage/bacon/ham/bacon.
Is it not legal to shoot/trap/shoot them?
Sausage/bacon/ham/bacon.
CharlieDeltaJuliet
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Mmmmmm bacon...
Art Eatman
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OilyPablo, check out the sticky at the top of the forum page.
OilyPablo
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Sorry. I know they are destructive, but I really do wish I could get some pig hunting in.
hoghunting
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If you have the 3-round plug in your magazine make sure you take it out and load as many rounds as you can. You can't shoot too many times or kill enough hogs. Good luck
While I appreciate the sentiment, you should check your local hunting regs first. CA for example, allows a hunting shotgun to hold no more than three shots no matter what you are hunting, even if it's where you could use a rifle with 5 rounds.
I don't know about Texas.
calaverasslim
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I know 3 rounds in TX also. However, I can't say for sure about while hunting hogs. I know there is a year round, open season for hogs, no limit, but you do have to have a license. Even though I am hunting on my own property, I suspect that with the license restriction, then the 3 round rule would apply.
Not gonna take any chances...
Not gonna take any chances...
Art Eatman
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It's federal law for three rounds in a shotgun: For migratory game birds.
Otherwise? No limit. Not in Texas, anyway. That's why I like my old Model 12, with 6 + 1.
Otherwise? No limit. Not in Texas, anyway. That's why I like my old Model 12, with 6 + 1.
yzguy87
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CharlieDeltaJuliet,
You Sir said it best!
You Sir said it best!
calaverasslim
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Don't know about other places, but here in S. TX. there isn't any side meat on these hogs. Ribs are slim pickins also. Guess it's because food is scarce. Most of these hogs is good for sausage, but you gotta add store bought back fat.
MCgunner
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Last one I trapped on my pace in Calhoun county, I swear, i coulda made bacon out of the belly, was one fat boar. There's lots of small acreage right in that spot and they hit all the corn feeders there. No crops. There are crops not too far from here and small acreages like mine with corn feeders. I hope they're fat up here, too. 
I might try making some actual bacon if I get one like that last one.
I've recently acquired permission to hunt another 37 acres just down the road about 3 miles from me. It's pasture bordering woodland. He says the hog sign is there. Figure it might have good dove hunting on it, too. I've only walked part of it with the new owner. He sold his 17 acres next door to me and bought it recently. I'm going to help him out watching the place and his live stock once he gets some on it (for tax purposes, really) and I get to hunt it. He's an absentee owner from Houston and I live here, so that works pretty well.
I might try making some actual bacon if I get one like that last one.I've recently acquired permission to hunt another 37 acres just down the road about 3 miles from me. It's pasture bordering woodland. He says the hog sign is there. Figure it might have good dove hunting on it, too. I've only walked part of it with the new owner. He sold his 17 acres next door to me and bought it recently. I'm going to help him out watching the place and his live stock once he gets some on it (for tax purposes, really) and I get to hunt it. He's an absentee owner from Houston and I live here, so that works pretty well.
hoghunting
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Thanks, Art, you beat me to it. I am in TX too and knew there isn't a magazine limit for anything other than migratory birds.
In TX you don't need a license for hogs if it's for depredation, not a paid hunt, and you have the land owner's permission. Since you are the land owner, if the hogs are tearing up your land or property, you don't need a license for hogs.
Art Eatman
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Ehhh, resident hunting licenses are cheap, really. And they're the main source of money for game wardens and wildlife biologists. An added plus is that the 11% Pitman/Robinson gun-tax money the feds get is pro-rated back to the states as a function of the number of hunting licenses.
MCgunner
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Well, I give 'em 120 or so bucks a year for a license. $49 bucks for the super combo, 48 bucks for the APH, 15 for the federal waterfowl stamp. It CAN be somewhat expensive if you fish, too, and hunt waterfowl. But, I always manage to find the cash. Still, when I started hunting it was $5.30 a year. That WAS a while back, I admit, but it seems the license has outpaced inflation. The duck stamp was $7.50 back then, though, and I didn't have the opportunity to get an APH. I only get that for the duck and goose hunting.
Still, when I started hunting it was $5.30 a year. That WAS a while back, I admit, but it seems the license has outpaced inflation. The duck stamp was $7.50 back then, though, and I didn't have the opportunity to get an APH. I only get that for the duck and goose hunting.dprice3844444
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does texas have a lifetime license?
MCgunner
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I don't know. They used to, but then, they used to have exempt FREE licenses for over 65 and they no longer do.
calaverasslim
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I have a friend who just got one. Cost $500. Not sure how long he has had it, tho. Over 65 I understand just went to $7, maybe $9. Mine is free. I'm 100% VA disabled
xxjumbojimboxx
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You need to go through the hunters safety course though... if born after 71 i think it is.
788Ham
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Here in Colorado, you have to have a hunter's safety card if you were born after Jan. 1, 1949 ! thats Horse crap, I'm 64 and have to carry a card?
medalguy
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Dang youngsters think they're privileged or sumpin' 
a-sheepdog
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Buckshot is a bad idea, use slugs.
adelbridge
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hogs are not a protected game species in Texas, you can use your F150 bumper if you want to. 25 yards is really close- have fun.
Officers'Wife
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I remember the year that my Dad decided the feral hog population in the Jakobee swamp needed to be thinned out. I was traumatized seeing six people open up on a family of hogs bathing in the mud with M1A's,SKS,a 45-70 and semi-automatic 30-06 rifles of unknown make and vintage. It was horrible, all 8 animals fell in a hail of gunfire...
I didn't even get the chance to cycle my Enfield.
I didn't even get the chance to cycle my Enfield.
Patocazador
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I've killed over a dozen hogs with buckshot, none got away. When hunting with a baying dog, you want to make sure and get that sucker and not miss or tick it off. 00 or 000 buckshot does that quite nicely.
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