We want to go hog hunting

[kayak-man]

Howdy Y’all!

First off, I recognize that I’m kind of looking for a unicorn, but I know if anyone can help me and my buddy out, it’s The High Road Crowd! Hopefully, we will be able to help you too!

TL;DR: YOU have hogs, need them gone - me and my buddy have guns, Will travel. (It’s funny, because Will is my buddies first name)

LONGER VERSION: My best bud and I were talking about hunting the other day, and we both would love to drop the hammer on some wild hogs. We just don’t live in an area where hog hunting opportunities exist (im guessing that cougars and bears love pork, and pigs hate sub freezing temps.)

Up in the Pacific/Inland North West, we have the perception that down in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and other South West states, there is an epidemic of feral hogs destroying crops and farm land. We are down to hire a guide and jump through all those hoops, but we would rather put our love of guns and hunting to work helping someone who has too many pigs messing up their land.

If anyone has problems with hogs on their property and is willing to let a paramedic and his EMT partner drive down and wipe them out, please let me know.

Thank you so much,
Chris “Kayak-Man” Johnson

 

[grampster]

We have feral hogs in portions of Central and SW lower Michigan. But they are very elusive. I have not heard of anyone doing any sort of guiding to get at them. Mostly the residents in the areas that have them take care of them. All you need is a small game license and there is no prohibited season.

 

[Cypress]

I wish you the best of luck but finding a landowner in Texas to let strangers on their property with firearms may be more difficult than you think. Lawyers have pretty much ruined that for everyone. I wouldn’t dare take that risk.

 

[WestKentucky]

I’m in the same predicament, but I know of people who want people to come and kill the hogs. TN let the government get in the way because now they send the game wardens out to verify a hog problem and you have to list your people who will eradicate the pests, or you can let the gooberment do it. I live in hog country and can’t kill a hog.

 

[George P]

Take a winter break and come to the SE. We have hogs everywhere and the population is growing faster than they are eradicated. Bring night vision gear

 

[Armored farmer]

Good luck.
Landowners either lease for hunting, or hunt themselves.
I wanted to hunt Texas hogs last March, and simply found an outfitter and booked it.
Booking a hunt is a sure way to get going.
You might, however, find someone willing to trade hunts for a pacific NW hunt...?

Best wishes.

 

[jmorris]

If your around here when we have some in the trap, I’d let you shoot them and clean them up.

It’s pretty low risk, and not much of an adrenaline rush but you are just “hunting” undomesticated varmints or at least dropping the hammer on them.

Dropped the gates on 21 this month so far. Only 2-3 three back in the traps so far and a little early this evening.

 

[Meeks36]

If all else fails hit some public land. Only hunt during the week. Hogs are smart. They are not as active during the weekend. This isn't the 70-80s where you could just ask and land owners would let you loose. To many idiot's and lawyers. Good luck and happy hunting.

 

[Buzznrose]

Good luck.
Landowners either lease for hunting, or hunt themselves.
I wanted to hunt Texas hogs last March, and simply found an outfitter and booked it.
Booking a hunt is a sure way to get going.
You might, however, find someone willing to trade hunts for a pacific NW hunt...?

Best wishes.

From the little but I’ve looked into it, this is pretty much the deal.

Landowners whine about hogs but they are very selective who they let on to their land. I don’t blame them...

Lots of outfitter services here that book hog hunts. Lots of exotic hunts will throw in hogs cheap when you pay to shoot the other critters.

 

[skeeterfogger]

Problem is feral hogs are a nuisance but everyone expects you to pay. Leave them with them. I will not pay a penny to remove nuisance animals.

 

[Buzznrose]

Problem is feral hogs are a nuisance but everyone expects you to pay. Leave them with them. I will not pay a penny to remove nuisance animals.

Yes and no.

there are guys out there who are very good at catching and killing hogs, and they are paid for their efforts. The thing is, they are proven and effective. Hard to be an unknown and get a chance to go out where there are buildings and cattle and shoot at hogs...too easy to make mistakes.

 

[earlthegoat2]

The landowners would rather deal with the hogs than the hunters.

 

[jmorris]

Problem is feral hogs are a nuisance but everyone expects you to pay. Leave them with them. I will not pay a penny to remove nuisance animals.

That’s not really the problem. They are a problem for us and I have spent hundreds of dollars just to keep from spending countless hours and dollars repairing damage they cause.

In our State there are feral hog buying stations that buy them from folks like us and sell them to folks that you are talking about for “hunters” but that’s not an apples to apples comparison.

The problem is some people that pay to hunt are like people that pay to go see a movie. They think the price they paid allows them to enjoy the experience the way they want to, regardless of rules or respect and leave whatever trash behind they wish and take what they can while there. A land owner only needs to get burned by a single one to make it not worth the “hassle”. Yep, 1 out of 365,000,000 people is all it takes for someone to change their mind.

I have a hand full of trusted people that have never paid a penny to kill all the pigs they can. That said, their other contributions to the land and fellowship couldn’t be paid for in cash.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Sure hogs are pests and cause a great deal of damage. If a farmer or rancher allows or does not allow hunters on their property is their business. If they charge for the same is also their business. I'm sure there lots of them that could use the extra income, but don't want the hassle or damage caused by careless or "don't care" individuals. I personally would like to hunt and take a hog or two, but I will take the side of the rancher or farmer every time.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[Double Naught Spy]

No offense kayak-man, but you really aren't wanting to help with the hog problem, or you are, but your efforts won't result in such a benefit. You and your buddy are vacation hunters, looking for a free place to hunt (which I gather from your post not mentioning wanting to lease or hire a guide). You want to come in, shoot, leave with some trophy pics, good memories, and maybe some meat. I get that. There is nothing wrong with wanting the milk for free without buying the cow. However, from the landowner perspective, you are going to come in for a few days, maybe shoot a few hogs, and be gone. A couple of days after you leave, the hogs will return to the landowner's property like you were never there. The landowner will get no real relief from your efforts despite risking you being a bad or inconsiderate hunter, potentially damaging his property, shooting his livestock, trashing his property, etc. which is the real reason landowners charge for hunting. It isn't that the lawyers have ruined things. It is that bad and inconsiderate hunters have ruined things. See https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...hunting-land-do-we-do-it-to-ourselves.871288/

I am not saying you are bad or inconsiderate. I am saying that chances are, the landowner has no way to know this about you and so incurs risk as a result of you being on his property and so it isn't a worthwhile endeavor for him to grant you access with no real benefit to him. Imagine letting a stranger borrow your car in exchange for helping you with the dirty exterior. He says will wash your car over the next few days and bring it back to you. Are you okay with that? Would you let a stranger stay in your lake house for a weekend in exchange for killing mosquitoes?

So from the landowner perspective, even if you come in to help and do a good job, you immediately leave and he then has to find somebody else to replace you. Now the landowner is in the human resources business and he never wanted to be in HR. He already has a job, maybe a couple.

Other than 'helping' with the hog problem, what benefit are you to the landowner that would make the landowner want to grant you and your buddy access to his most valuable possession?

 

[Cypress]

Well said Double Naught Spy!!!