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Not wanting to distract from the other pigs post, I was wondering if anyone here had ever hunted feral pigs in Texas or one of the other Southern States? Texas is the closest to me here in Colorado, so I've been researching it first. I'm hearing that further south is better (ie. down around Houston verses the Panhandle) but I'm trying to do this on a shoestring budget. Any insight into how one might do this would be greatly appreciated. FWIW: I'm not interested in big, we just want to fill a few coolers with some pork.

For what its worth Lloyd, go to the butcher shop to buy your pork. Pork is whatever a pig's been feeding on; wild hogs eat ANYTHING. Just saying...Geo

Wild hog beats Chinese pork any day of the week.

This trip serves many purposes. It give a 70+year old hunter a mid-winter trip down out of cold Northern Minnesota to visit family and to use his rifle yet one more time. It is also an adventure into new country at a time when most folks are housebound by inclement weather. I'll take Houston over International Falls at almost any time during the January/February time-frame. I also hear that there are a few pheasants to be shot down there during mid-winter?

My son and I killed and caught 73 in one 12 month period out of one end of a 50 acre peanut field of mine. Speaking as a landowner with a hog problem, we want them gone, absolutely. But, turning folks loose to come and go to kill them can be as bad, or worse, than the hogs. You are probably a responsible fellow, or you wouldn't be on here asking how, you'd just ride with a light and shoot them anywhere you saw them, like a lot of bast--ds do.

What you need to do is work at making contacts with landowners through their current friends, people they trust and whom they feel they can believe about a stranger.

Good luck, hogs are not just a "problem", they are an epidemic.

SRH

Stan:

I have some brother-in-laws down in Austin, but they're not hunters (or country folks) and they don't seem to be producing any good leads. As you surmised, we're not interested in jack-lighting. We want to do this right or we just won't go. This is supposed to be fun.

have a pig killing friend who lives outside of dallas...he says, wild texas hog don't taste so good.

Wild California hog tastes great, but finding private land to hunt is tough because the good stuff is leased by guides. There are a couple of military bases on the Central Coast that have allowed hog hunting in the past, so check with Camp Roberts if you are interested. The Tejon Ranch in the Tehachapis is productive for hogs, but it's pay-to-play and they have gotten expensive.

Shot a couple two years ago South of Dallas, we quartered them and smoked them (mesquite) then pulled the meat, tasted great. Rancher recommended shooting the ones the weighed around #175 or less, which we did.

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