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Stan, you ever make any progress on the remote controlled hog catching pen? The only way to wipe them out it is to catch the entire sounder. Otherwise, with the gestation period not much longer than a rat, they are back in destructive business in no time.Gil

I have hunted and killed a lot of hogs in South Texas. I even have some rooting and tearing up ground in my back area south of Austin.
They are generally nocturnal or early in the morning and have no set routine as deer do. Baiting them with fermented corn(flavored with strawberry Jello) has worked well.
A couple of picts below of my past pigs.
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Stallones, how many flavors of Jello did you try until deciding on strawberry ?

This post has certainly been an education.
I had thought that pig hunting was less sophisticated than it now appears to be. I'll likely take TWs suggestion and contact Texas Parks & Wildlife for a guided hunt somewhere. I'd hate to drive all the way down there and just waste my time. I'm also not sure we're really equipped to pursue an animal that is mostly nocternal.

A guided hunt will not depend on night hunting. Dogs will find them. Hog hunting specialists are skilled at what they do and many carry staple guns and antibiotics to give first aid to their dogs after the hunt. They'll run bay dogs to "bay" the hogs and then send in the catch dogs to pin them down. If the hogs aren't "hog-tied" and carried out alive, they are often dispatched with either a lance or a long knife. It ain't for the faint of heart.
An old time hog hunter that I know used to routinely "catch" hogs like Geo mentioned above and bring them home and feed them before slaughter. If the pig was young enough, he'd castrate them. Vince was built and looked like Hoss Cartwright. Once he was tying a small hog when he got charged by a big sow. He was stuck in the marsh mud and all he could do was punch the sow in the snoot as hard as he could when she charged. He cold-cocked her, knocking her out. This story was told by folks with him who saw it happen.

=Daryl Hallquist]Stallones, how many flavors of Jello did you try until deciding on strawberry ?

Several flavors, but actually we settled on Raspberry,but I did not want to get too technical.

Here is an "exciting" hog-dog hunt n a Ranch that I hunted on close to Laredo.
Then the ranchhand would go in with a knife and kill the hog. Whew !
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Nowhere near as gent`ile as bird hunting, no doubt. I had visions of spooking through scrubby cover at dawn and getting shooting at iron-sight distance with rifles. Something a bit more solitary and low-key.

The knife is the way they hunt hogs on Maui. They do not like the table fare very much as the hogs are covered with ticks.

stallones: do you really enjoy watching a pack of dogs tear apart another animal?

my cuzin ernie used to luv hit...sorta turned me off. still does.