Getting ready to book my next Texas hog/javie hunt, in Texas, for next Feb. Got it down to 2 places. Anybody here know anything about the Lazy R Ranch in Eagle Pass? Its run by a fellow named Christopher Roswell. It's a 15000 acre ranch, and looks like it has a load of hogs, and javelina. Any input would be helpful. Thanks.

Mad Dog

Getting ready to book my next Texas hog/javie hunt, in Texas, for next Feb. Got it down to 2 places. Anybody here know anything about the Lazy R Ranch in Eagle Pass? Its run by a fellow named Christopher Roswell. It's a 15000 acre ranch, and looks like it has a load of hogs, and javelina. Any input would be helpful. Thanks.

Mad Dog
I thought I knew them all, but that one's not familiar.
As long as the ranch has good creek bottom, it should be all right for hogs.
Mapquest has a good website that included aeronautical maps
where you can check out the ranch real well
Good Luck

Mad Dog...

Don't know if you have booked the hunt yet or not but my personal choice would be to be east of I-37 (I-35 at least) and South of US90. The coastal areas of South Texas have more hogs and they are bigger.

Michael

My advice to avoid disappointment is to hunt the land between the San Antonio and Guadalupe Rivers South of US Highway 90 to the coast. Big Hogs and lots of them.

Fennessey Ranch (http://www.fennesseyranch.com/hunting.htm)

Dos Vaqueros Ranch (http://www.dosvaqueros.com/index.html)
You will need to call this place about hunting, they don't advertise it any more as they have enough repeat business.

Humpair Ranch (http://www.humpalranch.com)

Floerke Ranch (http://www2.moment.net/~frhunts/hunt-packages.htm)
This ranch is in a super hog area.

33 Ranch (http://www.33ranch.com/Hunts/hunts.html)
This place is a couple of miles upstream from my place on the San Antonio River. I haven't hunted it but I have hunted the ranch next to it and it is good country.

74 Ranch (http://www.74ranch.com/wildboar_javelina.html)
My best friends son is a guide on this ranch and have some unbelievable, large, nasty, in your face hogs. 300+ pounds is quite common. I've hunted this place and it is big, wild country. The exterior is game fenced but it's 29,000 acres. You can leave the ranch complex and never get to the exterior fence in a day's hunting.

Charlie Harris (http://www.southtexastrophyhunting.com/)

I would not choose a place that is going to have to hunt hogs at night, too much pressure being placed on the critters. A lot of the places that hunt hard, buy replacement hogs. There are ads in our local paper all the time wanting trapped feral hogs to restock places.

Here is a picture of a hog that a close friend of mine killed this week. He's got a small place (30 to 40 acres of brush) near town and killed this Monday evening a little before dark with his bow and arrow. This is what you want the hogs to look like... anything smaller are just pigs. This hog was feeding on some new growth along a fence line. He eased up on it and shot it at 15 yards. This fellow hunts his place all the time but if you do it right you don't spook your critters. If you paying money, you shouldn't have to hunt spooked hogs. :cool: