Here's TPV JR with a real big boar.
Sunday morning got light enough to see and about 10 of these were at the feeder.
Clay weighs about 200#. This boar was very hard for two of us to pull. I'm guessing about 275#

One shot from the 7mm-08 loaded with 120 grain Noslers did the trick.

Nice shot. I've never killed one of those critters. Living up here in Idaho we don't have any/many. Marshall was talking about some up in his neck of the woods last year. We don't even have any game regulations mentioning them.

That's gotta be a kick hunting them. Is there limits like on deer?

Give your son my best and did you get one?

Nice shot. I've never killed one of those critters. Living up here in Idaho we don't have any/many. Marshall was talking about some up in his neck of the woods last year. We don't even have any game regulations mentioning them.

That's gotta be a kick hunting them. Is there limits like on deer?
Give your son my best and did you get one?

Like you'll, my son is my favorite hunting partner, he just doesn't get as much time with two new little babies. Maybe in a few years.
All I had in front of me was deer. Nothing real big, but three bucks anyway.
There are no limits and you can "harvest" them anyway you want. Kinda like your prairie dogs, no limits.
I've always wanted to go prairie dog hunting like some of you guys in the northwest part of the country. Just think of pigs as big prairie dogs,,, with tucks!

I think Ranchdog is falling down on the job, and not killing as many, because they are all moving up here where I am.
I didn't kill anything, I had the axle come out from under my trailer, and that kept me busy.
Anyway, he used my gun to kill it, doesn't that count for something?

Looks like the brother to the one shot last year, Tom! You know, the two we decided were too big to mess with and would make good coyote bait? :p

This big sow came out Sunday evening with a bunch of piglets.
I was so intent on getting pictures that I forgot to shoot it.
A bad mistake.
I thought she was coming to the feeder but she didn't do it. Too many acorns and pecans on the ground I reckon.
Oh Well-
Hope the pic comes out

This big sow came out Sunday evening with a bunch of piglets.
I was so intent on getting pictures that I forgot to shoot it.
A bad mistake.
I thought she was coming to the feeder but she didn't do it. Too many acorns and pecans on the ground I reckon.
Oh Well-
Hope the pic comes out
You guys shoot wet sows??!!

You guys shoot wet sows??!!

We shoot ALL sows. And ALL boars. And anything else that resembles a pig, too!!!!

****... I've shot the sows and the piglets too! They drop 6 to 8 piglets every 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days. FHs are an epidemic. They are now in just about every part of the State that there is something to eat. That includes the elk and desert bighorn range.

There has been a little bit of controversy over how to handle the black bear that has been coming back over the last 10 to 15 years. The Editor of TPWD magazine said it best... "if you want to worry about something, worry about the feral hog" because in our children's lifetime it will be the olny animal left in Texas.

Most people that don't have a hog problem just don't understand the damage they do. Here's a picture I shot in June of last year that's just a small sample, about the size of a pickup bed.
http://forums.handloads.com/uploads/Paul5388/4857C_HPIM0134.JPG

Most people that don't have a hog problem just don't understand the damage they do. Here's a picture I shot in June of last year that's just a small sample, about the size of a pickup bed.
http://forums.handloads.com/uploads/Paul5388/4857C_HPIM0134.JPG
Yep, Looks like hogs to me.
I've always heard that the East Texas hogs can grow bigger than our West and South Texas hogs. As thick and damp as it is there, I can see how that's possible. 250 to 300# is about the biggest I've ever shot. Except one that was about 400# est.
As dry as its been this year, it's concentrating the hogs around the remaining water holes. The trails to and from those small ponds are very easy to see.
As much as I cuss the hog population, I'm really glad I have them to shoot at. It give us something to hunt year around.

It has been pretty dry this year, but that doesn't seem to concentrate the hogs here. I have been hit by hogs rooting about three times including that pic from a year and half ago. I don't even hear of too many reports of hog damage on this side of Murvaul creek. However, they are selling a lot of hog traps over in Panola county.

It has been pretty dry this year, but that doesn't seem to concentrate the hogs here. I have been hit by hogs rooting about three times including that pic from a year and half ago. I don't even hear of too many reports of hog damage on this side of Murvaul creek. However, they are selling a lot of hog traps over in Panola county.
Ahhh! Lake Murvaul, at one time, the primo big bass lake in Texas before Toledo Bend and Rayburn. That's another story for another forum.

Right now, the hogs are eating up the mesquite beans that have fallen off the mesquite trees in the flats.

It's a pattern that they run every winter. In the spring, they will stay on those flats and go for the root systems of those same young trees. If you've ever tried to eat a mesquite bean, they are sweet and good to eat. The young roots are also eatible, not bitter as some.
The hogs have it figured out and take advantage of every thing available to eat.

A friend of mine, said that he has a deer gut pile near his blind from a morning hunt, that afternoon it wasn't coyotes that came to it, it was hogs. They didn't get the chance to eat any.

Happy New Year!

I've seen an entire forest bed torn up like that photo (SC). Looks like someone disc'd the forest bed. A friend pulls about 300 out of his property each year and hardly makes a dent in the population. Big problem. No limits, no season.

Are they good to eat? Do you need a liscense? I flew down to Texas a few years back when there was no limit on Snow Geese and had a blast. I would do it again for hogs if you could harvest a few of them (meat is expensive these days)

Yes, you'll need a license. You can use the 5-day 'small game' license which I think is only about $45 or so for non-resident hunters.

Good luck and shoot all you can!

Fishmasterdan...
Here is a link to a PDF booklet about feral hogs in Texas. It is probably the most complete text I've seen. It's 22 pages so it might take a bit to open depending on your connection.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_0195.pdf

Thanks for the info. It took about 5 secs to DL. :)

Just need to find a farmer that wants to get rid of a few.