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blacktaildeer 01-25-2007 09:30 PM

How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
i usually sit in a treestand over a spring where they wallow around in or i go to our fruit trees which were great until a bear tore up the 75year old apple trees. What time of day do you get most of your pigs?

Kanga 01-26-2007 01:55 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
I mostly spot and stalk.

Early mornings or late afternoon.

ryanaller 01-26-2007 02:21 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
I get more of a rush spot and stalking early in the morning.

zekebobish 01-26-2007 06:42 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
Ruger .44 Mag Carbine, Hornady Hollow Points... late afternoon

the kidd 01-28-2007 09:38 AM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
we usually hunt early mornings and late after noons ,go bak to the cabin eat [when the moon is out]and then go back on the tower blind and put my 243 to its head around 8 to 9

kurdog 01-29-2007 08:34 AM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
dogs and knives for us. with the dogs we can hunt all times. i prefer days

okla_hog_hunter 01-31-2007 01:27 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
the same as kurdog,dogs and knife,thats the only way to hunt for me

gitrbayed 01-31-2007 04:51 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
dogs dogs dogs

Rebel Hog 01-31-2007 06:57 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 

ORIGINAL: gitrbayed

dogs dogs dogs
Dogs and MO dogs!!!

rebelmaxx 01-31-2007 08:23 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
i just returned monday from a hunt in tennessee. i used a slow spot and stalk to take a 200+ pounder. dogs seem to be a good method. some guys took a nice one while i was there using a catahoula cur and a large knife. i am getting old and heal slowly, so i used a .338 winchester magnum. it was my first wild hog and i am "hooked". i went to WILDERNESS HUNTING LODGE in monterrey TN. they are some very nice folks. I CAN'T WAIT TO GO AGAIN!!

huntnma 02-01-2007 04:24 AM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
depends when it is.....during archery, i like to sit in my stand, though the only hog i killed with my bow, i was stalkin', lol....with the rest of the hunts , i like to stalk withmy muzzleloader, rarely do i bring my shot gun in the woods ...or i usemy 30/30.....then when the hog / dog hunts are on, i do it with the dogs and my pig sticker .

skidder 02-01-2007 07:18 AM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
ok,.... pig sticker is a knife right... ok... stupid question here maybe... when your using knives to take them... are you jumping on them and going for the throat or stab throught the ribcage to the vitals? or maybe another target?

just curious.


kurdog 02-01-2007 07:57 AM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
can;t speak for everyone. but once the dogs catch we flip the hog then stick him in the side right behind shoulder but low. i prefer atleast an 8 in. blade. if we need a hog for the pens we hobble and bring in alive

Rebel Hog 02-01-2007 08:22 AM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 

ORIGINAL: kurdog

can;t speak for everyone. but once the dogs catch we flip the hog then stick him in the side right behind shoulder but low. i prefer atleast an 8 in. blade. if we need a hog for the pens we hobble and bring in alive
10-4, good buddy!:)

Rebel Hog 02-01-2007 08:27 AM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 

ORIGINAL: realmaxx

it was my first wild hog and i am "hooked". i went to WILDERNESS HUNTING LODGE in Monterrey TN. they are some very nice folks. I CAN'T WAIT TO GO AGAIN!!
Send him a PMgitrbayed! He's in NE Tenn and I guarantee you he knows Hog Hunting! I have been in the areas he hunts, plus NW NC...

burniegoeasily 02-01-2007 02:34 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
All depends on situation. I spot and stalk, set in a tree, or will set in a field and listen for them then stalk. I primarily use a recurve bow or a compound. But im not apposed, by any means, to set up on a hill with a thunderstick and shot them from far off.:D

mez 02-01-2007 03:28 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 
Dogs and strings. We tie them up unless we absolutely can't get them out where caught. If we kill one it is with a knife.

Nicolai Barca 02-01-2007 08:00 PM

RE: How do you hunt wild pigs?
 

ORIGINAL: skidder

ok,.... pig sticker is a knife right... ok... stupid question here maybe... when your using knives to take them... are you jumping on them and going for the throat or stab throught the ribcage to the vitals? or maybe another target?

just curious.
Well, in general you puncture both lungs or the heart. It's habitual for us to take a knife five inches or longer, preferably longer, and calmly stab upwards from the soft spot under the arm, up through the heart and up into both lungs wiggle it around for a second until you geta big spurt of blood and then pull it out. The pig should collapse and die within seconds just like you'ld expact an arrow hit it. The reason you poke them that low is because it's a soft spot and on big boars, higher up will be "the pad" which your not gonna get the knife through easily.

On large tracts of public land I like to walk and I walk a lot. Once I covered 16 miles in a day. I walk miles at various speeds upwind. If there's lots of fresh sign, I walk very very very slow. If there's not, I tend to walk fast. Half the time, I spook the pig and snap shot it on the run or pop it when it's wondering what that is making so much noise. The other half, I walk a little and listen, walk a little more and listen, hear something, and stalk it.We also do a lot of dog and knife hunting. I use to bowhunt plenty, but now I prefer my shotgun. It's nothing to do with preference, it's just that the areas I'm usually in is open to firearms and I don'tfeel likebowhunting with an orange vest on.


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