hog hunting
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 89
hog hunting
I am just curious to see how many of yall are hog hunting out there. Ive been hog huntin the southeast for about 15 yrs now and i am just having a blast with feral hogs. SC is eat up with em. As well as my native land of southern ga. Just curious to see whose doing it.
thanks
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#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: A flat lander lost in the mountains of Northern,AZ
Posts: 3,171
RE: hog hunting
all we have here asfar as hogs are Javelina you would be toting a trophy if you shot one that weighed 50 lbs. lol nothing like the ferrel hogs back in MIssouri, thats where i am from just moved to the southwest a few months back.
#5
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Posts: 528
RE: hog hunting
The ranch I hunt in central Texas just started seeing hogs this past fall, sure one or 2 a year but this last fall we saw groups of them and much more sign around the ranch. So. . . once Deer season ended I started going after the pigs, got 8 this spring. I stopped using my .270 with a scope and switched over to a .357 brush gun. No need for a scope at 15 yards. While not the biggest or best caliber, I got a good deal on the gun and have not had any pigs wander off after being introduced to it.
#6
RE: hog hunting
ORIGINAL: shootr mcgavvin
i live north florida and been doin it for only one year and havent got one cuz are area isnt quite stocked up enough....should i kill my first one with a bow or be safe with a 308.??
shootr
i live north florida and been doin it for only one year and havent got one cuz are area isnt quite stocked up enough....should i kill my first one with a bow or be safe with a 308.??
shootr
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: A flat lander lost in the mountains of Northern,AZ
Posts: 3,171
RE: hog hunting
back in missouri I use either my marlin 44 mag rifle with handloads loaded with a Barnes X pistol bullet or my marlin 30-30 with handloads loaded with a 150 grain barnes X bullet or I use 170 grain remington core lokt factory ammo. I even killed a few with a 357 revolver with handloads loaded with a 180 grain Hornady XTP/HP.
#9
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 11
RE: hog hunting
I hunt in Red River County, Texas and also in Cass Co., TX and kill several hogs a year. I'm sure we're like Texasaggie in that we're covered up with them and they are a blast to hunt. Good eatin' too. There is nothing finer than jalapino cheese smoked sausage...