Season opens soon.
 

Still have a few weeks left, but im getting ready. Wooooo, hoooo. Good luck to everyone.

In the county in Texas where I live, the archery season opens up on October 2nd.

Thats where I'm at as well. Tejas.

Oct. 1st in MS--and it's cooling off a tad to boot!

Also got permission (actually a request) to go to a neighbor's farm and kill every hog I can see. Herd is still small, but doing a lot of damage. They popped up not long ago, and since the first sightings it seems the herd is growing pretty quick in spite of attempts to erase it. Figure we'll have a population that is pretty huntable within a few years. Right now they bolt at the sight or sound of a human (even from a distance), and catching one in a trap is rare--they are just too smart. Guess they are taking lessons from our deer.....:mad:

LBR
They will take over the place. We know it well here in Texas. Not a bad thing (other than for farmers). They are great practice for deer and perty good eaten. Just wait, you will be seeing tuns of them. A sow can start breeding at about 1 year of age. Sows can have litters of up to 13+ and can drop two litters a year.

I'm familiar with domestic hogs--my dad raised them for 20 years or more. How similar are feral hogs? Seems the breeding habits are the same, but I noticed the little feral hogs are always striped? I figure the sows are just as mean and protective too.

This area is prime habitat for hogs--it's practically all creek bottoms, farm land, cutover, and some timber. Three major creeks running here, plus several small ones, plus fish ponds, beaver ponds, sloughs, slashes, etc.

Lots of rednecks too though. I love to hunt pigs, but feel sorry for the farmers. How do the deer and turkey fare with them?

I have seen deer eating at same feeder as hogs.

Deer tend to live with hogs ok. They dont tend to like each other. I have seen hogs and big bucks face off and snort and blow/grunt at each other trying to run the other off.

A big concern here, besides crops, is hogs will hurt the deer/turkey/quail/etc. populations. I'd think that food for them will be at least as plentiful, if not moreso, here than most anywhere in TX.

Oct 1st opens deer season here in Indiana I am looking forward to it.

I am shooting about 30 minutes a day. I am getting back into practice LOL.

I'm shooting an hour every other day.

Crap, i have shot twice since last season. I am recovering from two broke fingers so it has been a bit slow. Season opens in two weeks, so I need to get out and double time it.

They will wipe out your turkey. I use to have tuns of turkey on my land, and once the hogs showed up, all the turkey are gone. Ive seen one turkey on my land in the last 15 years. The quail are doing great. Not sure why that is, they are ground nesters like the turkey. So I would assume their eggs are getting hit as well. But I have seen no affect on the quail. But then again, I have not hunted the quail on my land in over 10 years. I just cant bring myself to shoot a bunch of quail and only recover one or two. My CRP is to thick, its almost imposible to find the birds after you shoot them, that is without dogs.

Dang...not what I wanted to hear. I'm not a turkey hunter, but have thought about it. We have a pretty good population of them here--they seem to thrive in the same areas that the hogs will hang out in.

We do have some hill country around here also--maybe the birds will figure it out and move there, for nesting sites anyway.

LBR
That could be more related to my land than a norm. I can only speak about what happens around here. But I have noticed, that places in Texas that have a large hog population, tend to have less turkey.