Greatness! I totally respect what you do, that is actually hunting. I have friends who feed the deer on their lease year round, set up a blind 150 yards away, and then... "Were going hunting" from them doesn't exactly ring true to me. I never say I hunt hogs... I just want to kill them. PETA wouldn't like me much, but those critters tear up anything and everthing they touch. The folks at the state put out an analysis - to keep the Texas hog population static, we must kill 70% of the existing hogs EVERY YEAR. RE: the meth-heads. We've got 'em here too. My in-laws have some substantial parcels of land (where I go to shoot hogs) west of DFW, but they can't have anything nice out there like a cabin or camper. The meth-heads break in and steal anything that isn't set in concrete, and they try to take that too!
I used to hunt in the foothills to mid way up the monteagle mountain around Pelham Tennessee (midway between Nashville and Chattanooga). Back then, meth labs were not a big problem. Moonshiners were. If you saw steam coming up above the tree line, you had no idea whether it was a cave (depending on ambient temperature and humidity) or it was a still. I didn't want any part of disturbing those guys if it was a still. There was more of them and they had more guns. Those idiots were still shooting at low flying planes in the 80's.
I'm probably repeating myself here but in the case of wild hogs for every 1,000 hogs 750 must be killed every year to maintain the population at 1,000 And yes Scott is correct, I have friends here and in Texas where 25 yards from a baited area is the norm, that's not for me. Personally I escape to Georgia to hunt white tail but it's not the hunt but the escape from my normal habitat that intrigues me. If I kill something or not is not important to me, it's the escape. I have plenty of deer to hunt at home but I cannot escape the surroundings at home.
Ralph, you might want to head up to North Carolina, where the boars are monstrous. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/30/father-son-bag-charging-700-pound-hog-in-north-carolina/
Probably would have looked similar to this :shock: That boar hog is more like a side of beef, wow....It has to be almost 100% Russian boar to get that size or else he escaped from somebody's hog pen.
Scott/Ralph, Yeah, see that's real popular here and I just don't get it. You're basically growing a kill, not hunting. Tom, The moonshiners these days are still there, but they're much softer nowadays. Hell, the ones down in Bankhead can be bought off with hog from the hunt. At least they are in these parts.
Sigh........Hit another damn hog on the way to work this morning, this makes 7 or 8, I've given up counting at this point. My added grill guard prevented major damage but it still rolled under the right front damaging who knows what, tire was kiddy wompass and bumper bent in... Same old song and dance, drop truck at dealership, probably be ten days work....Hate hogs even more and cursing Hernando Desoto in the process..