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How Bad Is It?
I live in southeast Tx, and I was wondering if the hog problem is as bad as it is in the rest of the state? I'm originally from central tx, around Bryan college station and the hogs around there are horrible. The old farmers use to call me to come out and do a little extermination, which work for awhile until the hogs got hungry then they would come back.
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They are starting to do some damage in the Hill Country(F'burg, Kerrville, Bandera, Etc...) but the preponderance of guns, Traps, and people who hate hogs and love pork are keeping them in check... so far. Our lease got hit pretty hard last year with them, but there is no sign now of them there at all.
I love hunting hogs, but hate being awake when they move. 2:AM is just not a fun time for me anymore.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Something like this? :guns:
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Just messing with you, since Austin seems to have this Superiority complex over the Bryan/ College Station area
Most I have seen killed at one time on our lease was 3.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
It will do the job!
My K98 sniper with a couple of Javalinas...
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Freakin' awesome, timc!
This was me in the late 80's at a game ranch near Weatherford Texas. The owner didn't know much about proper nutrition and fed everything corn and consequently didn't get very good antler and horn growth on his animals. He used to offer cull hunts pretty cheaply and I wanted a few mounts that were different from the white tail and bird mounts that I had. If you look closely in the pic, you'll see a couple of hogs behind me as they're waiting for me to field dress the animal so that they can eat the entrails. Even back in the 80's, if you shot a hog on someones property, they wanted money for it and since nobody valued the hogs as food or trophys even back then, they weren't about to pay money to shoot one and the hogs just kept breeding. Since nobody hunted them, they didn't fear man or any activity and just kept moving closer to Fort Worth and more food sources. If you hunted around Weatherford or Mineral Wells, the sound of a gunshot was like a dinner bell to the hogs as they knew that there would be a gut pile to eat.
What caliber?
I'm just not into .223 for hunting especially on pigs, I prefer my AR's in .308 for my pig popping, but hey if it works for you.
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