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Texas hog hunting question
Maybe someone can answer this for me as I am not near a computer right now to look it up. Are wild hogs considered nuisance animals in Texas and for population control of them on private property would one need a hunting license? Going to be making a trip down that way in the future and the BIL's ranch has a hog problem so we were looking at having some fun and thinning the numbers while I was there.
No, I do not have a pink fuzzy bunny fetish but apparently my Facebook hacking wife does.
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I'm pretty sure you need a hunting license even though you can hunt them 24/7 day or night and no bag limit. They are definitely a pest, but the state will make money anyway they can half way justify it. Now on your own land that's a different story, you don't need a license.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/nonpwdpubs/media/cs_bk_k0700_284_2011_2012.pdf
"Hunting Licenses and Permits
A hunting license is required of any person, regardless of age, who hunts any animal, bird, frog or turtle in
this state (except furbearers, if the hunter possesses a trapper’s license). No license is required for
nuisance fur-bearing animals (see pg. 73), depredating hogs or coyotes (see below). Non-residents under
17 years of age may purchase and hunt with the Youth Hunting License (Type 169)."
That says You DON'T need a licenses.
"Exotic animal refers to grass-eating or plant-eating, single-hoofed or cloven-hoofed mammals
that are not indigenous or native to Texas and are known as ungulates, including animals from
the deer and antelope families that landowners have introduced into this state. Includes, but
is not limited to feral hog, Aoudad sheep, Axis deer, Elk, Sika deer, Fallow deer, Blackbuck
antelope, Nilgai antelope, and Russian boar.
It is against the law to:
• Hunt an exotic without a valid hunting license."
This says you DO need a license!
So, the best bet is to get the license, just in case you get a jerk of a game warden that still thinks you are 'hunting' even though you are whacking whole piles of hogs with an AK.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Still, it is much quicker and cheaper to just buy the license in the first place.
I would get one... it would make for a very bad day
Give em hell!
Whatcha going to be poppping them critters with? I'm sure you will have a lot of fun but in reality you will do no damage to the population. I've been shooting and trapping every hog I can find where we hunt for mor than 20 years and it seems like we don't even make a dent in the population.
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