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  • drricktx

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    Hunting Seasons

    You can begin to hunt deer in TX with a bow in October....then the gun season starts the first Saturday in November and runs through the first week or so of January. There are special youth seasons that run right up to Febuary also.

    Feral hogs can be hunted year around. My deer lease north of Fredericksburg is overrun with hogs. They are a nuisance and tear up the ranch fences as well as all our feeders. Our ranch owner though won't let us hunt in the pasture at night..for some unknown reason...and that's the best time to hunt hogs. A young hog is excellent table fare although it's not a good idea to eat the meat when the weather has turned hot.

    I'm orginally from South Texas and the peanut farmers down there beg people they can trust to come out and shoot hogs because they will destroy a crop. There are also outfitters that have hunts year around.
    Rick
     

    HKpre86

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    kingofwylietx

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    Have Mauser, will hunt hogs for free.

    Do you have to have a permit to hunt hogs?

    Yes, residents can use a general hunting license. Don't try to rely on saying the hog was depredating to get away with not having a license.

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    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, depredating hogs or coyotes (see below). Non-residents under 17 years of age may purchase and hunt with the Youth Hunting License (Type 169).

    See the official website:
    http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/annual/general/hunt_licenses/
     

    kingofwylietx

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    fun X10

    Hogs are a blast to hunt. My wife & I love to hunt hogs....we were supposed to go to our ranch next weekend, but it fell through. We hope to get out there again soon. We only get to go a few times a year, it is near Uvalde....we live near Dallas (7 hr. trip).

    You can also visit the following website, it is a Texas hog hunting forum. I am a member.

    http://www.texasboars.com/phpBB2
     

    phatcyclist

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    You can begin to hunt deer in TX with a bow in October....then the gun season starts the first Saturday in November and runs through the first week or so of January. There are special youth seasons that run right up to Febuary also.

    Feral hogs can be hunted year around. My deer lease north of Fredericksburg is overrun with hogs. They are a nuisance and tear up the ranch fences as well as all our feeders. Our ranch owner though won't let us hunt in the pasture at night..for some unknown reason...and that's the best time to hunt hogs. A young hog is excellent table fare although it's not a good idea to eat the meat when the weather has turned hot.

    I'm orginally from South Texas and the peanut farmers down there beg people they can trust to come out and shoot hogs because they will destroy a crop. There are also outfitters that have hunts year around.
    Rick

    North of Fredricksburg eh? Where at?
     

    LHB1

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    Many years ago, my family also had a hunting lease north of Fredricksburg. It was great. Sure wish I could get on another one in that area.

    Good shooting and be safe.
    LB
     

    txtrooper

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    Hog hunting is a blast in East Texas, I have killed around 300 over the last several years. I have a lease and we have three traps, which catch from one to seven at a time. I like to use the traps for catching them, although I have shot several with my Browning A-Bolt 270 from the stands. I will usually throw a little corn on the ground in an area where they have rooted up the ground in order to increase my chances of seeing one. Good luck. I took a video of me shooting one in a trap several years ago, with my Glock 31, if you want to see it, I will try to post post it to the site.
     

    ldyates

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    Hogs are everywhere in Texas and they are fun to hunt. We mostly hunt from a stand because the brush is so thick, but we are setting up some tree stands for bow hunting. Here is a link to my last hunt, plus a story on the Dallas News Website tonight.

    We shot two feral and one hybrid that weekend. The big one that has the large ears is the hybrid.

    MobileMe Gallery

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    Texas lawmakers consider bill to legalize high-flying hog hunting
    05:39 PM CST on Thursday, January 29, 2009

    By CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News
    choppe@dallasnews.com
    AUSTIN – Lawmakers are taking aim at a different kind of pork with a proposed bill that would legalize hunting feral hogs from a helicopter.

    The pork choppers would thin out the 1.5 million wild hogs that cause an estimated $52 million in property and crop damage annually. And landowners might recoup some of their damages by leasing hunting rights to flyers.

    "I know some folks will have fun with this," said the bill’s author, Republican Rep. Sid Miller of Stephenville, "but I have not been anywhere in this state where they have not been a problem."

    Helicopter companies already can be hired by landowners to cull the hog populations on their property.

    "That is a very, very effective means to control the populations," said Texas A&M University professor Billy Higginbotham, a state wildlife expert.

    The exotic porkers, introduced into the state 450 years ago, do damage by "eating crops, depredating goats and kids, eating peanuts, tearing up pastures; they break levees on rice field, eat corn. They’ll eat almost anything. It’s a tremendous problem," he said.

    While not dangerous to humans — they’d rather flee on their stubby legs than fight with their tusks — feral hogs can carry diseases that could conceivably devastate livestock herds.

    Almost 90 percent of Texas counties have feral hog populations, and they are now extending into suburban communities, trampling golf courses, softball fields and causing problems on roadways.

    "Obviously, your control in those areas will be different than flying or using guns," Higginbotham said.

    Because the terrain must be open and helicopters must get close — within 50 yards to get a good shot — it’s unlikely to be a sport where people go hog wild, or mistake an overweight pet dog for a hog.

    "You’ve got to get right up on top of them," Miller said. That’s close enough to tell a Babe from a Bandit.

    But Susan Hendrix of the Texas Humane Legislation Network said that despite the rationales for the helicopter hunts, there’s no way to turn the sow’s ear into a silk purse.

    "Tracking animals and shooting them from a helicopter is something we will definitely oppose," she said.

    She said the current law for hunting feral hogs on land is sufficient. Low-flying helicopters upset habitat and all other animals, and "aerial hunting often is less precise, and the animals are hit and not killed," Hendrix said.

    Nevertheless, this is pork legislation that Miller hopes that most lawmakers will support.

    "I’m just hoping to eradicate this problem," he said.
     

    arvetus

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    Whitetail season starts in October and depending on what type of management lease you're on and what state permits you have, it either ends in January like everybody else, or can run through February.

    Hogs are fun, and as long as it's not a large boar, they taste good! We had 4 hanging in the tree last weekend and one was half cut up and on the grill. Mmmmmmm! Tasteeeeee!
     

    noskilz

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    Depredating? What in the world . . . :banghead:

    transitive verb : to lay waste : plunder , ravage
    intransitive verb : to engage in plunder


    Well, now at least I'm better informed. Thank goodness for online dictionaries.
     

    JoeinTX

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    I have been told that a sounder (group of pigs) can ruin 2 or 3 acres of hay in a night.........that is an example of depredating

    That they can. A running group of hogs, and as with most groups they very in size from young to old, can make a mess of a food plot overnight and work over a 5 acre hay patch before your next trip to the lease in nothing flat. I've never seen an animal that can litterally destroy a piece of real estate in as little time as today's wild hog.
     
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