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sdb777
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Was wanting to know if you have problems with hogs?
Or do you offer them as hunts also?
The 'wild hog' hunts have actually started to become a 'thing' around here....just don't understand it. Anything with tusks/cutters in the 3" plus range are bringing in big money just north of me. And meat hunts(smaller hogs) are going for about $125 per animal....
And for those that might not know....what is your website?(Shameless plug)
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Hogs have traditionally been a problem for us. At times, hogs have messed up many a good deer hunt and cost us god only knows what in feed and fencing. In the past seven years we have probably killed or trapped and sold in excess of 500 feral hogs ranging from piglets to 400 lb brutes.
Currently, we have them under control to a certain extent. The entire ranch is high fenced and since game fencing is similiar to hog fencing and because of the fact that 90% of ranch sites on bedrock, we have not had problems with more hogs getting into the ranch. We also trapped and killed the shiiite out of them the last couple of years which really put a dent in the population. Of course, they will be back big time if we don't stay on top of them.
We sell a couple of different packaged hunts that include hogs. We also let trophy hunters take a hog or two at no additional charge. Or, any client can add hogs to any package they are hunting, trophy or management.
I understand your point. I run into folks all the time that can't imagine paying money to hunt hogs. I also run into folks that may in fact want to hunt hogs more than anything else. To each their own I guess. I was at a Delta Waterfowl convention recently where I had an auctioned hunt which allowed for taking both management whitetail and feral hogs but specified no "trophy boars." Some fat old asshat in the back of the hall shouted out "this guy aint no Texas guide, aint no such thing as a trophy hog." Well, Gene and I would disagree as we both enjoy the big old boars we had mounted.
So anyway, hope that answers your questions. My website is http://www.walkinghorseranch.net and there is also a link at the bottom of the page.
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Yes I would have to disagree with that fatass big mouth bro.I have hunted hogs for 22 years or so,since I was about 14 years old.I took my biggest ever hog on teh Walking Horse ranch and knew exactly what I was looking for.If there is no such thing as a trophy hog then I haven`t hunted one a day in my life..
I get a kick out of big mouthed idiots that don`t know shiite about what they are talking about.The dude was probably mad because all he has ever killed are 60 pound pigs..
I got a trophy on my wall gents.. Thanks to MarkV and the Walking Horse ranch.We really had to hunt that hog and we didn`t give up over the course of a month or so of hunting,I found the guy I was after.I wasted no time placing a shot out of my 45-70 and paid the 550 bucks my taxidermist charged.
Still when people walk in my home,they pay little attention to my whitetail shoulder mounts and european mounts..They go straight to the hog and."Wow,thats a ****ing monster"..
Haha,yeah ,no such thing as a trophy boar..my ass,I hate stupid people..
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I remembered years ago, someone here in Arkansas use to advertise "Trade a knife hunt for Trophy Hogs, for a knife hunt for Black Bear". Use to always see it in hunting magazines.....
I've watched fellas run hogs with a group of dogs(they wore Kevlar vests)...and those silly fellas would cut the hogs ear and let it go if it was under 300-ish pounds! That is straight up foolish! Would never turn down a hog hunt, but wasn't always excited about eating them if they were big. Liked to turn one for hours over a pit if it was under 80 pounds(nice and tender).....
The lease I'm on requires any hog to be dropped on sight. Part of the agreement for being in the lease. Apparently, those hogs are bad for little pine forest to become big forests!
Scott (Nice mounts guys!) B
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Evening Gentlemen. Those pics sure do make a fella want to take up a rifle and do some hog hunting.
Got a question ... from an unfortunate ole MT boy who don't have the luxury of hog hunting real close to me, what exactly do you guys use to define a "trophy" boar? Is it a weight thing? Some attractive trait of the hide? Long tusks? Is it pure breeding as in being full Russian rather then just the feral piggies running rampant. A combo of these things?
Got no problem recognizing myself a trophy mule deer when I see one but with hogs, i could use the education. Thanks. korey
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sbd777 - lots of guys run dogs down, here especially in South Texas. Myself, I've never done it and never will. I'm too big a dog softy. The dogs get f'd up and sometimes killed and I don't want any part of it myself.
klallen - generally, I tell my clients that a trophy boar is a boar hog estimate to be in excess of 200 lbs and of mountable quality. By mountable quality I mean large head, long snout and cutters and wetters intact. From there, it is the hunter's call on wether they want to take him or not.
Generally, we encourage killing hogs on site but once a boar gets into that 200 lb range I prefer they walk as there is good interest in hunting and killing the big boys.
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weird, somehow I am logged back in under my old account?
other mods - some help please?
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HMMM.That is most strange bro...Logout and try to log back in under your new name.
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klallen wrote: Evening Gentlemen. Those pics sure do make a fella want to take up a rifle and do some hog hunting.
Got a question ... from an unfortunate ole MT boy who don't have the luxury of hog hunting real close to me, what exactly do you guys use to define a "trophy" boar? Is it a weight thing? Some attractive trait of the hide? Long tusks? Is it pure breeding as in being full Russian rather then just the feral piggies running rampant. A combo of these things?
Got no problem recognizing myself a trophy mule deer when I see one but with hogs, i could use the education. Thanks. korey
Korey as WHR has said,hogs over 200 pounds is where I consider a trophy to start,but the cutters are where I judge a trophy.Most folks say 1" cutters,I consider a hog with anything over 1 1/2" of Ivory,over 2" and I`ll take a shot real quick.
These old big boars aren`t dumb and they don`t get that big by being easy to kill.It is a challenge to find a hog that big and catch him around long enough to put crosshairs on.
The day I killed mine,I had hunted quite a few stands previously and just happened to go back to a tripod stand I had hunted from in the past.Just had that feeling I would find a big porker way back there in the corner of the ranch..Payed off for me..
We need to get you down here and after a big hog,a blackbuck...and I bet we could talk ya into a nice whitetail.
I think one of these guys is next for my wall and the freezer.
Gonna treat myself to a hunt for one of these indian blackbuck.I have about 10 pounds of jerky finished from my doe I killed last weekend and another 10 pounds marinated and ready to start today..Fine eating I must add,perhaps better than whitetailed deer in my opinion.
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