Hogs

[mnmtranching]

Man You Texas Folks have all the fun. :roll:

:lol: It is kind of fun at first. Then you get 80 plus hogs/shoats in a pen needing water and feed, you don't want to catch any more, don't have the time, but you have to keep at it. Put them on corn for a month or so and they are excellent eating, but that gets old too. They stink. They run at you in the pen and splatter mud on you. Friends come on Saturday to get some and you help clean them. Then on Sunday and week nights too. You haul them 80 miles one way to a legal processing facility and 150 pounders only fetch about $30. You get one that's worth $300 and have to make a special trip to keep it from wrecking the pens. The list goes on and on. It all gets really old really quick.

Man :help: :help: You don't want to sprain a ankle or something in the hog pens

I've always hated hogs, and we only have the tame ones.
WOW!! I guess I would really be at war with them wild ones. :cboy:

 

[backhoeboogie]

I've always hated hogs, and we only have the tame ones.
WOW!! I guess I would really be at war with them wild ones. :cboy:

I can still take a bound, jump to the top of a 6 foot railing, and vault myself over. BIL said I did a somersault, hit my feet and pitched forward. I dunno. All I know is that I was face down in the dirt. Boar nearly got me. He busted a divider gate. BIL said he wished he had a video cam. I am glad he didn't.

 

[mnmtranching]

I've always hated hogs, and we only have the tame ones.
WOW!! I guess I would really be at war with them wild ones. :cboy:

I can still take a bound, jump to the top of a 6 foot railing, and vault myself over. BIL said I did a somersault, hit my feet and pitched forward. I dunno. All I know is that I was face down in the dirt. Boar nearly got me. He busted a divider gate. BIL said he wished he had a video cam. I am glad he didn't.

:lol2: :lol2: :clap: :clap: I'll bet a situation like that would make world class athletes out of any of us. :lol: :lol:

 

[Capt Call]

The only thing I have found good about hogs are the ones that go in my smoke house.

 

[Calman]

squirrell hunting one time when i was a kid. An old mamma sow took in after me only had a single shot22. made a shot and just po her rel bad. So I ran and jumped into a thicket to hide and landed on about a dozen little pigs. Needless to say I had some more running to do. Once we got away from her pigs she gave up the chase.

Cal

 

[Texas Gal]

Calman,
Those we can't kill we'll point in your direction. ;-)

 

[Calman]

Tex Gal I apprediate the offer but we already have more than we can handle at the Post Oak tex. place, about 14 mi north of Jacksborrow.

Cal

 

[Brahma Bull]

A friend of mine email me a story in Seattle Times,Texas Boar War.That wild hogs are winning the war in Texas.Of the 254 counties in Texas,about 90 percent have a wild hog problem.It sounds like now wild hogs are now in the big cities like Forth Worth/Dallas/San Antonio.In people's yards and in the city parks.That we ain't going to be able to shoot and trap our way out of this problem,it's out of control.Ain't nothing easy about trying to out smart a pig.Sellers saying their trade is a capitalist sloution to Texas pig problem.Wildlife experts disagree and say do the math.2 million pigs having 3 litters every 2 years
your not going to eat your way out of this.It is a ecological train wreck they are saying.They even tried gunning down hogs from helicopters and paid bounty for every set of hog ears.Well sounds like it has to come to an all out war on the hogs.But they are the poor man's grizzly.You had better shoot straight cause if you don't kill it,it might kill you.Success only comes before sweat in a dictionary here.

 

[3waycross]

Maybe I'm off base here but I'm guessing that if Texas had the amount of public land that Colo has ( and the opportunity to hunt that goes with it) There would be far fewer hogs to deal with.

All that private land eventually calls for private solutions OR public hunting access.

Just a thought Go ahead and let me have it.

 

[Calman]

Not to be a smart a$$ but if they were on public land we wouldn't be complaining of them tearing up our land and fences.

Cal

 

[Capt Call]

Maybe I'm off base here but I'm guessing that if Texas had the amount of public land that Colo has ( and the opportunity to hunt that goes with it) There would be far fewer hogs to deal with.

All that private land eventually calls for private solutions OR public hunting access.

Just a thought Go ahead and let me have it.

I just never seen a hog carrying a survey. I hunt both public and private and it doesn't seem to bother the hogs at all to cross property lines.

 

[3waycross]

Not to be a smart a$$ but if they were on public land we wouldn't be complaining of them tearing up our land and fences.

Cal

That WAS my point. a little or maybe a lot of public access might go along way toward solving the problem.

 

[Brute 23]

Not to be a smart a$$ but if they were on public land we wouldn't be complaining of them tearing up our land and fences.

Cal

That WAS my point. a little or maybe a lot of public access might go along way toward solving the problem.

Its just traiding one problem for another. You have hogs tearing your stuff up or people. :lol: :lol: A large majority of people can't handle themselves when they have access to land like that to hunt. :x

 

[ArrowHBrand]

Man You Texas Folks have all the fun. :roll:

Yeah they do. I wish I had some hogs up here to trap and shoot. Are hogs always open season? Coyotes are up here and we were just informed by the DNR this year to shoot any hogs we see on site then report the incident. I haven't heard of hogs in Iowa, but they must be making a presence to be given open season status.

 

[L.A.]

Hey Boogie, We don't have them here, but I have heard those ferel or wild hogs taste different, some say better. How do you compare the two for taste.

 

[Capt Call]

Not to be a smart a$$ but if they were on public land we wouldn't be complaining of them tearing up our land and fences.

Cal

That WAS my point. a little or maybe a lot of public access might go along way toward solving the problem.

Never thought of the government owning or regulating anything every solved a problem. I guess it gets down to the party lines you think along where the problem is best solved.

 

[3waycross]

Not to be a smart a$$ but if they were on public land we wouldn't be complaining of them tearing up our land and fences.

Cal

That WAS my point. a little or maybe a lot of public access might go along way toward solving the problem.

Never thought of the government owning or regulating anything every solved a problem. I guess it gets down to the party lines you think along where the problem is best solved.

My comment was about access not government ownership. I and a lot of other people from colo would love to come down there and hunt some hogs, but there is little or no opportunity to do that because everything or most everything in Texas is private land. As far a gov ownership is concerned , our good friends from Texas seem to be all for it when they want a place to hunt deer and Elk, and we welcome them when they come. There was a remark made here about people not knowing how to handle access, that crosses all party lines. There are jacka$$es everywhere that shouldn't screw it up for everybody. This AIN'T about party lines at all.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Hey Boogie, We don't have them here, but I have heard those ferel or wild hogs taste different, some say better. How do you compare the two for taste.

Nothing like you'd think. They are indeed excellent. Split them in half. Put them in an ice chest full of water, ice, and a quart of vinegar. Let them set for 8 hours or so. Drain the ice chest and add fresh ice and water for another 6 hours, and just keep doing that for a day. The vinegar brines the meat out.

We put them on a smoker and take it to 350 or so for about an hour and then back it down to 200 to 250.

Biggest problem I have is people lifting the lid to pick or look at them. You lose the heat every time the lid is open.

Last Thanksgiving I smoked one that weighed about 185 and was on corn for a month. Took it to a friends gathering to cut it up. It was gone in 35 minutes. They were eating it as fast as I could chop it up.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Maybe I'm off base here but I'm guessing that if Texas had the amount of public land that Colo has ( and the opportunity to hunt that goes with it) There would be far fewer hogs to deal with.

All that private land eventually calls for private solutions OR public hunting access.

Just a thought Go ahead and let me have it.

I just never seen a hog carrying a survey. I hunt both public and private and it doesn't seem to bother the hogs at all to cross property lines.

Russain boar introduction is the problem. "Game Preserves" can't hold hogs. Cow panel boxes won't hold them either even with a top and bottom. They get their head through the holes and wiggle until they die or else break the wire. Sheep panel will hold them but you have to have a top. A hog will let a shoat get on its back to jump fence. Pigs will bound on the hog and get on top of the shoat three deep. 3Way, Have you ever heard the term riding "piggy back?"

 

[3waycross]

Maybe I'm off base here but I'm guessing that if Texas had the amount of public land that Colo has ( and the opportunity to hunt that goes with it) There would be far fewer hogs to deal with.

All that private land eventually calls for private solutions OR public hunting access.

Just a thought Go ahead and let me have it.

I just never seen a hog carrying a survey. I hunt both public and private and it doesn't seem to bother the hogs at all to cross property lines.

Russain boar introduction is the problem. "Game Preserves" can't hold hogs. Cow panel boxes won't hold them either even with a top and bottom. They get their head through the holes and wiggle until they die or else break the wire. Sheep panel will hold them but you have to have a top. A hog will let a shoat get on its back to jump fence. Pigs will bound on the hog and get on top of the shoat three deep. 3Way, Have you ever heard the term riding "piggy back?"

The only thing I want to see one riding is a spit. I know their tenacious. We dealt with feral hogs 40yrs ago on my Grandpa's place in Missouri. Been chased out of more than one corn field by a sow with pigs.