hunting wildhogs

[hunt hard]

what is your methed of hunting hogs in california spot and stalk, sit and wait, make a hog drive, some people even road hunt. I tried them all i like sit and wait ive seen lots of hogs this way if you know were there traveling trough its even better.

 

[RIFLEMAN]

I run hogs with hounds; It's not for everyone, but it is the only method for me!

 

[hicntry]

Another vote for dogs. Sitting and waiting drives me nuts.....unless it's on the tailgate waiting to hear a dog.

 

[Orso]

Spot and stalk and still hunting. However, I really want to hunt with dogs.

 

[DILPRXO]

Spot and Stalk

 

[Speckmisser]

I like spot and stalk as well as sit and wait. Usually my hunts are a little of both.

My favorite thing is to get dug in on a good trail at first or last light, and watch all the stuff that happens when I'm not moving around to disrupt it. Game or no game, there's an awful lot of living and dying going on in the woods, and I love being a spectator as it all goes down.

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

I have done all the above...I would rather spot & stalk....Nothin like a good stalk to me...

 

[GruntHunter]

Ditto on the Spot & Stalk. I dropped a 124# SOW off with my local processor tonight and saw some hogs he was skinning. They had been chased and caught with dogs. I saw what dogs can do to the meat. They were all chewed and the meat was bruised to beat H___!

Just wait and take a good shot right behind the ear or in the neck and take good care of the meat. After all, that's what we're all after isn't it?

 

[Coondog]

grunthunter... those dogs must not have been trained properly... If they were catch dogs, they should catch by the head and not the body.. Wow, that is scary to think about... Could really tear up a dog that way... Have never had any of the meat ruined by a dog yet....

 

[superduty]

Depending on my knowledge of the area and game but I prefer a spot and stalk.

 

[F350]

Spot & Stalk Mostly.
Sit & wait if I'm just tired.

 

[basinboy]

I like to sit in my treestand and wait for them to come into the feeder.

 

[pigdream]

I am going to put in my

and hopefully I don't offend anyone. I think if your not "hunting" the animal it's not hunting. For example letting the dogs do all the work wouldn't be hunting to me, but the dogs would be hunting. Sitting in a tree stand watching a feeder would be stocking the freezer to me rather then hunting. Again these are just my

and if i tried some of these methods I would probably have more meat in my freezer, but I will stick to my public and free private land hunts.

 

[Speckmisser]

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Pigdream.

Don't get this wrong, but your two cents pays for two key words... "TO ME".

It's good to have personal values, and to stand by them. But the problem comes when people forget that THEIR OWN values don't necessarily matter squat to anyone else.

If you need a definition of hunting, then I suppose You could look up the word, Hunting (or just click this link). Or you could try to define its essence based on your personal biases ... an exercise in futility, since the hunt means different things to different people. With that in mind, the city slicker whose best opportunity to "hunt" is a high-fence operation is still hunting. The Texas boys with their tripods and feeders... they're hunting too. Hell, there are folks who feel that a trip to BigHorn Canyon ranch is hunting... and you or nobody else has any right to tell them otherwise.

If you don't like a technique, method, or style of hunting, don't participate. If asked your opinion, give it freely. But if someone else finds it satisfying to whatever part of them drives them to hunt, then by god let them be!

Sometimes I believe many of us get a little carried away by this purist, elitist spirit that suggests some super-connectedness to the hunting gods themselves. I'm sure I'm as guilty as anyone, and I know I've passed judgement a time or two... so don't think I'm counting myself out here. But what gives any of us the right to level our values against someone who chooses a different means to the same ends?

If it's illegal, then of course we rally against it. If it flies in the face of widely accepted ethics, like shooting ducks on the water... then that's fair game for righteous indignation too. But I sit and read how you don't think bait and hounds are "hunting" and then read from someone else how using a guide isn't "hunting", then this other guy doesn't think sitting in a tree stand is "hunting" ... on down the line. What about the guy who feels that using a scoped rifle isn't "hunting"?

As someone else once mentioned, it seems like some people won't be happy until we're stripped naked, chasing big game with rocks and sticks.

Christ on a rubber crutch, but where does it stop? Aren't these the same basic arguments we're fielding from the anti-hunters now? "Hunting with (insert method here) isn't fair to the animals."

 

[GruntHunter]

PigDream,

Nothing wrong with your way of hunting. I personally am not a fan of dog hunting but I also understand that there are places where that's about the only way you can hunt. I've seen parts of Ga, that are so thick with young pines that there's no way a person could get through and ditto for a lot of our swampy areas of Fla. I maintain a feeder year round, basically for pigs,. The real purpose is to draw them out of the thick palmettos, and far enough away you don't give them a real opportunity to run back into them after being shot. I've been fortunate NOT to ever lose one that way but I know it does happen. I'm on a working cattle ranch and we have a lot of open pasture to hunt over also so I usually use mt feeder as a last resort. I've only shot one under it this year and the rest were taken out in open rye fields. Check my webshot photos and you'll get an idea of the hunting conditions in this area. Fortunately they don't allow hunting with dogs on the ranch except for bird hunting.

 

[ghost squire]

Sticks and rocks? A little unsporting dont you think! I prefer naked with my bare hands thank you!

 

[SierraExplorer]

I thought you had to use the same rules as Soccer- No hands allowed- just your feet, body and heads.

Oops, was that plural?

 

[ghost squire]

Are you implying, sir, that you shag boars?

 

[SierraExplorer]

I will be the first to admit that my Mother-in-Law is a BIG swine (with even a pork fat mouth). But I would never wish anyone to pork that pork.

Except...... oh yhea J Kerry and H Kliton ( I do not believe I spelled that right- Nuts)


Oink Oink Free,
Dan

 

[undine]

Everyone that is a member could all reply and you would all get a different reason for the way they like to hunt. I would venture to say that anyone in the south would like still hunting (spot and stalk) in the winter and early sprig. These same folks would rather hunt dogs in the summer 'cause its so dam#' hot. I dont know about the west coast though.