Pig hunts on the East Coast

[BDB]

So, since I am moving to Boston at the end of July, I have been researching where to hunt hogs. Looks like quite a few game farm type places in Pennsylvania and some other near by states. Going rates look to be around $600. The problem I found is that most of them look SMALL !! 100 acres or less in many cases. Hell one even talked about a weekend hunt similar to the Tejon hunts with 32 people on 190 acres!!!

I definitely want to hunt hogs and will likely head south quite a ways at some point. I'd like to have access to some public land hunting (down south) over time but don't mind a pay to play operation provided it's a canned slam dunk.

I'm definitely going to miss CA from a pig hunting standpoint. Anyway, if anyone has any advice or suggestions or places they have been too that they can reccommend please pass along the info!

Cheers.

 

[Rancho Loco]

I'm gonna sure miss the piggies too.

I'm a little closer than you, and I'll hit Tejon once a year until they shut it.

 

[BDB]

Is it official now for you? When you leaving?

 

[Rancho Loco]

One step at a time...

But we're painting and packing up junk right now, house goes up for sale in a few weeks, and blast off scheduled first week of August.

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

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One step at a time...

But we're painting and packing up junk right now, house goes up for sale in a few weeks, and blast off scheduled first week of August.[/b]

Rancho...what state are you planting your roots in???

 

[Rancho Loco]

Montana. But it seems impossible now. Way too much work to do - it's killing me.

 

[Calihoula]

From the Santa Cruz area to Montana what a big difference. I envy you.

 

[Rancho Loco]

Montana will be great if we can pull it off... But I'll miss California.

 

[richw]

Hey Rancho what part of montana are you going too and how far from great falls will u be i have reliatives there

Richw

 

[B-RAD]

Hey Steve,

Call my Father when or before you arrive. He and Joe have shot pigs up in Maine. You can probably hunt rabbits,deer,and bear on Joe's property up there in Maine too. Plenty of bird hunting with the new german shorhair with my Dad. Ash him about the pigs, but I believe it will be a farm type of pig hunt? Nothing like the west or south. See what he say's. I take it you still have his number.

 

[BDB]

Yup still have it. I'll definitely give him a ring once we get settled.

 

[Kentuck]

Tennessee has some decent pig hunting. Not sure of the exact details but some are for russian strain pigs. The deeper south has good pig hunting and even some public land stuff. Good luck and hope you find a hot-spot.

 

[Speckmisser]

Steve, the nice thing about the East Coast is that running from state to state there is like driving from San Fran to San Diego here...

There's good hog hunting in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida... all of them a straight run down I-95.

Most of the hunts in the northeast are going to be small, high-fence hunts. There are some escaped european boar in some of the states, like PA and OH, but I don't think the populations are large enough to justify your time or expense to travel there. At least not yet.

Check out a copy of Boar Hunter Magazine if you haven't already. They're published out of Georgia, and they have a pretty good listing of opportunities in the South. Just call ahead and verify what kind of hunt you'll be getting into before you go... because even though there are good wild populations in all of those states, there are also lots of small, release-and-hunt operations running down there too.

 

[Zbearclaw]

Find a WMA in one of the South East states and go hunt it regularly. In North Georgia you got deer/bear/pigs all in one area, public land.

Cumberland Mtns, think that's the range, in Tennessee has free range hogs, but it's like hunting Tejon with no glassing. All stillhunting.

Also tons of draw hunts on islands and such, including state parks, that have strong pig populations.

 

[BDB]

Thanks for all the info guys, much appreciated. And thanks for gettting back on topic after that rotten SOB Rancho side tracked us

 

[Rancho Loco]