Searching for pigs- public land

[dustin ray]

heres a little pig i poked on Kauai he may be small but mean as hell

pig tunnels




crazy thick jungle





it was a hot wet and slippery pack out

 

[hntboar]

Wild 1- thanks for the pics and the dead hogs! Love pics of dead pigs! Not sure we can kill enoough of them in cali! LOL. I am not one hunting with a bow and respect those who can get close enough to do this. Very similar to hunting hogs in the brush. Got to get close for sure.

 

[Wild1]

Thanks htnboar!! Bow hunting is what I do (I don't even golf). I do get a little frustrated with all the nonsense posted here, but in the end I just smile and punch my next tag. I've hunted wild pigs in California, New Zealand, Australia and Africa (bush pigs). I've been very successful because I spend a lot of time, effort and energy pursuing my passion. In addition, I listen more than I post and I listen to hunters that actually know what they're talking about.

Here's another tasty one.

 

[hntboar]

BigbadBoar
Do it all the time and have killed many hogs this way and missed more LOL. No camp fire story and no exaggeration. Don’t disagree with you that you could be very screwed and I have had close calls in hogs charging me in the brush, but they turn quickly when you take a shot at them. The friends I hunt with do the same type of hunting and been doing for over 30 years. Only in my opinion, one of the most challlenging type of hunting hogs than any other way. You are in there environment and they pretty much control it. There is more to it than just going in crawling in the brush, there is timing, ability to track and understand their habits when there in the brush. I know you don’t know me, but no need for me to make this up. If your up to learning to do this and be successful, happy to talk more about how best to attempt it. Been doing it for lots of years.[/QUOTE8

Thats awesome. What kind of brush/bush do you crawl in? The only time i did it was in bamboo. Tunnels only a pig would go in. Beds and shit along the tunnel, and darkness. I had a shotgun but i would only be able to directly in front. Before doing this i would talk to non hunting friends about crawling through the brush because i would do it every now and then but when i actually did it where pigs live it, i didnt do it again. I was tracking a shot pig in too so there was a good chance it was in there, luckily it wasnt.

Total hoot for sure. The hunting i do is mainly in Monterey at Liggett. The brush is that scrub oak and think green brush that is about 5 feet tall where it is just enough not see though. Many times the tunnels are very clear and distinct and your right your can only see in front and not much to the sides. That is why you go in with a pistol to be able to shoot all around and not get hung up. I have also trimmed the tunnels over time to be able to go though in the future better. The hogs will use these tunnels pretty regularly and it makes it easier getting by fat ARSE thougbh them. I hear you on going in on a wounded hog and tracking them in the brush. DId that too and although they mostly move away from you they at times wait till your almost on top of them and then break out of the brush. At Liggett there is lots of brush that is very dark and really no way out by the tunnels because it is at times very think so go in on knees and most times come out of tunnels on knees. LOL. The best way is to stay on the hogs tracks and if checked the brush patch all around it and not tracks have come out, then ther is a good chance that the hogs are still in there, stay on track and move slowly, but the key is to wait till they are bedded down and sleeping. As you said The hogs will create beds in the brush by digging it out and they will lay and sleep in them. As you crawl you stop and listen, smell fo them and look as far as you can around you . I have a a big boar hide under brush branches and i was no more than 12 yards from him and he was hiding under this big branch and i almost did not see him and he was completely still. I could not make it out till i saw his huge dirty tusks on side of his mouth and then i saw his ear move a bit. That was one scary hunt, i started shaking and pulled up my 44 mag Dan Wesson and put a hole into the side of him and he lifted that brush up And ran out of the brush patch and parted it like it was the Red Sea. I was crapping my pants holy cow i mean Hog. My buddy was outside the patch it ran by him and he missed it and it ran off. We tracked it for 1 mile that day till dark, Came back the next day and continued the tracking and found where he had bedded down for the night with the blood but no hog. It was estimated at about 275 ish and one of those that had the big chest and small rear end, most European look to it and a long tail. Anyway if all goes well as your tracking them you will end up jumping them out of the beds and they are sleepy and not as alert that is the time you take your shot if you can. anyway all fun and love hunting hogs this way. Thanks for the comments.

 

[bisonic]

Crawling into the brush after a hog?? No thank you!

In CA it's always illegal to kill a hog with a knife, depredation permit or not. Heck, with a dep permit you're even required to use copper ammo even on private land outside the condor zone.

 

[hntboar]

Crawling into the brush after a hog?? No thank you!

In CA it's always illegal to kill a hog with a knife, depredation permit or not. Heck, with a dep permit you're even required to use copper ammo even on private land outside the condor zone.

Bisonic
Crawling in the brush is not for everyone. Even the guys i hunt with don’t want to go in and let me go. Surely not for everyone for sure. Just to clarify cause was not sure it was for me, but I don’t hunt hogs in the brush with a knife. I can only do it and be successful with a BIG pistol, aka 454 Casull. :thumbs up with shad:thumbs up with shad:thumbs up with shad

 

[dustin ray]

Ca is dumb you can use up to three dogs to hunt pigs but not legal to use knife or spears. In Hawaii its the preferred method of take and fun

 

[Stevehazard]

No poop? That one looks like it's taking a deuce as you took the picture.

 

[Wild1]

Steve x2

No poop....? What do you call the turd hanging out a pigs ass...? And why isn't one of those on ice...? You forgot your knife...? As for the rest of your post, it makes no sense.

Troll.

 

[bisonic]

Hogs don't just root, they also graze and forage. Since it's been such a dry winter and the ground is still hard I've seen little rooting at my place, presumably what you experienced.

 

[KTKT70]

Well, I'm not sure if I have ever killed a wild pig, since I have never had one officially confirmed as wild, but I sure have put a tag or two on pigs out in the wild. I have also crawled through thick brush to get the job done. To top it off, I'm no suicidal hunter, nor do I have any suicidal ideations. But I beg to differ with you. It DOES work sometimes, but more often it doesn't.

Just because you don't know anybody that does it, sure doesn't mean nobody does, nor does it mean some aren't successful crawling through the brush after wild pigs, escapes from a barnyard or not.

Glad to see you around. We need to get together sometime and hike with guns.

 

[hntboar]

Ok, part 3 of hog hunting Cali and anywhere else. When I talked about hunting hogs in the brush i would like to add that getting a shot is not easy and most on this forum i am sure realize that. The main reason i go into the brush is to push and herd them out of the brush. I generally will walk the brush patch first to make sure no tracks are coming out and only going in the brush. Once that is established i will go back to the tracks that are headed into the brush and follow the tunnels to find the hogs. Make sure you stay on tracks. That will most of time get you close to them. Many times they will jump up before you can get close enough but will generally stick close to the beds and circle and come back. It is a waiting game for sure. Again back to the main reason i go into the brush, it is to move them around and eventully get them to move out of the brush to my waiting possse of Friends outside the tunnels and exits. If i am lucky i will get a shot and maybe kill one but most of the time i am successful in pushing them out of the brush for my waiting point shooters. If they don’t get moved out and are not that spooked, this may sound to some that i am making this up, but again no need to make up stories, and if even if i did make it up, makes for a good story. Anyway, i would wait in their beds til they come back around them to bed down again. This is one other way to get a shot in the brush. As I mentioned before we have been doing this for over 30 years and have enjoyed every minute of it. As you may be aware, there are only a few brush puppies in my group that will do this time of hunting and the others we need to , are the pointy shooters. I will talk about them in a later post. Hope this helps you all!

 

[Bubblehide]

Steve x2

No poop....? What do you call the turd hanging out a pigs ass...? And why isn't one of those on ice...? You forgot your knife...? As for the rest of your post, it makes no sense.

Troll.

Anyone worth their salt can easily tell that that so called turd hanging out of that pigs ass is far from a turd. As far as why it isn't on ice, perhaps you've never experienced a full freezer. The knife comment makes no sense, as you appear to be mixing posters up with one another. "Troll" really, were you looking in the mirror when you made that comment.

 

[Bubblehide]

Glad to see you around. We need to get together sometime and hike with guns.

Anytime

 

[Bankrunner]

It's not just you, I noticed the same thing.
Share without wanting recognition is good advice.

 

[Bankrunner]

All this hoopla about pigs, aren't they just escaped barnyard animals?

 

[Bankrunner]

Turned wild and now you can get a tag. But they still can't see worth a damn.

 

[Farallon]

Having grown up and worked on construction sites in Monterey Co for 40 years I can tell you that the talk around break time would sometimes get around to hog hunting. Hog poaching in some cases. Guys with knifes in the brush did happen and still does. NO I never saw it first hand, I try to follow the rules. They use knifes because it is silent except for the hog noises. I did see the results and did see Fish and Game try to control it. It is a good way to get arrested as well as get inured but it does happen. Guys with depredation permits may not always play by the rules. NO ONE should be doing it but denying it happens doesn't mean it isn't happening.

I used to fish with a guy who hunted pigs in the brush. He was the son of a police chief, in The Monterey/Santa Cruz area. He was shot by a hunting partner while hunting pigs in the brush, about 10-12 years ago, on a depredation permit. His name was, Tim Medina.

 

[MariotheBarber]

^^^ Did he survive??

 

[dustin ray]

no
http://www.jesseshunting.com/showthread.php/111654-Pig-Hunter-shot-and-killed-today-in-Aptos