West Texas Hog Hunt

[Bob in TX]

A few weeks ago a couple of us snuck up north of Abilene to Haskell, Texas for some hog hunting. We were hunting them by spot and stalking the wheat fields. I have been using the 140gr. Barnes TSX in my 7mm-08 this year on the hogs.....and deer too. They are working great.

Bob

This is SHOOTER with his hog.

This is the one I took....we had a smoked ham from it for supper last night.

 

[Speckmisser]

Hey Bob, looks like you guys had a ball!

Hope to one day make a run at that Texas hog hunting myself. Sure seems like ya'll do pretty good.

 

[Orso]

Now that's what I'm talking about!! Nice hogs.

 

[larrysogla]

CONGRATS!!! Nice hogs.

Speck,
As somebody who have hunted Texas hogs(no bad smell, no bad taste on the Houston hogs, but on our San Antonio hogs, a few had a musky wild animal smell) I believe it will be a nice experience for somebody from California(daylight shooting hours only, centerfire with expanding ammo only, no baiting, no trapping, no spotlighting, pig tags only, no hog harvest contests with prizes of value, no moving of trapped hogs from one area to another etc.). The Texas advantage is that if the hogs have become nocturnal, WELL!!! whack 'em at night!!! If the TX hogs are too hard to locate......WELL!!! bait 'em!!! I have a friend that was invited by a lady landowner up in San Luis Obispo to whack wild hogs that were tearing up her property. My friend went up there & did not see even a shadow of a hog for 1 1/2 days because the hogs were just passing by & could not be baited & lured to come back & linger around the property. So my friend just gave up on that property, because everytime she will call "there are hogs tearing up the property out my window", he knows by the time he gets up there the hogs will be gone. If that was in Texas, I would buy the feeder & the corn for the landowner & set up an ambush. Oh and one other thing, instead of sittting inside my safe doing absolutely nothing, my
AK-47(DOJ registered) could blast some Texas hogs from a treestand. I say God Bless Texas and the good people in it. HOW GOOD???? I will relate this story of the Jan.'05 San Antonio hog hunt of my hunting buddies. Their Dodge Ram 4X4 got stuck in the mud up to the axles. This was at 5PM in the afternoon & the construction crew(the Ranchowner was having a berm built up in his property) had already loaded the skip loader into the semi-trailer & chained it down in preparation to leave. Upon hearing that my buddy's 4X4 was stuck axle deep, without a word, the crew unchained & unloaded the skip loader & went down to the creek & lifted the truck axle off the mud & pulled out my buddy's 4X4. They could have just left & let my buddy dig out his truck.
I also was invited to hunt deer on a 500 acre ranch by the owner just because she heard that we went all the way down to Live Oak county???? & paid a ranch to hog hunt & did not get anything. She felt so sorry for us she invited us to come back & deer hunt her ranch(I indeed went back during deer season, but unfortunately did not see even a shadow of a deer even though the ranch was crawling with deer tracks). God Bless Texas. And I mean it.