TX pigs

I'm off to hunt pigs in TX for a week. I'll post results if and when I can.

BP during daylight but center fire at night :idunno:

Best of luck. Stay safe.

Why center fire at night?? Back in early 80's killed lots of pigs with my CVA Hawken in 50 cal In the coast range of calif.

My buddy and I successfully hunted hogs at night, he used a percussion .54 GPR and a TC .58, I used my .54 southern mountain flinter. It was challenging but a lot of fun. We had a double ladder stand set up about 30 yards from the feeder and had a green feeder light. I used white nail polish on the front sight and a green headlamp on low setting. Would try to have the headlamp adjusted on my head so that the bottom of the light would pick up front sight. If it was aimed too low, I would get too much reflection off the barrel and frizzen.

Good luck on your Texas hunt! Look forward to some "big boar" photos... :hatsoff:

Eager to hear your report, Sean. Now that I am in New Mexico, a feral puerco meat hunt is high on my list.

:thumbsup: Good luck,enjoy.Griz

Rain lots and lots of rain.

There was so much rain, I had my .54 apart 3 times to dry and oil it. One day I did not take it out at all (steady hard rain) two days I only hunted it from cover (steady light rain) Two days I was able to take it out and actually hunt (light rain mixed with mist and even some clear weather).

I had one shot at about 3AM Wednesday morning. I had been in a makeshift blind in the rain for about 11 hours at that point, when a hog (about 60 lbs) darted into view. Something had it vary animated and it moved every few seconds, I was shaking with the cold, rushed the shot between its eyes and shot right over its head

Saw 2 more as they trotted through without stopping or offering a shot. heard others in the night,

From our group two hogs were killed, there is also a free ranging Axis herd that moves about along the river covering something like 15,000 acres of low fence hills and river bottom, one of or guys lucked into the herd and shot two.

That is though. Sounds like you put in some time as well

Fleener

Meant to say tough

My lap top is not water proof. Working on a kindle until new one comes

Fleener

Sean Gadhar said:

I had been in a makeshift blind in the rain for about 11 hours at that point, when a hog (about 60 lbs) darted into view. Something had it very animated and it moved every few seconds, I was shaking with the cold, rushed the shot between its eyes and shot right over its head.

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Hogs usually don't stay in one spot very long. It seems, like coyotes, they are always moving.
I've never killed a hog with a bow because they are moving constantly.

Being rained on this time of year can be deadly in this neck of the woods. I have to admit, I have never heard of Axis, after looking it up and learning they are native to the Indian sub-continent and spotted no less makes wonder how they got here? It sounds like tough sleddin'.

Hairy Clipper said:

Being rained on this time of year can be deadly in this neck of the woods. I have to admit, I have never heard of Axis, after looking it up and learning they are native to the Indian sub-continent and spotted no less makes wonder how they got here? It sounds like tough sleddin'.

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Axis deer were imported and are found on large ranches for paid hunts. The breeding and controlled hunting, reportedly, has made them more plentiful in the U.S. than their native homeland.

Thank you for the info.

With all those spots if I was lucky enough to harvest one I am certain my friends would accuse me of shooting Bambi. They are and interesting looking animal, graceful curves of the antlers ... did I mention all the spots?

The way we understood it some time before summer of 2016 (I have heard 2016 and heard much earlier "6-7 years ago") one of the high fence places had a breach in a fence, and a herd of axis got loose. Under TX law that makes them open for anyone to hunt, but with an area of low fence heavy brush rolling hills they can roam that is calculated in tens of thousands of acres, and their ability to slip through the heaviest brush they have grown the herd size rather than be killed off.

Just to expand, the place we hunt, is something over 2500 acres of low fence, there are about 1800 of those acres in typical TX hill country heavy brush with the rest in hay fields. Non of the adjoining properties are high fence and they all seem about the same size, or bigger.

The place we hunt, is under a corporate lease during deer season, and they seem to despise the pigs, then two groups of pig hunters get to hunt after ther deer season and before us. So it is no manure shoot, the pigs have been hunted extensively before we arrive. The ranch caters to the corporate lease so they are all about deer management.

I was within M/L range of a lot of white tail bucks, and will try to get posted any usable video, the rain fogged my phone's camera, a lot of it is unusable

yes sir this time of year is tough hog hunting I live in south east texas where we get more rainfall than anywhere in the state the last month constant rain. its hard to get your muzzleloader out during the rainy season I hunt them year round on my place and on federal land. hunting hogs has been a passion of mine the last 25 years

Howie, go get 'em with your new Kodiak .72!

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Do you see many hogs during the daylight hours?

Always wanted to go to Texas, to hunt. I've passed through the northern panhandle, but never seen much of the state.

Probably, closer states, to hunt hogs, but I've never researched it much.

Just being there, would be a lot of fun.

it will be here sometime this week

hadden west said:

Do you see many hogs during the daylight hours?

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I have yet to. That does not mean much though. Only my 2nd year hunting hogs.

I think once I was an adequate mule deer hunter it took me 5-6 years to understand how little deer and elk hunting were alike. Once I did I started seeing elk other then by dumb luck.

I'm sure we are daylight hunting wrong. That many guys, that many hours over that much cover. . . . someone should have tripped over one :idunno: