Texas hogs from field to table
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Imagine paying for a wild hog hunt, where the land land owner then sells the carcasses for an additional profit.
I’ve been saying it for years. For many land owners (pretty much every one selling hog hunts), wild hogs are a windfall, not the pest they are made out to be.
I’ve been saying it for years. For many land owners (pretty much every one selling hog hunts), wild hogs are a windfall, not the pest they are made out to be.
I’ve always joked. These ranchers have a problem and they charge you to help. Like a plumber comes to fix your pipes and you charge him…
Nothing wrong with using your land to make a profit. Don't like it? Get your own. I'd be more than happy to pay to go on a pork safari.
I got 1800 acres of my own property with a canyon and 3 natural springs. Me and my buddies shoot the mother fuck out of them and have been the last 25yrs. I said it was a longstanding joke.
Wild boar and other game can be sold in Germany to any butcher. One of my university buddies inherited the hunting lease when his father passed away and we were able to turn a profit primarily with boar. The land was close to the Baumholder maneuver base and there was a constant supply of boar. The downside of the German hunting law is that the lessee is responsible for crop damage to the owner of the land so we spend a lot of time hunting in the spring (post-seeding) and fall (pre-harvest). We would have driven hunts in the winter when the snow gave away where the boar were hiding during the day. This was one of the social highlights for the rural communities with a huge bonfire, food and local moonshine after the hunt.
How much would it cost me to hunt hogs there?
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Nothing is ever free nor we plumbers don't do charity but when a customer thought they could handle the pipes only to get them in a deeper hole then they need a professional plumber to come in and fix their fuck ups. This not the same going after wild piggy’s.
Kind of like a “wild” bison hunt in Colorado. Spend a couple of thousand dollars get placed behind some hay bales, while a couple of cowboys get them to wander by. You make the shot and get the head and hide and the farmer keeps the meat.
It can in the US also, ot at least used to be able to. As long as they comenin alive the packing plants used to take them anyway. According to my boss that owned a livestock trucking company anyway. They were hearding them onto livestock trailers and taking them to meat packing plants. .
My point is just that if they were actually a pest, land owners would be paying hunters to shoot them. Not the other way around.
As to nasty or tough? My son shot a sow that was probably 250 lbs and I’d much rather eat more of that than any deer I’ve ever had.
If I ever get the time and the money to travel, I might just take you up on that offer. I have an AR-10 in .308 but I don't have a thermal. I would have to borrow one.
I can't go stealing some old lady's Soc Sec check since they started doing ACH into bank accounts, damn it.
Have you dealt with the general public ? Let alone “hunters”
Que up the stories of public ranges the week before long legged rat season.
Trapping or poisoning is the only control. Hunting hogs is just for fun
Thankfully, I’m a member of a private range. Even there, the shenanigans are pretty wild.
There’s a ranch around here that has some billboards. Their pitch is literally “Come help us with our hog problem.” Go to the website and it’s $X per day + a kill fee + $Y/lb above some weight.
I’ll shoot and eat a pig that runs by me while I’m out after something else. But, with bone in pork shoulder being less than $2/lb, if I’m paying, I’ll hunt them at the supermarket.
That was just fat girls at the club, and you promised you wouldn't tell....
So, if one has a lot of oak trees, the acorns that are starting to fall will really fatten a hog up pretty well and make for some decent meat. I don't do a lot of hog cooking, but I will take some backstraps for pulled pork sandwiches. My wife makes a sweet relish that is the bomb-diggity, and I'll add some sweet and hot BBQ sauce.
Some of the locals here don't like pregnant sows. I can't taste much of a difference. They're perfectly happy though with a 200+lb boar as long as he has that acorn fat on him.
Sometimes I donate them to neighbors who claim to be hungry. Frequently though those same neighbors are too tired to put in the work to butcher one (go figure), so the hog gets staked out in a pasture with a cell camera on it, and then I go coyote hunting.
Some of the locals here don't like pregnant sows. I can't taste much of a difference. They're perfectly happy though with a 200+lb boar as long as he has that acorn fat on him.
Sometimes I donate them to neighbors who claim to be hungry. Frequently though those same neighbors are too tired to put in the work to butcher one (go figure), so the hog gets staked out in a pasture with a cell camera on it, and then I go coyote hunting.
When I first started shooting pigs here, I had about 10 acres per year getting torn up. Figure that the cost of lost hay, tilling, reseeding, and spraying the inevitable weeds that are going to pop up - I was out about $155-210/acre.
Now, I get occasional visitors which I usually manage to get pretty quickly. I do have a ~200+lb boar right now that crosses the place about once per week.
At one point I was shooting them on about a dozen properties in the area. That all went away unfortunately when my wife started her vet clinic and needed someone to manage the practice. Pretty easy call, pay someone $75K+ per year, or stop taking midday naps in order to go out and hunt hogs.
Now, I get occasional visitors which I usually manage to get pretty quickly. I do have a ~200+lb boar right now that crosses the place about once per week.
At one point I was shooting them on about a dozen properties in the area. That all went away unfortunately when my wife started her vet clinic and needed someone to manage the practice. Pretty easy call, pay someone $75K+ per year, or stop taking midday naps in order to go out and hunt hogs.
As a land owner, not so much. Remote ranches are not near butcher, slaughter houses. As with any dead animals you are going to eat the meat, timing and how you handle carcass, temperature becomes critical. And once you bring inspectors from government into equation...
Yes hogs tear up our land and selling hunts brings some money in. I would reather not have them to deal with them at all.
It's middle of October here in central TX and we are still having 90s for high temperatures, trapping live hogs is tough too. If no shade and water sources inside pen, you only have hours to get there and get them loaded, watered and headed to selling point. That's if they don't tear up pen, kill themselves or climb out. I have video of 200 lbs climb out of 4 foot tall welded wire enclosure. Would not have believe it unless I watched my cam feed.
Don't believe everything you see on the internet. Most hogs are taken by the hunter and they either eat them, give them away and haul them to the bone yard. I don't know of any operations that let you shoot them and keep the meat for themselves. Landowners with hogs are never short of pork. in the freezer and believe it not it is hard to give them away unless you process the hog yourself. I understand both the landowner and the hunter side of accessing hunting grounds. For me it's simple, If I don't own it I am not going to tell you what to do with it.
Had a lease near Halletsville for a bit over a decade. Absolutely over run with pigs. But, they are smart and you’ll only see them once per season during the day. I turned my camera settings so that it would only capture pics between sunrise and sunset. Too many nocturnal hogs running down the batteries and filling up the memory. Now, this was all pasture, no hay fields or row crops. The worst parts of the pasture were where the pigs didn’t run. The greenest areas were what was rooted by pigs the season before. Now, you’d rattle your teeth out driving a pickup across it, but the pigs made the grass grow. They rooted straight through the ranch two-track road a few years ago. The following season, the road that hadn’t grown grass in my memory was over grown.
Low and slow on the smoker.
Or
Got a friend that can take any fresh wild ham and make a mouth watering prosciutto out of it.
Everybody always told me a boar over 80lbs or so wasn't worth eating. That said, I've killed some well over 200lbs that ate quite well.
I have killed some that had a musky pungent odor to them. On those, I just roll them over and harvest the backstraps, and leave the rest for the buzzards and coyotes.
Mind boggling to me why to Fudds and twig pigs , some animals it’s wanton waste to not consume. And it’s “unethical” to shoot them from far away.
But other animals it’s a ok to leave rotting on the ground , gut shoot , shoot from too far away etc.
Also retarted when any bow hunter starts talking about it being unethical to shoot something from far away. Those guys maim and wound more animals than anyone
But other animals it’s a ok to leave rotting on the ground , gut shoot , shoot from too far away etc.
Also retarted when any bow hunter starts talking about it being unethical to shoot something from far away. Those guys maim and wound more animals than anyone
Fuck'em you just do you. On a similar note, there are ego laden jackasses that will down trod another for what equipment was used for the kill. Whenever I hear someone talking shit like that I tell them I have nothing to prove, I have my fun, and they all taste the same out the freezer! Same fucks that also base their manhood of the size of a rack on their wall. Wearing an "Affliction" shirt with a lifted truck that sags in the rear.
I know several people who will just gut shoot pigs and let them run off. I can't do it myself. Letting them lay is one thing. Letting them suffer their final moments is something totally different.
I did find this kind of humorous though. I used to work for a local rancher that favored a 220 swift, and was quite deadly with it. If ever he saw a big boar hog he didn't feel like harvesting, he'd wait for a good broadside shot where you could see the pigs nuts and he'd send a 50gr speer soft point right through both balls. I've never seen a pig run so fast.
Are you referring to hogs or people?
You may not cook many hogs, but I hear you’ve eaten some sows in your day
bow loses from the rare few that i know will admit it is about 50%. i have no doubt that that # is consistent nation wide. a common sight in my limited experience. while on the subject i have to say that all these "primitive weapons" early hunts are beyond bull shit. a metal or fiber bow with plastic arrows,double pulleys,machined heads,fiber optic sights? or,a "muzzle loader" with sabot rounds,in line ignition,scopes,fiber stocks? primitive my ass! way more tech driven engineering than your model 70. in no way "primitive".
There is a barbecue restaurant in Sherman, Texas called the Cackle and Oink. At one time, they made a big deal about asking hunters to bring in harvested hogs. I am not sure if they still do that.
Wild hog can be good if cooked right. My friend, John gave me a hog carcass (skinned and cleaned. I did have deconstruct it a bit to fit in my charcoal grill / smoker.
Put the Spice Hunter Cowboy (no salt) BBQ rub on it. Smoked it for 12 hours with chunks of mesquite logs. Mighty tasty.
Wild hog can be good if cooked right. My friend, John gave me a hog carcass (skinned and cleaned. I did have deconstruct it a bit to fit in my charcoal grill / smoker.
Put the Spice Hunter Cowboy (no salt) BBQ rub on it. Smoked it for 12 hours with chunks of mesquite logs. Mighty tasty.
When it comes to eating boars can be a mixed bag. Some boars eat fine while others will stink up the entire house when you cook them. Same is true with sows but your chances of getting a stinky sow is much lower than a boar. I have shot boars that smell so bad you don't even want to touch them with your knife. If given a choice I will take a 100lb or less sow if I am going to eat one.
I also have watched the Texas Predator Hunting (TPH) Podcast. Now, it's just Wade Chandler. More focused and technical. Anyway, he will take some of the hogs they have hunted and leave them field dressed in a field where he is baiting for coyotes.
Plenty of other times, though, he uses a coyote call.
But if you really want to pay, there is at least one company in Texas where, for a fee, you can fly in a helicopter with rented full auto ARs and hunt from the air. The main one I used to link in is no longer on YouTube. That guy, Robert Terkla (Lunkers TV,) became a cop and I think they made him tone down his image.
Plenty of other times, though, he uses a coyote call.
But if you really want to pay, there is at least one company in Texas where, for a fee, you can fly in a helicopter with rented full auto ARs and hunt from the air. The main one I used to link in is no longer on YouTube. That guy, Robert Terkla (Lunkers TV,) became a cop and I think they made him tone down his image.
There's an outfit that has a jeep with a freaking mini gun for hog blasting. That's big bucks.
that is nuts. ME was available in the past. Ukraine now if you just have to shoot a bunch of stuff just to be shooting it.
I don't think I can clear medical for that any more. And if I could, shit is probably majorly tits up
Man I want to blast some hogs so bad, it look like a blast. Time to research some of those guide services.
