Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Hog hunt

Looks like this weekend i will be down in deep Texas. Not sure where it is i didnt set it up. About 10 of us going. I believe the outfit is called boss hog hunts. Wish me luck iv never been on a hunt before (46). Any of ya fellas do these.

I'm a pretty good shot with skeets. I know its different when its a live animal for sure. Im going more so to just have a get away with some fellas. Any time ya miss just means ya get another shot right lol.

Hopefully, Rusto can come on next week and tell you about a great place to go hog hunting!

There is a difference between Skeet shooting, Trap shooting, Sporting Clays shooting, International Skeet, International Trap, Doubles Trap and Bunker Trap.

They all use clay birds. All are vastly different than someone going out to the "Back Forty" and shooting thrown clay birds from a hand trap too.

Look them up and see what the differences are. The one that was initially brought to market to mimic hunting situations is Sporting Clays.

Then you get into the "Protection" shoots or "Annie Oakley" shoots, those are fun! The others are fun too, but I think actual skeet shooting is boring after a while.

If you want to drop a hog in it's tracks, shoot it in front of the shoulder, about 1/3 down from the top of it's back, where the skin makes a vertical crease when the hog moves it's head from side to side. A bullet there breaks the spine and they drop in their tracks. A bullet in the ear will do the same thing, but the crease doesn't move as much as their head does.

Hog hunting could be a daily deal here. I saw the first one on my land about 15 years ago. Now, they are vermin and everywhere. Grandson and his buddy trapped 20 or so in one trap setting a couple of years ago. I’ve had them come up to one of my ponds while wife and I were tossing out pellets. They waded out and started swimming. I’ve pulled up next to them on a 4 wheeler and took pics.

Rusto, be careful about handling them. They are tick infested. When the boys trapped that big bunch my Grandson, 20 years old, 6’5””, and 210 pounds evidently got a tick bite but it couldn’t be found. He wound up in ICU and it was touch and go. Almost lost him.

Not a lot of food plots for deer planted around here anymore. The hogs root everything up.

I expect I could kill one about anytime I wish but I just dont mess with them.

Have fun and clobber some of them.

Head shot or where I said to shoot them in the crease in front of the shoulder. That severs the spine and they drop on the spot, dead. Ditto for deer, the 6 or so I whacked last year all were head shots, total tracking distance for all of the deer last year was less than a foot. These are does, more of a population control/freezer filler than anything else. If there isn't much wind and under 150 yds,I wait until they are calm and grazing in the food plot or on acorns, and squeeze the trigger. I am usually shooting from a seated position, either in a tree stand with a rifle rest or from a folding cloth camp chair with a set of trigger sticks. .243, 85g Barnes TSX bullet @ 3350 fps mv. It groups less than 3/4 moa from a bench @ 100 yds, so the accuracy is there

I have found that as long as the piggie doesn’t have that musty smell they will be fine, I hav cleaned and eaten pigs up to 150# that didn’t smell and they were fine. Boars we’re just as tasty as sows . Have killed sows that were rank smelling that we passed on. If they are actively breeding both boar and sows ain’t fit for eating. I shoot them in the head when going for eating.

Almost made it down here for the hunt. We are near the town of Pleasanton. I'm shooting an ar-15 with a 300 blackout. Just hours away from the start of it. Hopefully for a good time. Getting 2 bring home a hog for a cookout would be nice bonus.