They are open season here. You see one kill it.
I recently read that their reproduction rates are bat-shit crazy.
I don’t think I want to hunt things at such close range, if that thing can gore me.
View attachment 1664158 Who is into hunting hogs? A business associate of mine has a 2,500 acre quail ranch in west TX. We hunt quail all day and predators and hogs at night. He has full time bird guy that lives in a house on the property that manages the birds and dogs. It is on the market for $17M if anyone is interested.
We hunt hogs with curs, pit bulls and kill with a knife. Here is how we do it:
First we let the curs out. For those that are not familiar, these are kind of like a sturdy pointer. They find and chase the hogs and corner for the hunter. They are sturdier than a pointer because they have to fight pigs as they corner it. If it is a small hog the curs will shred it before you get to it. This happened on a couple of occasions. We have a pack of 15 curs and trust me a pack of 15 dogs will **** up whatever they tear into. There was nothing left of the two hogs that they shredded before we got to them. The curs have GPS collars on which we track. When we see all the dots converge we know that they are on the hog. They are trained to only bay when they are on the hog so if you hear baying you know that they are on a hog.
Once we hear baying we drive our dog truck up to where they are at and grab the pitbulls. We use two pits that we release on the hog, which they grab by the ears. The pits have Kevlar vests on them to protect them from the tusks of the hogs. A good size hog is 250 lbs + and is strong as ****. They will gore the dogs and even with the Kevlar vests will sometimes succeed. My friend lost a pitbull/great dane mix the week before when a hog got him in the neck underneath the vest. The pits are fearless and love nothing more than grabbing pigs. When not grabbing pigs they are the sweetest dogs in the world.
Once the pit grabs the hog it is not getting away. These ****ers lock on and are like robots. With the pits on the hog, the hunter moves in and stabs the hog in the heart with a Kabar. It is crazy intense as you can imagine. In this instance, we heard the curs and ran through a shitload of cactus. I was bellycrawling through cactus and came face to face with the hog with two pitbulls on it. Here are some pics and a super short video. The phone got dropped as the hog was getting stabbed.
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Helicopter hunting here in Texas. Been talking to a couple guys about going. Needs to be 6 or more to get good rates
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Thanks, great video. I gotta save some dough and do that. What a hoot.
IDK but it seems like candyass shit to chase them down with gps dogs then mame them with pitbulls then stab them with a KABAR. I'm all for taking them out to protect your land but that's just a bit sadistic. My neighbor shoots them with an AR-10 out of a helicopter. Goes every year, loves it. What OP is describing is just terrorizing and torturing animals. And thta's just ****ed up.
Got a cousin who hunts with dogs like that, but the dogs just bay the hogs. They use a gun on them. His dogs wear the vests in case the hog gets ahold of them. They do their best to kill them quickly and humanely.
Awesome, man. Many people out there do this honorably. Do it out of necessity instead of the “thrill of kill”. Protecting their dogs and as quick and clean of a kill as possible. Unfortunately some others do not.
22-25022-250, 243, 30.06, 308? How far out?
IDK but it seems like candyass shit to chase them down with gps dogs then mame them with pitbulls then stab them with a KABAR.
I recently read that their reproduction rates are bat-shit crazy.
I don’t think I want to hunt things at such close range, if that thing can gore me.
LOL at the guys that are too delicate for pig baiting (pitbulls grabbing the animal is known as "baiting".) Pigs are 200 lb cockroaches, **** em.
Any other animal and I agree but if there is an animal that is tailor made for this it is the pig. I have passed on hunting mountain lion with dogs because it seems disrespectful to the animal.
BTW baiting is as old as the hills. It is why there are pitbulls, bulldogs, corsa canos, mastiff, rottweilers, etc. etc. American bulldogs were bred to bait runaway slaves which is crazy (I always wonder what to think when I see a black guy with an American bulldog).
Nothing wrong with that, but far from badass.