Mass Hog Hunting Near a Lease

[rileydog]

Here's the story: Yesterday, while working on my deer blind, we hear a helicopter and a ton of gunshots just south of where we were. As we leave, we see the helicopter and about 10 men just unloading ammo on hogs. For me, its kinda frustrating, but its their land and I understand what they are trying to do.

My question is: with using the helicopter to "push" the hogs out, will that also cause the deer to leave the area? Anyone had this happen near them?

[miket]

Here's the story: Yesterday, while working on my deer blind, we hear a helicopter and a ton of gunshots just south of where we were. As we leave, we see the helicopter and about 10 men just unloading ammo on hogs. For me, its kinda frustrating, but its their land and I understand what they are trying to do.

My question is: with using the helicopter to "push" the hogs out, will that also cause the deer to leave the area? Anyone had this happen near them?

I dont know but I would be willing to bet it really stresses the deer and makes em more likely to go nocturnal, at the very least causes them to freak out and hide when they hear a chopper.

[Russ81]

It's a 50/50 chance, I've corned pastures after Ariel gunning and had tons of deer come out. I've also corned road after a helicopter survey and didn't see but a handful.

They should be far out away from hunting season to not affect your hunting

[justin156bc]

I wont bother them doing it one time 2months before season. Now if they did it daily or weekly it prob would affect things

[D_Mcvay]

As early as it is before the season I doubt it would push them out.

[Zen Archery]

I work with farmers who had helicopters on their property early in July. They shot 165 hogs in 2 days on roughly a 5,000 acre patch of land.

We've been going out the past 3 weekends. And have continued to shoot hogs.

If your land owner has not given them permission to shoot the hogs, the copters will literally chase the hogs onto your property. Which you honestly don't want.

[denimdeerslayer]

I think I would have went over to see if I could shoot some from the air. That has to be a lot of fun!

[Randy]

I know after the border patrol buzzes our place in south Texas with the helicopter really good it messes the deer up for about a month.

[Easttxhunterr]

we had seismic crews working our lease a couple years ago. They used helicopters to run lines and set off charges in the ground to take seismic readings. It affected the number of deer taken that season, but not enough to make a huge differnce.

[Mossback]

I think I would have went over to see if I could shoot some from the air. That has to be a lot of fun!

its unreal fun

[gonehuntin68]

I can't tell from the original post if they were killing on your lease or next door. If it was next door it might just push more hogs and deer onto your lease. If it was your lease then I can't see it helping the hog hunting at all but less hogs could mean more deer in time.

[N.DaWoods]

I had the opportunity to put down some hogs and coyotes out of a chopper and it was awesome. This is usually done on large tracks of land and for predator control. It is quite expensive and I cant imagine it occurring on acreage less than a couple thousand acres. The practice of buzzing the tree tops is also used in deer counts. If it was on property next to you, you might actually have more deer and hog activity. It does push the animals around but If they are using a chopper to rid the hogs and coyotes, that area may be so heavily infected with varmints that your better off in the long run with the slaughter.

[361hunter]

I use to work at a place that did hog and predator shoots twice sometimes three times a year, didn't seem to bother the deer, we harvested some pretty nice ones and sometimes would hunt the next day after the shoot.

[bowtech72]

that guy is out of snyder or lubbock, he talked to our ranchers out of rotan,tx. trying to lease our place for hog hunting, the rancher told him no thanks. some years ago the trappers came by shooting hogs and leaving them in the cotton and wheat fields also

[Horitexan]

I had the opportunity to put down some hogs and coyotes out of a chopper and it was awesome. This is usually done on large tracks of land and for predator control. It is quite expensive and I cant imagine it occurring on acreage less than a couple thousand acres. The practice of buzzing the tree tops is also used in deer counts. If it was on property next to you, you might actually have more deer and hog activity. It does push the animals around but If they are using a chopper to rid the hogs and coyotes, that area may be so heavily infected with varmints that your better off in the long run with the slaughter.

It's CHEAP around here. I don't know if it's the same way statewide but from Sabinal to Del Rio it's cheap. Just about anone can sign up for the predator program for a few cents per acre. The Feds send a government trapper onto your property to trap, poison and shoot as many coyotes, bobcats, fox, lion and hogs as they can. If they can't put a big enough dent in the numbers, they fly the property- its all included. My predator hunting partner was our local government trapper for years.

It's expensive to hire a chopper for a private trip but if you're wanting your predators under control for an inexpensive price, check out the predator program.

Helicoptering hogs this far out from the season will not effect your season. I had a similar experience a couple years ago when a helicopter flew over me and hovered over the property line of the ranch I work for. They began shooting hogs along the fenceline and then, gradually worked the hogs and predators INTO their property. A good pilot/shooter will do this because, otherwise, they'll push them off the property and they'll come back right away. We had deer and turkey back at nearby feeders the next day; but we didn't see a hog near that property line for about 6 months.