Pigs-I don't get it.

[BigThicketBoy]

And they are great confidence builder and a great way to learn to track .

[MidlandTXHunter]

Kill them all and send them back to hell where they came from.

[gatt40]

I hate pigs too, but will hunt them on occasion. Just hate messing w/ them after the kill. I won't gut, just take backstrap & quarter. Love me some tamales.

[AJ the TP Guru]

Love to hunt them!

Love to eat them!

Yeah, they can tear up the land, at which point we trap them.

But shoot them well back to watch them run off to die a slow death. Something way wrong with that (non-GS type) attitude.

[denowt]

I love hog meat. It's free and good practice. As far as shooting something and leaving it lay I think is pitiful. That is my opinion. I really dislike when people say they shot one but left it laying. I think that should be a fine from TPWD. I have 5 kids and we have eaten a hog over 350 lbs. and it tasted the same as a small one after a peroxide soak on the meat, so I dont buy the story of them being to big to eat. I have had folks call me and I met them to take hogs they did not want after they shot them.

Do you eat coyotes, raccoons, skunks, snakes, rats, mice, turtles, etc? If you kill any animal and not eat it then you're a hypocrit.
We'll keep a small one every so often to BBQ, but we always shoot the biggest sow first to at least attempt population control.

Big sows are ok to eat most of the time.
Big boars usually not.

A fine for varmint control? Get real or move to California where you have to pull a tag for hogs.

We tried to give away hogs, but got tired of delivering a processed animal. Someone wants one, they come get it where in shot it or it gets drug off for buzzards.

I'm a land owner. I want hogs on my property.

Now you have met one.

Nice to meet you.
That's one out of hundreds.

I'll rephrase my statement now.
I've never met a landowner that didn't sell hog hunts, that likes/wants hogs on his property.

[denowt]

I hate pigs too, but will hunt them on occasion. Just hate messing w/ them after the kill. I won't gut, just take backstrap & quarter. Love me some tamales.

What else is there besides backstraps and quarters?

[elkbowhunter]

This is what they are good for.

Note to Santa. Please bring BigThicketBoy a new camera.

[HomeSick]

Lots of hawgs where I have to live. And they certainly are a problem....especially around football season! But the law wont let me shoot em.

Hook em!!

[mjhaverkamp]

I love hog meat. It's free and good practice. As far as shooting something and leaving it lay I think is pitiful. That is my opinion. I really dislike when people say they shot one but left it laying. I think that should be a fine from TPWD. I have 5 kids and we have eaten a hog over 350 lbs. and it tasted the same as a small one after a peroxide soak on the meat, so I dont buy the story of them being to big to eat. I have had folks call me and I met them to take hogs they did not want after they shot them.

I do not mind leaving a destructive varmint laying, however when I set our traps and get a trailer full I call a guy that sells them, he comes and loads them up, I just give them to him.

[Bumpy]

no sir not from everywhere. on my place we have one pond and they seem to concentrate around it at night. they do roam the whole property though so you just got to be at the right place at the right time. this year they were coming into my bow stand about 30 minutes after dark so i just stayed late a few nights and stabbed a few. if you have a spot that they frequent, throw some hand corn and sprinkle it with hog wild. after a few days to a week you will have you a spot to shoot hogs.

Thanks I'm doing to try that.

[pblaetz]

And they are great confidence builder and a great way to learn to track .

They can kill your confidence in a hurry too!

[billfromtx]

Well I won't do that to any animal and don't think much of anyone who does.

I shoot hogs on sight, trap them and enjoy the meat. Don't keep the big boars, but I'll never toss a sow into the carcass pit.

x's 2

[Curtis32]

I dont see a problem with taking one down and taking them to a kill pile spot or designated area where coyotes and other varmints can be hunted over the pile. I can understand someone not wanting to eat them. Leaving them where they lay or purposefully wounding to run off and die is what I don't agree with. If I can get someone to come and get the meat I would rather give it to them than put it in a pile if they can get there quick and pick it up from me. Otherwise if I shoot a hog that I see tearing up the place I'm going to take care of the problem right then. I'm not going to stop shooting until they are gone. What meat can be saved and given away I try to make happen. But I'm not going to pass on them and wait for some hunters to show up a few hours or days later to come and hunt them which may or may not be successful. It just doesn't work that way when I depend on my farm and land for my income. Sometimes I have to take care of that nuisance at that moment and if I don't have time to gut it and clean it, then its going in the designated gut pile and not left out in the pasture. Normally there are farm hands in the area that will take it and that makes for a quick disposal process.

[Shoe]

I live in Missouri and yes I have paid to hunt Pigs in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida. I know some of you don't understand, but we don't have them here and I love to bowhunt them. I would hunt them for free but don't have a place that I can so therefore I pay to hunt them. You may think it is stupid to pay to hunt them but when they are not around here I will. I don't understand why people pay to hunt deer here in North Missouri but a lot of people do.....Shoe

[Team me]

The ironic part is the landowners that do the most complaining are the ones that don't want to let people hunt them on their land. I have found a few but must are stingy and just want to complain.

That being said I'm a land owner and I like hogs, but they don't come by very often.

Btw my neighbor eats the coons I shoot, and my cats and dogs eat all scraps from any animal we shoot. It's all used. I got 6 squirrels in a pot now for thanksgiving.