I'm loaded with them. When deer season is over, I'm going to turn my 13 year old Grandson and his bow hunting buddies loose on them.

get tired of haulng em off to gut pile.

How can you call hog hunting a challenge. these animals cant see. not only that they travel in big groups so you have plenty to choose from. you people that are wishing for more hogs are nuts. I myself like to hog hunt but i also like watching other animals to. if hogs are around theres not much to be found because of the stinch. Not only that they are tearing up beautiful landscape. I leave you with this which is more challenging catching a fish in a barrel with your bare hands or shooting a twelve gauge in the barrel to get the fish. Thats your difference in Deer hunting (by hand) and Hog hunting (twelve gauge).

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Well I guess since you have never seen it it doesn't happens! I hunt the red and had 20-30 to come in on me within 20 yrds at 10:30 in the am while I was driving t list for a food plot!

Easy with the "you people" stuff, but I've never seen a pig come into a feeder during the daylight outside of South Texas and I have a theory about that.

A pig that comes to a feeder with the sun up is spoiled by a landowner who owns 5,000+ acres, most of which is impenetrable huisache that provides a lot of privacy and prevents effective culling, and hunters who can't be there more than every other weekend during whitetail season and MAYBE twice in the offseason. You're right, it's not a big deal to kill a half-tame feral pig. You will not appreciate how adaptable these animals are and how challenging the hunt can be until you've shot, bayed and trapped them completely off of diurnal activity. Once you start hunting spooky pigs that understand a thing or two about humans you'll get it.

Incidentally, I no longer consider hunting out of a box blind, watching a feeder and overcoming a cocktail of fight-or-flight hormones in order to place an 80 yard shot enough of a challenge (I keep doing it, though).

I might add that the first time you kill a pig with an edged weapon (by hand) it will be a psychologically significant event that puts a bug in you. Also, I've never been SCARED while hunting whitetail.

I got into pig hunting because they turned a beautiful pecan orchard into a mud pit that you couldn't drive across without breaking an axle. During the process of killing as many as I could, I acquired a taste for it. When the drought pushed them off of that property it was definitely a "win", but also a conflict. "Where can I go to kill pigs now?" is not the same as "I want the pigs to come back".

Anyway, I just wanted to be sure you understood something about me before I get thrown into "you people", whoever they are.

I don't consider deer to be the greatest game animal, above all other creatures like most do. I shoot them because it's deer season, I eat them because I shoot them. I have deer on the wall and will put more if I feel they will look good but I do not trophy hunt and would rather hunt and shoot a pig any day. I don't really use inches of antler to try to prove how good of a hunter I am. Give me oppurtunity and a good hunt that produces a tasty critter. I'll take pigs all day.

How can you call hog hunting a challenge. these animals cant see.