Posted By: ACTIVE
Moving to Texas to Hunt - 01/06/15 05:08 PM
Hello,
I am new here, I will be moving to Texas from Nevada and I am interested in hunting Hogs and other varmint. up here in NV we hunt manly jack rabbit and coyote at night and it can be done on any public land.
I will be moving to the Houston area and was looking into hunting some wildlife areas around there. Maybe Angelina forest?
After I get a permit, Can I just hike around and hunt? I prefer to hike and sometimes camp in remote areas and prefer to be free. Not really into hunting stocked ranches. Its more about the outdoors to me rather than a slaughter. In Nevada its pretty deserted and you really feel free and away from it all when out in the wilderness. Are these national forests more crowded? Ive been looking on google earth and they look pretty big, but I don't want to do anything illegal.
These National forests like Angelina say that hunting is welcome, but are they crowded or is it easy to just hike in away from people and shoot?
I will be using short barreled rifles and machine guns where legal. I pretty much only have class 3 stuff all in 5.56 and one semi auto 16" .308 rifle (all will be legal in Texas). 5.56 should be fine for hogs right? Maybe a suppressed 3 round burst for hogs? Can you shoot in these areas for fun also or is it only hunting?
If anyone would like to invite me with them some time that would be awesome also?
If anyone can give me some advice that would be great.
I am really excited about texas, hopefully it will all work out well.
Thank you!
Sam
I am new here, I will be moving to Texas from Nevada and I am interested in hunting Hogs and other varmint. up here in NV we hunt manly jack rabbit and coyote at night and it can be done on any public land.
I will be moving to the Houston area and was looking into hunting some wildlife areas around there. Maybe Angelina forest?
After I get a permit, Can I just hike around and hunt? I prefer to hike and sometimes camp in remote areas and prefer to be free. Not really into hunting stocked ranches. Its more about the outdoors to me rather than a slaughter. In Nevada its pretty deserted and you really feel free and away from it all when out in the wilderness. Are these national forests more crowded? Ive been looking on google earth and they look pretty big, but I don't want to do anything illegal.
These National forests like Angelina say that hunting is welcome, but are they crowded or is it easy to just hike in away from people and shoot?
I will be using short barreled rifles and machine guns where legal. I pretty much only have class 3 stuff all in 5.56 and one semi auto 16" .308 rifle (all will be legal in Texas). 5.56 should be fine for hogs right? Maybe a suppressed 3 round burst for hogs? Can you shoot in these areas for fun also or is it only hunting?
If anyone would like to invite me with them some time that would be awesome also?
If anyone can give me some advice that would be great.
I am really excited about texas, hopefully it will all work out well.
Thank you!
Sam