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Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: Wilson Combat] #8847677 05/06/23 06:07 PM
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Found 4 at the feeder last nite. Know I hit one and they just stood around trying to figure ot what was going on. Need to get a support for shooting off the ATV. Also got the fly rod out, get a black bass, striper and 2 gills in 15 min. Didn't get a catfish but a couple strikes. Put some steel plates together. Time for a nap.

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These are now on the kill list; 'just a question of where they'll be on the place. 'Gotta mix more bait.

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A few updates just for informational purposes.

Now that we are getting some rain, farmers are running pivots and breaking the ground getting ready to plant, the pigs are showing back up again. A group here in the county decided they probably should have flown for pigs this spring. So, last Friday they flew. Of course now there is full cover from the trees, plum thickets, shinnery and the pigs are really hard to see and find. If they stick to cover and don't run you fly right over them. They flew 18 miles of country along the river and only killed 47 pigs which is a really low number for that flight. But like I said the flying was difficult, about 6-8 weeks too late. So are pig numbers down, or just timing on the flight really bad? I don't know. I guess we will see and at this point we will know pretty quick.

Tonight I start one of my all night crop protection rotations on one of my sons fields. $15K of organic seed going in the ground today. New field, no history on it, but for sure there are pigs around there. I guess we will see how long it takes them to find this field and how bad it will get. I pull duty tonight, another friend gets tomorrow night, then I am back on Wednesday night before I am out of town for a couple of days. By this weekend there will be peanuts going in the ground all over the county. Later this week a field I know is going to get hit will be planted. How bad it gets there will be a very good indication on pig numbers. That field is dead center in the area they flew last week.

Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: Wilson Combat] #8849856 05/10/23 10:08 AM
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I still don't have any hogs but do have some javelinas showing up.

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Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: Wilson Combat] #8850603 05/11/23 02:52 PM
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Have hogs coming in to 2 of my corn feeders now on my property where I have rarely seen any over the last 10 years, probably flushed out of the river bottom a mile away....

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Still nothing on my place, and we just skinned the one from the neighbor’s place, so it seems we are out of hogs.


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Just got back from Navarro Mills lake zero hog sign where I was fishing.

Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: Wilson Combat] #8850837 05/11/23 11:07 PM
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Greening up on my place pretty well and only a lone boar showing from time to time over the last week. Only one I've seen in months.


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If this continues, I’ll plant my first food plot in 20 years.


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Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: Wilson Combat] #8851679 05/13/23 01:12 AM
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I haven't been down to San Saba for a few weeks now after killing six hogs (my best weekend yet down there)...what, three or four weeks ago? I talked to my nephew today and he says there is no discernible decline there, nor is there where he guides down a little further south. Not that I think that means anything about numbers along the Red or in the Panhandle...just wanted to add a little data, subjective though it may be.


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Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: Wilson Combat] #8853354 05/16/23 06:03 PM
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Still nothing at our place. They must of known I was getting a DNV scope to start taking them out.

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After spending nearly 2 weeks putting in lots of hours out watching/protecting fresh planted peanut fields I can say for sure hog numbers are down in our area. A couple places took a little damage but not much compared to years past. Sure, there are some pigs around, no doubt. But I just have not seen the large sounders of hogs wreaking havoc like I have in years past. Actually I have had to work pretty dang hard just to kill a few pigs here and there. Looking at my FB feed from 2-3 years ago this time of year, we were hammering them hard every few days.

We aren't totally out of the woods on planting season yet but with it winding down I'm going to say that from what I have seen here our levels are probably half of what they have been at times in the past.

I've got a barrel I am still getting some action on and some fields I can pick up some strays here and there. But it has been 8-9 months since I have really tied in to a big sounder of pigs. I really thought planting season would change that but it didn't. Not yet anyways.

Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: Wilson Combat] #8853931 05/17/23 08:13 PM
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We had an entire sounder disappear about a month ago. Months of them hitting 2 feeders like clockwork, then one day they were just gone. We're wondering if someone near us started trapping them.


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My feeders ran out of corn while the wife and I were on the road. I refilled them when we got back, and that was maybe 2 weeks ago, but deer have just now started to show up at the feeder. As for hogs, it’s been a long time. The neighbor trapped one for me, but since then he has seen no hogs either. I did trap and shoot a lot of hogs a while back. I think I cleaned out a whole sounder, and maybe I’m the reason we have none now.


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I have had very, very few hogs since the big freeze 2 years ago. I think it wiped most of them out around my place. I used to get pics of 10-20 every single day at my feeders, and I used to go out and see them every single time I hog hunted. Now I might get one or two pics a month of a single hog.

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All of these posts do make me wonder if the population did better the further south you go?

Say Houston, San Antonio and south

For North Texas, Oklahoma area guys it seems to be fairly unanimous…the numbers are way down

Was the big freeze as bad way south Tx are the numbers better?

I can recall it being -11° w the windchill -16° up here and maybe that did or didn’t kill a lot off or maybe it did or didn’t stop or slow down reproduction IDK but something has occurred

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Well I just bumped a sounder, running hell-for-leather, while I'm driving around, wiring open un-tripped corral traps. Dam little ones everywhere. bang


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Re: Where are the hogs? [Re: GusWayne] #8854192 05/18/23 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by GusWayne
All of these posts do make me wonder if the population did better the further south you go?

Say Houston, San Antonio and south

For North Texas, Oklahoma area guys it seems to be fairly unanimous…the numbers are way down

Was the big freeze as bad way south Tx are the numbers better?

I can recall it being -11° w the windchill -16° up here and maybe that did or didn’t kill a lot off or maybe it did or didn’t stop or slow down reproduction IDK but something has occurred

I'm down south in Hebbronville and have seen zero hogs. And we use to be covered in them for the last 15+ years. Have no idea what happened to them.

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Just repaired my circle trap (hog smashed my gate.) Baited it up and will hopefully have the last remaining sounder in north texas by the sound of it. I'll be glad if they never come back, but that's wishful thinking. Doing what I can to help the turkeys out.

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Originally Posted by Wilson Combat
All of my hog hunting buddies and I are having a tough time finding hogs up in the NE (Bowie, Lamar and Red River counties) now and it seems the population has been in decline for the past 2 years. I'm blaming a lot of it on a local guy who does lots of helicopter shooting as well as lots more hunters now having thermal.

Also the hogs I do find are now completely nocturnal (I probably don't see more than one group of hogs per month during daylight hours now) and MUCH more wary than they were a couple years ago.

Is anyone else seeing this trend?

Yes. Ive chalked it up to hunting pressure by me.

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Originally Posted by GusWayne
All of these posts do make me wonder if the population did better the further south you go?

Say Houston, San Antonio and south

For North Texas, Oklahoma area guys it seems to be fairly unanimous…the numbers are way down

Was the big freeze as bad way south Tx are the numbers better?

I can recall it being -11° w the windchill -16° up here and maybe that did or didn’t kill a lot off or maybe it did or didn’t stop or slow down reproduction IDK but something has occurred

After the bigger freeze 2 years ago i had cam videos of sounders with very young piglets - surprised me TBH. It was even colder then. (-7F Air Temp in Denton County)

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After several months of no hogs, had a young, decent-sized boar start hitting the feeder last week.

Went out Sunday night, loaded for bear. Over a period of about 90, I watched him zoom around in the distance like a crackhead.

Got distracted trying to video what I hope were Starlink satellites with my phone. Check the thermal, and he's now within pistol shot, just staring at me. Tossed the phone, yanked the trigger - only to hear a 'click.'

I figure he's in Mason County by now.

For what it's worth, I don't think the freeze had much of an impact at our place. I found zero dead hogs that had an original number of holes.


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Well after a couple weeks of almost no damage to our peanut fields we decided pig numbers were way down and let our guard down. Had plants pushing up with seed leaves on, we should have been good to go. Came out to start spraying today and found out we got hammered over the weekend. Time for me to get out my HAM'R and hit back. We will be out tonight to see if we can catch them on two different fields. May be a lot of walking in plowed sand to get on them, or we may get lucky and catch them along the road. They are coming in from several directions.

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My hogs disappeared 11/21 (Austin Co). Neighbor down the road started working with a guy from SBE that runs dogs and neighbor has trapped 6-8 sounders. I have had 2 boars tearing up several areas for 4-6 weeks. First hogs in over a year. It's been so wet it was hard to get to that area and typically is up wind from the house. I was finally able to kill one Thursday night. First hog down is about 14 months. I was averaging 25-30/year for several years.

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