2023 Hog Count

We needed a new thread and lucky for me I am thermal hunting for pigs tonight, hope to get us on the board

With Wilson Combat adding to those end of the year totals it looks like we logged 963 total swine whacked

Very nice. Look forward to contributing.

2 in Taylor County tonight

Damnit! I was hoping to be the 1st. Guess I get the 3rd pig of the new year. Still sitting waiting for more. I'll post pics when I'm done.

Just got home, we had a good trip...we got 6 total

Were at 9 for the thread

Here's a pic of the 1st pig. Big dude.

And here's the 2nd one for a total of 10.

Close enough for pigs…

#11 Young county

I can't remember who posted a pile of green tips a few mo ago

The friend I took shot a 243 bolt gun and I took my 556 in green tips

I swear they roll on decent sized pigs

I always gave him 1st shot and I then cleaned up the mess, the fmj green tips are salty..this is my 3rd year using them..

You don't get them all but enough they're worth the $$$

556 green tip damage…

75-85 yards

That’s the exit I been talking about on decent sized pigs, I’d guess this one near 165-175 lbs

I’ve saw enough now to believe they tumble/ricochet inside the cavity

About 60 yards away last night with a Bergara Ridge 7-08. 150 Berger Classic Hunter bullet. The bullet went through the body and exited in front of the right rear leg.

A friend dropped this one on my place in Coleman County earlier in the week.

Makes it 14.

I posted a spotted one from the 1st of 2023 in my own thread, so I guess the number is up to 15.

I’ll be hunting them tonight

3 more tonight, we’re up to 18

2 for me, up to 20

^^ I assume they're your gloves, but for a second there it looked like a Medic tried to save the top one and gave up.

+1=21 Young Co

I did pick up a new pig rig yesterday, 300 blackout bolt gun

Ill prob go again Friday, hope to see what it can do

We got 2 more tonight, 1 pretty big one

23

Four boars in Edwards County last weekend. 27 now

Last night good boar

Any guesses on weigh? That’s the bed of a F350

5 more .. 33 now

Pushing 3 bills IMO

1 from Stephens county = 34

He weighed 200.5

We only weigh a handful a year

He looked good in the thermals but once we got on him we decided he would be one of the ones weighed

Those boars can fool you, fooled us...we thought 250

Big head and front shoulders but short and thin in the azz, cutters were prob 2.5"

Last year we weighed a 249 and 247...

First one this year. Now I get to join the action.

We just got 2 more, with 1 being a big sow

37

The sow on the left is probably gona go in the low 200’s

300 blackout from 104 yards, DRT

+2 in Fort Bend County, 39. K31 first blood.

+1 Lavaca = 40

+1 Hunt county = 41

1 more, 42

+1 Archer County = 43

Just got another 1, 44

+3=47

Jack Co, Here is a pic of the biggest.

+1 = 48

That Barnes TSX is nasty.

Big Boar, Llano County.

I don't know how much he weighed, but he was [i][/i]heavy

+1 = 49

52
3 from my place in Young County

1 more tonight, 53

+1=54. Kimble County.

Just got a big ole prego pig…55

Got another boar, 56

Yall need to get after it ,only 3million to go in Texas

Feral Hog Numbers in All 50 States
Here’s a complete list of the wild boar population by state for all 50 states:

Alabama: 250,000
Alaska: none
Arizona: <1,000
Arkansas: 200,000
California: 400,000
Colorado: none
Connecticut: none
Delaware: none
Florida: 500,000
Georgia: 600,000
Hawaii: 400,000
Idaho: none
Illinois: <20
Indiana: <1,000
Iowa: <1,000
Kansas: 400
Kentucky: 2,000
Louisiana: 750,000
Maine: unknown
Maryland: none
Massachusetts: none
Michigan: 5,000
Minnesota: none
Mississippi: 200,000
Missouri: 100,000
Montana: none
Nebraska: none
Nevada: unknown
New Hampshire: unknown
New Jersey: <1,000
New Mexico: 500,000
New York: none
North Carolina: 100,000
North Dakota: none
Ohio: 2,000
Oklahoma: 1,500,000
Oregon: 5,000
Pennsylvania: 3,000
Rhode Island: none
South Carolina: 450,000
South Dakota: none
Tennessee: unknown
Texas: 3,000,000
Utah: unknown
Vermont: none
Virginia: 3,000
Washington: unknown; sighted in eastern counties
West Virginia: <1,000
Wisconsin: <1,000
Wyoming: none

Thanks for the inspirational support! Mixing bait and organizing traps this weekend. Last year with the drought they mainly moved elsewhere. They're filtering back in now, especially since other's deer feeders have run out. "It's a process."

+3=59. Kimble County.

Just got another, we walked 10 miles tonight to get her...not many to be had tonight

60

5 confirmed Saturday night...65

Just srtarted up the traps, 2 more democrats in Gillispie count

Killed one at Nannie Stringfellow earlier in February 68

Had some buddies down for hog hunt this weekend. Total of 11 pigs and 3 coyotes killed....so, 76.
Just some of the pics...

+7 in Kimble Co last weekend

+1=84

Jack Co

+3 Kimble Co

87

One more….88

+1 89

A visiting friend dropped this boar this evening. Make it an even 90.

About 80lb sow= 91.
It’s been a long dry spell for me.
Taylor county

+4=95

St Patrick's Day boar, Rural Llano County +1=95

make that 96

Took out 9 during spring break week. That equals 105

+1 in Hunt County =106

Nice rifle, how do you like that Vortex scout scope set up?

+1 more in Young County Saturday night..107

I like it. The scope is clear but it would be nice to have a larger field of view. The mount is solid and held up to the recoil of 8MM pretty well.

Hogs always look better dead I've noticed, just something about it

I haven't got to go in a month and the trip I had planned got cancelled...apparently it is our 20 year wedding Anniversary that day

108

+1 (109) Jack Co

+2=111. Kimble County.

+1 =112 Hunt County

Make that 113. 125lb sow- Shackelford county.

+8=121. Kimble County.

Blitzkrieg! (With special mix, sour, nasty bait. )

A little late here, but thought I'd start helping to up the tally for the year. I took out five (5) piggies on the weekend of March 4 & 5. No photos, maybe next time. San Saba County.

Bump that number up to 121+5=



126

+1 Young County..127

Nice Old School Remington Semiauto...742 Woodsmaster?

Yes sir, this one is a 6MM. I have all the others with the exception of the .280. If you come across one, let me know!

6 more from Llano county on Easter weekend. Brings the total to 133. Heres my nephew with a couple of them

That's good stuff

Nephew got these 51 off a ranch in Zavalla County Saturday night and up until about sunup on Easter. Since then he has been plowing on the ranch and has only gotten 4 more. I don't have a picture of the last 4 but I take his word for it!!

This would be 55 more to add to the mix.

Frio

+1 =134 Hunt County

Just got back from San Saba where the hogs seem to be as thick as flies in a feedlot. I took out 6 hogs this trip, so adding 6 to Cool Barrel Bill's total of 134, it now stands at



140.



This big one was shot Saturday night between thunderstorms on a neighbor farmer's place. We have his blessings as well as another neighbor's to shoot any hogs we see.

I was not able to get to it until the next day because of excessively soggy fields, and as can be seen the buzzards opened up its gut and some contents are leaking out on the ground. I intended to try and pick this one up, but I'm guessing it weighed right at 200 pounds if not more, and there's just no way I was going to be able to wrestle this one into the Polaris. My nephew showed later and showed me where he stashes the stuff for dragging big critters, but by then this one was being well picked apart.



Of the other five, one was about 110 pounds (est.) and the rest were very small. The strangest one of all was shot Friday night while I sat in the blind after dark. The kill light at the feeder turned on and got my attention so I looked with my thermal. I swear I saw a big blob of heat, and I shot a couple of times. The blob moved outside the feeder enclosure and acted confused, or wounded. I fired again and it went down. When I walked down to take a look (pistol in one hand and a powerful light in the other) I thought I was seeing a skunk laying there, but it was an itty-bitty hog, not much bigger than our cat. I might have had the magnification jacked up on my scope...I dunno. My own screwups don't really amaze me, but what did amaze me was this single solitary VERY small hog out there wandering around by itself.

I guess I just haven't seen everything, yet.

141

Small sow, Llano County.
She left 3 orphans

Can't upload pic, but plus 1 grayson county.

142

My first Oklahoma pig.



143

^^^Very nice rifle to take a lowly pig. Well done.

Guys our counting got a little off...

Frio Town added 55 above that didn't get counted

197

+1=198. Young boar, Kimble County.

I’d never let that beauty of a rifle touch the ground or a pig. Really nice sir !

+7 Edwards County in April = 205

+1 Stephens county = 206

+4 Lavaca county = 210

+1=211. Kimble.

+8 recovered @ Hall's Bayou Ranch, Santa Fe, Tx.

ya!

GWB

220
Young cty

221

Smallish, really porky boar. Llano County

#222 got another whopper this weekend 280 lbs by the tape

Three more hogs down in San Saba County over the last three nights. I took pics but they suck. Anyway, add 3 to the total...about 500 pounds worth of pig.

222 + 3 =

225

Three of four perforated at my lease between June 17th and June 23



Snared....






no pix of the 4th as I rolled my 4 wheeler and got pinned under it for a spell shortly after I retrieved #3.

When I was younger I'd bounce. At near seventy-two, I now go SPLAT!

By time I got loose, getting a pix of a perforated porker was the last thing on my mind!

Ya!

GWB

Didn't see count in above post so 225 + 4 = 229

+1 Coke county 230

+1 Fort Bend County, 231

First hog I'd seen there since January, and first blood for my new ugly little sporterized M94 Swede 6.5x55

+1 Central Texas

232

233
1 less in Young County

234 Jack Co

235, Houston Co. 9:30 Sat nite. GKs buddy got one. I struck out Fri nite.

236 got this one Saturday night, Kingsland TX

I haven't went since March, tried the last 3 weekends and something keeps coming up

This weekend is 50/50, next weekend looks about 75%

I look to add some here soon

Hunted three nights near San Saba beginning Sunday night. One night a sounder of about 20 came in and everyone of them was the same size---little 15- to 20-pounders would be my guess. When they're that small and doing their little piggie dances all over the place, they're hard to hit, and six rounds neted me nothing. I couldn't believe it.

I did get a shot on a lone boar on another night, and made good on that one. I saw no other hogs the entire trip, and I attribute that to the heat and the fallow wheat fields. We sure could use a little rain.

Anyway, bump that count to


237

Older brother got his first hog, dropped this boar from 180yds.

238, Gonzales County

Add one more to the pile, as this one took a dirt nap last Friday eve.




ya!


GWB

Got #240 & #241 on consecutive days this past weekend in broad daylight. Hogs coming round the clock to all my feeders.
Hogs were at each of these feeders again the next morning even though one of the hogs was left in view of the feeder camera to see what came to the carcass. My 30.06 dropped both where they were standing.

Finally added to the list again.

Got 1 more, 242

2 little piggies in Taylor county.

=244

+2 Young Co
+1 Jack Co

247

I've got to get in on this count. Pending the rest of the year's weekends!!!!

+1 Burnet County

+2 McCulloch county

250

Dickens county.

+2 Burnet County 253 Total

+1 from McCulloch county = 254

+1 Jack Co

255

My at 28 to date this year so far. Going out this weekend will see if I can't add a couple more to the count. I have have add them to the count, so that brings it up to 283.

Geedubya that is an awesome set up. What scope are you running on that?

2 more down this weekend. We're up to 285.⁸

Got number 286 this weekend in Houston County.

Up it to 290.

San Saba county, nights of the 24th and 25th.

291

Got 1 last night, 292

294
Got 2 this AM.

+1 = 295

Jack Co

+2 McCulloch county = 297

+2 = 299

Young Co

+2 in Shackelford county = 301

+1 Edwards County = 302

+4 = 306

Young Co

I just recently joined and have been lurking a bit. Figured I'd jump in this thread. We hunt hogs during the summer with thermal and between 3 of us we killed 48 between May - September. If yall want to add that to your count it would now be at 354.

355
Sow from Young county.

+1=346

Young Co

+2=348

Young Co

I took down 2 more hogs in San Saba County Saturday night.



350

One more from last Saturday night!



ya!

GWB

I shot two little ones this morning in Taylor county.
Correctly adding from above, we should be at 363.

+2 from Edwards county = 365

+1 Lavaca 366

I killed 3 opening weekend at the ranch. Makes 369, Shelby County.

Make it 370, my hunting partner got this stinky bore yesterday at my front bow stand.

Plus 15 from Eastland county = 385

Plus two in Jack Co. Up to 387

390 total now. Killed 3 last night. Here’s one boar. 300 black out with 125 grain from about 100 yards. DRT!

393

3 more down in Young Co

Got another pig this morning in Taylor county, 20 minutes later got a buck.

Oops, 394 pigs now.

395

396 Stephens county

398

Wife got these at our Young county ranch.

I guess I'll add mine for 399.

+1 Archer County = 400.

401 at Stompy’s place

403 Stephens county. One was a very large boar that Batman got.

Got another one in Houston County! Fairly large sow. #404

Got a couple last week in Crockett County---#405 and #406

3 in Central Texas
407, 408, 409

+1 Lavaca = 410

One so far tonite in San Saba. Still workin it.

411

...aaaand two more.

413

4 in cotulla this weekend.


417

+1 Lavaca

418

2 in Crockett County yesterday.

420

+1 in montage county last night

421

+1 in Delta County Sunday night = 422. Been quite a while for me

423 (via my brother in law) and 424 from myself. Both in Shackelford County.

My hog was the first hog I'd ever shot after countless years chasing all kinds of other animals. I always joked that hogs could smell me coming and would vacate the county, but not this time!

427 in Trinity River bottom, Freestone Co.

+3 in Crockett County = 430

+3 in Delta County = 433

434. West Texas

+2 in Fort Bend County, 436.

My M98/48 (Yugoslavian captured and refurbished Kar98k) got its chance to shine, knocked down 2 at about 250 yards including one on the run. I was shooting the only full power commercial hunting load we have here, the Sellier & Bellot 196 grain SPCE. There's just something special about shooting hogs with 8x57, which could be said to be the quintessential boar cartridge.

4 in Taylor county this evening to make total 440.

I finally get to contribute this year. up to 441 now.

+1 Archer County = 442.

Another one in Taylor county this morning.
Wouldn’t let me upload picture.
443 now

Two more little ones this afternoon.
445 for the total.

+7 Lavaca

452

My grandson got his first hog this morning.
Total now 453.
Taylor county near Trent.

Add 2 more from Eastland that I got 2 weekends ago, and forgot to add to the total.

+1 Fort Bend County, 454.

First blood with my Tikka T3 .270, killed it at 310 yards with a 130 grain Federal Fusion.

+1 Tyler County, 455

Red River county 244

+1 Young Co = 457

HUH??

Are you turning in your tally for the whole year of 2023, Bill?

Trinity river bottoms 458.