Hog Hunting Archives - Page 7 of 14

Enormous piles of vegetables, including onions, cabbage, sweet potatoes and corn, will draw in hungry wild hogs.

A great pile of vegetables will bring wild hogs into gun range

To attract massive numbers of hogs and hold them in the vicinity, hunters should use lots of bait. […]

A good pair of binoculars can help hunters determine which wild hogs have the biggest tusks if a trophy animal is the objective.

Picking out a trophy wild hog can be tough for many hunters

Shooting the first feral hog that steps clear from a group or “sounder” and offers a good shot would be fine for a hunter interested mostly in the meat, but for a hunter looking for a trophy boar and a full head mount or skull mount, it requires steady nerves to find the one with the longest tusks. […]

Johnnie Dale and Tommy Sullivan drag a 200-pound boar hog out of the woods.

Hogs and bogs -Pull North Carolina hogs out of their swampy homes and you can put bacon on the table

Mike Marsh

Many hunters feel as though they’ve lost their best friends during the downtime between the end of deer and bear season and the beginning of spring turkey season. […]

Hogs are a nuisance, but offer good sport and tasty table fare to hunters like these from Big Country Outdoors.

Hog hunting with dogs is sure-fire way to put bacon on the plate

Brian Cope

Hogs are a known nuisance to farmers, landowners, and hunters. They do damage to crops, food plots, and take away food sources and habitat from other game animals. […]

Deer hunters are generally encouraged to shoot wild hogs, but handling the carcasses and resulting meat requires some precautions to prevent contraction of several diseases.

Top 6 steps to avoid these wild hog diseases

Andy Crawford

Feral hogs can carry a number of diseases, some of which can be contracted by humans. And at least one of those nasty bacterial infections can be fatal. […]

Handling pig carcasses after the hunt requires some precautions to prevent contamination with any of the several diseases wild hogs carry.

6 wild hog diseases to avoid

Andy Crawford

Feral hogs are everywhere these days, so deer hunters are bound to run across them during time afield. And putting some of the pigs down is a great way to manage their burgeoning populations, which can cause habitat problems. […]

South Carolina has great hog hunting on many WMAs, but it’s only incidental to open seasons for other species.

Hog hunting on WMAs

Terry Madewell

Biologist Charles Ruth said hog hunting is a bonus opportunity when deer hunting on WMAs and is often very good. […]

Earl Trent of Harmony killed his huge grey hog on a South Carolina hunt last weekend.

One shot with a .243 between the eyes, and the Grey Ghost is no more

Brian Cope

Earl Trent of Harmony had hunted unsuccessfully for hogs for years – until July 20, when he harvested a beast of a wild boar. Known locally as the “Grey Ghost” the hog, which weighed close to 500 pounds, made the fatal mistake of looking directly at Trent, who placed a 100-grain .243 slug directly between its eyes, ending the legend that roamed a Dillon County, S.C., tract that is part of Cherokee Run Hunting Lodge. […]