Killed me a Wild Boar this morning

[Guest Conrad]

Got this one in Polk County this morning. Do not know how much it weighs yet but i think i will putting him on my wall. Here is the link to the picks.

Wild Boar July 2010 pictures by conradalan - Photobucket

[Good_Steward]

Nice pig, Conrad!

[Mark A]

Cool, give us details!!!

[Guest G-Pa Glynn]

Very nice!

[kb4ns]

Very nice!

+1!

[Guest billwilly73]

So when is the bbq? I'll bring some tater salad or something.

[Guest Conrad]

Details:Where i hunt is private property and right now there are hogs running all over the place. The landowner has killed three so far this summer.I got up there before daylight and waited till legal shooting time and eased my way down the road. I got to where is garden is and at the back of the garden i saw a black shadow so i put my gun up and saw it was indeed a hog ( have to be for sure because there are bears in the area too). I pushed to safety off my 338 win mag got him in the cross hairs and squeezed the trigger. I saw a puff of dust and heard him squeal a little and then all was quiet. I had hit him high in the shoulder right on or just below the spine. I field dressed him and loaded him up, that quite a chore because i was by my self. Brought him home got some pictures and took him to the processors. Quick hunt but that is the way i like it.

[mikegideon]

Here piggy piggy. Nice one.

There's a thing running on one of the cable channels about the wild pig population explosion. I wouldn't mind shooting a few.

[Guest Conrad]

This only the second one i have killed although i have hunted them many times they really are elusive and live in places me and you cant even crawl through. Trying not to bad mouth the TWRA..But this is the only state i know of that has a supposed hog"problem" that they dont let hunt at night or over bait. Maybe someday that will change, not only for the hogs but coyotes as well.

[mikegideon]

Can you use dogs? From what I saw, they need to be tough, fearless dogs.

[Guest Conrad]

yes dogs ar allowed but on only specified days, not sure what they are have to look in the book. i would like to get some catahoulas to hunt hogs with but my luck they would run a bear or deer or something else.

[Guest BEARMAN]

Very nice tusker you got there Conrad. If you ever need a hawg/bear hunting partner...I'm in...

[Guest Conrad]

Thanks BEARMAN and everyone else to replied. I dont think i can bring anyone to the spot where i kille that hog this morning but i have been given permissin to hunt on about 500 acres up in madisonville that has hogs bears deer and coyotes and will need a hunting partner (besides my 13 year old son)up there.

[Guest BEARMAN]

Yep, them rascals can be a pain to drag out and load up by yourself.

It took me around 3 hours to field dress and drag out, and load up my first black bear by myself.

If he would have been a monster bear...I would have had to have help. I reckon I could have flagged down some of the local bear hunters who travel with their dogs in the boxes on their trucks to help.

I'll be headed up to the Madisonville area on September 24 th to hunt over in Cherokee wma, so let me know and maybe we can do a bear/hawg hunt then.

Conrad, I would deem it an honor and be very grateful, to hunt with you and your son.

[Guest Conrad]

September 24th, is that a gun or archery hunt for bears because i would really like to have a bearskin rug

[ShaunM]

Nice pig, so when are you going to invite everyone for BBQ?

[Guest BEARMAN]

Sept. 25 th through Oct. 22 is archery only for bear...however, there is a dogs allowed gun hunt on Oct. 2 nd and 3 rd and Oct. 9 th and 10 th in Monroe and Polk county.

Blount, Cocke, Sevier and Jefferson county there is a G/M/A season from Sept. 27 th through Oct. 3 rd. is another dogs allowed hunt.

BTW, I get my bear and hawgs and deer processed at Kieth's butcher shop, in Madisonville, if you know of the place.

[oldogy]

Fire looking porker.

oldogy

[broylz]

didnt know there were bears up in madisonville area. thought they were all out east. i really miss hog hunting down in florida so if you have a backup list of help, id be all for it

[Guest BEARMAN]

didnt know there were bears up in madisonville area. thought they were all out east.

Read post #14 a little closer, broylz.

[broylz]

guess im slow but i thought he mentioned a bear and hawg hunt near madisonville around the 24th?

[DaveS]

NICE HAWG!!!!

[Mark A]

This only the second one i have killed although i have hunted them many times they really are elusive and live in places me and you cant even crawl through. Trying not to bad mouth the TWRA..But this is the only state i know of that has a supposed hog"problem" that they dont let hunt at night or over bait. Maybe someday that will change, not only for the hogs but coyotes as well.

I was thinking along these lines this morning. I wonder what it would take to get night vision scopes approved for varmints? At least, for coyotes and hogs...

Best to petition the TWRA or work through local state legislators?

Mark

[Dolomite_supafly]

I live just east of Knoxville and we have seen a bear with som regularity here. She gets seen about every 3-4 months and lst year she had a cub with her. She was seen last week around a local lake. Last year she scared the crap out of my wife who thought it was a deer making a recket in the woods behind our house. She went to see the deer the realzed that is wasn't a deer.

Hog hunting would be the only type of hunting I think I could get into. I haven't hunted anything for sport since 2001 other than squirrel with my brother a few years ago. That trip was more for him than me. I do kill nuisance animals but other than that the only things I hunt are steel targets and paper.

Dolomite

Edited July 24, 2010 by Dolomite_supafly

[Guest mosinon]

congrats on the hog!

I have a question, why the stick in the mouth? To show the tusks is my guess, but I'm not sure. I know with deer you show off the rack, with turkeys you show off the beard, and with fish I just generally lie. But I don't know what you show off with a hog or bear. I do know that more hogs killed=better.

I also wonder how wild hog tastes, I know hogs from the farm taste really great... country ham.... crap, now I am hungry