I've been after this one hog app 2 1/2 yrs now,trail cams, timed feeder, gravity feeder, pig pipe, soured corn on ground and buried, rubbing posts, diesel. and have been extremely close,being able to hear him/her, seeing rubs/wallows,prints,scat. 5 different stand/feeder locations, at least a ton of whole corn. usualy only hunt app 4-5 hrs in am, as I am needed at home at night and certainly not going after him/her daily and usualy not at all in the hottest/buggiest times. got home from Moms final days and had 880 pics and FINALY some pics of it. curious if any of you guys have any guess of sex or size/wt? the bull he is near is big and looks like he belongs in a bullfighting ring. (will ask Allen to post pics for me). I think I got him pretty well patterned, he/she is totaly nocturnal and spends days in a place almost impossible to get into with the wind just about always blowing the wrong way. it's torn up gates/fences minutes after me going thru them. don't have any night vision gear and would rather use a gun with a little more umph than a 223. I'm thinking of a possible full moon hunt with a good light gathering scope. have permits for night shooting yotes. the obsession part of A.D.D. is not always a bad thing. I don't have a death wish and wouldn't want to run into this thing on the ground in the brush at night alone and also have to worry about rattlers. any help appreciated.
As of this month, you don't need any license or permit to hunt hogs with light on private property.
I'm have no personal experience but I would think something a little more than 223 would be better.
I would hate to have the hog run off after getting hit only to expire 100 yards away where you may never find it..
You should get Gunboy to push into the thick where he stays during the day while you wait on the outside covering his escape route to bust his a**.......
this hog didn't get this old by being stupid. even if I could get GB to push/swim/crawl thru that nasty muck/thorns/snakes/gators/otters/skeeters it has at least a dozen different escape routes. only way I could think of getting it out of there is with dogs and they are not allowed on the property. obviously the more time I spend there the better the odds of my being in the right place at the right time. unfortunately the place doesn't belong to me and I am lucky to be able to hunt it alone at all or I would enlist lots of help to cut off escape routes. it is definately a challenge and would be the ultimate accomplishment/trophy for me.
