Wanting to escape city life for a day or two, I took my then 10-y/o and 8-y/o daughters to Lonesome Boar Adventures in Mountain Home, Texas. This wasn’t a hunting trip so much as getting my girls onto a ranch, out into nature, under dark skies, and having some adventures. But I ended up having … Read more
By Greg Ray As wild hog populations increase and continue to expand their ranges across the United States, landowners are looking more and more to hunters to help them keep hog populations in check. While hunting hogs is a fun endeavor, it can also produce tasty table fair with lean, delicious protein. From smoked pulled … Read more
[ED: Yesterday Jeremy wrote about a recent hot hunt that included his Pig Truth .458 SOCOM AR, a rifle that was purpose-built to reduce the number of pesky piggies that ravage the beautiful Texas landscape. We get occasional questions to this day about that gun, so now seems a good time to re-run Jeremy’s post … Read more
A few guys and I went to Lonesome Boar Adventures in Mountain Home, Texas to do a little hunting. Thinking we’d be shooting mostly coyotes at medium-to-long ranges, wild boars from close to far, and perhaps some axis deer, I built up a Pork Sword Rifle for my buddy, Peter, and a Pork Sword SBR … Read more
By Travis Smola Deer season is now just a memory. We can hear some of you sighing that your chance at that big whitetail buck is gone for the year. Or maybe you tagged out like I did. But either way, you may not have gotten your full hunting season fix. There is an endless … Read more
UPDATE: One year later, Texas’s pig problems have only gotten worse. As The Brownsville Herald reports, feral hogs are now known to be in 253 of Texas’s 254 counties. Only El Paso county is allegedly pig-free, but even that is in doubt. “There’s no confirmation of pigs in El Paso County, but having worked out … Read more
Hog hunting may not be fresh and new – okay, nothing involving hogs is ever really fresh – but hunting them with handguns has taken a while to really gain traction (and even now not enough of you are doing it). We need all the hog hunters we can get (it’s a great way to … Read more
By Travis Smola Hunters in Missouri have not been able to hunt feral hogs on public lands for four years now, but that could be changing again under a new bill filed by Republican Rep. Robert Ross. The Springfield News-Leader reports Ross has introduced the bill (HB 2427) at a House committee meeting earlier this week. … Read more
No, she wasn’t hunting. No, she wasn’t out in the sticks somewhere. Chirstine Rollins was visiting the home of a client in Anahuac, Texas, an exurb east of Houston just south of I-10 when she was set upon by feral hogs. From the scene the local sheriff found, it appears that she was attacked in … Read more
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