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Please Submit your story or article about hog hunting or trapping to info@hogstoppers.com
Please include photos if possible
Stories/Articles will be published on this site for all to read. We encourage hog hunting stories from other countries and all methods!
*We reserve the right to edit the hog hunting stories for grammar/spelling. The content of the story will be unchanged.
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Fear the Cactus, not the Wild Hogs
I'm lying in bed at my grandfather's house, listening to him and my father both getting ready for the days hunt. I look at my watch and see that it is almost 4:45 a.m. I need to hurry if I am going with them. As I walk outside to the truck, I can hear the dogs barking and yelping in the backyard. They know the drill. It is almost 5:25, and dawn is just beginning to break.
We put the guns in the truck's toolbox, load up the dogs, and jump in. I am still eating breakfast, a half frozen burrito, as we drive down the highway. We made all the plans for the hunt the night before, and we have the layout of the ranch etched in our brains. After loading our guns, we hand out two-way radios. It is almost 6:15, and about 52 degrees. We have hunted this ranch so many times it is getting harder to find pigs, so it is almost 12:00 before we get the first pig of the day. My father and I hear shots from my grandfather's 44 magnum rifle. Then a hog shoots out of the bee-brush, about 50 yds away from us. As he tears after the fleeing pig, I try to follow. Unfortunately, I was concentrating on the pig too much to realize that I just ran into a prickly pear cactus. After I remove the three, two and a half inch needles out of my knee, we walk toward my grandfather, who had killed 3 hogs.
A little later, my father and I hear barking from the dogs, so we race through the bee-brush towards the scene. There is a game trail that we are following, and it splits to let an island of cacti and weeds grow, before joining again. I was about 25 feet behind my father when a 250 lb hog bolted out of a tunnel in the brush towards us, followed by the dogs. I dive off to the left to get off the trail as my father drops the oncoming hog. As I see the pig skid to a stop, I realize that I am lying in a bed of pencil cactus. If I only had more confidence in my father, my cactus encounter would have been unnecessary. As I try to work my way out of this mess, my father finds his way to my grandfather, who had, with the help of the dogs, taken 3 small pigs. It is almost 4:00, so we hurry and clean all the pigs, and arrive at home at about 6:45. Awaiting us is a nice pepperoni pizza that my mom had started earlier. After we feed the worn out dogs, we just relax and talk about the days hunt.
Submitted by:
Adrian
14 yrs. old
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We put the guns in the truck's toolbox, load up the dogs, and jump in. I am still eating breakfast, a half frozen burrito, as we drive down the highway. We made all the plans for the hunt the night before, and we have the layout of the ranch etched in our brains. After loading our guns, we hand out two-way radios. It is almost 6:15, and about 52 degrees. We have hunted this ranch so many times it is getting harder to find pigs, so it is almost 12:00 before we get the first pig of the day. My father and I hear shots from my grandfather's 44 magnum rifle. Then a hog shoots out of the bee-brush, about 50 yds away from us. As he tears after the fleeing pig, I try to follow. Unfortunately, I was concentrating on the pig too much to realize that I just ran into a prickly pear cactus. After I remove the three, two and a half inch needles out of my knee, we walk toward my grandfather, who had killed 3 hogs.
A little later, my father and I hear barking from the dogs, so we race through the bee-brush towards the scene. There is a game trail that we are following, and it splits to let an island of cacti and weeds grow, before joining again. I was about 25 feet behind my father when a 250 lb hog bolted out of a tunnel in the brush towards us, followed by the dogs. I dive off to the left to get off the trail as my father drops the oncoming hog. As I see the pig skid to a stop, I realize that I am lying in a bed of pencil cactus. If I only had more confidence in my father, my cactus encounter would have been unnecessary. As I try to work my way out of this mess, my father finds his way to my grandfather, who had, with the help of the dogs, taken 3 small pigs. It is almost 4:00, so we hurry and clean all the pigs, and arrive at home at about 6:45. Awaiting us is a nice pepperoni pizza that my mom had started earlier. After we feed the worn out dogs, we just relax and talk about the days hunt.
Submitted by:
Adrian
14 yrs. old
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Coyote Encounters
Ever get the feeling you are being followed or watched while hog hunting? Well, if you or the dogs are hot on the trail of some pigs, then there is a chance that another predator is as well. Coyotes never seem to be too far behind when the squealing and barking begins. Generally they will stay out of site, but occasionally a hungry coyote will be unable to resist coming in to get some of the action when our labs take down a small pig. Usually it is a lone coyote that comes in and begins an excited, high pitched bark and yelp. It appears that it is directed at our dogs, as if to scold them for stealing his pig. However, they lack the confidence to approach the dogs closer than 10-15 feet.
Once when a coyote approached too close, the dogs chase him about 100 yds until he jumped over an old stone fence. Our labs were not interesting in crossing the wall, but the coyote stopped and began scolding the dogs again. If I could speak coyote, I would think he was saying, "hey I am one of you, why won't you let me in there to eat".
Another time I ran up to our dogs taking down a small pig. A coyote was giving the dogs an earful and was completely unconcerned with me being right next to him. He genuinely looked upset that the dogs had "his" pig. On the trek back to the truck with the pig, we could occasionally get a glimpse of the coyote following us.
We don't usually kill any of the coyotes or bobcats we see. They are one of the few predators pigs have. The damage coyotes do to small livestock can't be near as bad as the damage wild hogs do if the overpopulation continues. I believe that in many cases coyotes get the blame for a lot of the young livestock wild boars kill.
[Note: I would love to hear if others have had encounters with coyotes while hog hunting. Send us an email and tell us about your hunting experiences.]
Submitted by:
Darrell
Hogstoppers.com
Once when a coyote approached too close, the dogs chase him about 100 yds until he jumped over an old stone fence. Our labs were not interesting in crossing the wall, but the coyote stopped and began scolding the dogs again. If I could speak coyote, I would think he was saying, "hey I am one of you, why won't you let me in there to eat".
Another time I ran up to our dogs taking down a small pig. A coyote was giving the dogs an earful and was completely unconcerned with me being right next to him. He genuinely looked upset that the dogs had "his" pig. On the trek back to the truck with the pig, we could occasionally get a glimpse of the coyote following us.
We don't usually kill any of the coyotes or bobcats we see. They are one of the few predators pigs have. The damage coyotes do to small livestock can't be near as bad as the damage wild hogs do if the overpopulation continues. I believe that in many cases coyotes get the blame for a lot of the young livestock wild boars kill.
[Note: I would love to hear if others have had encounters with coyotes while hog hunting. Send us an email and tell us about your hunting experiences.]
Submitted by:
Darrell
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Our pricing is set low to make effective hog control possible. We do incur expenses through dog training, gas, food, equipment, website operations and more. In order to provide a professional service, we must at least cover these cost.
Please visit our FAQ to see answers to some of the common questions about hog control. Feel free to send us your own. Also don't forget to visit the Photo Gallery to see pictures from our hunts. Although we don't typically lug a camera around we do try to take an occassional photo. If you have photos of hogs or hog damage and would like them to be displayed, please email them to us.
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