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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: jshaw2025] #2763496 11/18/11 02:04 AM
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Yeah but you never know whos out there in the woods with you and somebody is always messin' with your stuff. I had enough of that public land hunting in Colorado.




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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: Cool_Hand] #2764527 11/18/11 01:55 PM
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Public land hunting is big in PA. I know this is the Texas forum. Monday after Thanksgiving there will be 750,00(est.) hunters in the PA. woods. All wearing orange. Yes we have our accidents, not that many compared to how many hunters there are. Imagine the only way to shoot a pig would be to go to a Hunting Preserve. 80-100 acres. Shoot a hog after being there for 10 minutes and paying $700-$800 to do this. This does not include your meals or lodging. This is what I deal with here in PA. $150-$200 a day and shoot what you can? This is great! I will do this next year and be so excited. Look how good you have it there.


Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: jshaw2025] #2764553 11/18/11 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted By: jshaw2025
This is exactly why I'm moving back to Georgia in a few years. Texas has so little public land it isn't funny. Everybody always talks about how hunting in Texas is so great, but heck, you can only do it if you spend 10,000 a year on a lease or pay a guide 2500 to go on a 3 day hunt. To put things in perspective a little bit. I have a lifetime hunting license in the state of Georgia. I have to have a kill record printed out each year, but it's free. If I go to the WMA, it's free. National Forest, free. ($4 parking fee on the honor system)

Just curious here. How is the hunting on this "free land" than we all paid for?



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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: Cool_Hand] #2764577 11/18/11 02:10 PM
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Im Offering $50 a day hog hunts, now quit complaining about it being to expensive. They are a problem on my land, but I dont feel its wrong to charge a small fee to hunt on my property that I have to pay taxes and maintenance for, besides I use all the money I make from hunting to pay for wildlife feed and habitat improvement, and trust me its not %20 of my annual cost. I could charge more, but id never be able to recoup all annual cost anyway. If you want to come hunting, pm me.





Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: JonesFisher] #2764697 11/18/11 02:47 PM
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JonesFisher,

I tried sending you a pm about setting up a hunt. Not sure if it went thru...Let me know if you don't see it.

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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: stxranchman] #2764712 11/18/11 02:49 PM
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This is exactly why I'm moving back to Georgia in a few years. Texas has so little public land it isn't funny. Everybody always talks about how hunting in Texas is so great, but heck, you can only do it if you spend 10,000 a year on a lease or pay a guide 2500 to go on a 3 day hunt. To put things in perspective a little bit. I have a lifetime hunting license in the state of Georgia. I have to have a kill record printed out each year, but it's free. If I go to the WMA, it's free. National Forest, free. ($4 parking fee on the honor system)

Just curious here. How is the hunting on this "free land" than we all paid for?
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Theres deer in georgia?


Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: Navasot] #2764970 11/18/11 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted By: jshaw2025
This is exactly why I'm moving back to Georgia in a few years. Texas has so little public land it isn't funny. Everybody always talks about how hunting in Texas is so great, but heck, you can only do it if you spend 10,000 a year on a lease or pay a guide 2500 to go on a 3 day hunt. To put things in perspective a little bit. I have a lifetime hunting license in the state of Georgia. I have to have a kill record printed out each year, but it's free. If I go to the WMA, it's free. National Forest, free. ($4 parking fee on the honor system)

Just curious here. How is the hunting on this "free land" than we all paid for?
peep

Theres deer in georgia?


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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: scott01] #2764989 11/18/11 04:05 PM
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Never hunted with them but BoxRoutfitters posts in the guids ection all the time. I believe it's $100 per day and you can get 2 hogs. Sounds cheap enough to me. Good reviews from those who have hunted there as well. I've been looking to find time on my calendar to get my son out there to get his first pig (he's only 8).


Never got hunted with them, but we do lease our land from the Reeds and they're awesome people!



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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: jshaw2025] #2765476 11/18/11 06:52 PM
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I agree with jonesfisher...Its not unreasanable to charge a SMALL fee. up


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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: Bulls eye] #2765552 11/18/11 07:24 PM
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I am on an 850 acre lease in East Texas that is covered up with hogs. After deer season, I have no problem taking folks there to kill hogs. I do charge a small fee to help with the cost of my gas ,food, corn, batteries for feeders and what-not. I dont think it is wrong to try to recover some of the costs involved in keeping up a lease. The hunter can bring a tent or small camper or sleep on the sofa in mine. No one on my lease hunts after Dec. and I have it all to myself.The fee also helps pay for the electricity used during the hunt.We hunt hog,bobcat, coyotes, squirrels. I do all the work and let someone else hunt. I think I should get something for that.



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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: jshaw2025] #2766447 11/19/11 01:09 AM
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I agree with everyone else, I'm not paying to hog hunt.

There have been a few guys post free hog hunting. Just keep looking and go back on the pages of the hog forum you may find one.

One reason we are having a pig problem too many people are trying to make money from hunters and this is going to continue as long as people pay to kill them nasty pigs.


Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: bjankowski] #2767083 11/19/11 09:50 AM
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Most landowners have reasonably small properties with neighbors who don't want shots fired at night. I am one of those small property owners. And yes, the hogs are mostly nocturnal.

Some of my concerns are:

I don't know you and this is important. I'm also not interested in your money.

I don't live there except on weekends but have a house, equipment, etc. I want seclusion and peace of mind.

A mistake could cost a landowner or a neighbor a cow. Are you financially responsible? Mistakes happen.

Would you sue me if you got hurt? It has happened, not to me, but to others. In other words, if you step onto my land, I have a liability.

Hogs are a lot less problem than people.

Lots of "what ifs?".

I would have to know someone very, very, well to turn them loose on my land, at night, with a rifle.

BTW, I have never heard of any rancher turning hogs loose. We already have plenty.


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Re: How to find a place to go hog hunting for cheap [Re: Dave Davidson] #2767857 11/19/11 06:10 PM
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up The above pretty much sums up the reality of the situation.

My Father-in-Law has roughly 170 acres that he farms and ranches. He occasionally gets requests from folks, mostly deer and dove hunters, wanting to hunt on his property. He always says no.

He has enough work and worries without dealing with unknown folks who might or might not take care of things. He doesn't need someone walking through a field damaging crops, shooting a calf or cow, leaving trash, leaving a gate open, damaging fences or buildings, etc. Besides, he has me and his grandson to take care of hog problems when they arise grin



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