People actually expect you to pay to shoot hogs? That's disgusting. Coming from North Dakota, where you can hunt private property that is unposted without even asking the landowner, that just sounds ridiculous. I thought they'd just wanna get rid of em?

People actually expect you to pay to shoot hogs? That's disgusting. Coming from North Dakota, where you can hunt private property that is unposted without even asking the landowner, that just sounds ridiculous. I thought they'd just wanna get rid of em?

...its my experience that the only landowners who don't like hogs on their place are farmers. Everybody else is happy to have em. ....

Rather broad brush!

Since it is free to hunt hogs in North Dakota, why not just stay at home and hunt them there? Oh wait, you don't have feral hogs. So you want something for free, LOL! You don't think we don't already have enough guns here willing to hunt????????? Texas already has plenty of hunters, especially those who want to hunt for free. In fact, Texas sells nearly double the amount of hunting licenses that your state has total population down to the last man, woman, and child. We have plenty of hunters, thank you very much.

Your judgmental ignorance as to our laws and ways of life will not garner you any favors here. Just consider all of privately-owned Texas pre-posted as to no hunting. Come with your hat in your hand when you knock on doors, offer to help mend some fences or muck out some stalls if you want to "hunt for free." And whatever you do, don't go around blabbering about what you do back home and how much better you think it is than here. There is nothing more disgusting than foreigners coming to Texas and telling us how we don't do things right like you do back home. If home is so good, then just stay there. And yes, if you aren't from here and have that attitude, then you ain't nothing but a foreigner. We already have an immigrant problem.

You sure as hell don't want to be caught poaching and it is poaching if you are hunting without permission.

Otherwise, enjoy your "free" hunting on all of our public lands. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/public/

Wow, thanks for jumping down my throat & making me feel so welcome. Sorry, but the transition's gonna take some getting used to. I grew up in MN, & their trespass laws are the same as TX. However, if someone had a nuisance beaver or coyote problem (nowadays its timber wolves) anyone was welcome onto our property to take care of the problem. Charging them for access didn't even cross anyone's mind. I did alot of beaver & yote trapping in hs & the only people that turned me down were fellow trappers. I would usually drop off some venison sausage or offer to shovel a few driveways or mow some yards, but no one ever expected it. Not saying one is right and one is wrong, it just seems a little greedy from an outsider's perspective. But I'm not gonna try to change anything. This is your state & I'll try to blend in as best I can, even with my MN "oofda" accent when I get the itch to just go wondering across broad expanses of land without worrying about crossing a fence, I'll take a trip to NoDak

Since it is free to hunt hogs in North Dakota, why not just stay at home and hunt them there? Oh wait, you don't have feral hogs. So you want something for free, LOL! You don't think we don't already have enough guns here willing to hunt????????? Texas already has plenty of hunters, especially those who want to hunt for free. In fact, Texas sells nearly double the amount of hunting licenses that your state has total population down to the last man, woman, and child. We have plenty of hunters, thank you very much.

Your judgmental ignorance as to our laws and ways of life will not garner you any favors here. Just consider all of privately-owned Texas pre-posted as to no hunting. Come with your hat in your hand when you knock on doors, offer to help mend some fences or muck out some stalls if you want to "hunt for free." And whatever you do, don't go around blabbering about what you do back home and how much better you think it is than here. There is nothing more disgusting than foreigners coming to Texas and telling us how we don't do things right like you do back home. If home is so good, then just stay there. And yes, if you aren't from here and have that attitude, then you ain't nothing but a foreigner. We already have an immigrant problem.

You sure as hell don't want to be caught poaching and it is poaching if you are hunting without permission.

Otherwise, enjoy your "free" hunting on all of our public lands. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/public/

... where you can hunt private property that is unposted without even asking the landowner.....

I was surprised to see that Texas also has a law against bullets crossing property lines. It is customary NOT to deliberately shoot game across a fence on a neighbors property without permission, but I've never heard of it being a form of penalty for trespassing.

So I'm gonna be moving to the Victoria area for work in a few weeks & I'm pretty excited. I grew up fishing typical Midwestern freshwater fish & shooting typical Midwestern critters. I'm excited to add a pile of hogs to the list but I have no idea where to start. As far as firearms, I have an AR-15, just a little Bushmaster m4 but figure some heavier rounds should do the trick. Also have a 700 chambered in 25-06 if the ol' 5.56 is a little underkill.
So how does a guy go about finding hogs & getting permission to hunt em? What kinda areas should I be looking for? Do you spot & stalk, hunt over bait, set on stand? Are landowners usually pretty willing to let hog hunters on their property? Also, do they taste any good or do you just remove em from the property & dispose of em?
Any other words of wisdom or tips would be great!