Hog vs. Deer

[nealglen37]

Hello All, I am new to this forum so i will first warn you all that i have teribble spelling, but I assume you boys (and girls0 would rather hear my free flow of thoughts than take the time to check my spelling.

 i pose a question to you all.................why do people like deer hunting more than hog hunting.......I have afew ideas ....give me your thoughts.

i just started hog hunting last year (stand hunting), and I love it...........hogs are smarter, usually more wary, if in thick brush they will not always run......but chop their teeth (exciting), and they taste better. But people don't hunt them as much as they do deer in my part of Oklahoma.

My conclusions................people are not use to huning hogs.........they may have heard tall tales about how dangerous hogs are.........pigs are ugly............nor rack to put on the wall..................hogs stink........and hogs are just plain harder to hunt..............

ok guys (and girls0, give me your thoughts.

everyone have a nice day
 :-)

[howie1968]

and  welcome  to  the  forum!!  i agree  with  everything  you  said.  well said   it  is  also  my bleif  that  wild  hogs  are   much harder  to hunt  then   whiteail, trophy whitail  is  pretty  close  as  i  havent  killed  many  very  big  deer   but  any  hog   is  a  touch  hunt,  they are  very  smart  and  just  when  ya  think  you  have  thenm figured  out   they do just  the oppisite.  i  am hunting all  this  week  very  heavy   have  psoitive  sign everywhere   but   they are not  cooperating  i e ven hunted 13 hrs   last  night  left  for  a  few  hrs  came  back  and  all  the  corn  was  gone   go  figure,  i  also  have  several  large  european mounts  done  in  my  home  and  side  my  deer  racks  my  axis and  sika  racks  and  my  mule  deer  and   other  critters  the  pigs  and  bobcats  arer  my  favorite  to  me  deer  are  easy  prey  to  hunt do  not  taste  as  well  and  do  not  offer  a  challenge  when  baiting

[HWooldridge]

Deer are pretty and majestic.  They are fleet of foot and bound away in graceful leaps.  Hogs are...hogs.  I agree that hogs are probably a tougher game animal and it also makes a great sausage meat all by itself - no venison needed.

[Zachary]

I think part of it has to do with the fact that they are just so dang hard to clean.  I love hog hunting, but I try to not shoot one during the evening, because it will take me till midnight to clean it.

Zachary

[Mohawk]

HWooldridge about sums it up. But I'll add:

   Here in the Texas Hill Country deer season is like religion. Main source of income for MANY towns here.

[Wynn]

I think part of it has to do with the fact that they are just so dang hard to clean.  I love hog hunting, but I try to not shoot one during the evening, because it will take me till midnight to clean it.

Zachary

Not sure what you are doing that takes you so long to clean a hog. I can have a 250 pounder gutted, skinned and quartered in 40 minutes by myself. I have a good hand winch hanging rack and use Victorinox boning knives that were worn out for restaurant use but are perfect for gutting/skinning hogs. I keep a sharpener handy and usually have to touch it up a couple of times. I keep a come along in the truck if I'm away from the house and have to clean in the field.

I also invested in a $200 meat saw/grinder set-up from Harbor Freight. Chops, steaks, roasts and sausage are a snap.

[markc]

Whitetail, the most popular big game animal in N. America, has a set season.  Hunters scout and plan and prepare all year for opening day.  Deer camp is an awsome place, where young hunters are introduced to a new world found in the woods. Old stories are shared, and new adventures experienced.  Deer season ends at some point and many hunters with unfilled tags plan, scout, and prepare for the next season, compare notes, improve their skills.  Hogs, atleast here in Tx, are hunted any time day or night, with or without  artificial lighting, with trained dogs, trapped, shot, etc..etc.. While fun, and quite tasty, to most hunters a hog is a hog, and will never compare to the hunt of the whitetail.  

As for hogs being much harder to hunt than whitetail???  Not sure where you guys are at, but in my neck of the woods for every whitetail deer, there must be 50 feral hogs.  They are noisy, smelly and often times their noise (being such vocal animals) gives them away long before they are sighted.  Atleast in the thickets I hunt.  When a sow and 8 piglets travel the woods, they are loud.  I find the whitetail to be much quieter than that.  Happy hunting.
markc

[longwinters]

I think a big reason is that there are not wild hogs distributed throughout the USA.  They are in the southern states that typically do not have tons of snow.  Granted probably every state has game ranches where you can shoot em in a relatively "canned hunt"  situation but they are not free ranging.  

long