Calling Dee or other hog hunters, help?

[Land_Owner]

Since when has Kevin changed his name to Tim or sold the site to someone else? Kevin is a personal friend and I've known him for many years and been to his home and hunted with him. Can't believe he's sold out or changed his name.

Dang...I hate it when CRS happens.  Thanks GB.  You are correct of course .  I changed my post.

[billy_56081]

I have hunted hogs in Texas many many times, the easiest hunt was on the King ranch open range hunting. The hogs were hungry plentful and were like flies on poop for corn. The toughest hog hunting was on an 800 acre fenced place with tons of higs that had been hunted hard. They would not come to corn and were only shot while spot and stalked.

[Sharps-Nut]

    Thanks for the information.   I went to a national forest that was supposed to have lots of hogs here in missouri, we spent the day in the forest but never saw a hog oe hog signs.  What we did see was lots of signs posted by yhe state telling us to shoot all hogs on sight.   

[Graybeard]

That's the way free range hog hunting goes. Most times in most places you won't even see or hear one.

[JimFromTN]

I have seen some of the complaints about that outfitter from people who bought the hunt off of ebay.  Apparently, they treat the ebay hunters worse than they do their hunters that paid the full price.  The odd thing is that people never give them a bad feedback on ebay.  If these people had waited to writeup their feedback on ebay until after their hunt, this outfitter would disappear and people like you wouldn't be duped into buying a hunt.  I have bought hunts off of ebay and I never leave feedback until after the hunt.

If you have paid money upfront, then I say just go.  The whole thing is only $225 and you will probably come home with some meat.  If it sucks and you bought it off ebay then leave bad feedback providing you have not already left positive feedback.  Its the worse thing you can do to the seller.  Bad feedback kills sellers on ebay.

[BRL]

Go. If it's real bad...shoot all of his exotics! Just kidding!!!!

[Sharps-Nut]

I saw his ad on the net, not an ebay purchase.  I called him yesterday to check on other expenses, writing it off as being ignorant and not wanting to carry cash down there if I was paid up.  He says you pay all remaining fee's upon arrival in cash.  He said no you bought a complete trip all you need to bring are the things on the equipment list.  I have been mulling it over and I think its a go and see what shakes out.  My main concern will be saftey.  And that can hopefully be judged fairly the day of.  Maybe with some luck I might manage to build a bridge to some private hunting while down there.  Maybe exchange some missouri whitetails or turkeys for a hog hunt?  If not it will be  fun trip with a friend that might net a little hog experience.   Thanks for all the input helped alot.  SN

[billy_56081]

I say, go with a positive attitude. I been to alot of places some better than the others. None were bad and all were a heck of alot of fun.

[catfishfiend]

they changed the feral hog's status in texas from nongame to exotic, so they can make more money off them.  used to be kill on site like coyotes, but now hog hunting is its own industry.  the $45 5 day permit will cover an out of stater for a temporary hunt.  if you bought the whole license for the year as a nonresident, with no endorsements, it would be $300.  it used to be nothing to see a farmer working his fields here in the panhandle and after a brief discussion get permission to hutn either for a night or any time.  they didn't even want you to call, just don't shoot the equipment or livestock, and don't leave the gates open.  word would get around to other farmers and ranchers with hog problems once you gained credibility with the landowner, and they would be calling asking you to hunt their place.  now they have sections upon sections of land leased for hogs from people that might hunt the place 3 times a year.  a lease is a lease though, and i respect that folks gotta earn a living.  we never hunted within 2 months before bow season, so we didn't affect anyone's chances at whitetails or mulies.  now i hunt public land on the red river, and 1 in 10 trips are successful.  a lot more work but it's what i have now, as i don't have the $ at this point in life to be shelling out for that.  there's a place that does good business at plaska in the red river valley, guy name orren don malloy runs it. i think it's called the plaska lodge.  or as mentioned earlier the guys on texasboars have their stuff together.  those guys are hardcore for real!  if they recommend a place, you can bet it's a good deal.

[super mario]

they changed the feral hog's status in texas from nongame to exotic, so they can make more money off them.  used to be kill on site like coyotes, but now hog hunting is its own industry.  the $45 5 day permit will cover an out of stater for a temporary hunt. 

I dont see how they make money from moving them to exotic status.  Youve always needed a hunting license to hunt game or non game or exotic animals.
It also says you dont need a license to kill hogs for deprovation of property or crops.
The 45.00 permit is a 5 day hunting license for out of towners, its either that or 300.00 for a year.

[ccoker]

I live and hunt in Texas

I have seen that place advertized and my BS meter gets pegged when looking at it

There is a guy in that same area that is legit but probably more expensive and they he has a night vision setup

[S.B.]

ccoker, are you talking Texas Wild?
Steve

[ccoker]

HTR with the wild river ranch
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