Author Topic: Texas Coon Trap (Read 1059 times)

mechanic · « **on:** November 20, 2009, 03:18:40 PM »

Thought ya'll might be interested in how the boys down in Texas trap coons.....

Dee · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2009, 03:57:32 PM »

Looks like ole Rory got too comfortable eatin with the shoats, and got hammered. He's probably desert. Does that hog look like you normal feral to you? Maybe it's just the angle but he looks different than the feral hogs here in my part of Texas, and these have been around a long time.

mechanic · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:02:36 PM »

Dee, He's either a hybrid or he's been eating a lot of that deer corn. Big old boy. This was emailed to me, and I'm backtracking to see just where in Tx. this is supposed to be. I've got a friend with a small ranch that has invited me to kill all the pigs I want at his place, but what he described was nothing like this old boy.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:06:23 PM »

Just like a coon to try and steal more pork than he can eat!

Dee · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:09:40 PM »

Quote from: mechanic on November 20, 2009, 04:02:36 PM

Dee, He's either a hybrid or he's been eating a lot of that deer corn. Big old boy. This was emailed to me, and I'm backtracking to see just where in Tx. this is supposed to be. I've got a friend with a small ranch that has invited me to kill all the pigs I want at his place, but what he described was nothing like this old boy.

Like I said, we have had feral hogs here for over a hundred years, and although I'm not a hundred YET! I haven't seen anything or killed anything that looks like him, and I have killed some fair sized boars. It's really not his size, it's his look. Does that make sense?

blind ear · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:17:15 PM »

Thought you baited them with something sweet like a mellon.

mechanic · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:22:49 PM »

The hogs we have around here will tear a deer feeder down to get the corn. They don't wait on the timer to go off.

Arier Blut · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:30:34 PM »

There are some that look like that big ol boy in Bama. They claim they are mixed with a Russian strain. http://www.4b-ranch.com/images/boars/russian-boars-large.jpg I never shot one. All I have taken look more like farm pigs. Compare that photo to the hair sticking up on his back.

mechanic · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:34:08 PM »

My grandpa used to raise what he called "arkansas razor backs". but they did not have the snout that this one does. They did have the hair on the backbone, kinda' like a mohawk hairdo. And the sows were mean. Had one tree me one day for several hours.

Redtail1949 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:38:36 PM »

looks like some russian and piney woods rooter

billy_56081 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:40:03 PM »

If a real pic, this is a great catch.

S.S. · « **Reply #11 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:43:45 PM »

I know there are some that look just exactly like that on Cumberland island off the coast of georgia.
I saw one real up close and personal on a muzzle loader hunt. To give some idea of how big it was,
We were taken to our stands in a big duce and a half military truck, when this boar jumped out in the
trail it's front feet landed in one tire track and its hind feet landed in the other.This thing was a monster
and one of the only things I have encountered in the woods that has really scared me.

Default · « **Reply #12 on:** November 20, 2009, 08:09:24 PM »

Now that is one awesome looking boar ... Would be glad to introduce him to my 444

williamlayton · « **Reply #13 on:** November 21, 2009, 01:25:56 AM »

That does not appear to be either a Russian or Javilina. It appears to me to just be a wild hog. We shot them as a youngster in the Big Thicket.
Blessings

oldandslow · « **Reply #14 on:** November 21, 2009, 02:36:47 AM »

It's definately not a javalina as they don't get much bigger than a coon. A hog never stops growing. How much they can find to eat and how long they live determines how big they can grow.

Dee · « **Reply #15 on:** November 21, 2009, 02:45:43 AM »

Usually their teeth start giving out about the time they reach about 6 years old. The area where I live, and grew up is primarily agricultural. We don't see many 400+ lb hogs around here, and there is almost always corn on the ground around here, not to mention native pecan, and millions of oak trees.
I am with another whom said hogs will usually wreck a 3 legged feeder, and not to say the one in the pic won't but, to me he doesn't look like the normal feral hog. I suspect game ranch hog. Maybe not.

greg916 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 21, 2009, 07:58:09 AM »

Bet that is rough on the hides!!!

That hog is too big to be a Russian, the hips do not look right, and the head is wrong for a feral. My guess is a cross between the two.

Dee · « **Reply #17 on:** November 21, 2009, 10:35:02 AM »

Now that's a possibility, but I thought Russians get pretty good size, or maybe we're lookin at a EURASIAN cross. The Eurasian is NOTED of aggression, and some think they have be sneaked over here to cross. Watched a Discovery on them here while back.

Mohawk · « **Reply #18 on:** November 21, 2009, 11:00:02 AM »

The background looks like Texas Hill Country. Prickly pear and such. Looks like mesquite and a little oak. Not thick enough for South Texas and doesn't look much like east Texas.

Sourdough · « **Reply #19 on:** November 21, 2009, 01:13:56 PM »

To me, Looks an awful lot like the Russian without the hair.

Yankee1 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 21, 2009, 01:37:11 PM »

Hi All
I put an arrow in the shoulder of a large one in the thicket in east Texas one day at about 40 yards. To my amazement he just started shaking all over and that arrow worked out of his body and dropped on the ground. Then he just continued eating, he didn't even run off.
The one I shot did not have a snout that long thou.
Yankee1

billy_56081 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 21, 2009, 01:45:37 PM »

All swine here were domesticated from eurasian/russian swine. There has been an introduction of a more pure strain into the south, whether intentional releases or unintentional escapes of the non hybridised russian/eurasian swine. When these cross breed with our hybridised feral hogs here the generations of hogs quicky revert back and take up russian/eurasian traits. The hind quarters get smaller on the eurasian/russian. The shoulders are larger, and the tail straightens out.

Redtail1949 · « **Reply #22 on:** November 21, 2009, 04:10:40 PM »

The Big Thicket most here would never believe that it exist..Bragg Road (Ghost Road)...my first wifes family lived there...quite a place. Kaiser Burnout..my great great grandfather did that hunting down and hanging deserters. i know the place well.

squirrellluck · « **Reply #23 on:** November 21, 2009, 04:12:48 PM »

Redhawk, I gotta agree on the piney hills rooter. That snout locks like a rooter

Yankee1 · « **Reply #24 on:** November 21, 2009, 05:14:06 PM »

Hi Redtail
Small world. Did you ever know a man named Earl Marshall.
He was my father-in-law. We used to hunt deer in the Thicket.
Floyd Jordan's wife used to take the neck meat and make some great hash with hot peppers in it and bring it back out to us at the Blaze in time for supper. It was great. She was an Indian lady.
Yankee1