Message #542267

[Goose87]

Beside good dog work my second favorite thing about hog hunting is the management aspect, if a sow bays easy or is springing with pigs then she is off limits to kill, just about every boar we catch is cut and turned back loose, depending on the area, 90% of the places i hunt I can do as I please with the hogs, I've crossed several with domestic blood and kicked out just because I like to catch hogs with some color, me myself I prefer a running hog, my reason behind it is for several years me and an old hunting partner "built" the population up in our area with easy baying hogs, I was the one footing most of the bill for everything, well that sorry POS decided he wanted to do a 180 with his life and lost everything he had, including good job, good wife, and good friends, well he called in a bunch of knuckle heads and they went in and caught and killed about 40 head in a month or two, now to some that may not sound like a lot but if you live in a area where there isn't a lot of hogs that a detrimental blow, so after that episode I got permission to hunt everything around. Now the hogs are managed but not just any numb nuts is going to be able to bring in some 1st rate culls and catch them, in one particular place I hunt in about 6 hunts we pulled 4 mountable trophies out of there this year, 3 being big Barrs and one was a fine boar, by cutting every boar caught there and turning the sows back out it seems like everytime I go there we catch hogs. For the ones who say they have to kill everything they catch or they will be shunned, if you would just keep your mouth shut and not go around bragging to everybody and beating your chest that you caught a hog then people wouldn't know your business, I have a FB account and vowed a while back to quit posting pictures of every hog I caught, now it has to be a good'en, some good dog work that can be bragged on, or it involves my son or any kids in our hunting party. If you don't need the meat then why not leave it on its feet, one thing me or anybody i hunt with never has to worry about is a place to go hunting, we keep them managed to a point where everybody is happy, yes we do have several places we hunt that we can kill everything we catch and still don't put a hurting on the numbers, that's the places we go to fill our freezers or to get a friend a hog. The reason hogs are like they are is because of bad management involved.