turning hogs loose

[cowcountryhogdogger]

I personally don't cut and release, simply because of agreements with landowners.  All want the pigs gone either by trapping, dogging and killing or tying and selling.  Thats a good way to get run off a place here.  However, I've always been curious as to seeing how much a barr would grow and the size teeth that could be on a barr given the right conditions.  Guess I'll have to find somewhere else to hunt that will allow be to do that so I can find out...lol.  Don't have anything against those that do either.  As long as we still get to run dogs and catch pigs, do so however legally possible and who cares.  Main thing is to keep the sport going and pass it on, not argue about catch and release vs. dead pigs.

[robbiew2208]

making a living, or just having fun, there will always be split hairs, that big barr i caught , the man who had the yearlings turned out he was running off didnt appreciate it too much

[Wmwendler]

I have been ridiculed for shooting hogs and leaving them in the woods.  At the same time I have turned hogs loose or purposfully did'nt shoot them when I could have because I did not want to waste meat.  Its not so much about the action its about the situation.  Trust me if I have 5 hogs killed and passed up shooting a 6th because I did'nt have time to clean that many or a place to go with that much meat then its my business and no one elses, and I still did more for the landowner than charging 500$ an hour and lying about how many I killed.  Some situations are different, around here people want the hog population under control and thats what I do.  Not even the row crop farmers want them totally gone.  Some places don't have the hog populations others do and some of those same places have lots of hog hunting pressur and no row crop agriculture.  Hogs are just wild livestock, like it or not thats a fact supported by Texas Law.  Its just like any other live stock...if a herd of cows got out and destroyed a corn crop thats a bad thing but it does not mean cattle are like fire ants, it just means they need a better fence to keep the cattle under control.  In East Texas where row crop farming is rare a hog can roam around and not cause anyone financial burden as long as population numbers stay under control.  As far as quail and Turkeys go, row crop farming, and housing developements have done more to get rid of them than hogs ever will.  Just something to think about.

Waylon

[Cull Buck]

It all depends on the landowners request for me.  Most of what we do is hog eradication work for very pissed off farmers and ranchers.  If that's the case, the hog is dead as soon as I get my hands on it.  If that's not the case, the boars are barred and the sows are released if they are in good shape.

[Curdog]

we barr just about every boar.... aint gonna tear up no pine plantation or river bottom like mike said,, cant eat no boar hog.... 


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[trey brown]

we turn alot of hogs loose that we have barred around here. aint nothing better than baying a big barr hog that you have cut or one of your friends have cut and turned loose.

[Curdog]

That's right!!!!

[bob]

in oklahoma it is a felony to release any type of hog on private or public land , what are the laws in texas , is it not the same

[hogbuyer]

  I own a buying station in malone and i see hogs as m o n e y please catch and release the small ones or the un wanted ones. one day hog lease will be as high as a deer lease

[HogzgoneWild]

God bless America, fellas this is why we should be happy to be free, over to the east, cut and turn loose....west, kill em' all. Gotta love it, but no reason to bicker and fight over it. Killed in the west don't affect the east, and turned loose in the east don't affect the west. See no harm no foul Yall crack me up, don't like to side with no one but yes I have barred and turned loose . I'm so ashamed :'(

[DoGgONit]

KILLEM ALL !!  EAT WHAT YOU CAN AND BAY THE REST 

[Bryant]

Not trying to start an argument, but do all you "there not hurting anything over in these parts" people not believe all the statistical data, maps, surveys, etc that show (the predominantly westward) hog migration?  Google it up and look at migration and population data even just over the last ten years.  Heck, I can't think of a place I currently hunt on that even had a sign of a hog twenty to twenty-five years ago.

Now, unless there's a law saying you can't, I have no problem with what anyone does.  But I wouldn't try to fool myself by saying that what I do over here has absolutely no effect on what goes on over there.

Just my $.02

[T-Bob Parker]

If you Barr them they're no longer producing migratory rugrats nor do they have any sexual need to migrate. Barring historically not only helps them to fatten up but keeps them in their home range therefore easier to round up in sausage season. I don't know what I'm talking about and that's the dumbest thing ever posted on the forum, but to my knowledge its true.  Cut the next ten boars and mark them and call me an idiot after three grain seasons. If you don't like barrs kill them all, different strokes I guess

[Eric]

I am all for hunters doing what they want. Not long ago on this forum I remember a thread that kind of pointed the finger at people with short range dogs or dogs that they can call back for causing all these hogs to be runners. Is it short range dogs or catch and release programs?

[blenox]

Robbie you bitch too Much! Jus be glad you can still chase a ole rooter ever once in a while.... But you still cant hang wit us CENTRAL Texas hands.

[STEELTRAP]

my father farms around 15,000 acres of milo, corn , and rice combined. we kill more hogs every year trying to control them and it's like we never killed one the year before.