hog hunting in KY

[bigtim6656]

i am new to hog hunting any one know what i do to find out if my area is good for hog hunting and how do i breing them in

[progers]

I couldn't tell you how other than to watch tha creeks this summer for wallow's. Also, watch small trees for mud on them about knee to waist high. Another thing is that you really need to decide on which you would rather hunt, deer or hogs. If you plan on investing in a good spot to deerhunt, you don't want the hogs in there. They will eat everything! What type of hardwoods do you have in the area?

[KwackWacker]

I'll have to agree with Progers, hogs and deer don't get along very well. Mostly because the hogs will use up any food source that the deer would normally rely on. After the hogs are done destroying the ground and mast, they move on to find more food. Then the deer move on to find more food also or your deer herd's health suffers from a lack of nutrition. There's very little you can do to keep the hog population in check. They reproduce much faster than deer and they require more food. Then there's the problem of hogs being nomads. That is to say they move unpredictably and without reason. Hogs don't have yearly patterns like deer. They move when they want and where they want. About the only pattern they follow is in the summertime. They will have a wallow somewhere to cool off and keep the bugs off their backs. Find a wallow and hunt it till the hogs come in.

As far as knowing if hogs are in your area, look for the sign Progers spoke of and look for areas where hogs have been rooting. Hogs dig their noses into the ground and literally plow it up. It looks like someone has taken a disc harrow to the ground. They are searching for edible roots and grubs to eat. Rooting can be found anywhere but it most commonly occurs in swamp bottoms and around creeks.

Hope you got the information you were looking for. And let me know if you have any other questions. Welcome to the forum!!

[BigFoot]

hunting hogs,
seems like a blast to me,only hogs we have are tame ones on farms,the kind they sell for food in stores,nothing wild.That would be awsome to see them critters get wild and cause some action,the ones with the big ole tusks!

[KwackWacker]

It is a blast. It doesn't matter how you do it.

[progers]

I had a farmer come to me yesterday offering me permission to hunt and fish his land. All he asked in return was a couple of truck loads of tha chicken litter for his garden and to kill off all the HOGS that he has rooting up tha fields. Uhh O, looks like this ol boy finally gonna get put on some hogs. I'm going this weekend to scope it out! I might have to get an ol CRO to fly up here and give me a hand!?!

[CRO]

I THINK THAT SOMEONE SAID HOGS I DON'T NEED TO FLY UP THERE I WILL TAKE TIME OFF AND GET UP THERE IF NEEDED. IF YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM ME AND MY HUNTING PARTNER WHO WOULD LOVE TO GO UP THERE AND FIX THE PROBLEM. JUST ONE CALL WILL TAKE CARE OF IT ALL.

[progers]

Didn't mean to get ya all excited! Why ya yellin'?

I was referring to tha expression, as tha CRO flies!

Yea, after I check it out and if I need some back up, I will get in touch with ya! My buddy is a cop and I'm an outlaw so, if we combined our resources, we may come up with a plan!?!

[jbarsness]

I used to hunt Havalina when I lived in Arizona what a blast. My cousin shot a 450 pound wild Faro pig in Amarillo Texas. I will get some pictures and post them he was a big boy.

[KwackWacker]

That is a nice piggy, I would like to see some pics for sure.

[hogdogs]

I am going to have decals made for the back window stating my intentions to remove wild hogs! Maybe then the invites will come in a bit faster. Our hogs are a cross breed of Russian and ferral domestic. I have recently learned that the higher the domestic genes the slower the teeth grow but the body grows much faster. I will post a thread with some links to hog info ya'll may find helpful Brent