I don't know a thing about pigs and pig hunting.  It seems like a southern thing to do.  Pigs I see up here are pink and stink.  Are there pigs running wild down south?  Are they hard to hunt?  I have noticed that they tend to have tough hides.  Do you southern boys eat these hairy critters?  Shed some light on my dim wit a little bit...

Pigs are a blast to hunt down here.  Depending on where you are in the south, there is probably some public ground not far that you can go chase pigs on.  We hunted tuesday afternoon and got six in two hours.

Three Arrows,
     I'm going to Florida at the end of the month to hunt hogs for the first time. I have no idea what to expect but I figure I'll learn as I go. It's gotta be a blast.
              Mike

Nothing better than hunting them at night on a bright moon. Fun, fun, fun

That's right pigs are pink, and you shoot them as they feed in the pen, dodn't let anyone tell you they are hard to hunt, it's just a big lie, just throw some scraps and wait for the stinky pink critters to get to it and stick an arrow in them  

I've got one, 250 pounder, quartered up ready for the smoker this afternoon. You bet we eat them hairy critters.

John

A wild hogs sense of smell is better than a whitetial deers. Their eyesight is poor, but they do pick up on movement pretty well. If your going to be stalking them, then you better be upwind. Also, some great chewing to swallow.
Bojack

Wild Hogs in the south are vermin in most states.  Therefore they are huntable year around and because they are so prolific, there are usually good numbers.  They are not a push over to hunt at all, good nose, better eyes then given credit for and they travel in packs (sounders).

They are great table fare and don't let them tell you the big ones don't eat good.  I shot a 400# hogs some years back that was as good as anything you've put in your mouth.

Mike

Don't go hunt them.....you'll be hooked!

If you don't live where you can hunt pigs, then move! I can't take credit for that statement but it is true. Hogs are fun! We have them out here in California and me and my buddies love to hunt them. It is a year around season here so I can string up my bow and go hunting any time. It is a good thing to have a pig hanging, take out the loins and throw them on the grill with a little teriyaki marinade. mmmmm, good. I'm making some chili verde pig stew tonight. Now, where's the Tecate...

Hogs command my respect.  I have taken a number of them over the years, incidential to deer hunting, but recently have made a concerted effort to hunt them specificly.  

Hogs can be a lot of things, but easy is not one of them.  If you are not hunting animals in an enclosure, they can be down right tough, make you a better hunter, and a fool the rest of the time. Don't get me started on how much punishment that can take.  Shoot low, and shoot above the shoulder.

I have killed deer after they  have busted me, you know, they stood around, stomped, circled to get my wind.  Hogs don't play such foolish games, when something is out of place, or doesn't feel right to them, they get the heck out of dodge.  They also remember what they have learned, making the same mistake twice, no way. That pig was taken out of the gene pool a long time ago.

They have a better sense of smell than deer, they have better hearing, and can catch you when you move at the wrong time.  If they could see as well as a deer, we would never kill one and if deer had the survival instincts of a hog, there would be a lot more freezers, a lot more empty.

Regarding the colors, I have killed them gray, black, red, brown, spotted, and one blonde.  The hair is long and course, and trophy boars sport long Ivory Tusks.  They can put the hurt on you,  I killed my largest in Florida in 1980,  Three hundred and Fifty pounds.  The following two weeks after my hunt, two hunters had to be life-flighted off the ranch because they wound up on the business end of a couple of sets of "cutters".

Just for the record, if some of your cute, pink, barnyard piggies get loose, look out.  In a matter of weeks they begin to revert, the tail straightens, the hair gets longer, and they become what they were before they were domesticated.

In one generation they will have lost all of their domestic characteristics.  I hunt hogs year around.  When I can't afford to chase exotic game, and the deer season is closed. It is a sure cure for the off season blues.  Throw in hot weather, swamps, cotton mouth moccaisons in the low land, Diamond back rattlers and copper heads in the high ground, bugs,  poison ivy, heck that sounds like fun to me.    

Come on down sometime,  I would love to show you some of our passive, pink, pork.

Oh, by the way,  don't look now, but your state is being invaded by the little sausages as we speak.

I just plain love to hunt them. I used to hunt in the fall and fish in the spring. Now I pretty much hunt year round.

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hAWGS AND BOWS ...like peanutbutter anbd jelly , they just go together...

Trad-Bowhunting for big boars is one of God's gifts
to man.

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BTH you had me at Tecate man...  

Scott, I found out recently that there is some hogs in Southern Ohio.  I have to go try these critters.  Sounds like they make a great hunt!  Good eatin too huh?