East Texans participate in wild hog tournament for big bucks

KTRE ^ | 26 Feb 2011 | Donna McCollum

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RATCLIFF, TX (KTRE) - Five minutes before one of five check stations was scheduled to shut down for the first day of the Lone Star Wild Hog Tournament two pickup trucks pulled up. Wild hogs was the cargo.

"Do ya'll weigh many of 'em?," said a hunter as he pulled out an extremely large boar hog.

Weight in this hog tournament, only matters to the, "side bets going," laughed the hunter.

The guesses began. "I said 175 while ago," said a bystander. "I say 160," said a hunter. The boar was lifted on a weight held by a tractor.

Everybody was way off. "200 pound boar hog, even," yelled the tournament volunteer.

The big boar is probably the daddy to what does matter, the quantity of wild hogs hunters can bring in during a week's time. They're off to a good start.

"How many we catch?," asked Paul Shepherd to his partner, Cody Parrish.

"I had 7," Parrish answered. "Seven and 11. That would be 18 hogs this morning," calculated Shepherd.

The two are wildlife specialists for Boggy Slough Wildlife Management Area, near Ratcliff, where the hogs were trapped. Their daily bounty is a fraction of what's out there.

"Generally, last year we probably trapped around 300 hogs," said Shepherd. And that's the way it's been for the last three years.

"I know on the farm road I live on, I've seen them in people's yards," said Parrish. "(They have) two litters a year. They can be bred at like 6-8 months, something like that, and any where from 8-11 per litter. So you can do the math there," said Shepherd.

The National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) did some figuring.

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Tournament begins on Feb. 26, 2011 at 7:00 a.m. & ends March 6, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.

http://www.nwtf.org/texas/sites/default/files/images/2011_Wild_Hog_tournament_rules_regs.pdf

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Is Ratcliff where they let the pigs run the rats over the cliff?

[JoeProBono]

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[driftdiver]

Nice rig but ya need night vision scopes. the hogs are much more active after dark.

[Neil E. Wright]

I WANT ONE!!!!!

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[youngidiot]

I’ve heard of something called “pork choppers” in Texas where you ride in a helicopter and take out as many hogs as you can. I really want to go.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That’s a lot of bacon

[smokingfrog]

me too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLejlibClio

[stuartcr]

That sounds like real sport.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

You got that right, I was on my way to work last march 31st at about five thirty in the morning when 2 wild hogs about a buck fifty each ran out in front of my truck. I got em both, rolled over my truck three times tore both acl’s and the meniscus in my left knee. Also tore about a six inch gash in my left arm from the highway. Had to be extricated from my totaled out ford ranger I had just paid off. I just about bought the farm. They can shoot all of them for all I care. In case anyone is wondering the accident occured in Montgomery County Georgia, long pond community. Hogs thick as the hair on a dogs back. Good Hunting boys!!

[deport]

Helicopter Wild Hog Eradication in Texas.. 8 minute video

Freedom Helicopter Hog Hunt High Definition .. 10 minute video

enjoy.....

[Mrs.Liberty]

My mother-in-law, brother-in-law and his family live in east TX...Mineola. My nephew goes out almost every weekend, takes folks out to catch these wild hogs. He sells the meat of the hogs he has killed.

[50cal Smokepole]

Y'all have plenty of BBQ sauce so it's going to be one heckuva feast. Those hogs are so destructive. I'd like to get a .308 upper for my AR and give it a try. Sounds like a fun hunt.

[Eye of Unk]

Sounds to me like a privately owned airship with a Dillon chain gun would be perfect.

[org.whodat]

Poor dumb kid, his dad paid 5 grand for him to shoot a tame boar., and just for whoever wrote the artical, the younger you breed them the more it stunts their growth, and also the more inbreeding you have.

[TribalPrincess2U]

A little overkill but nice rig.

[TribalPrincess2U]

My grandson traps them on his ranch in E. TX, then gives them to the butcher.

They tear up the land something awful.

[youngidiot]

Thanks. Those damned things are running rampant down there. It’s good to see they’re being proactive.

[TigersEye]

I don’t suppose that anyone plays through on the guy who owns that golf cart. lol