hog hunting at night
Jim Reed
I'm a landowner here in north central Texas. I've been hunting deer most of
my life and hunting 'em hogs at night is kinda new to me.
I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions about the type of gear that's
best for hunting hogs at night....also, any techniques, strategies, etc...
Thanks,
Jim Reed, in Navarro County, Texas
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David J. McBride
From: Jim Reed <jre...@airmail.net>
> I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions about the type of gear
that's
> best for hunting hogs at night....also, any techniques, strategies, etc...
High-rack 'em with a spotlight works especially if you know they're
working a cornfield or a bait. We spotted several at considerable distance
even across fences with a 2 million candlepower spotlight. Two of us rode
in seats in a rack above the cab. Shots will more than likely be running so
having a good "light man" and a driver that knows when to stop are
essential.
David J. McBride
Houston, Texas
Rich Weatherly
Need any help.
I live in North Central Texas, myself, and am looking for some places to
hunt without spending all of my retirement.
If you have any varmint problems I'd love to help solve them.
As far as hunting at night is concerned, I've hunted fox using preditor
calls successfully. As long as it is not during hunting season, I'm not
aware of a problem using spot lights on non-game species. Does anyone make a
grunt call for boars? If so, that might do the trick.
Hope this helps,
Rich
David Sutera (EUS)
Question: Are you hunting them for recreation/food or just to get rid of
them. For recreation I would say the best way would be to get a night
vision scope. Those are very expensive but you would hardly disturb them at
all. Otherwise a red lense or just plain High intensity q beam. Don't take
running shots unless your just letting them lie.
With proper baiting you could have them come to feed at the same time every
day and get some good action. I've got a great recipe for hog bait. Of
course if you need a professional removal service I might be convinced to
help you out ;)
Many of the landowners I talk to have good luck with traps. And you can
sell the pigs and make some money (not a bad deal at all).
Good luck and good hunting.
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Murff
> I am hearing about night vision and laser mounts. If anyone does this
> let me know
mainly with a .22LR Anschutz equipped with a Yukon "Photon" night vision
scope plus an infrared "illuminator". The .22LR won't, obviously, touch a
pig but with subsonic ammunition and a sound moderator it makes for a
very effective package on suitable game. The Photon is a low-light CCD
camera with the back-end of a scope attached it it. It is cheap and
effective - and you have to be spending getting on for an order of
magnitude more (at least in the UK) before you start to see significant
improvements in performance.
Setup and a lot of practice are critical. You typically don't have
anything like the context you get through an optical scope in natural
light. So you need to be familiar with your ground such that you know
safe angles of fire, backstops and ranges. Undergrowth that in daylight
you can see (and poke your barrel through) will reflect an IR lamp very
strongly and white out your sight picture - so you need to ensure that
you've a completely clear field of vision.
On the other hand, you don't need to hide behind vegetation so much, it
being dark when you're out shooting. Quarry which runs at the first shot
in daylight will very often stay put allowing multiple critters to be
bagged. Unlike visible-light lamping you're not advertising your presence
to potentially suspicious neighbours, or risking making your quarry "lamp
shy" to anything like the same extent. Targets show up better either due
to differences in contrast against the background, or through strong
reflection even of IR radiation from retinae.
Murff
>
> I don't hunt boar at night, but I do shoot rabbit, hare and the odd fox
> mainly with a .22LR Anschutz equipped with a Yukon "Photon" night vision
> scope plus an infrared "illuminator".
laser which is supposed to act as an IR illuminator. It does, sort of.
But the resultant image quality is *extremely* poor, very speckled and
provides levels of contrast in the sight picture that are bordering on
useless. It is a waste of battery life, and weight.
A separate illuminator - what is basically a non-laser IR "torch" that
mounts on the side via a short piece of rail - is available as an
accessory. That works very well - at least out to the 100 yards I've used
it - and it is pretty much essential.