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Hunting & Fishing Going on my first HOG hunt this weekend!!!
- Thread starter Moby
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Thanks for posting a link. I will have to remember it. I may use it in the future. Looks to be a good deal.
Good luck on the hunt and please post pictures!
-JD-
Good luck on the hunt and please post pictures!
-JD-
I hope you have or had a better time then I did at that place. My Dad and I went to that place a few years ago, took one look at it and left. They also will not give a refund. When I was at that place there wasn't a shred of undergrowth to see. The exotics there followed the truck in when you met up with the people at the gates. The place is like the McDonald's of hog hunting. Also, there is no such thing as too many hogs on that ranch. They ship the hogs in from some other place and you will see them hanging out at a cage right at the entrance to the ranch.
If you want to go on a quality hog hunt with 2 real good guys that I was referred to by someone here, try nighthogs.com. There are no associated fees other than the straight up fee you are charged and you get to shoot as many hogs as you can find that night. You will go to multiple ranches looking for hogs all with night vision gear. You get the choice of using a LWRC 6.8 suppressed or a Ruger bolt action 44 mag integral suppressed with subsonic rounds. I like using the 6.8 AR cause you can shoot more than one pig when you get the chance. Both rifles have a night vision scope mounted on them and they will also give you a pair of PVS 7Bs to use while walking around.
If you want to go on a quality hog hunt with 2 real good guys that I was referred to by someone here, try nighthogs.com. There are no associated fees other than the straight up fee you are charged and you get to shoot as many hogs as you can find that night. You will go to multiple ranches looking for hogs all with night vision gear. You get the choice of using a LWRC 6.8 suppressed or a Ruger bolt action 44 mag integral suppressed with subsonic rounds. I like using the 6.8 AR cause you can shoot more than one pig when you get the chance. Both rifles have a night vision scope mounted on them and they will also give you a pair of PVS 7Bs to use while walking around.
Just looking at the website, that place looks fishy. You get what you pay for.
I have heard good things about HUNTERS CREEK RANCH - Home - Mount Vernon, TX
Closer to Dallas as well.
I have heard good things about HUNTERS CREEK RANCH - Home - Mount Vernon, TX
Closer to Dallas as well.
I don't like talking bad about anyone but Ive had quite a few clients hunt there and they all had nothing good to say about it.
The funny things is I am almost certain they have changed their website address from when I went to use them.
They will nickel and dime you to death when you get there. You will kill some pigs but it won't be what you want exactly.
good luck.
good luck.
I went on their "free hog hunt" several years ago and it was a joke. It was a nickel and dime fiasco. I killed some pigs and I am sure you will too but there are better places to go that are more fun.
My experience at Hog Hunting - Free Texas Hog Hunting
Drove to the Ranch east of San Antonio.
Three days of hog hunting was really a 3pm check in with one night hunt from a blind, one full day hunt with a morning blind hunt, a walk & stalk, lunch, other walk & stalk, dinner, a second night hunt, and evening snack. Morning blind hunt, and check out by 1pm. Total cost with gas approximately $500.
However all costs were openly and honestly posted on the website. There were no surprises. I knew the budget before I went.
Day one:
I get to the ranch and am met by the owner Paul. Great guy. I follow him to the ranch house where because I’m alone he give me a private bunk house. Normally and $80 per night cost. No charge!
I get to the room and the beds have no bedding and that is explained on the website. If you fly in they provide bedding.
I unroll my Army sleeping bag, unpack my toiletries and clothes and go back to the ranch house to peek around.
There are mounts all around the walls of exotic game on the ranch. 12 BIG leather recliners two 60 inch wide screens, pool table, fuse ball table and an open kitchen. Nicely laid out. Paul shows up and we go through the rules of the ranch. Only three rounds in a firearm as fools with 30 round magazines have in the past sprayed herds of hogs praying for a kill shot. They want aimed hunting not hog warfare. Stay in your assigned area so you’re not in range of other hunters. Shoot a hog call Matt (owners son and ranch manager) and he’ll come pick up your kill and take it to the skinning & quartering station. While walking &stalking you must wear an orange vest and ball cap. Seems reasonable so far. I’m excited. Then I met the three gents from California. Dennis, Eric, and Abraham. We hit it off immediately.
First hunt:
My first hunt was a night hunt. At 6:45 I assigned the “Tripod” blind and given directions. I drive down the dirt road, a couple turns, and approach the area. Right smack dab in the middle of the road is a Cape Water Buffalo. NO KIDDING! He’s just standing there looking at me. I wait. He seems unthreatened so keeps eating grass. When he’s damn well good and walks off the road. Feeling safe I grab my camera (I’m a professional photographer) and keeping my truck between him and I shoot some pictures. I swear this massive fella was posing!! Cautiously I get a little closer (plenty of running room and my AR10 (.308) slung and loaded (safety on, Glock .45 fully loaded on my hip) and shoot a few more shots. He seemed like he could care less. I did keep a good distance as he is not domesticated, just desensitized to people walking around hunting all day.
I climb up in my blind a short while later Paul the owner drives by (I told him I’m a new hunter) to check on me. I told him about the water buffalo and he just smiled. He said they would be laying down my corn in a bit and they did. More exotics show up. Big deer, antelope Rams, other critters I am unfamiliar with and my buddy the Water Buffalo. They munch on the corn a bit. I snapped pictures. No hogs show up.
At the ranch house Paul asked me how it went. I told him no hogs. He said try it in the morning. I did, no hogs. After the morning blind hunt Paul said he had a spot for me to hunt. We went to the “honey Hole”. Normally a $50 dollar add on. No charge. He gave me directions to “Bobcat ally” which is the back fence line of the property. I drove there passing exotic critters everywhere. Once on site I got out of my truck and started down my assigned road. Hogs jumped up from the brush (scared the crap out of me) and ran off. I realized they were along the side of the road. Moving 20 feet in from the road I followed it moving careful;; through the forest floor foliage. A black hog was awakened by my movement and as he jumped up to run he turned to jump away from me. I tagged him behind the left ear and he dropped. I continued down the road a ways and Paul rides up in an electric golf cart. I jump in and he takes me to the back fence line. There are two chairs there. He said several hundred yards in either direction are other hunters assigned to their roads. As they shoot the hogs will right to me. As I was sitting there a heard of dear came running through the woods. I sat a bit longer and saw no less than 100 hogs cross the road but farther than I felt comfortable with a 12 ga. So I watched them go around the bend and followed carefully. No joy. I got nervous as I was now 100 yards out of my assigned area. As I turned to go back 50+ hogs were 40 feet from where I was sitting. DAM IT!
Time was up and I walked back to my truck and found Dennis and Matt (owners son) walking looking for a hog for Dennis (his first hunt ever). I told Matt about my first kill and he said he would get it on the way back. Shortly I hear shots. Not long after Dennis and Matt show up in the jeep with a 165 lbs hog on the game carrier. We load up my 140 lb hog and go back for lunch. GREAT food. Hog of course and all the sides. Hunters were talking about their hunts and kills. One family from Nebraska had multiple hogs. 3 over 400 lbs. We all set out on the second walk & stalk of the day.
Dennis, Eric, Abraham and myself are walking along. Eric and Abraham on the road with Dennis and I walking 40 yards off road (careful to keep in eye sight) to flush hogs to Abraham who had yet to get a hog, no joy. We went farther down the road. Dennis and I were in the woods and heard shots. We hid behind a tree knowing hogs would be running at us soon. 2 minutes later 40+ hogs are in full run right at us. Dennis fires and drops one. With all the excitement I missed. Hogs ran right by us! Back to the ranch house for dinner. Sloppy Joe’s as big and meaty as you could handle. Excellent sides and drinks.
Out for the night hunt.
Abraham and I are at the Windmill blind. Bid pond on our right. The jeep comes by laying corn. Exotics come to eat. BIG Elk show up to enjoy some of our corn. A bug buck goes into the water to drink. I;m snapping pictures.
Then the hogs come. I take aim with my .308 at about 70-80 yards. Slow squeeze, bang a 70 lb. sow. I tell Abraham to wait, the hogs will come back. 10 minutes later they do. He has a shotgun and at 70-80 yards I feel he will not make the shot so I give him my AR 10. He takes aim and misses the first shot. I tell him to be patient and wait for the hogs to come back. They do. He aims and I tell him to squeeze the trigger slowly. The shot should surprise him. BANG.. he nails a 60 lb piglet!!! He was so excited.
Later back at the ranch house for dinner. Hog meat balls in a sweet sauce. It was so good I asked for the recipe. The cook happily wrote it down for me. I told her she needs to write a cookbook.
The next morning since I had shot my twp hogs an additional hog would be a $100. Dennis gave me 40 lbs of meat as he could not take all 11 hogs he shot on the plane with him.
With about 40% of meat per animal I took home about 120 lbs of meat. (including what Dennis gave me) Comes out to about $4 per pound. Not bad when you consider the friends I met, the hunting I had, and the great service and food the ranch provided. They took great care of us. I’m sorry some guys had a bad experience. This was simply not the case on my trip. I’M GOING BACK!!!
Drove to the Ranch east of San Antonio.
Three days of hog hunting was really a 3pm check in with one night hunt from a blind, one full day hunt with a morning blind hunt, a walk & stalk, lunch, other walk & stalk, dinner, a second night hunt, and evening snack. Morning blind hunt, and check out by 1pm. Total cost with gas approximately $500.
However all costs were openly and honestly posted on the website. There were no surprises. I knew the budget before I went.
Day one:
I get to the ranch and am met by the owner Paul. Great guy. I follow him to the ranch house where because I’m alone he give me a private bunk house. Normally and $80 per night cost. No charge!
I get to the room and the beds have no bedding and that is explained on the website. If you fly in they provide bedding.
I unroll my Army sleeping bag, unpack my toiletries and clothes and go back to the ranch house to peek around.
There are mounts all around the walls of exotic game on the ranch. 12 BIG leather recliners two 60 inch wide screens, pool table, fuse ball table and an open kitchen. Nicely laid out. Paul shows up and we go through the rules of the ranch. Only three rounds in a firearm as fools with 30 round magazines have in the past sprayed herds of hogs praying for a kill shot. They want aimed hunting not hog warfare. Stay in your assigned area so you’re not in range of other hunters. Shoot a hog call Matt (owners son and ranch manager) and he’ll come pick up your kill and take it to the skinning & quartering station. While walking &stalking you must wear an orange vest and ball cap. Seems reasonable so far. I’m excited. Then I met the three gents from California. Dennis, Eric, and Abraham. We hit it off immediately.
First hunt:
My first hunt was a night hunt. At 6:45 I assigned the “Tripod” blind and given directions. I drive down the dirt road, a couple turns, and approach the area. Right smack dab in the middle of the road is a Cape Water Buffalo. NO KIDDING! He’s just standing there looking at me. I wait. He seems unthreatened so keeps eating grass. When he’s damn well good and walks off the road. Feeling safe I grab my camera (I’m a professional photographer) and keeping my truck between him and I shoot some pictures. I swear this massive fella was posing!! Cautiously I get a little closer (plenty of running room and my AR10 (.308) slung and loaded (safety on, Glock .45 fully loaded on my hip) and shoot a few more shots. He seemed like he could care less. I did keep a good distance as he is not domesticated, just desensitized to people walking around hunting all day.
I climb up in my blind a short while later Paul the owner drives by (I told him I’m a new hunter) to check on me. I told him about the water buffalo and he just smiled. He said they would be laying down my corn in a bit and they did. More exotics show up. Big deer, antelope Rams, other critters I am unfamiliar with and my buddy the Water Buffalo. They munch on the corn a bit. I snapped pictures. No hogs show up.
At the ranch house Paul asked me how it went. I told him no hogs. He said try it in the morning. I did, no hogs. After the morning blind hunt Paul said he had a spot for me to hunt. We went to the “honey Hole”. Normally a $50 dollar add on. No charge. He gave me directions to “Bobcat ally” which is the back fence line of the property. I drove there passing exotic critters everywhere. Once on site I got out of my truck and started down my assigned road. Hogs jumped up from the brush (scared the crap out of me) and ran off. I realized they were along the side of the road. Moving 20 feet in from the road I followed it moving careful;; through the forest floor foliage. A black hog was awakened by my movement and as he jumped up to run he turned to jump away from me. I tagged him behind the left ear and he dropped. I continued down the road a ways and Paul rides up in an electric golf cart. I jump in and he takes me to the back fence line. There are two chairs there. He said several hundred yards in either direction are other hunters assigned to their roads. As they shoot the hogs will right to me. As I was sitting there a heard of dear came running through the woods. I sat a bit longer and saw no less than 100 hogs cross the road but farther than I felt comfortable with a 12 ga. So I watched them go around the bend and followed carefully. No joy. I got nervous as I was now 100 yards out of my assigned area. As I turned to go back 50+ hogs were 40 feet from where I was sitting. DAM IT!
Time was up and I walked back to my truck and found Dennis and Matt (owners son) walking looking for a hog for Dennis (his first hunt ever). I told Matt about my first kill and he said he would get it on the way back. Shortly I hear shots. Not long after Dennis and Matt show up in the jeep with a 165 lbs hog on the game carrier. We load up my 140 lb hog and go back for lunch. GREAT food. Hog of course and all the sides. Hunters were talking about their hunts and kills. One family from Nebraska had multiple hogs. 3 over 400 lbs. We all set out on the second walk & stalk of the day.
Dennis, Eric, Abraham and myself are walking along. Eric and Abraham on the road with Dennis and I walking 40 yards off road (careful to keep in eye sight) to flush hogs to Abraham who had yet to get a hog, no joy. We went farther down the road. Dennis and I were in the woods and heard shots. We hid behind a tree knowing hogs would be running at us soon. 2 minutes later 40+ hogs are in full run right at us. Dennis fires and drops one. With all the excitement I missed. Hogs ran right by us! Back to the ranch house for dinner. Sloppy Joe’s as big and meaty as you could handle. Excellent sides and drinks.
Out for the night hunt.
Abraham and I are at the Windmill blind. Bid pond on our right. The jeep comes by laying corn. Exotics come to eat. BIG Elk show up to enjoy some of our corn. A bug buck goes into the water to drink. I;m snapping pictures.
Then the hogs come. I take aim with my .308 at about 70-80 yards. Slow squeeze, bang a 70 lb. sow. I tell Abraham to wait, the hogs will come back. 10 minutes later they do. He has a shotgun and at 70-80 yards I feel he will not make the shot so I give him my AR 10. He takes aim and misses the first shot. I tell him to be patient and wait for the hogs to come back. They do. He aims and I tell him to squeeze the trigger slowly. The shot should surprise him. BANG.. he nails a 60 lb piglet!!! He was so excited.
Later back at the ranch house for dinner. Hog meat balls in a sweet sauce. It was so good I asked for the recipe. The cook happily wrote it down for me. I told her she needs to write a cookbook.
The next morning since I had shot my twp hogs an additional hog would be a $100. Dennis gave me 40 lbs of meat as he could not take all 11 hogs he shot on the plane with him.
With about 40% of meat per animal I took home about 120 lbs of meat. (including what Dennis gave me) Comes out to about $4 per pound. Not bad when you consider the friends I met, the hunting I had, and the great service and food the ranch provided. They took great care of us. I’m sorry some guys had a bad experience. This was simply not the case on my trip. I’M GOING BACK!!!
Howdy RyeDaddy,
I took an AR 10 in .308 with a Millet Scope for long range
A Remington Wingmaster 870 Pump 12. ga. with slugs for close up
And I always carry my Glock 21 ACP .45 when ever I'm out in mother nature
It was great fun and the staff, food, and lodging were superb.
Some other guys apparently did not have as good a time.
Can only share my experience though.
I'm sure there are other good places also.
Their pricing looks about the same. $500 for a two day hunt. Wish I could see some pictures of their logging. Closer to Dallas is a good thing.
MAN that sounds like a blast. I get what you mean by the McDonalds of hog hunting. Being a new hunter it worked very well for me.
I sure would like to try night hunting however. I just amy go to that place real soon.
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I just checked out that site and while $400 for a three hour hunt sounds like a lot if I got two if the big hogs on their pictures link I'd be real happy. Serious hunting. As a new hunter I like that a guild goes with two guys almost ensuring a kill and a respectable hunt. Good stuff! Book marked that page!!! I'm going tot try that!! Thanks buddy!
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Please share those places partner!!
This was my first time so if there is more fun to be had I'm all in!!!
Would love some ideas. Particularly if they're a bit closer to Dallas.
Went recently to the Spike Box Ranch and it was great. Great food and good lodging and a whole lot of land to hunt. about the same money and it is hog warfare there.
