02-20-2021, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by BPturkeys
Moose, a point of clarification if you will...please explain how the Texas hunting license law is actually applied when hunting on a private ranch with permission from the owner. Do you need a license? Do you need to contact the Fish and Game people? Are these ranches you speak of all "pay-to-hunt" operations or are there ranches that will let you hunt to help control the beasts? What might a guy expect to pay to hunt on a ranch? Thanks
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I’m not 100% positive on the laws regarding hunting in Texas and licenses required to do so. Most my Texas hog hunts were done while hunting whitetails, where we had already purchased our licenses and tags, and we killed pigs when the opportunity presented itself. It was a low fence ranch. Some years pigs were thick and our group would stack them up. Other years the group might only kill 1 or 2.. The other ranch we did specifically hunt for pigs a few years was a high fence deal and they needed our hunting license number to write down for their records. I would assume the state requires you to buy a hunting license if you are hunting. We already had our licenses and tags for deer and turkeys to begin with, so I’m not sure what’s required for just pigs.
I think you’d have a hard time finding a rancher that doesn’t want some kind of trespass fee to hunt pigs, if you don’t know them personally. Most of these fees pay for lodging, meals, driving you around to the hunt areas, corn for the feeders, etc... the one ranch didn’t charge us anything to shoot pigs, but we had already paid for the whitetail hunts, and just shot pigs when we saw them. If we wanted the meat, we had to process them. Most those guys don’t want anything to do with them. They don’t like them all the way around. If we didn’t want them, they gave them away to some families in the area that needed them. The other ranch we specifically hunted for pigs, there was a fee. But it was very reasonable. I think it was $250, for a 2 day hunt, and you could shoot 2 pigs. Any pigs after that was $100/pig. that included lodging and dinner each night. You could pay to have them process your pigs, but we’d always cut up our own to save a little money. You could also do a package type hunt if you you wanted to shoot a sheep, goat, blackbuck, etc... and they would include a hog in that as well. It would cost more money obviously, but their prices still weren’t outrageous, until you started looking at shooting a bison or oryx. Then they started to really climb. The high fence might turn people off just cuz it’s high fence, but those animals were tuned up like you’d never see on a low fence place and they were actually harder to kill, with a bow. A rifle would be a different story, but still challenging. You’d never see the fence after you drove through the gate.
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