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I will be in Houston TX between 9th and 15th Dec with my wife.

I am planning to attend a Heli hunt or a night hog Hunt , and I already spoke with some outfitters but it seems that they are busy due to buck season .

Anybody know where I can attend a Heli Hunt or a Night Hunt in TX between those dates ?

As many guys as we have here that hunt in Texas, SURELY one will come forward and offer to take you with them. Good luck to you and have a safe trip!

What ever happened to doublecheese? Did a Texas hog eat him? LOL

Hi guys

I am around for sure , the thing is the Driven Hunt for wild boars has started in Europe in October and I am attending driven hunts everyweek.

Only last week we shot 95 wild boars in two days.

I am too busy hunting now these days and it's only 2 weeks before the season ends.

I will post pictures later on.

Here are 2 youtube videos of a wild boar driven hunt and a Balkan Chamois hunt just 2 weeks ago.

http://youtu.be/kqtmHz4r9xc

http://youtu.be/R-xkSCNQoIE

I guess you're having loads of fun. Hopefully you'll have time to upload more videos when season is over.

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Cant wait to see all the new pics and videos. Love seeing those big boar pics!

Great job. Pics are awesome.

Here is another one that is considered as "quite small" for my standards.... I shot this one about a month ago.



This one had 21cm (8.3 in) tusks so I went there again in the morning to cut off the chin to pull off the tusks to be added to my tusks collection.



You can see the hatchet and upper chin already cut off in my hand. First we skin the upper & lower chin then cut off the chin with the hatchet. Later on we boil the chin for 45-60 mins and then simply pull off the tusks. Then clean outside & inside of the tusks

Here is his actual tuskers compared to the biggest one I have so far...

Very nice work, DC and beautiful too!

Your wall trophies are a proud source of accomplishment!

Is it hog hunting season for you all year around or just certain times of the year?

I continue to be amazed by those boars.

They are some wicked prehistoric looking beasts, that is for sure, almost look like left overs from the last Ice Age!

YIPES!!! Imagine trying to hunt one of those beasts with a stone tipped spear... LOL

I'd feel nervous enough with a semi-auto centerfire rifle and a magazine full of rounds.

Thanks alot.

Currently the driven hunt season is over. The season starts Mid August and ends Mid February.

Although the season starts Mid August, we don't do too much hunting till Mid November. The reason is most of the places we hunt are covered with dense heavy bushes, trees. So generally wait for Mid November for leaves to fall of for a better view.

And we try to go and hunt in open space areas till November.

These dates are for DRIVEN HUNTS , a driven hunt is a hunt where dogs and beaters chase the pigs into our direction and we shoot what we see , these pigs are 99% running all the time. So in a driven hunt we do not get a chance to shoot at a stopping hog.

Apart from Driven Hunts, we have BAITING or STALKING night hunts. These are similar to your night hunts. The season for this is full year and this is a paid hunt. We pay the government and we pay the hunting guides. In this hunt we shoot only at big Boars. We let the sows and youngs live.

In the night we encounter the biggest boars, I think the biggest boars with the biggest tusks in the world do live here. We generally use 300 WM, 8x57, 8x63, 9.3x62, 375 H&H calibers, a .223 will not stop our boars easily unless you shoot them from their head !! So I am very used to making head shots.

Also in summer time we go field huntings as wild boars are at the fields. The biggest of the biggest wild boars never leave the forest where they live. So we bait their surroundings and shoot them as we see them.....

You should feel nervous if you're firing .223 rounds in your semi auto ... LOL Imagine 300WM or above