Boar Hunt

Boar hunt has absolutely nothing to do with a boring hunt, just the opposite. Popular with hunters in the deep southern portions of North America for decades, the boar hunt appeals to those who love the taste of hog meat. The poor in rural North America have killed these wild animals for decades as a serious source of food for their families. In recent years this type of hunt has increased in popularity in the southern most states of North America where mature male pigs, called boars roam freely in National Forests bordering farms and ranches. If you live in the south, it is one hunt that can be found where you don’t have to fly half way across the country to experience an exciting productive hunt.

A boar hunt can produce one of the biggest and finest, but one of ugliest trophy heads imaginable with its big tusks pointing up and outward out of its ugly snout. If you have the audacity to have a head stuffed and try to hang on the wall in your house, you might want to get the advice of a divorce lawyer first. Be assured that the females in your house will scream bloody murder; just looking at one of those ferocious looking boogers is enough to permanently curl and bleach her hair. Trust me fellas, you just don’t want to do this to your favorite woman if you want to keep her sane and around.

Killing and properly bleeding and dressing the hog immediately on the spot after it is shot, can provide a freezer full of hog meat that can cook up into vittles fit for a king. Please be forewarned dressing a hog out “Isn’t for sissies with weak stomachs.” Once you get to the entrails, the smell can become overwhelming. Not a place where most city slickers want to be. You might want to stick with a turkey shoot or something a lot tamer, especially if you are not an experienced hunter.

A full-grown boar can be as vicious as a grizzly bear if you chase ‘em up in a corner where they can’t get out. If you’re not careful, you might end up being the trophy head yourself if you aren’t extremely quick at dodging 450 pounds of mad hog dashing between your legs. You might well get more than you bargained for if you don’t know what you are doing when your dog tracks one down and goes in for the kill just before you arrive on the scene.

On a hog hunt, you have got to stay alert! If these animals have just taken a wallow in a mud hole, they are as slick as a W-D 40 sprayed on a piece of glass. If you are a track runner, fresh and ready for a run, it could be fun to try to outrun one of these boogers. But be assured that the hog will win every time, so don’t get discouraged. If you live in the southern states of North America, the hog hunt should be the cheapest hunt available, even if you have to pay for an outfitter that knows how to keep you out of trouble. For a fee they will even handle all those entrails that have got to come out of that hog before you can bring the bacon home to your wife.

If you don’t want to pay for a boar hunt, listen around to friends and family until you find an experienced avid hunter who would like to take you as his guest to sit around a campfire at night, someone he can shoot the bull with and keep him company. It can be awfully lonely out there in the woods where the coyotes start yapping and howling when they smell food coming from your campfire. You might get an added bonus on the trip seeing other wildlife as well. One thing for sure a well-planned hunt can become about the most exciting vacation around.