Ferrel Hog Hunting In Missouri

[duckydoty]

We weren't actually inside the fort boundaries. We were on some private land to the North.

I heard about that hog in Stockton, too. I haven't been able to verify it with anyone yet, though.

I got my info about the hog through the South West Regional Office of the MDC there in Springfield.

[troutchaser]

I got mine from the Barber Shop.

[billynwtf]

Wappello still has hogs but they are very hard to hunt and lots of hunting pressure. Hunt down both sides of hwy KK and look for signs and wallows. The MDC has lots of little water hole ponds get a map and locate them. If the hogs have been using them back off and climb a tree and just wait them out. It has to be hot and the hotter the better. Pay close attention to the wind because these hogs are very very smart. Anything goes except night hunting and no tags are needed even for out of staters. Good luck.

[ddhlakebound]

Hi everybody...

I found this forum last night while trying to find more/better info on where to get on some hogs on public land in sw mo. Even knowing some areas they've been found in it's very difficult (for me anyway) to get on a live wild hog.

I can confirm the large black boar shot on the banks of Stockton lake in the 2008 deer season. I was on the lake bank on the other side of the cove when the boat came in with the boar on it. We jumped in our trucks instantly and drove around to get a close up look.

My best guesstimate of the weight was around 300 lbs. I was one of six guys who helped hang the beast, and it was huge. I've got a pic on my cell phone of the hanging boar, and a closeup of the tusks. It was shot in one of the areas listed on the MDC web page as having a pig population.

I'll have to see if I can email the pic to myself to be able to post a photo here.

I've hunted the banks of Stockton for years, and I've only ever seen one live (small) hog, and it vanished like a ghost in the distance at a very slight rustle. I've also found a medium sized hog skull that was apparently killed by goose hunters. The skull has a few embedded bb's, and it was found about 3/4 of a mile north of were a goose blind was located at that time. Thats my best guess about the skulls history immediately before it's demise.

It seems to me that the only 2 ways of killing hogs with any consistency at all are to spend alot of time and money to get a few bait sites warmed up, or to spend alot of time and money developing a pack of bay dogs. Anybody got a less expensive/difficult way to get on the pigs?

[billynwtf]

I have found you can even the odds by hunting when it is hot. I mean very hot,find a well used wallow and climb a tree and wait. At some point in the day they will come and use the wallow. Back away a hundred yards and pay attention to the wind. It has worked for me more than once.

[zander]

When I used to hunt them regularly was when I lived down in Louisiana. Of course there are a ton of hogs down there, unlike here thank goodness. There were two main ways I would hunt them if I didn't have my cur dog with me. First is I would go deer hunting. You are guaranteed to see nothing but hogs when you are going out for deer down there. The second way though is less frustrating and takes less time. I would simply go out to different types of pipeline right of ways or telephone pole right of ways and walk them. Sooner or later I'd top a ridge and down below me would be a group of pigs feeding. If there were no pigs seen from the top of one ridge you can walk fast until you get to the top of the next ridge and then creep up to where you can look over, then repeat until you pop a pig.

We only shot little sows 100 lbs or less. They taste better in my opinion and are easier to pack out of there.