Indiana hog hunting

Bunch of them in the county I live in, but all the ground that they are on is leased and you cant get to them. I know several people that have killed several this year

I've never seen a wild hog yet but I've read that they may be in Warrick County, IN. I used to go trail riding in the area where they are said to be. I't's been a long time since I've been up to that area but I plan on driving up there again now that I got the HuntingGPS IN map for my Garmin Montana 650T GPS unit. I now have a plat map for the entire state of IN to use to help me find people's names who own property in this State.

I'm planning on doing some driving around the County and up by the HNF to find some private land to hunt and get written permission to hunt.

If I hear any thing more about the Hogs I'll PM you are some thing.

I've talked to guys at the local gun stores and they too have heard the rumors about the wild hogs. Evidently one of the politician/attorney in this area had them imported into the area so he and his friends could hunt them. We have some pretty wild country down here with a lot of areas where those hogs could hide and take cover. And there is plenty of farm land down here to help feed them if they were hear.

But I sometimes wonder if this is just a wild wives tale.

I can see where you would love to hunt wild hogs. I'm sure that would be exciting and get the adrenaline flowing.

I finally got my EOTECH from my AR15 this last week. I still have to take it to the range and get it sighted in with my laser bore sighter and practice with it some before taking it out into the field.

I'm recovering from a bad elbow that I slammed down onto the top of an EYE BOLT that was sitting on top of a counter top. I hit the funny bone so hard that it bruoght tears to my eye. I can't even hold the rifle without a lot of pain the last time I went out night hunting by myself. I had to go home early (midnight) after going shooting that afternoon at the range and sighting in my MBUS sites and then going hunting until Midnight. I made three stands but didn't see anything. My eye glasses were fogging up every time I took a breath. I was trying to carry the FieldPod on my back along with the AR15 but didn't make it out of the parking lot on the third stand because I could not see where I was going. I'm putting the glasses away and ordered some new soft contacts to see if they will help. II can't hunt at night if I can't see anything. I'll also try those cleaning cloths that claim that they will make your eye glasses fog proof. But I doubt that they will work. I'm going to try them out here at the house before I go out hunting.

It's probably going to be a month before I get the contacts fitted right and order a box of them to use. But I can wear my current contacts fine. They correct my vision for objects far away and worked great yesterday. I wore them all day long and was able to see pretty good even with the cataracts that I have in my eyes. Getting old. I'll get those fixed in two more years when I'm on Medicare. Until then I have to put up with the slight cataract problem. Life's a sometimes.

I'm trying to treat the elbows with ice and heat right now. The Ice packs are helping easy the pain and swelling and inflammation. I've can't see the Orthopedic Dr. until next June 2014. Six months wait to see a bone doctor is ridiculous. I'm wearing some of those tennis elbow bands that helps a little bit. But it's going to take some time for the tears in the tendons to heal fully. I tore up my elbows back in 1997 while working construction. I had to go to the Dr. back then and have special treatment to get them back in good health. But I fear that they are torn again. Icing the elbow down for three days now seems to help ease the pain and gives me hope that I can start using some heat and electromagnetic waves to get the blood flow increased to help the tendons heal faster. I may miss this coyote hunting season but I'll be ready for this summer and next year.

If I ever get healthy and figure out where those hogs are located I'll give you a call and maybe we can go get some PORK!

I just found out that I have an old life insurance policy that I can cash in and get some money to buy something with. I'm thinking of a 4 wheeler of some sort. hum. We can ride them legally on the streets here in Warrick County. I'm pretty sure that they are legal to use on the streets these days here. But I'll double check on that if I get one. I rod a neighbors 3 wheeler one time many years ago and didn't know how to make it turn right. I rode trail bikes and would lean to the right to go right but I found out the hard way that with a 3 wheeler you lean left to go right. I was riding down a road with a ravine on my left and I leaned to the right to try to turn right and ended up going left and down the hill side into the ravine. It was covered in vines and they softened the landing. But it was sort of scary to not be able to control the damn thing. It happened so fast too. It only took about 3 seconds to go off the road when I leaned the wrong way. I'll never do that again. Hopefully a 4 wheeler will be easier to control. ha ha

If you can walk though some of the stuff we have down here in the wilds of Warrick County then you must be related to Edward Scissor hands. Because it takes a chain saw or bush hog to make a path though some of this stuff.

I've got some picures of some of the areas I plan on hunting and where I see a lot of other hunters.

But I also plan on going out and doing some more scouting with my camera while waiting on my elbows' to heal. Yes plural. Both Elbows are hurt. But the left one is getting better. Maybe it's just because the right one is so bad that it makes the left one feel better.

At one point I could not even pick up a cup of coffee without pain. I've got some elbow bands that are helping easy the pain a lot now. I want to get them healed up and rehabbed so I can get back out in the field.

Well that's the plan. Plan the plan and then work the plan! That's the goal now.

Ditto...

Here is something I found using Google:

specialsections.suntimes.com/yourregion/nwindiana/15699185-555/wild-hogs-wreaking-havoc-in-indiana.html

They are in Jackson, Washington and Lawrence Counties. This I know for sure.

I've got the same GPS and chip..  Bought it primarily for hunting out west.  Was disappointed to find that they don't have land ownership data for lawrence county though..  Hopefully they update that pretty soon.

The Indiana wild hog thing began in Lawrence County near Tunnelton when they were turned loose years ago. They were pretty thick at one time, but not so much now. I talked to a guy at work this week who has killed dozens of them and he says he never sees them anymore. He said that once guys brought dogs in to run the hogs, many were killed off in short order, and the remaining hogs dispersed.

Yea they have a map on their web site that shows which counties they have data for and which one's are missing some or all the data. I was disappointed in the fact that they didn't have the data for the Dubois area by Jasper, IN. Patoka Lake is partly in that county and that is also part of the Hoosier National Forest Area.

But they did have Perry County, Vanderburgh, Pike, Posy and Warrick Counties.

This has been pretty close to my experience as well.  They are still around, and I've been lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time every now and then to shoot one, but they are not at all "thick" anywhere I have access to.

I was a young kid, probably 5 or 6 year old, when they first appeared at our 'coon hunting spots, Tunnelton, Buddha, Leesville, Ft. Ritner, Sparksville, etc.  I'm 26 now, and although they aren't "thick," they have definitely spread out quite a bit.  I've heard rumors of some shot along the river west of Bedford now, previously they were all to the east of town.