April 5, 2021

TX Man Attacked By Hog-Saved By Dog!

A Texas man has been attacked by a feral hog while walking his dog near Sam Rayburn reservoir. The attack occurred March 13, 2021 when Ricky Morgan was walking his Great Pyrenees/Yellow Lab mix dog. To […]

March 24, 2021

Black Bear Vs. Feral Hog (Video)

A black bear has been captured on video killing a feral hog-close to its own size. The amazing clip filmed by Phillip Talbot of Old Skull Outdoors shows the boldness of black bears rarely observed by […]

November 26, 2020

Thankful The Hog Didn’t Cut Me!

It was a familiar feeling. As the last rays of the swollen disappeared beyond the trees, a twinge of apprehension hit me. Positioned in a makeshift ground blind facing a game trail between a swamp and […]

October 21, 2020

Feds Make Policy On Hog Disesase

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is issuing a draft policy statement through the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP) on research with Brucella species in outdoor settings. This […]

October 7, 2020

Chester’s Top 5 Wildlife Encounters

“So, Chester what are your favorite wildlife encounters?” That’s a frequent question when I do lectures around the country on various wildlife and conservation issues. Of course my number one sighting of all time were great […]

April 15, 2020

A 658 Pound Boar-Is Hogzilla Out There?

Hogzilla. That is the name bestowed upon a huge hog killed in 2004 by Chris Griffin on Ken Holyoak’s hunting preserve. As the story goes, the hog was 12 feet long and weighed 1,000 pounds. This […]

March 24, 2020

Truth About Hog Attacks

With a recent hog attack involving a boar trying to break into a house near a Conroe, TX, and a fatal hog attack just an hour away last November, it’s time for an unfiltered look at […]

December 11, 2019

Readers Share Hog Attack Stories

The following are hog attack stories submitted by Texas Fish & Game and fishgame.com readers. Back in 2017 my then husband Sam and I were hunting on our lease at Sergeant. A 125 pound boar came […]

September 12, 2019

No License Needed To Kill Hogs?

Feral hogs are so loathed by landowners in Texas for their habitat destroying behavior that beginning Sept. 1, you won’t even need a hunting license to pursue them on private property. That’s when a new law […]

June 10, 2019

Will Banning Hog Hunting Stop Invasion?

Seeing a feral hog in thick snow was surreal to me. I had seen thousands in swamps, cactus thickets and rocky canyons in Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Florida but seeing one bust out from behind a […]

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