Hogs in west tn.

[Deleted member 115360]

People have said they have been spotted in the Big Sandy area which is on the other side of the lake and less than 10 miles from my place as the crow flies. This is unconfirmed and just rumors. The thing that confuses me is that they are obviously well established in LBL based on the simple fact that the feds are trying to trap them and yet I don't hear much about the surrounding privately owned areas. Seems like in place in GA, they just showed up and never went away.

I'm currently driving through big sandy what a small world

 

[JimFromTN]

I'm currently driving through big sandy what a small world

If you are coming up 641 then you are probably 15 minutes from my property

 

[Deleted member 115360]

I'm about to turn on to I-40 from 641 right now. Stopped at the new Loves truck stop right now.

 

[JimFromTN]

If you are going east, a friend of mine thought he saw a dead hog on the side of the road around Waverly. Gas prices at Waverly exit are a little cheaper than loves. Might be too late now.

 

[Deleted member 115360]

I'll sure enough look for it.

 

[JMW67]

Well Jim if you get the hogs you wont have to worry about your food plot they will till it up for you and it will look like a root plow did it

 

[JimFromTN]

I just got a text from a friend that they shot down coyote hunting at night again in TN. I can't find any links yet. Last time it was for safety reasons. I have not heard any reasons that are based on science and supported by wildlife biologists.

 

[Deleted member 115360]

I just got a text from a friend that they shot down coyote hunting at night again in TN. I can't find any links yet. Last time it was for safety reasons. I have not heard any reasons that are based on science and supported by wildlife biologists.

It's never been legal here.

 

[Deleted member 115360]

You can hunt coons and fox at night with dogs, but they attempt to pass coyote hunting at night here every year, and every year they vote it down.

 

[JimFromTN]

It's never been legal here.

They have been trying to get it passed for several years now

 

[Deleted member 115360]

They have been trying to get it passed for several years now

Yep. It's never been legal though. I've been waiting for a decade to get it passed so I can justify a thermal.

 

[Mark37082]

I have yet to see a hog in the middle TN area while hunting. While hunting in south Texas the hogs were thick as the thorns on the vegetation.

 

[JimFromTN]

You can hunt coons and fox at night with dogs, but they attempt to pass coyote hunting at night here every year, and every year they vote it down.

I checked and you can't legally hunt armadillos at night here either. I think people are stuck in the old school mode that if you allow hunting at night then you encourage people to spotlight for deer. Its the only thing I can figure.

 

[Deleted member 115360]

Hog hunting is also illegal in TN, except for a couple of WMA's in east TN, and even then it's only legal as incidental take while legally hunting deer or bears. There is one particular east TN wma that has a couple week hog only season in late January. Hog hunting anywhere in middle or west TN is illegal any time of year.