No license needed for hog hunting

[TXBowhunter11]

Don't know if this has been posted on here or not. But, was talking to a Game Warden and he was saying they passed a new law that you do not need a hunting license to shoot a hog anymore. Anyone else heard this? Be good news for some of my Arkansas buds when they come to visit me.

[DaveS903]

The TPWD site still says a license is required to hunt them.

[centex_aggie]

If you are hunting them you need a license. If you are dispatching nuisance animals then you do not.

[OleTomTalker]

If you are dispatching nuisance animals then you do not.

And you must be able to prove this is the case.

[Skinny]

No license needed for hog hunting

You must be a landowner or landowner agent and hunting hogs that are tearing up the land in order to be exempt from needing a license

[rcm719]

checking with my GW friend now

[Man]

Don't know if this has been posted on here or not. But, was talking to a Game Warden and he was saying they passed a new law that you do not need a hunting license to shoot a hog anymore. Anyone else heard this? Be good news for some of my Arkansas buds when they come to visit me.

I was ticketed for no archery stamp while sitting with someone else who was hog hunting with a bow. Really think its up to how the game warden is feeling that day.

[sir shovelhands]

The wording off the TPWD is that a hunting license is not required to hunt:

"Depredating feral hogs, if a landowner (resident or non-resident) or landowner's agent or lessee is taking feral hogs causing depredation on the landowner's land."


Now that's a bit of legalistic jargon, but best I can guess is it's ok on private land, not on state land.

Edit: skinny beat me to it

[Playa]

I was ticketed for no archery stamp while sitting with someone else who was hog hunting with a bow. Really think its up to how the game warden is feeling that day.

Were you in possession of a bow?

[Skinny]

Buy a license. Period.

[Fishndude]

SMDH!! Every year the same thing. You need a license and there's no way TPWD is gonna quit making you have one. $$$$$

[Bigyummy77]

You must be a landowner or landowner agent and hunting hogs that are tearing up the land in order to be exempt from needing a license

This.

[Man]

Were you in possession of a bow?

No possession. I was sitting at camp drinking a beer at time of ticket writing. I had mentioned I sat in the blind with my ex that morning to help her get her first hog with a bow. (her purple and pink bow). I didn't even own a bow at the time. That was enough to warrent the ticket.

[RogueSamurai]

Buy a license. Period.

This.

However, if you are a landowner/rancher/farmer etc and you are just out feeding cows, shredding, building fence etc...doing regular stuff and you jump a hog and you get a shot at him, you can shoot it. Without a licence.

IF you are a hunter, out hunting....get a licence.

[seminole1990]

Get a license.


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