Yeah.  I'm pretty sure having a Cape Buffalo inches from his face wasn't part of the normal tour for this driver at Kariega Game Park.

Join Jason Parrish and the TexasHuntFish team as we visit a stunning ranch located on the Pedernales River, just outside of Johnson City. This ranch is currently under siege by feral pigs (aka wild hogs) and the landowner called us in to initate a hog eradication project.

Hunting wild pigs one at a time, or trying to hunt them in general, is not a feasible way to remove wild hogs or persuade them to leave your property. The word "hunting" needs to be replaced with "killing."

We did a sunset hunt on three locations, then corned the main road and shot three more hogs from the roof of our truck with two people on spotlights.

Six pigs on our first night is a good start, but only the beginning.

And yes that is a John's Gun Suppressor on Jason's .308 Remington 700P bolt action rifle.

Earlier this year, Jason had the opportunity to head across the border with filmmaker/hunter/musician Vicente Pena and spend some time hunting on the Vicente Pena Family Ranch.

Vicente was also nice enough to allow Jason to borrow his grandfather's .270 caliber Winchester Model 70.

This time, instead of Javelina, Jason sets his sights on a pack of feral pigs.  Can he take down three piglets with one bullet?  Sometimes you need to listen to those voices in your head.

As we all know, pigs are an invasive species to Texas.  And what better way to spend a Monday night in Texas than by doing our part to thin out that invasive population with some late night hog hunting.

The hogs come out at night...mostly. ;)

I apologize in advance for some duplicated material but I wanted to have a short video of just my portion of the hog hunt out there.  I'm pretty proud of it and, dang it, it was my first kill. :)

(For the record, there is footage in this video not in the long version!)

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Leopard hunting it's meal in South Texas. (kidding)