So, we have about 600ish acres in NE Texas. Hour and a half ENE of DFW. Dad is interested in doing some paid hog hunting. River bottom land. There are two fifth wheel campers.

What would a good "weekend" rate be? Food being provided be a big draw? How much would that change pricing?

Night Vision provided be a bump in price?

Oh and he's more interested in hosting for weekends vs just morning or day hunts. Doesn't want to go down the "trophy fee" or per hog sort of deal. Just a price for a weekend.

$350-$500 I'm guessing. If food and stay is provided with several hunts

That's likely going to be a tough sale honestly, since there are ranch owners willing to pay people to come kill hogs off their places and begging for them to do it. COunty and State Bounties have upped the ante as well.

The only guys I know really doing any good on paid hog hunts are the guys down around Cuero that are charging to hunt off of Helicopters with AR's and AK's on a bungie door gunner rig.

Last weekends haul from the Navasota River bottom

Dang. That would have been a nice weekend payday if you sold them live.

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Dang. That would have been a nice weekend payday if you sold them live.

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It was a nice payday anyway and kept the smoke house full for a week.

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Hour and a half ENE of DFW.

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Anywhere close to Mt Pleasant? My dad lives there and I haven't seen a hog there in years.

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So, we have about 600ish acres in NE Texas. Hour and a half ENE of DFW. Dad is interested in doing some paid hog hunting. River bottom land. There are two fifth wheel campers.

What would a good "weekend" rate be? Food being provided be a big draw? How much would that change pricing?

Night Vision provided be a bump in price?

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Based on a quick Google search, it looks like Texas hog hunts go for $150-$200 a day typically with a 2 day minimum. Food and drinks aren't usually included, but there's typically a lodge or cabin to stay in. $50-$100 a day for non-hunting guests. Some places I saw include only 1 hog with additional hogs available for $100 each or $1 per pound live weight and other places included 2 hogs.


Honestly, I would think $300 ($400 if you have a ton of hogs and can pretty well guarantee a shot) for a weekend hunt would be good. That would included one hog with a $1 price per pound of any additional hogs shot (that way the hunter can somewhat choose how much extra to spend). You'd need a cabin that could accommodate at least 6-8 comfortably (you'll get a lot of couples interested) with a fully stocked kitchen, but make them bring bedding, food, drinks and toiletries. You'd need to provide a grill (gas pits are typically the best) and have a good insurance policy. Most importantly, you'll need a guide/someone there to clean everything and throw away the guts and stuff. A high school kid can typically do that for you for maybe $100 a weekend and he can keep any tips also. Guiding is a lot of work and you typically 1) get no sleep 2) have to entertain everyone all weekend 3) have to prepare everything before each hunt 4) do all the dirty work. Paid hunters typically don't want to do that themselves and will pay $20-$40 for someone to skin and quarter their critters for them. As soon as you see 5 hunters each with a hog after the first hunt, you'll realize how much work it really is.


I've been on several hunts before where hogs were an option and most of that seems inline with how those ranches operated. There is actually a huge demand for hog hunts regardless of what other posters say. If it were me I wouldn't provide food and have them bring and make their own. That will save you a ton of time in cooking and cleaning and you really don't get much for all the effort. Also, I wouldn't really promote night hunting because of all the possible negatives that could happen unless it were riding around with you and you were there to give the go-ahead before each shot. Other than that, there isn't too much else to it!

Here's a few examples from a quick search:

Diamond C (been here)
Langley Ranch
Dos Plumas
4 Pines Ranch

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That's likely going to be a tough sale honestly, since there are ranch owners willing to pay people to come kill hogs off their places and begging for them to do it. COunty and State Bounties have upped the ante as well.

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Please post a link or some contact info for some of these ranches. I have a lot of spare time and a lot of ammo. I would love to get paid to shoot hogs. Hell, I'll do it for free.

And is the state paying bounties now? I thought only a handful of counties were paying bounties.

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$5 State per tail
$10-$15 depending on the county per tail
$25 per head ($10 for piglets) Land Owner, and we haul off the remains

Normally get 30-50 per hunt Not sure how you would post a link to a ranch that needs hogs cleared, and I'm surely not going to put my contacts numbers on here.

Do your homework, they are not hard to find, put your number up in the feed stores, run ads on Craigslist. The Navasota River bottom is over run with them, as is the Brazos, Colorado etc etc. I know several guys that make a living exterminating hogs for landowners.

I don't really get this whole paying someone to hunt hogs. I guess if you're a city boy and have no knowledge of how to get to hunt for free, it's a thing. I look at it like paying someone to kill rats, opossums, skunks or armadillos. You're doing any landowner a service getting rid of them, or at least cutting down the numbers. But hey I've seen cityfolk pay money for some of the damnedest things...

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I don't really get this whole paying someone to hunt hogs. I guess if you're a city boy and have no knowledge of how to get to hunt for free, it's a thing. I look at it like paying someone to kill rats, opossums, skunks or armadillos. You're doing any landowner a service getting rid of them, or at least cutting down the numbers. But hey I've seen cityfolk pay money for some of the damnedest things...

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This is a fairly myopic view. I have inlaws from Iowa that love to come to Texas and hunt hogs. They farm something north of 10,000 acres and are not cityfolk by any stretch.

Before I had a lease that we could hunt on, they paid for hog hunts in Texas.

Yeah some people eat Gaspergou too......

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I don't really get this whole paying someone to hunt hogs. I guess if you're a city boy and have no knowledge of how to get to hunt for free, it's a thing. I look at it like paying someone to kill rats, opossums, skunks or armadillos. You're doing any landowner a service getting rid of them, or at least cutting down the numbers. But hey I've seen cityfolk pay money for some of the damnedest things...

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This is a fairly myopic view. I have inlaws from Iowa that love to come to Texas and hunt hogs. They farm something north of 10,000 acres and are not cityfolk by any stretch.

Before I had a lease that we could hunt on, they paid for hog hunts in Texas.

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Along these same lines, there's tons of people that haven't hunted or are just starting to hunt and hog hunts are a cheap way to get your feet wet with the sport. Most newbies don't know what any exotics are, but everyone knows what a hog is, so it's a common target. If you don't have a background in hunting or anyone to help you learn, a paid hog hunt with a guide is by far your best bet. Don't judge too much or assume people who pay for hog hunts are crazy or not doing their homework on finding places to "hunt for free". That's not an option for everyone and, like stated by someone else, I damn sure don't know anyone that will just let you come out and hunt their land for free and I live in a very rural area and know a ton of the farmers around here.

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I don't really get this whole paying someone to hunt hogs. I guess if you're a city boy and have no knowledge of how to get to hunt for free, it's a thing. I look at it like paying someone to kill rats, opossums, skunks or armadillos. You're doing any landowner a service getting rid of them, or at least cutting down the numbers. But hey I've seen cityfolk pay money for some of the damnedest things...

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This is a fairly myopic view. I have inlaws from Iowa that love to come to Texas and hunt hogs. They farm something north of 10,000 acres and are not cityfolk by any stretch.

Before I had a lease that we could hunt on, they paid for hog hunts in Texas.

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Along these same lines, there's tons of people that haven't hunted or are just starting to hunt and hog hunts are a cheap way to get your feet wet with the sport. Most newbies don't know what any exotics are, but everyone knows what a hog is, so it's a common target. If you don't have a background in hunting or anyone to help you learn, a paid hog hunt with a guide is by far your best bet. Don't judge too much or assume people who pay for hog hunts are crazy or not doing their homework on finding places to "hunt for free". That's not an option for everyone and, like stated by someone else, I damn sure don't know anyone that will just let you come out and hunt their land for free and I live in a very rural area and know a ton of the farmers around here.

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Well first get yourself some decent General Liability insurance, I use Adam Koch at the Montgomery County Farmers Insurance, Adam is an Aggie, good people and won't rob you.

Then get with your local Aggie at the local Extension Service Office and let him know your intentions. Also talk to your local Feed Stores, go to kinkos and get yourself some cards printed up, and leave them at the feed stores, there are plenty out there that overrun with Hogs and they are tearing up everything. Like I said before, I know several guys that make a living at Hog Extermination or Hog Control, call it what you want.

I have about 8 ranches (roughly 8500 acres total) that I do hog management on. Can literally hunt every weekend and not run out of hogs to kill. My boys run dogs and it's like shooting fish in a barrel most of the time.

My boys and the Dogs

Sulphur springs and I get into hogs everytime I go

On top of what everyone else has said, letting random people on your land to hunt can be it's own
private Hell. Unless you guide them, (See Also: Babysitting) some people are prone to doing
some pretty dumb stuff.

One of the big reasons I quit guiding was that I saw a lot of grown men do some pretty stupid stuff with firearms.

There's an outfit in Madisonville that does "tactical" hog hunts. They supply night vision gear etc, and I'm told they do a pretty good business.

Hogs are everywhere, I would think the best way to make money on them would be something like that...offer a hunt that isn't run of the mill.

I think there is a big difference between the average person that wants to go on a hog hunt and doing something like mfbarnes82. There were questions for both though.

If you just want to go out hunting hogs for the weekend you're not going to want to spend a month posting flyers trying to set up a possible free hunt on someones property that you may not really know. On the other hand if you have some free time then maybe a long term deal with a landowner would be beneficial.

I think the providing the night vision and thermal would be your biggest selling point.

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There's an outfit in Madisonville that does "tactical" hog hunts. They supply night vision gear etc, and I'm told they do a pretty good business.

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Tactical Hog Control - Clark Osborne and Jared Dreher. Good guys and a good outfit.

There is an outfit near my family property in Iola that does pay hunts, of course they also hunt them at night and use suppressors, as does one of our neighbors. Luckily it keeps the hog population down but each family member still kills 4-5 every deer season. I will say that it seems like the animals in general have been a lot more spooky since people all around us have been hunting at night a lot more.

Slight derail but, we've been looking for a place to hunt for a buddy's bachelor party coming up in either march or april and yes there is a huge demand for this type of stuff, lot of places have most of their weekends booked already. We are struggling to find a place that will let us shoot clays, build a fire pit, and other goofing off stuff while not hunting for a reasonable price since not everybody who is going on the party has graduated from college yet.

We are headed over the Long Trussell Rd right now with the dogs. Gonna hit Windham's as well as my place on the end of Elmo Weedon Rd. The Navasota River bottom is crawling with them. Lots of wet soft ground and they are literally tilling up Doe Hill every night.

Those Iola boys are you talking about the Wrens or the Millstead's? All good people. I was raised up in Kurten on Dilly Shaw Tap Rd. Family has been their since it was still Mexico.

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We are headed over the Long Trussell Rd right now with the dogs. Gonna hit Windham's as well as my place on the end of Elmo Weedon Rd. The Navasota River bottom is crawling with them. Lots of wet soft ground and they are literally tilling up Doe Hill every night.

Those Iola boys are you talking about the Wrens or the Millstead's? All good people. I was raised up in Kurten on Dilly Shaw Tap Rd. Family has been their since it was still Mexico.

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You are really in if Jerry will let you turn dogs loose on his place...

Ehh not sure what there names are, but the company is Mt. Night hunts, the Gressett's are some of our neighbors.

Folks in these parts know my boys and the dogs well. They only run hog. You can't force one to run anything else. They run chips and transponders but never really have to use them. They're hog dogs that's all they do.

And for those wondering in this area their are likely 8-10 commercial hog control outfits. It's good business lately. My boys support their toy habits culling hogs. All six of my kids were raised by Savage not Nintendo. Got the grandkids lined out already as well. My oldest two granddaughters wear more Camo than me and that's a lot.

Kids that hunt and fish and do chores don't walk into a high school with an AK acting out Tour of Duty.

Not everyone fills their gas tanks exterminating hogs on the weekends. You have thermal and NV you will be able to sell hunts to people who want to get away and do something fun on the weekends. Lodging and food is a bonus. There is a market and place for everything

Lol, I've got some fair dogs, but I can't say they won't ever trash up a little, not on livestock, but I've got one that loves to bay an armadillo for some reason, and is willing to soak up some tri tronics to do it... Y'all still around Kurten? (I live at Edge)

OP - if you guys get this worked out, i'd be interested in bringing my daughter on a weekend hunt. keep us updated please

MFBarnes82, it only kept your smoke house full for one wee? You must have a big smoke house and eat allot of pork (or give it away). Wow. What a picture!

If you want to hog hunt WITHOUT dogs, you need to call the guys at Nighthogs. They are on facebook. It is the most fun I have had. Very good guys. Not sure if they have all their weapons up on the page but they are top notch with night vision and camera taping the shot.
Eyeguy...if you want some answers on your questions you can PM me and I will give you my cell.

www.facebook.com/pages/NightHogs/209815025730277

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MFBarnes82, it only kept your smoke house full for one wee? You must have a big smoke house and eat allot of pork (or give it away). Wow. What a picture!

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