Posted: 11/6/2013 7:34:49 AM EDT
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Going on a hunt with ARanchRifle next month and am getting conficting reports on whether I need a permit. I called texas game and fish and they said to leave lay I don't. To keep I do.
His local warden says you do either way. I'm not looking to get a criminal record here so who is right? |
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Yes, from what little you've described. You will need a valid TX hunting license, to remain within the letter of the law.
Want to hear something more jacked up?? If someone is paying landowner to hunt hogs, landowner has to have a valid hunting lease license or he is I'm violation. 
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A standard resident hunting license is only $25. Get one and cover your bases. Walmart and Academy sell them. Cheap insurance compared to possibly spending money on tickets and court time to clear up the issue if you run across a game warden in a foul mood.
If, on a whim you get the chance to shoot some deer (with the landowner's permission of course), you'll need one. Plus, the money spent on that goes to TPWD and helps fund hunting for the future. |
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Yes, from what little you've described. You will need a valid TX hunting license, to remain within the letter of the law. Want to hear something more jacked up?? If someone is paying landowner to hunt hogs, landowner has to have a valid hunting lease license or he is I'm violation. Yep. Ours was around $300. |
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Valid Texas Hunting License is required even though feral hogs are not considered a "game animal" but listed as a cockroach/rat/pest/vermin.
A "permit" would be required on Corps of Engineers land, some public land, municipal/state managed land where lottery hunts and special hunting areas are setup. No stamps or special permits are required outside of that. |
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Yes you need a license to hunt pigs in Texas. Being that your profile says MO, you are gonna need a non resident
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/outdoor-annual/hunting/nongame-and-other-species |
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If you are only going to be here for a few days, you need this:
Non-resident 5-Day Special Hunting
Type 157:$48 Legal for any period of 5 consecutive days (valid hunting dates will be printed on the license when issued). Valid to hunt: •exotic animals, •all legal game birds (except turkeys), •all nongame animals, squirrel, javelina and alligator (not valid for other game animals, NOT VALID FOR DEER). http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/outdoor-annual/licenses/hunting-licenses-and-permits However: Exceptions
A hunting license is not required to hunt the following: •Coyotes, if the coyotes are attacking, about to attack or have recently attacked livestock, domestic animals or fowl. •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. •Fur-bearing animals, if the hunter possesses a trapper's license or if the fur-bearing animals are causing depredation If you plan on salvaging any meat, you need a license. If you leave them lay, you won't. If there is any meat in a freezer on the property you are hunting, the GW could claim that you were hunting without a license. I'd say get the license. |
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Actually there are multiple instances where no license is required for feral hog depredation. The key is how you describe what you are doing. HUNTING requires a license. Nuisance DEPREDATION does not require a license. Shooting from a helicopter plain doesnt require one: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/nonpwdpubs/feral_hog_aerial/feral_hog_hunting_from_a_helicopter_faq.pdf " Q: Is a Texas hunting license required to manage feral hogs and coyotes from a helicopter? A: If a person is a landowner or landowner’s agent, he or she may hunt nuisance feral hogs and coyotes on the landowner’s property without a Texas hunting license." And for ground base, I think this has already been posted but: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/outdoor-annual/licenses/hunting-licenses-and-permits States that A hunting license is not required to hunt the following: •Coyotes, if the coyotes are attacking, about to attack or have recently attacked livestock, domestic animals or fowl. •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 So if the landowner tells you that the feral hogs are a nuisance, you DO NOT NEED A HUNTING LICENSE |
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Get a license. You've gotten a lot of dumb advise here. You stated you are going on a hunt, not an eradication. The purpose is to have fun, right? You need a license. It does not matter whether they are left laying or keeping the meat to need a license, you do.
A landowner or the landowners agent doesn't need a license, you are neither of these. In addition, depredation is typically looked at by GW's as an economic loss such as a crop. Buy a license, it's much cheaper than a citation. |
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The regulations stated above are the Texas law. You people can be like "you should buy one because" or you could read the letter of the law. If certain conditions are met, there is no requirement. People are idiots if they don't have their landowner state those requirements. The landowner has the authority to determine nuisance, not the game wardens. |
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The regulations stated above are the Texas law. Quoted:
The regulations stated above are the Texas law. We all know the regulations. Quoted:
You people can be like "you should buy one because" or you could read the letter of the law. We did read the law, You need to read what the OP wrote. "Going on a hunt with..." Not "Helping ItsARanchRifle with some hog eradication on his farm". You could also have read ItsARanchRifle post where he stated he has a hunting lease license. |
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The regulations stated above are the Texas law. You people can be like "you should buy one because" or you could read the letter of the law. If certain conditions are met, there is no requirement. People are idiots if they don't have their landowner state those requirements. The landowner has the authority to determine nuisance, not the game wardens. More bad advice, I know the letter of the law backwards and forwards and he needs a license to come from MO to hunt hogs. He's not meeting any of the conditions exempting him from a license, short of conspiring with the landowner to avoid a $48 license as you seem to suggest is the right thing to do. |
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Get a license. You've gotten a lot of dumb advise here. You stated you are going on a hunt, not an eradication. The purpose is to have fun, right? You need a license. It does not matter whether they are left laying or keeping the meat to need a license, you do. A landowner or the landowners agent doesn't need a license, you are neither of these. In addition, depredation is typically looked at by GW's as an economic loss such as a crop. Buy a license, it's much cheaper than a citation. Well said. |
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Quoted: OP , I will make it easy on you. If you want to hunt here you will need a license and a hunters Ed. cert. I will need to see everyone's or they won't be allowed to hunt. Here's the skinny op, its his property, his rules. Even friends have to abide by the rules. p.s. dont forget rule 2. Bring Makers Mark and/or Dillo Eggs.
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