Feral animal hunt

[Julian]

Does anyone know of any feral animals to be hunted in the lower 48 besides hogs? I'm in Alabama and looking for a DIY trip to do some relatively inexpensive camping style hunting. Any suggestions are welcome. I've tried to find information on wild cattle hunting but have been getting conflicting information about it.

[VA Elite]

I am not aware of anything other than yotes and hogs

[Cyclic-Rivers]

What about those Giant Rats in the south that inhabit waterways???

[Robert Armstrong]

Them ain't giant rats thems redneck mink. We like em with biscuts and gravy.

[Izzy]

Sika and sambar deer, Ibex and oryx (gemsbok). Some harder to access than others but either would be a great adventure I bet. Being from Georgia that sambar lottery could be a realistic goal for you. They hunt them in Florida.

[mangonboat]

I don't know what the hunting regs are, but Burmese pythons in South Florida ..they are very hard to see but kinda slow once you find them

[Stone Knife]

Do you guys have woodchucks down there?

[Msbow]

Hogs, nutria, coyotes, water moccasins, softshell turtles, and probably best to call Alabama Game and Fish to be sure!

[Homebru]

Those "big rats" are Nutria, aren't they?  Vermin.  Probably free access.  Kill 'em all.
homebru

[randy grider]

Coyotes are not ferals. They naturally inhabit this continent. They can be called varmints, but not ferals.

[Msbow]

I had to read the definition of a feral animal and a coyote I'd not a feral animals, neither are water moccasins or softshell turtles. So in MS I guess it's just hogs and nutria.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

You could Bowfish Carp. I saw Bisch put a post of shooting Giant Plecos in Texas or Florida I believe.

[Alexander Traditional]

I think the only thing you could or would want to hunt would be hogs. Feral is anything that was domesticated,and has gone wild. So I don't think nutria would apply either.

[killinstuff]

I'd love to shoot wild chickens in some of those south Florida towns. Smart and fast And the latin ladies sure know how to cook them up.  The late great writer Cory Ford wouldn't let a wild cat (wild cat = any cat not in the house) get out of sight alive back in the day either. It's a kinder gentler world these days.

[Alexander Traditional]

Originally posted by killinstuff:
I'd love to shoot wild chickens in some of those south Florida towns. Smart and fast And the latin ladies sure know how to cook them up.  The late great writer Cory Ford wouldn't let a wild cat (wild cat = any cat not in the house) get out of sight alive back in the day either. It's a kinder gentler world these days.

Feral cats are very destructive to the native species. I think they are a real problem in the islands like hawaii,and the galapagos.

I bet it would be fun to hunt feral chickens.

[dougbutt]

How about iguanas in Florida?

[Julian]

Great ideas, I've looked into the snakes and lizards in Florida but the places where they have seasons are south of Miami and that's a long drive for a lizard!! I've actually done some checking into Texas, they seem to have some reasonable license prices that cover a wide variety of species that I have yet to chase like the collard peccary and jack rabbits. I said feral because i had my mind geared toward wild cattle or goats, but I guess what I was really meaning was something relatively inexpensive and a reasonable drive from home. Someone mentioned exotic deer tags in Florida. I would assume all those deer would be on preserves correct? I'm trying to do a small DIY camping trip because I'm pitching all my cash into a mule deer hunt to Wyoming in September. We don't have any woodchucks this far south I don't believe. I wouldn't mind shooting a nutria either that's a good idea I've heard they eat pretty good.

[BowMIke]

The cottontail rabbit population in South Texas is crazy. Around dark they were everywhere. That would be a fun hunt. You could hunt hogs and Javelina as well!

[Hoyt]

When I first started hunting Ft. Stewart in Ga. right when it opened to public..around 1960 I think, feral cows were legal in there.

I would see plenty of cow tracks down the dirt roads, etc., but never saw a cow and never knew anyone that did.

I walked up on a big Brahma Bull deep in Greenswamp WMA in SW Fl. one time. Every now and then a few cows would get through the fence on bordering property back then..Hampton Ranch..but as far as I knew they weren't legal to shoot in there.

Quiet a few of the Fl. WMA's have Brahma's in them..but they are not legal to shoot. Tosohatchee, WMA has a lot and I hated having to walk through them before and after daylight coming and going.

[Izzy]

Originally posted by Julian:
Great ideas, I've looked into the snakes and lizards in Florida but the places where they have seasons are south of Miami and that's a long drive for a lizard!! I've actually done some checking into Texas, they seem to have some reasonable license prices that cover a wide variety of species that I have yet to chase like the collard peccary and jack rabbits. I said feral because i had my mind geared toward wild cattle or goats, but I guess what I was really meaning was something relatively inexpensive and a reasonable drive from home. Someone mentioned exotic deer tags in Florida. I would assume all those deer would be on preserves correct? I'm trying to do a small DIY camping trip because I'm pitching all my cash into a mule deer hunt to Wyoming in September. We don't have any woodchucks this far south I don't believe. I wouldn't mind shooting a nutria either that's a good idea I've heard they eat pretty good.

The sambar deer are on St.Vincent wildlife refuge and are publicly owned animals, no private preserves. The information on the lottery is readily available. Id like to do it one day.    This is what they look like. Interested yet?