Hunters, do you like “still hunting,” sometimes known as “stalking?” Imagine slipping across a midnight field toward a 250-pound wild boar. An American Safari with Jager Pro offers as much excitement as a safari in Africa, except it costs a fraction as much, avoids the security hassles, offers individual attention (maximum two hunters per night), and produces multiple trophies for each hunter (no bag limit).
Wild hog populations are out of control. Females reach sexual maturity at 6-8 months and deliver their first litter of 6-10 piglets before their first birthday. Every five to six months thereafter, they repeat this process, with each sow producing an average of 16 piglets a year. No other big game species reproduces this fast. Farmers are losing millions in crop damage to these intelligent and ruthless marauders.
Rod Pinkston is a Master Sergeant who trains the Army’s Olympic Shotgun Team. He also writes for Boar Hunter Magazine and owns JAGER PRO, a tactical boar hunting service. The term “jager,” which means “hunter” in German, holds special meaning for Rod. He is one of few American Soldiers to have pursued European boars while stationed in Germany.
JAGER PRO uses the best night vision (infrared) equipment, developed for the US Army and now available on the civilian market. This equipment includes Generation 3 image-enhancing and thermal night scopes. The thermal scopes detect heat radiating from the bodies of wild boars up to 3/4 mile away. The boar appears bright white, behind a black reticle. Once a boar is spotted, hunters maneuver silently into the wind and, when in range of these brutes, take them out with .308 caliber sniper rounds.
Do these exotic hunts occur in Tanzania or Peru? No, you will find them in Southwest Georgia, where Jager Pro has access to over 100,000 acres of corn, peanut, and soybean fields. These high-protein crops produce some very big boars indeed. Because plentiful fall mast draws the boars to the woods, Jager Pro’s season starts on February 15, (book here) after mast crops become scarce and the hogs return to the open fields.
The bottom line is this: a Jager Pro wild boar hunt not only provides a vital service, it is also a world-class experience every hunter should try at least once.
