FL Wild Hog Hunting Guide

Also known as: Feral hog, Wild boar, Piney woods rooter

The FWC offers late spring and summer wild hog hunting opportunities on wildlife management areas (WMAs) across the state. While many of the WMAs listed below don’t require a quota permit for spring and summer wild hog hunting, some of them do. So be sure to review the WMA regulations brochure for the area you want to hunt. Also, a hunting license isn’t needed to hunt wild hogs at a WMA, however, a management area permit is required. Kissimmee Chain of Lakes Area – Rolling Meadows Unit The wild hog is defined in FWC regulations as a hog that is free-roaming and which cannot be legally claimed as a domestic hog in private ownership. This species is popular to hunt and occurs in all 67 Florida counties. Wild hogs occupy a wide variety of habitats but prefer oak-cabbage palm hammocks, freshwater marshes and sloughs, and pine flatwoods. They can reach weights of more than 150 pounds and be 5-6 feet long. They usually travel in small family groups (sounders) or alone. Wild hogs eat a variety of plants and animals. They feed by rooting with their broad snouts, which can disturb the soil and ground cover vegetation, leaving an area looking like a plowed field. Wild hogs may be trapped and hunted year-round with landowner permission. A hunting license is not required, and a permit isnotrequired to take wild hogs at night with a gun and light with landowner permission.

Hunting Season

Year-round, statewide

References

• Florida — Wild Hog