Nothing gets me pumped like an email from my buddy in South Carolina that reads, “Want to go hog hunting this weekend?” That’s exactly what Doubletough contributor Ceth Land of Manning sent me earlier this month and not being one to turn down an invitation, I jumped on it. Waking up at 4:30 on the first Saturday morning of February, I hopped in the truck and by 7:30 was at Bojangle’s to meet the hunting party.
In the past we’ve hunted club property in what has become a spring ritual: bring in some locals with dogs to clear out as many of this nuisance as possible. There is no season for hogs in South Carolina and in a state that allows baiting for deer, they can wreck a small fortune in corn and food plots. I was thankful to be asked since getting the first hog on a hunt (and my personal first) a couple years ago, the subsequent times I’ve been down there we haven’t seen anything. I had been teased as bringing bad luck so a chance to redeem myself was on the line. It wouldn’t take very long for redemption to come.
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Hog & Boar
dogs, hogs, knives, South Carolina
Thank you to Dayne Shuda of Hunting Business Marketing for naming this post one of the Top 50 Hunting Blog Posts of 2009!
Spring can be a slow time for hunters: turkey season is winding down, tag applications are due and guns & bows are being put aside for fishing rods. They’re shaking off winter’s cabin fever and taking the family camping. Everyone’s relaxed, ready for summer. Then someone suggests a hog hunt.
That’s pretty much how it went down for Cory Glauner of Outdoors International. “Every year we go camping in Utah with my wife’s family. We have a grand ol’ redneck good time. Shoot lots of guns, have paintball wars and this year I upped the ante with a boar hunt,” he said, explaining how it was that he came face to face with this purebred Russian boar with nothing but a stick & string between them. Read more…
Featured, Hog & Boar
archery, boar, hogs, Utah
Trailcams are all the rage for managing wildlife and food plots and sometimes you get a shot that’s not quite, well, expected.
Wildlife In Action
hogs, photography, trailcam
David Petzal on his fine forum, The Gun Nut, posts about this boar taken over in Europe. Field & Stream writer Tom McIntyre took the photo. There are a couple more photos, click here to see them. Makes me wonder if this the same boar or the shooter was out gathering food for the winter for a local village.
Hog & Boar
Europe, hogs
This one comes from Doubletough hunting buddy Ceth Land of Manning, South Carolina (that’s not him in the pic, but figured the visual would help!). I took my first hog with a knife (this is Doubletough Outdoors after all) on his hunting property a couple years ago. He’s got some friends with dogs trained exclusively for hog hunting and this is a story from one such hunt back in the spring: Read more…
Campfire Stories
hogs, South Carolina
