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2024 Hog Hunting Thread

2 seasons ago I drew a quota for a wma I had never hunted. Pulled up and started looking at the aerial photos forming a plan. I took off at gray light walking a road that parallel a creek bottom. After 15-20 minutes of walking looking for a break in the wall of foliage I find a spot I can push thru the thick stuff. After pushing thru i stepped out into the pine rows and the skeeters swarmed me. I take off my vest and retrieve the thermacell. Just as I'm reshouldering my vest I hear a squeal so I nock an arrow and take off toward the noises. I'm slipping thru the bottom and I notice movement all around me. There's a butt ton of pigs in this sounder and I'm crouched down within bow range of it with the wind in my favor. I just wait and observe and then I spot the lead sow and she is huge. 2x larger than the biggest pig I've ever encountered.....so I focus in on her. She's 40-50 yards away rooting in the pine straw and I'm slowing moving in. I make it to 25yds and waiting for a shot. A small pig gets in between me and the target critter and closing in. I shot the little 1 at 8-10yds and it lets out a small squeak and runs off. I'm still watching the big girl and the whole sounder is on alert now. I'm waiting to shoot the big 1 and a medium size red boar walks up toward me investigating what's going on....I shot him at 10yds and he runs right at me and he face plants into a small ditch and splashed me with water and runs by at less than 6ft....the big sow has had enough and trots off and I stand there for a sec taking in what just happened. Then I notice I still got pigs close by and 1 arrow left in my quiver so I nocked the last 1 and move toward the sound. I sneek up to a clump of palmetto and there is a medium size sow with a gang of small piglets...so I stick her and then finally all the pigs have run off. I never do find any of them....all the blood trails crossed each other's path and made for a real headache tracking and 2 of them made it to the flooded woods. I didn't find any of them and only find 1 arrow but still 1 of my best days in the woods
 
Matki15 said:
6.8 spc with 120 grain SSTs, one of the best hunting calibers for an AR15 in my opinion. Over 200 hogs with it so far and have only lost 2
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That 6.8 is a hammer on hogs. I shoot the Hornady custom SST and Hornady black 110 vmax for coyotes.

Haven't been able to get on any since January but dad loaded some 110 grain Barnes for the 300blk I'd like to test. Mostly shooting under thermal optics at night
 
Another time my other buddy in town invited me to his lease. A big boar had taken over 1 of his feeder locations and he wanted it removed......I showed up and shot my gun couple shots, we jumped in the sxs, he dropped me off maybe 50yds from the ladder, climbed up, waited waited 10 minutes and blew the brains outta the pig that stepped out at 100yds. Easiest hunt ever. Wait for the sxs and get picked up at the base of the tree

Hopefully that's how it goes for u @Will Harris
 
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Will Harris said:
NR is $60 for baiting and $60 for night time. will be fun for sure. i've killed hogs when deer hunting in GA and AL, but only a few and only while deer hunting. wasted them thinking they werent fit to eat. i'm smarter now.
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Will Harris said:
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Makin my mouth water by sending me pics. 3:30p today
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Looks like you won't need the night license.
 
I'm getting ready to start still hunting hogs with my longbow on the local military reservation, after turkey season. I've been watching Jason Samkoviak on YouTube. He hunts hogs in South GA. His YouTube channel has a section on hog hunting videos. Robert Carter is another trad bow hog hunter on YouTube I've been watching.
 
katiesmom said:
I'm getting ready to start still hunting hogs with my longbow on the local military reservation, after turkey season. I've been watching Jason Samkoviak on YouTube. He hunts hogs in South GA. His YouTube channel has a section on hog hunting videos. Robert Carter is another trad bow hog hunter on YouTube I've been watching.
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Yes, I love both those channels! They both have great info, and I am basically doing just what they are doing. I'm "slip hunting" as RC calls it with my Northern Mist longbow. It's awesome. One piece of advice I can give you is to go slow...really, really slow and pick apart every brush pile and blowdown. A good pair of low powered binoculars will help you see into the thick stuff. Good luck and keep us posted.
 
katiesmom said:
Ranch Fairy uses a compound but he's got some good hog videos on shot placement, etc.
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Yes, I like the necropsy videos showing the arrow's effect. I shoot 650 to 700 grain Douglas Fir arrows most of the time off my longbow but I have some 650 to 660 grain high FOC carbons tuned to it too. I've had great results by following Dr. Ashby's guidelines on building high penetration arrows. I'm seriously out of practice blood trailing since all the deer I have arrowed the last couple of years have fallen within sight. Both bucks this season fell within 50 yards.
 
katiesmom said:
How do you miss the cartilage shield on their shoulder? Are you shooting quartering away?
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Yes ma'am....the quartering away is the money shot. Hug the elbow.....or build u some man arrows like I did and just shoot thru the shield.

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Matki15 said:
@brydan right now I’m using Apex #2 TSS, the 1 1/2 ounce load. Depending on how far I can see in the places I’m hunting I’ll either use my factory modified for closer range shots (out to 50 yards) or a Carlsons sporting clays extra full .690 constriction (out to 75-80 yards)
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I know nothing about hog hunting as we don’t have them up here. Why don’t you use rifled slugs? Just curious. Before centerfire rifles were legalized for deer, we had some pretty tricked out sluggers that could reach out.
 
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woodsdog2 said:
I know nothing about hog hunting as we don’t have them up here. Why don’t you use rifled slugs? Just curious. Before centerfire rifles were legalized for deer, we had some pretty tricked out sluggers that could reach out.
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We can only use slugs during firearms deer season. Outside of that we have to use what’s legal for the season in progress, right now that’s squirrel.
 
I use my bow 99% of the time and only killed 1 pig with a gun so not the most informed on the subject from first hand knowledge.....but my friend whacks a bunch of pigs on his property. He hand loads his centerfire bullets and uses the pigs as test subjects.....with that said he says single aught buckshot and the 17hmr is his preferred tools to despatch pigs
 
I don't have a ton of experience with hogs. Hunted them twice, shot one with a longbow. Either something got to it before me or the swamp just swallowed him. I did get my arrow back at last blood and had a full pass through. If we had them here, I'd almost quit deer hunting. So fun to stalk with a partner.

For what it's worth, I was told to imagine them holding a cantaloupe between its front legs. Shoot the cantaloupe.
 
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