Decided to get out pig hunting today and figured I’d ask my wife if she wanted to tag along. While she grew up hunting with her dad, she’s not the most woodsy in her adult years, and with the cold and rain we’ve been having, I figured she'd say no, so I was pretty surprised when she agreed to go. The area on the Alabama side of post along the river that I planned on hunting was being used by trainees, so I had to improvise and cross the road going the opposite way and hope for the best. As I suspected there wasn’t a lot of pig sign, but the volume of deer traffic all through it makes it likely that its a very good deer patch, I suspect at the evening times. I actually got more focused on following the deer sign and forgot the pigs for a while, which is just as well - the deer trails were in open pines and I was grateful enough that my wife came, I didn’t want to push it by stomping through the creek beds and vines. She surprised me when she started getting into it and pointing out some sign (not much mind you, my eagle eye catches most, haha). In the end we were wet and cold and didn’t see anything, but still had lots of fun.
On a seperate note, went down to the Hannahatchee WMA in Georgia last weekend. Took a breather in the middle of a swamp under a Holly tree and had the largest public land buck I’ve personally seen on the hoof walk up. It was one of those times you’re almost so shocked at your luck that you get caught with your pants down. At about 25 yards the gig was up. He still wasn’t sure so he gave a couple stomps and turned and ran off. He did stop running after about 75 yards so I don’t think he was all too scared. The pig sign was incredible but alas I always seemed to be 2 steps behind. Being that it was a new area to me I likely didnt push things as hard as I could have. Had lots of good walking in, and at one point walked by what I thought was a sleeping hog on the edge of some water. I was pretty sure it was dead, but I bounced a blunt off it to be sure. Largest hybrid I’ve seen in a long time. No clue what did him in, but the coyotes and other pigs hadnt touched him and he was already a couple days gone. Ah well, both were good trips all the same.
Topic: Had a good walk (Read 2291 times)
