Fort Stewart Hogs

[Interseptor]

Can anyone make any sugestions as to where to shart looking for hogs on Fort Stewart?  How much of the area is acessable foot? I've heard that there is a lot of water on the base.

[Joseph]

I can't remember where I was on Ft. Stewart exactly because I was all over it for about 8 months while I was there in the Army but i saw hogs every where I went.  I think the areas that you can hunt are designated.  Joseph

[Apex Predator]

Anywhere near water!  There are creeks or drainages running through just about every area.  Right now the roads and tank trails are in bad shape due to the abundant rainfall.

[Greg Clark]

Was down there this past weekend.  The roads look really bad in a few places, but the nasty spots I went thru had a solid base and they are pretty sandy so with 4x4 you should not have any problems.

Focus on the areas on the base map that have some marsh symbols and you will probably get on hogs eventually.  The units that are really thick with marsh symbols are really wet right now.

[RGinWY]

Talk to the Rangers (wardens). They were always helpful when I lived down there.

[RC]

All the E areas are hot right now. E3-10.RC

[woodsman196]

I hunted the fort last week with a group of three others. We saw or heard hogs in every area we went to. RC is right about the E's. I saw more hogs in E-4 than any other area I hunted. All the recent rain left the roads in bad shape but passable. The places we had problems with the roads was with ruts not mud. I had the most luck in thick cover and water that was between ankle and mid calf deep. If you have rubber knee boots bring them mine were very helpful.

[Hoyt]

Last time I hunted Ft. Stewart people were using Baker Climbers..me included. I remember that cause was in mine in area B-4 when a little boar hog came walking up. I started to draw my Cheetah Standard bow and the climber slipped down about 10". Don't know how I didn't fall but didn't.

Spooked the hog off, but I started seeing hogs coming in all around me from everywhere. So I got down and I swear if there was one hog there was a 100. Never in my life seen so many hogs in the woods at one time. There was so much movement and feeding and hogs they didn't pay any attention to me moving around.

A big sow came walking right up to me head on and I shot her behind the head on top of neck and spine at about two long steps. The arrow glanced off her spine. I then just walked up to another one and shot it behind the shoulder. Got it. Those hogs stayed in that area for over a wk.
Bunch of live oak acorns.

[michaelschwister]

B-4 is now small arms impact and never open. B5 is gone due to new construction and A20 is a small fraction of it'sformer self due to new housing.  I lived there for 2 years in the late 90s and killed a slew of hogs with the longbow. went back most years since, but have not killed a pig since 2002.  I now spend my time and money elsewhere.  Heading to week 4 of the Texas pig gig one week from today!! Around 2002 they hired 6-7 full time game wardens with full time shoot on sight orders for all hogs. That is also about the time they began full time year around rifle season (it was archery only around the housing areas only outside of deer season up to that point).  Herd really took one in the shorts.  Will agree the herd is beginnign to come back, but you have to work hard and put in the time to get into pigs there now. Anywhere trucks carrying bubbas with rifles can't go is the place to start.

[Greg Clark]

I spoke with one of the rangers this past weekend and he was far from helpful.  Hardly even looked up from cleaning the screen of his Iphone while I was talking to him.  I don't want to paint the entire conservation staff with a brush from this one incident, but this guy was far from helpful (at least at the moment I was speaking with him)