Cypress Creek Offers Great South Carolina Hog Hunting

Now that our South Carolina deer season is over, we are preparing for a big Spring of hog hunting here in the lowcountry at Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge.

All week, Danny, Bubba and I have been out at our River property, 1000 acres sandwhiched right between the Hamilton Ridge WMA and Crab Orchard Plantation, clearing roads, trimming shooting lanes, setting up feeders and erecting stands in preparation for all of the hog hunters that we have booked for 2009. Danny has also been out setting up another 500 acre tract down near Roebuck Plantation that we will be hunting this Spring for hogs while Bubba and Henry kept working behind our Luray lodge and on our Boggy Creek property to keep the wild pigs coming to those stands as well.

And you wouldn’t believe the amount of hog sign on all of these tracts. I will have to take my big camera with me the next time I am out there to capture some of it for the blog – the rubbed trees, the muddy wallows and the rooting as well the unbelievably beautiful setting our hunters will have to look at while in the stand. However since I had a trailcam with me last week, I stuck it up and in just two days had several hundred photos of hogs! Just check out the giant herd as well as the monster boar hanging out all by himself.

And while most of those were after dark, they were just shortly after shooting light (my camera’s clock was off by two hours, so it looks like they are out later than they were). But with our timed feeders now running to help encourage daylight feeding and no deer hunters in the woods, which removed a lot of the hunting pressure around us, the hog movement should just get better and better on all of these pieces. As a matter of fact, Danny ran in to a huge herd of pigs already on the corn as he was leaving the other afternoon at 4pm!

And don’t forget, the South Carolina Spring turkey season starts March 15th, so there is still time to book a hunt during that short 6 week season. We will be hunting those red-headed, feathery ghosts from daylight until noon, then eat a great lowcountry lunch so that we are ready for the afternoon hog hunt on one of these great tracts.

Please call or email us for more information on these South Carolina hog hunts and turkey hunts. We would love to add YOUR picture and story to The Skinning Shed.

Jeff