New Year Brings Great South Carolina Hog Hunting

This past weekend we had the first hunters of 2009 in camp, and 3 out of the 5 killed a hog – two over on the River and one at Boggy Creek.

Just check out the giant boar that Kevin, over from Beaufort with his buddy Thomas, killed on our River tract. You don’t see many old, smart boars like that moving around unless they have too! Also, check out another South Carolinian who hunts with us all of the time, Dr. Havird from Augusta, who also shot a great hog with some good cutters over off of the River tract. That is him with the cigar in one picture, and his favorite guides Bubba and Henry in the other. And while they left before I could get their picture, our two hunters from Maryland, Garcia and Thornell, shot a 100 pounder before heading back up north over on Boggy Creek.

What is amazing is the fact that we had such good hog movement even in the warm January weather. Normally their movement shuts down if it isn’t cold enough to really push them to eat. However this just shows what the right property is capable of if it is set up correctly and the pressure is managed.

And the hog hunting should just get better and better now that we have a huge cold front coming in. Our lows are supposed to be below freezing for the next 7 days, in the teens even some nights, and only in the 50’s for our highs. So now should be an excellent time to be in the South Carolina lowcountry woods in pursuit of wild hogs, and we have a lodge full coming just in time, so stay tuned… I just wish it would have been like this for the last couple of weeks of deer season!

Jeff