While I haven’t posted much here at LowcountryHunting lately, don’t think for one minute that I haven’t been working like crazy on several big projects. And one of those projects is of course our annual Quality Deer Management Association’s Salkehatchie Branch REACH banquet that will be held on August 8th at the County Line restaurant. The banquet will feature a live auction, a silent auction, games, raffles and another amazing meal fixed by the County Line’s own David Rowell.

However this year we will be doing something EXTRA SPECIAL for all of those that support QDMA and our banquet - we will be publishing a NEWSPAPER to publicize their businesses as well as QDMA’s mission. The paper will be 12×12 inches in size, have 16 pages with color on the front and back and have a minimum run of 5000 copies that we will distribute across Hampton County during the opening week of deer season!!!

And in this paper, we will be giving ads to our sponsors as well as selling ads to other local businesses that would like an advertising mechanism to reach all of our visiting hunters. So please contact me at 803-842-1155 if you would like to purchase tickets (single $50, couple $65) become a sponsor for the banquet or just purchase an ad in our newspaper.

PS: I was able to take the boys out in our new, nicely used F250 for a hog hunt last night. And while we didn’t kill anything, we sure had a great time watching a sow with her piglets… MUCH more info about the truck, the boys, our hunting and my projects coming very soon, so stay tuned!

Jeff

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With deer season just over 6 weeks away, our family is trying to enjoy what little of the summer we have left… so I apologize for not posting regularly lately. However in-between our summer trips and activities with the boys, I have been working hard on a bunch of new articles as well as a couple of new projects. I look forward to sharing all of them with you in just a few days, so please stay tuned..

Thanks, Jeff

PS: If you are looking for something to do, head over to SimplyOutdoors… Arthur has some great ideas, and one of them has to be near you!

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Good Monday Morning! For your viewing pleasure today I have some great footage our friends from Trijicon’s Outdoor America filmed at Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge a few years ago. So please check over at the Cypress Creek Skinning Shed to view them shooting a big hog and then harvesting a beautiful buck in velvet.

Jeff

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August is fast approaching, so if you are still in the market for a hunting club to join, you may want to check out the Longbranch Hunt Club outside of Ridgeland.They are currently looking for members to fill their remaining openings on their 9,800 acres in Jasper county. The club has 1800 acres of still hunting-only land and 8000 acres that they still hunt as well as dog hunt. Dues are $1650 and the membership period runs just during deer season.

If interested, please contact Mike at 843-726-1425.

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I can’t believe a week away from SC can go so fast!

Amy, Bo, Will and I ran down to Melbourne, FL for some rest and relaxation, but ended up doing almost as much there as we do here. We went on an unbelievably fun bowfishing trip in Orlando with Florida BowFishing Charters, a fishing trip on the Intracoastal with friends and a great hog hunt near Lake Okeechobee with Chappy’s Outfitters. And that was all on top of eating out, visiting friends and spending lots of time at the beach and pool with the kids!

We really had a fantastic great time, and I look forward to sharing some of our pictures and outdoor adventure stories with everyone. However I am headed to work this morning, so they will have to wait until later. But until then, please check over at the Cypress Creek Skinning Shed for four great new video clips: a bow hunt for a hog, a monster lowcountry buck by rifle and one of our many lady hunters shooting a doe. There is also a great instructional video clip about how to hunt hogs, and what sign and habitat you are looking for when pursuing them - a real must for those that are new to the sport.

Jeff

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That’s right… The Hunt family is headed to Florida this morning for a full week of fun in the sun. We will be staying in Melbourne visiting Amy’s mom and stepdad that live across the street from the beach as well as catching up with lots of friends that we don’t get to see too often. We also have several day trips planned to Sebastian Inlet, the zoo and on the St. John’s River. So I look forward to sharing those adventures with you when I return, and hopefully I will also get  a post or two up while we are there since I will have internet access.

However to keep you entertained this morning, I suggest you check over at the Cypress Creek Skinning Shed for some new video clips that I just posted. One has some great footage of a big sow being shot by our old marketing/media coordinator and the other has Kerry Earnhardt watching a great boar fight and then shooting the winner. I think you will really like them!

Jeff

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From the SC Camo Coalition:

There is power in numbers.  Show your support for South Carolina’s outdoors tomorrow when “Underappreciated Assets: The Economic Impact of South Carolina’s Natural Resources” 2009 study is released.  Researched by University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business professor Dr. Doug Woodward, this comprehensive report documents the economic impact of activities associated with South Carolina’s natural resources, such as wildlife related outdoor recreation (i.e. hunting, fishing, boating, wildlife watching), resource based tourism, forestry, mining, boat manufacturing and commercial fishing.

DNR’s economic impact of natural resources news conference is TOMORROW (Wednesday, May 27th).
Please attend the news conference in your area.

Green Means Green
30 Billion Reasons Why Life’s Better Outdoors

GREENVILLE
9:30 a.m.
Reedy River Park
601 South Main Street, Greenville, SC 29612

COLUMBIA
12:00 noon
Riverfront Park
The Corner of Alexander Road & Meeting Street on the West Columbia Side of the Gervais Street Bridge, Columbia, SC 29201

CHARLESTON
3:30 p.m.
Charleston City Marina
17 Lockwood Drive, Charleston , SC 29401

For more information please visit SCDNR’s website.

Remember, there is power in numbers.  This is a news conference.  Media from across the state will be in attendance.  It is important that we support the South Carolina Natural Resources Society and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

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I hope that everyone is enjoying a beautiful day here in the lowcountry by celebrating Memorial Day. Because without the service and sacrifice of our veterans, none of our freedoms would be a reality! Thank You to all of those that have served our great nation.

Jeff

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I was able to check my camera the other day down on Pig Road over on the River tract, and boy had the hogs been hitting that feeder like crazy. In 10 days, I had over 1000 pictures. A lot of the hogs were just nice size eaters stopping by the corn dispensing contraption to try and fatten up, but there were some real monsters on there too. Unfortunately, the hogs were having a great time rubbing on the tree that the trailcam was attached to, and they managed to spin the thing around the tree several times. This resulted in some neat shots of the pigs approaching the feeder instead of under it, but it also meant that lots of the images had bushes in the way since I did not clear all around the tree…

I haven’t figured out if the hogs don’t like the camera watching them, so they moved it. Or if they read lowcountryhunting.com and were tired of always seeing themselves portrayed eating, so they adjusted the camera to get a different perspective of themselves :)  However while I contemplate this important, pressing issue, enjoy some hog pics. And with the great, cool weather we are having right now, you might want to consider hitting the woods to stock up on some pork while the bugs are on vacation.

Jeff

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This Spring has been very tough for me to blog. Not only have I been super busy with turkey season, but I have been having computer problems in addition to being very handicapped by using dial-up internet services to blog. And I just seem to be getting busier and busier every day with two kids, two jobs, a wife and a life, so I just don’t have the time to sit around waiting for pages to load or files to download. Throw in an older, slow computer that loves to freeze up, and you can see why I haven’t gotten around the bloggosphere as much as I used to and why I haven’t posted as often as I would like.

Well, that is all about to change! A wireless company has finally introduced a high-speed modem that will work out here in our internet dead zone, and I now have it. Then, due to my computer crashing last week, I have finally had to go and buy a new computer. So between the two of them, my computing/internet surfing ability has gone from the equivalent of a Yugo to a Ferrari.

I have already been able to view hunting videos that before always clogged my computer up, such as some of Tom’s great work at Base Camp Legends, Arthur and Jeff’s turkey hunts at SimplyOutdoors and Phillip’s hog hunts over at the HogBlog. I have also been able quickly run around many of my other favorite blogs to see what everyone is up to lately, which before was becoming more and more impossible due to my time/schedule constraints.

And now with the new computer to do the processing and the high-speed internet connection to upload them, I am working on getting some of the great hunting footage that we shoot at Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge up on the internet. I am very excited about this since we have so many hunts on film, and until now, it has been trapped on our many tapes. But that is all about to change too!

And to start things off, I have gone and pulled the great intro to the original Cypress Creek Hunting Video made about 5 years ago and posted it to YouTube and linked it to the Cypress Creek Skinning Shed, specifically at Cypress Creek Hunting Video Intro. Please note that it has a watermark on it for the first few seconds, but that is because I was using a program that we are thinking of purchasing. If it works well, I will buy it and remove the watermark, then re-upload it. I am also still trying to get it to play directly on the Skinning Shed, but for right now, I can only get it to work from YouTube. So check it out and let me know what you think of the footage. And then prepare for much more, because once I get the these bugs worked out, I will transfer the rest of the hour-long video and get it uploaded; then I will move on to some of our most recent hunts.

And of course, I am grateful for any advice anyone can give me about working with the videos on the internet as well as on the computer. I am new to this, so I will be glad for any help. Now if I could just get all of my old emails and programs off of my old, dead computer, I would be in good shape. However I am working now on getting that done right now, and as soon as I do, I should be all caught up on my biggest projects. Then throw in the fact that the summer is our slowest hunting time as well as our slowest wedding time, and you can see that I will have more time and ability to blog. So forgive me for the lack of writing this Spring and prepare for some big changes over the next few weeks. I truly look forward to sharing much more with you.

Jeff

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