Spring Wild Hog Hunting Heats Up!

Spring is definitely here now with 75 degree days and 50s at night making for some great wild hog hunting here in South Carolina

John and his son Jason joined us again this year from NY, and this time it was John with the lucky rabbit's foot. He started the trip off with killing a lone 108lb sow Friday night and then stacked up a 35 griller hog on Saturday when a pack of eaters came out. And this past weekend, Friday night Barry and John ran over for just one night when they had a break from a work trip to SC. And both slammed hogs - Barry with a 102lb sow and John with his 45lb sow to make it a memorable trip! Congratulations to everyone!

Note that it is very common for hunters to kill hogs that have old injuries (and sometimes new) since wild pigs not only have a tough life surviving in the wild, they also fight amongst themselves a lot even as piglets. Wild boars are also very rough when mating a sow and often injure them then as well. In addition, hogs have a very small kill zone compared to a deer, and we often kill hogs that have been shot before in the leg or neck that have survived no problem. They are truly some very tough animals!

Cold weather is most likely done here in the lowcountry as our days and nights get warmer. However there is still plenty of great hunting to be had over the next few months, so give us a call or check out our available hunt dates online. While it will most likely be later to beat the heat, the hogs often show since they can't travel far once it gets too hot and will be sticking close to water and feeders. And while they are enjoying a lot of natural foods right now as everything is sprouting, they will definitely keep hitting the corn too.

Jason and his Dad John with his 108lb sow

John with his 2nd hog of the trip

Barry and John with their two hogs going 45 and 102 lbs

Big Sounder of hogs out before dark

Hogs at the feeder

Big boar

Bobcat hunting the feeder

Hog at feeder

Young boar out

Sow and piglets feeding

Coyote hunting our feeder

pigs outside of deer fence

Hog out before dark

3 legged sow

Early Spring Weather Creates Great Wild Hog Hunting

Early Spring weather showed up to the low country of South Carolina to start our March wild hog hunts off, and it created some great conditions for the pigs to move.

This allowed Scott to run down from Virginia and hammer not one, but two hogs on the First. And this past weekend we had 4 guys celebrating an upcoming wedding with a bachelor party here in the lowcountry hunting wild pigs. Everyone saw hogs, and Cody got things started when he shot a great 170lb boar Friday night. Brothers Billy and Daniel then each killed hogs Saturday night. And we have to give a huge shout out to Daniel on dropping his 120lb sow - not only his first wild hog, but his first big game animal ever! To say he is hooked would be an understatement!

Scott with his two hogs in one night

Cody with his great 170lb boar

Daniel with his first hog!

Much of the hog movement is still around our feeders, but the pigs also love to hit anything that sprouts as it gets warmer. So with the rain we have had, things are definitely growing now, and the hogs are hitting fields to find nutsedge (also known as nutgrass) that has a thick, fibrous root that the hogs love to root up and eat as well as anything else they that is greening up. But they are also cleaning up any leftover acorns in the swamp they can find too.

While sitting in the stands, our hog hunters are also reporting that most bucks are still carrying their antlers. We usually start finding lots of sheds by mid February, but this year it seems like the bucks are dropping later. We are still seeing lots of them with both antlers running around on camera as well, but we are looking forward to all of the being cast so we can watch all the bucks grow their new racks all summer. We can then dream about hunting them this coming Fall!

Please check our Availability Calendar for open dates on upcoming hunts. But don't hesitate to email, call or text to with any questions or if you don't see what you are looking for. Also please consider sharing our posts. Thanks, Jeff

Sows and piglets at feeder

Big boar hog

Wild pigs at feeder

Young boar coming to feed

Hogs feeding

Big boar out

Hogs out and feeding

Predators on the hunt around our feeders

Many bucks still carrying anters

Wild hogs love to toot nutsedge

February's Cold Weather Continues to Produce Good Wild Hog Hunting

Cold weather is the key to good wild hog hunting in the winter. It's really that simple. If the hogs aren't suffering in freezing temperatures and having to work for food to survive, they will generally not move much and just lay around deep in the thick cover enjoying the nice days and only moving occasionally and erratically late at night. And after our warm Fall with lots of acorns to feast on, the hogs are fat and in great shape to easily skip a few meals while they wait out the summer-like days. This makes them so much tougher to kill, so we love to see a cold front headed our way any weekend we are hunting!

Justin with his giant 282 lb sow

Jenny with her 141 lb sow

And that's what happened this past weekend. We had a few warm days slowing the movement. But then it cooled back off with a low of 25 Friday night, and this nice weather helped our old friend Justin to kill a huge 282 lb sow and his his friend Jenny to kill a fantastic 141 lb sow. Congratulations!

Justin also hit the record button on our ATN scope and captured the shot, so make sure and check it out below as well as some of the wild hog activity our trailcams caught this week.

Wild hogs eating

Wild hog eating at the feeder

Big sow with her piglets

Giant wild boar

Big sow and her piglets

Wild hog with piglets

Wild hog