South Carolina lowcountry deer season starts August 15th

Our South Carolina deer season starts on August 15 2025 here in the lowcountry, and we are doing all the work necessary for another awesome season right now such as adding new stands and repairing older ones as well as finding anything we can find to upgrade inside and out here at the lodge.

Last year we had a fantastic season despite the heat and drought South Carolina has been battling, as well as a giant crop of acorns during the Fall. This made the hunting much tougher than it would have been if it had been wet and cold with little natural food to help make the deer move to our feeders full of corn. However we just hunted harder and keyed in on our best crossings to find bucks cruising from one doe bedding are to another instead, and that led to lots of hunters seeing and shooting nice bucks and some fat does. Just check out some of our successful hunters in the photos from 2024 that I've included here!

We are almost booked up for deer season here in the low country, but we've still got some prime dates left, and we'd love to have you join us, so check our online Calander to see them or just give me a call any time to talk about a hunt.

Wild Hogs Keep Moving Despite Hot and Dry April in the Lowcountry

Hot and dry conditions here in South Carolina this April slowed our wild hog movement, but definitely did not stop it!

As always, our pigs went right to all the new greening up plants early in April, and this made the bigger ones harder to find at the feeders since they did not want or need the high carbohydrate corn. However packs of smaller ones were plentiful, and with our low hunting pressure and by watching the cameras closely to stay on top of the movement, our hunters were consistently in the best spots to see them as well as some bigger boars too. This allowed Nick, down in South Carilina for the weekend, to join us for two nights. Both provided hog sightings, and he was fortunate enough to kill a huge boar Friday afternoon before dark and then kill a nice 40lb bbq griller out of a big pack Saturday night. Just check out the pic he sent of it just before it came off his grill too!

The following weekend, we had Dustin and his son Adam in camp to chase some turkeys and hogs. We heard lots of birds and got a jake in range but with SC's new rules, he was off limits, and we never got a longbeard in range since they all were very henned up that weekend. However, both saw hogs and Dustin hammered a nice BBQ hog to take home. Check out the pic they sent of their griller about to be devoured too! And while they were here, we also got a chance to talk all about South Carolina wild hog hunting and record a 40 minute podcast with his co host Dell on their D and D Outdoors Podcast that is available on iTunes and Spotify!! Please go check it out if you crave in-depth knowledge of hog hunting being spilled. Thank you guys for having me on!

Sam with his giant 187lb boar

Nick with his big boar

Nick killed a nice BBQ hog

Then we had Frank, his son in law Daniel and friend Sam down to also chase birds and swine. The boys were on fire and killed a couple of bbq hogs Friday night, but then Sam heated up his barrel with two hogs Saturday night - a 40 lb pig out of a big pack all about the same size and a great 187lb boar. Amazingly enough both those hogs were shot at the same feeder that a huge alligator was spotted at Friday afternoon! Daniel then completed the weekend with a huge limb-hanger turkey weighing just shy of 22lbs with a 10 1/4 in beard and over 1 1/4 in spurs!

Congratulations to everyone, and as always, we can't thank everyone enough for coming and hunting with us here in the lowcountry. We have a few days open in May and June, which are usually surprisingly good since the hogs can't travel far from the water to stay cool and are more on the corn since it is easy and close as well. So give me a call if you still want to get in some great hunting while waiting on deer season to roll back around. We are mostly full for the Fall as well, but we definitely have a few weekends open and would love to have you. Please see our Available Hunt Dates page for all open days!

Big hogs eating in the morning

Wild hogs out before dark

Hogs knocking over our feeder

Hogs on the corn in the swamp

Limb hanger

Daniel with his big gobbler

Dustin and Adam in the turkey woods

Big alligator cruising by the feeder

Ribs on the menu

Wild hog backstraps for dinner

Hogs about to knock over the feeder

Dustin and Adam's hog

Nick's BBQ

Daniel and Sam with hogs

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April Weather Creates Great Wild Hog Hunting in the Low Country

Man, what a weekend! After months of cold, April's warm weather mixed with rain created some great conditions for our wild hogs to move for our friends from Virginia. And after being off a weekend to rest up, we were ready for them, and sure enough they killed 5 hogs as well as put some pep into the step of a few more as they headed back to the safety of the swamp.

Everyone saw hogs but it was Mark that got things started Thursday night when rolled up a small one out of a pack before seeing and dropping a nice big one later in the night. Charles and Rodney collected one each Friday night and Charles finished things up Saturday night with a 80lb sow.

In addition to shooting hogs at the feeders, quite a few hogs were seen just wandering around rooting up the swamp and just generally enjoying the Spring weather and the plethora of food it has made available. And after months of just acorns and some corn, both carbohydrates, hogs will always go right to some protein rich plants once they bloom. But as the spring rolls on and gets closer to summer, those plants will get bigger and not as tender, usually causing the hogs to go back to the feeders for an easy meal rather than spend a lot of time on their feet in the heat looking for food. So plenty of great hunting to be had over the next few months; just give us a call about dates or check out our availability calendar. And as always please call with any questions or about last minute openings and specials.