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!
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!
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