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!
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.
Very cool!!! This makes a client like me wanna come right back!!!