Places to hog hunt on the east coast.

You have a lot of hogs to shoot in SC,GA,FL,AL; I think you might be hard pressed with your budget to get some sort of guided hunt.

Be aware of some of those cheaper hunts; many times it is a "canned hunt" where they caught some and then release them in a somewhat small area for you to "hunt" them.

Price for a hog 15 years at Tioga was $500. Your price expectation is way too low,.

Jerry M said:

Price for a hog 15 years at Tioga was $500. Your price expectation is way too low,.

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Hogs are getting more and more common, more competition.
http://southerngrunterhunter.com/hunt-packages.html

Just hit public land. Heres the kicker do it during the week not the weekend. Pigs are smart. They dont travel much during the weekend due to hunting pressure.

Double Naught have you hunted with these people?

We had a great experience at HOGSWAT in Grorgia but you won't get in for $300.

Contact the South Carolina DNR and ask about hunting public land there. I volunteer with a group that searches for missing persons and have participated in 3 searches in recent years on public land near Myrtle Beach. Most recently just last weekend. Local LE has reason to believe that a person was murdered and their body dumped in the area we searched. The land was low lying and swampy in places with healthy hog populations.

It wouldn't hurt to do the same in TN and NC, maybe VA too. There are a lot of hogs in the mountains along the TC/NC border all the way down to the north central and north east portions of GA. A lot of that is National Forest. Any of the public land hunts it would be DIY, but you'd need an out of state license.

The mountain hogs usually look more like an European wild hog. They descended from them, but have crossbred with wild domestic hogs over the years. The hogs in agricultural areas usually look more like domestic hogs. The mountain hogs are fewer in number, and can be tough hunts. In parts of south GA, FL, and TX they are so common they are pests.

troy fairweather said:

I've seen them when I was searching, how many boys did you see, we may only have one day to go so can't really wait to see pigs.

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We saw a couple of dozen over the course of a 2 night hunt as well as other game like deer, possum, skunk and raccoon. We scheduled the hunt for a new moon which meant you literally couldn't see the hand in front of your face. Really, it was insane to sneak up on a sounder in total darkness with the hogs completely oblivious. Once set up we would concentrate on the largest hog. Once shooting started however, they were literally flying towards the woods and swamps. These things do not move like 600 lb farm pigs; more like Olympic athletes.

We took home 4 large hogs in 120 and 48 qt coolers which was about all we could carry from GA to MD. We STILL have one shoulder left!. It's going in the crock pot this weekend though!

We have found the meat to be wonderful IF it's slow cooked 8-10 hours - we use Stubbs original as the cooking sauce. You can cook it bone in or de-bone it prior. I started cooking bone-in and it's much easier I think with no difference in outcome. Once done, we pour off and discard the crock pot sauce leaving pork that's very very easy to pull from the bone. Much of the grissel and silver we couldn't remove before cooking is dissolved in the sauce. That's why we discard it plus after cooking it has no taste anyway. Any remaining connective tissue, grissel etc... is then easily pulled from the meat.

Be advised - the pork from these shoulders once pulled will be very dry.
One of the shoulders turns into about 3-4 quarts of meat which we freeze in plastic quart containers with again, a bit of Stubbs sauce to keep it moist. Not tons of it, just enough to moisten.
The backstraps are denser, more tender but are again a much different consistency.
We slow cook them and store them the same way too.
YMMV!

We thought the price was totally worth it given the gear they supplied and the guiding they performed. They're a great bunch of guys. We had a great time, took some hogs and hopefully made a friend or two.

I'd go back in a heartbeat maybe with more coolers!!!

This fellow wasn't the largest but we got a pic of the business end of a boar hog:



Just one of 16 hog quarters - well it isn't technically a quarter which in front includes the ribs I think - more like a shoulder. Anyway - 16 of these PLUS 4 pairs of back-straps, not shown:


Ths is our small 10 cu ft basement game freezer and it's about 2/3 of what we took home - the rest is in the upstairs kitchen freezer:

troy fairweather said:

A member and me were thinking when we get together this season for deer hunting maybe take a drive to do some hog hunting.don'tnk we would have time to try public land, so we're have to pay to hunt.

There looks to be a bunch of places, but there pricey. I think if we can keep it under $300 all in then we could swing that. Not looking to stay the night of have them cut the meat. Just shoot the hog and we will do the quartering into coolers and be on are way home.

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Well it isn't Texas, so unless there is a huge feral population, it's going to cost you more than $300 here on the East Coast.

Here is a hunt in Pennsylvania, and as paid hunts go, this is rather reasonable, at least as the cost of hunting in the area is concerned. I'm not sure if there are other fees, but if the fee that's listed is a flat rate, then you're talking $1.50 a pound for the hog. Pork is going for a lot more than that in the supermarket, even if you're not paying for skin and a lot of bone.
http://www.mohrswidowmaker.com/island.htm

Incidentally, it's about the same price give or take $50 to hunt two-dozen upland birds in West Virginia...,


LD

Loyalist Dave said:

Well it isn't Texas, so unless there is a huge feral population, it's going to cost you more than $300 here on the East Coast.

Here is a hunt in Pennsylvania, and as paid hunts go, this is rather reasonable, at least as the cost of hunting in the area is concerned. I'm not sure if there are other fees, but if the fee that's listed is a flat rate, then you're talking $1.50 a pound for the hog. Pork is going for a lot more than that in the supermarket, even if you're not paying for skin and a lot of bone.
http://www.mohrswidowmaker.com/island.htm

Incidentally, it's about the same price give or take $50 to hunt two-dozen upland birds in West Virginia...,


LD

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This looks interesting. I'll check them out.
Some of the PA hog hunting outfits import their hogs onto a fenced preserve. I personally don't care for that style. I must say the hunting we did in GA was on open farms with true feral hogs whose owners were desperate for relief. My wife being from a farming family found it particularly gratifying to K.O. a few. As did I.