MCgunner
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Not really. You can ambush 'em over a feeder if you don't mind staying up all night. They're quite nocturnal. They rarely come out of heavy cover in broad daylight unless lightly hunted and/or quite overpopulated. I've been on very overpopulated places where you could kick 'em out of the brush like rabbits, but that's not quite the case YET on my place.
The best way to occasionally fill the freezer is by trapping. All, but a couple I've killed on my place have been in a trap. They're pretty thick down there, but you just don't see 'em often in daylight.
I'm not sure what you might think of trapping, not actually "hunting" or free range or anything like that, but it's the meat I'm after, couldn't care less about the hunt for 'em down there unless a stupid one wanders in when I'm deer hunting, which has happened.
Like I say, i bought that place to hunt and hogs don't bother me, in fact, I welcome them. But,I've hunted with dogs in rice fields with a guy before over near College Port. He was allowed free access to thousands of acres over there, ran dogs at least 3 or 4 nights a week. It was his thing. Those things will tear the heck out of a rice field. I do understand the farmer's plight.
One thing, too, hogs are hard on indigenous wildlife. I used to have flocks of quail down there, quite a few. Loved to hear 'em breaking coveys all over the place in the morning when I was deer hunting. Killed an 8 pt one year, bout 150 yards out, walked up to it and just as I nudged it with the barrel, a covey flew up around me and I nearly soiled myself, ROFL. There hasn't been a quail down there in at least a dozen years since the hogs have gotten so thick. That's a bit of a shame. I'm not certain it's a direct cause, but probably since there are no more snakes or fire ants down there than there ever were.
