I highly recommend
www.croyscabins.com in Tennessee for a hog hunt. My best friend and I went there for a two day hunt and we had the time of our lives. The Croy family does a great job from start to finish. It's a package deal. Two day guided hunts (their son is an awesome guide!), lodging at their cabins (we stayed at the lodge, just the two of us and we had the whole place to ourselves), and breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Mrs. Croy cooked lunch and dinner each day for us and it was fantastic! Elk meatloaf and elk meatballs from elk killed on their property.
Here's the lodge we stayed at (fantastic!):
They have over 500 acres of very hilly (almost mountains) and very heavily wooded land. They have whitetail, fallow deer, elk, bison, various breeds of rams, and lots of wild boar. We started our first day in a tree stand and we saw lots of animals, but no boar. They we stalked around and we heard the boar but it took about 45 minutes to find them. The sun was going down so we just watched the boar about 150 yards away on another hill. We were able to scope them out and see how big they were compared to each other.
The next day we had our two guides with us. We really had to look for them, but after about an hour and a half, the guides told us to get ready as the boar were moving around the side of the hill. Sure enough, 15 or so came around. We were on a heck of a slope so we supported ourselves with a foot up against a tree. We had a laser range finder (didn't use it until after we shot) so I found out I made my shot at 52 yards, standing unsupported on my 215 pound male boar. I really wanted a red/brown boar and this was the only one we saw. One shot from my customized Marlin .35 lever action with a 200 grain Remington jacketed soft point bullet. Through his left shoulder, left lung, directly through the center of his heart, out the right lung and out the right rib cage. He dropped right where he stood.
My buddy got a black boar that must have been a twin of mine. 215 pounds as well.
The Croys butchered them for us and I had 14 cases of breakfast sausage in addition to the rest of the meat. We had the heads mounted I glued the 3" tusks to the outside of a picture frame of the boar after I shot it.
We got to ride around on the Croy's ATVs too. Just the greatest time. Certainly far from a "canned hunt." We really had to stalk the boar to find them and set up for our shots.
On the first day a female sow around 275+ pounds came up the mountain and menaced us. It was great. She had some piglets and she was very protective. When my buddy was taking photos with his boar after he made his shot, that same sow went after us again. My buddy and I were running up the hill and our guides had to climb trees to get away from her. She was really mean and wanted to go after us.
Yeah, we had a great time. Check out there website and call them on the phone. We went the first week of December and if you can go during the middle of the week (Tues, Wed, Thur), you can probably have the entire lodge to yourselves. The place was clean and had great chairs/couches, satellite tv, etc.
-Steve
