HOGHUNTER714
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SDHunter,
Never been there, but heard good things about it if your huntin with a bow. Jesse liked the operation when he hunted it...
Never been there, but heard good things about it if your huntin with a bow. Jesse liked the operation when he hunted it...
Bill in SD
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I have not hunted there for about 4 years. I do not know how many pigs are still running around and/or the quality of the boars.
It is an extremely rugged 640 acres or square mile. Lots of up and down and a really rugged creek runs through the middle of it. The place is smack dab in the middle of the San Andreas Earthquake Fault Zone. Lots of twisted rocks and stuff to see if you are into geology.
The terrain is mostly brushy with lots of poison oak in the creek bottoms and such. There are some rattle snakes as well.
Spot and stalk hunting is pretty much frustrating at best. Yep, you will see the hogs but by the time you get to where they were they will be gone.
And these hogs are hunted hard all year long. These are really, really wily pigs!!!!
Most guys that are successful set up in a place and ambush them as they come by.
Hunting during the middle of the day when it is hot is futile and actually makes the pigs come out later in the evening and even more skitish.
I have been meaning to go back, but I'd like to get a group of guys I have hunted with before and hunt a weekend. Also, it seems like I always get into the poison oak and seem to roll in it.
It is better to go with a bunch of guys you know or can communicate with. It seems like you could lose a whole army in there, however there have been times when I have walked up to another hunter and another 4 or so guys all walk up and we all scratch our heads at how we could all be at the same place in there.
If you go with a bunch of guys you know and have hunted before you can have one guy set up along a trail and another guy work an area and have others sit in another area and it is more productive.
There is a decent cabin on the place with bunks, however if you don't like snoring I would recommend just camping out. That is what I have always done. In fact one time I thought I was tripping out. I was sleeping in the bed of my truck under the stars and a bunch of cows came home, and yes it was very late.
I was kinda dreaming or something and it really tripped me out having tons of cows standing around staring at me as I slept.
Also, it takes going a time or two or more to figure the place out. Plus talking with guys who have hunted it before.
Bill
It is an extremely rugged 640 acres or square mile. Lots of up and down and a really rugged creek runs through the middle of it. The place is smack dab in the middle of the San Andreas Earthquake Fault Zone. Lots of twisted rocks and stuff to see if you are into geology.
The terrain is mostly brushy with lots of poison oak in the creek bottoms and such. There are some rattle snakes as well.
Spot and stalk hunting is pretty much frustrating at best. Yep, you will see the hogs but by the time you get to where they were they will be gone.
And these hogs are hunted hard all year long. These are really, really wily pigs!!!!
Most guys that are successful set up in a place and ambush them as they come by.
Hunting during the middle of the day when it is hot is futile and actually makes the pigs come out later in the evening and even more skitish.
I have been meaning to go back, but I'd like to get a group of guys I have hunted with before and hunt a weekend. Also, it seems like I always get into the poison oak and seem to roll in it.
It is better to go with a bunch of guys you know or can communicate with. It seems like you could lose a whole army in there, however there have been times when I have walked up to another hunter and another 4 or so guys all walk up and we all scratch our heads at how we could all be at the same place in there.
If you go with a bunch of guys you know and have hunted before you can have one guy set up along a trail and another guy work an area and have others sit in another area and it is more productive.
There is a decent cabin on the place with bunks, however if you don't like snoring I would recommend just camping out. That is what I have always done. In fact one time I thought I was tripping out. I was sleeping in the bed of my truck under the stars and a bunch of cows came home, and yes it was very late.
I was kinda dreaming or something and it really tripped me out having tons of cows standing around staring at me as I slept.
Also, it takes going a time or two or more to figure the place out. Plus talking with guys who have hunted it before.
Bill
