Night Hunting

[skipnoid]

A buddy and I will be hunting at the Bugscuffle Ranch near San Antonio later this week. I've read a lot of references about hunting hogs at night. Can anyone fill me in on the how-to's of doing this. I have a light all on my sight pins for low ligt conditions. I've heard that somehow a flashlight with a blue lense is also used.

Any help would be great!

 

[Richard McCullough]

Hello. You might be pleasantly dissatisfied with the light on your pins. I would suggest the Mepro light pins. Green being the best. You can get them from Cabelas or Bass Pro. The moon from the first 1/4 through the full is the best time. you don't need a light. but if you use one afix it to you stabilizer and color the lens blue with a perm. marker. I am going to the Trulove ranch in january, and January 7th is a perfect time to hunt with just the moon. Hope this helped. USE A STRING TRACKER, it will help a whole bunch.

 

[shadow]

Blue, Red, Yellow even white lights work, also depends on if the ranch has lights set up on the feeders at night. Most of the time the bigger hogs will stay away from the lights no matter what color but the smaller ones don't really care. The catch is, as I have noticed, once they figure out that the white light means something is going to happen they run, swap to a blue and try again etc.. Walk slowly if still hunting because the bigguns come out at night. Be really carefull too as they won't move until you are on top of them and sometimes they may charge you. I try to have atleast one person in the group with a pistol just in case... A string tracker will help if it doesn't get wrapped around a tree in the mean time. When you stick one let him have time to lay down and expire...don't push. Most ranches I've hunted have a tracking dog that can help you out or the ranch manager will tell you to just find blood first then come get him and you'll track him together, nothing worse than an injured hog running around at night. Listen to the ranch manager as he knows his animals and ranch the best. Believe it or not he also knows where and when they will be out and about and knows the general area of where they bed up. Good Luck!!!