bowtie8,

Welcome to Ga.& the forum. I don't post on here much but do read it alot. I live S. of Macon and tell you hogs are all over GA. As for rules of hog hunting, pick up the free hunting handout DNR puts out, you'll find it in most sporting goods store or go onlineto the GA DNR web site.

I hunt mostly along the Ocmulgee river bottom lands, but one thing you might want to check out is local farmers in your area. Most of them hate hogs because they root up their crops. If they don't have their land leased to a hunting club, you'll most likely find some that will welcome you to kill any all hogs on their land.

One type of hog hunting I do on farm land is to hunt them at night after the farmers harvest their crops. A word of warning, if you do get permission to hunt a farmers land and the crops are still in the field, "do
not under any circumstance drive a vehicle on their crops". In that light, keep in mind, should you shoot a hog in a crop, say out in the middle of the crop, you are going to have drag it to the edge of the field, sometimes, this can be tough if it's a large hog, so think about what you're willing (work) to do before pulling the trigger.

I took 2 buddies from N GA hog hunting a few weeks back, started at night and hunted to late morning and started again late evening. We passed up hogs out in the fields (which would have been a long shot), but some crops had been harvested, peanuts in particular and the farmers said we could drive across the field to any hog we shot. Most hogs are going to run from your vehicle when you drive into the field, so a good 6 volt light and a little walking the edge of the field is a good way, one person holding the light and the other doing the shooting.

Another thing I dowhen Ihave permission to hunt a farmers land, I go out and drive around and check for farm equipment in the fields, such as tractors, irrigation pivots, and to see if he has livestock in an ajoining field(safety first), any homes near the fields, because at night you've got to know what direction (as always with any type of hunting)you can shoot without killing a tractor,etc., it's cheaper to buy a hog than a tractor) It's definitely a different challenge at night.

Good Luck,
dog1