Hunting Hogs in the winter
12-06-2006, 10:32 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Lake County, Florida
Posts: 3,313
RE: Hunting Hogs in the winter
i've never even seen snow much less hunt in it, but i would say it's a safe bet that hunting a water hole when there is snow on the ground wouldn't likely be a good bet when hog hunt'n.
12-06-2006, 10:35 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Lake County, Florida
Posts: 3,313
RE: Hunting Hogs in the winter
the way we do it down here is look for fresh hog root'n. you'll know it when you see it, it'll be similiar to the damage a skidder does. when you find the root'n, they won't be too terribly far from there. if there is enough of them in the pack, you will be able to smell them (if the wind is right) before you see or hear them.
12-07-2006, 09:26 AM
#5
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Hunting Hogs in the winter
I have found the hogs move more during the day in the winter time. Food sources run out and they are on the move more. I see more hogs during the winter. Hunt them just like you do normally. Be sure to be out early morning and late afternoon.
12-07-2006, 11:41 AM
#6
Join Date: Dec 2006
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RE: Hunting Hogs in the winter
in winter they still need the same basic things, food,water,mud, shelter(they prefer cedar trees). they are more active in the daytime in winter. check for sign just like hunting deer. but keep in mind hogs are nomads, they have no set pattern.
12-08-2006, 11:43 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Baytown, Texas
Posts: 415
RE: Hunting Hogs in the winter
I hunt them pretty much the same as anytime. As a matter of fact, the winter is my favoite time to hunt hogs and is usually the only time I hunt them other than the fall. This is mostly b/c I am fishing the rest of the year and down here in southeast Texas, it is too hot in the last spring and summers for cleaning them, IMO. I usually start hunting them in mid October and really hunt them in December through March.
12-11-2006, 04:52 PM
#8
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Orlando, Florida
Posts: 387
RE: Hunting Hogs in the winter
The one thing I have run into with cold weather hunting for hogs is that when the acorns are falling in your particular area, they MAY move more at night. It seems like, when they know the food is there, there isn't much urgency to get up and out of cover. When that supply diminshes, I see them looking for food a lot more during the day. I picked up this pattern in certain areas I hunt where there was huge amounts of fresh rooting, sign etc.and almost no sign of the pigs themselves during the day.
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