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Hog Hunting
It took a team effort for a group of Rocky Mount hunters to kill this 820-lb. Meriwether County hog on May 17. The hunters were (top row, from left) Gene Caldwell, Claude Caldwell, Ed Kneuer, Don Windom, Jody Marchman and (bottom row, from left) Trevor Murphy, Fred Murphy, James Murphy and Keith White. About 10…
It was his last cartridge and his last hope. The 192-lb. wild boar had already gored Dr. Joseph “Larry” Jackson Sr. twice and had him right where it wanted him. It had all happened in a whirlwind… the quick tremble of leaves in the thicket, the scrape of tusks and teeth against his rifle. Dr.…
Warning: Reading these adventures could be hazardous to your health as it may cause you to slide on some camo and head right out to your favorite WMA in 100-degree weather. This article is my personal hog-hunting diary for my annual “Summer Sausage Run,” which is enacted every August and September. I usually only…
Deer season had only been out 10 days. Many hunters were taking advantage of the two-month break between chasing whitetails and calling turkeys, but not Blaine Burley, of Wrightsville. On this cool January afternoon, he had a post-hole digger in his hands, slamming it 2 feet deep in the Johnson County soil, where he had…
The 2007 SEEDS Big-Buck Contest winners, Matthew Price, of Ellabell, and David Roney, of Vienna, went archery hunting in Texas in December to collect their grand prizes in last year’s big-buck contest. Matthew’s south Texas deer and hog hunt took place the first week of December, and he killed two spikes, two does and two…
Despite their appearance, boars are some of the smartest and quickest animals alive, therefore hog hunters often need a little scent assistance to help bring home the bacon. Tink’s Power Pig Dominant Boar Urine and Power Pig Sow-in-Heat are the keys to leaving the woods with that porker in the bed of your pickup. Power…
It’s 0100 hours and pitch-black dark as my team and I await our target’s arrival. We’d been briefed just hours before of the mass amount of damage our targets have caused. These beasts have destroyed other’s means of life, they’ve taken hard-earned crops away from farmers and they’ve had little to no regret about any…
Deer season has about run out. It turned into a job — slapping 4 a.m. alarm clocks and lugging climbers around — didn’t it? Ready to get that predatory surge of adrenaline pumping through those hunting veins again? It’s time to hunt hogs. If you love to hunt and have never stalked hogs, you are…
There are pigs, then there are big pigs, and then there is another class called humongous. The pig Marshall Powell and his hunting buddies killed in Johnson County falls into the upper end of that humongous-hog category. The pig, killed near Wrightsville in an Oconee River swamp, weighed 890 pounds. By any designation, that’s a…
For most folks with Georgia’s Wildlife Resources Division (WRD), wild hogs are nothing more than a nuisance. They destroy food plots, roads and forest land while competing with game species like deer and turkey. For many hunters, there’s nothing else they’d rather do than hunt a wild hog. Many claim they like the fear factor…
Hog Recipes
Creamy Garlic Wild Hog Pork Chops A deer hunter told me the other day he had encountered his first feral swine on his property. I asked what he had done with the animal. He said he dug a hole and buried it. “Those things are not any good to eat, you know,” he said. Here’s…
Wild Hog Ribs It’s a common belief that the meat from feral swine is not fit to eat. That can be true if the meat isn’t treated properly or properly prepared. A great way to make a perfect wild-pig dish is ribs. The ribs from a sow are better than the ribs from a boar. …
Orange-Glazed Wild Hog Pork Loins Are you looking for a way to cook a wild pig that wows your family and friends? You can use this recipe and convince anyone that it’s the finest piece of meat from the grocery store. 2 pork loins 1 cup brown sugar Juice from 2 oranges Zest from 2…