We arrived at our hunt Thursday evening after meeting up with Andrew at the local hardware store. After beginning presented with our lodging for the weekend, The Bunkhouse, we gathered round the fire pit to meet the other hunters for the weekend.
The following morning we arrived at the lodge for breakfast at 5:45 and after a hardy breakfast of sausage, bacon and biscuits and several cups of coffee we headed into the woods around 7.
The evening before Andrew showed us a blown-up overview of the entire property and we called dibs on which area we would want to hunt the weekend. Our area was the woodland side up from the swamp.
We still hunted through-out the first day and located some pretty decent sign and saw a 75 lb pig running cross the road. We followed after him into a field but was hit with a downpour as the bottom fell out. Luckily Andrew was out picking us up pretty quickly before we had to walk all the way back.
After a very nice meal we sat around the campfire and exchanged hunting reports. We definitely did not go hungry and the accommodations were very pleasant.
The second morning (Sat) Joe Coots joined us and helped show us around the property and more importantly the stands with feeders under them. We still-hunted from feeder to feeder until we found good sign where Martin sat down from the flint field and I found a good spot at Gumbo. We didn't seen anything that morning and moved stands again later that evening. We saw lots of deer, turkey, and squirrels and tons of sign but seems they were hard to get up. on.
The last day we decided them hogs were bayed up in the pine thickets and decided we should still hunt our last remaining morning. Started back where we first hunted we moved through the woods finding real good sign and tore up fields but at last it didn't have to change my screen name (Hogless).
Andrew was a good outfitter and did all he could to put us on hogs. His lodge and bunk house are first class as is his food. He has a custom built trailer to haul hunters out to hunt on. His property is beautiful and well maintained with plenty of food plots and feeders. We really enjoyed our hunt at Wild Things and will go back again. Jimmy Little
Thanks for the report, we're heading down in 4 weeks.
I'll be there in 3 weeks
Good to see you and Martin, wish we could have had more time together.
Pig activity is definitely picking up, the group this past weekend saw over 100 hogs.
One thing I can't stress enough on these early season hunts is to be sure you are in top shooting form. I know it's hard for you guys from the tundra to find good conditions for consistent practice this time of year but you don't want to come all this way, hunt hard, only to let the rust on your shooting prevent you from closing the deal. Spend some extra time getting dialed in and you won't be sorry when that shot presents itself.
Here's a lil taste of the kind of activity that's been at the feeders...there's a lot of pork in that picture ( 6 full grown and 5 piglets, 2/22 @ 9:30pm).
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/recurvhuntr/MFDC0039.jpg)
Good luck guys!
I'll be there in 2 weeks.