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l.h.cracker
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Re: Different Hunting Styles and terrain
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May 09, 2019, 06:32:36 am »
I hunt every terrain and way possible from marsh and swamps to hardwoods and palmettos all depends on where and how I feel like hunting.If I'm huntin from the airboat the dogs are always winding if they don't strike from the boat I'll cast them down crossings or into areas I know the hogs bed they generally cast 800 -.65 or so if they don't smell something they come back.If I feel like I need to push them deeper into a head or swamp I'll walk them in.Some spots I hunt you can only use the boat to access and then have to walk so I will play wind and plan a loop accordingly.I always look at google earth and study an area thoroughly before I hunt it, I then head for areas I know hogs will be such as waterholes or hammocks.If the hogs are feeding on accorns I hunt oaks if they're feeding on palm berries I hunt palms.When its dry I head for isolated water.If I'm hunting off the buggy I look for tracks or sign if I find a good track and its a bit to old I'll push it but the dog's are always huntin from the box.A lease I was on last year the only way to hunt it effectively for me was to rig.it was 12,400 acres with very few hogs that rarely came to roads some of the hogs we'd rig were 8-900 yds in a block with zero sign on the edges.To big to walk and to few hogs and to big of blocks to just randomly cast.Roading a dog is my least favorite way to hunt if you have a lot of hogs I can see how it works but if you have a large area with a small amount of hogs it is pissin in the wind imo.I generally try to hunt just as hard as my dogs to find the hogs and put them within striking range if I can get them within .5 or so they'll do the rest and be fresh when they strike.For me knowing the terrain and habbits of the hogs then putting a plan together is a lot of the fun.I have hunted places as a guest where there were enough hogs that you didn't have to do that but I don't have anywhere like that so being a good hunter is key to my success.
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