If you’re not getting enough hog-related reading around here, it looks like some of my friends from the blogosphere are doing some hog hunting and writing of their own lately. This makes sense, of course, since hogs are about the only thing left in season this year.
First of all, there’s Jeff over at LowCountry Hunting. Jeff hunts and guides down in the Low Country (Southeastern, South Carolina), so he knows a little about hunting pigs. He just did a great post on the five reasons you might NOT get your hog. It’s good stuff, and worth a read and consideration. If you scroll through his recent posts while you’re there, you’ll find that he’s got some other great, hog hunting posts in there too.
Jeff also writes The Skinning Shed blog, which is a chronicle of the hunts where he guides, the Cypress Creek Lodge. His clients are slaying the pigs down there.
Over yonder, across the ocean (the one on the right), the Suburban Bushwacker just did a short post about the “Wild Pig TV” program. It’s a live, video feed from Estonia where apparently tens of thousands of viewers are logging in to watch, among other things, wild boar coming to feed.
Down in the land of Faulkner, Rex is waxing poetic about hogs on his Deer Camp Blog. I got a kick out of his Janis Joplin re-write. You should check it out. Keep an eye out as well, as I believe he’s got a pretty big hog hunt coming down the pike here soon.
There’s more going on out there, but this is a good starter list. Now, I have to get back to vacuum packing my Tejon hog. Can’t avoid the chores any longer.
I checked out the five reasons for not getting a hog, and I think he should add a sixth: The time/pig sighting ratio on public land. If I thought I had a snowball’s chance in Pahrump to even see pigs on the land I’m able to hunt, I wouldn’t be on this computer right now, that’s for sure.