Pig sign for TBL

[Jared D]

Ok, you probably don't care to get all of this info Thin Blue Line, but I took some pics while I was out yesterday and I am sure someone has wanted to pig hunt but doesn't know what to look for. First is an old logging trail that grew over with grass. The pigs had mowed it up pretty good 2 weeks ago, but yesterday, most of it was old... only a few good fresh rootings. They were still traveling down the old trail recently, but there was not enough sign for me to get excited about sitting in that spot.
The pigs kind of use there noses and heads like a shovel and so the rootings are narrow sequences of plowed earth pushed into piles at one end. I also took a pic of a hog track. Not really clear in the pic, but you can see its rounder than a deers.


The next couple are pictures in a small pine flat that had some little red oaks dropping their acorns. They had been busting it up really recently probably earlier that afternoon. You can tell as the ground is really sandy here and so dries very quickly in the 80 degree heat and the stiff wind we had yesterday. As you can see in the last pic, the soil is really dark w moisture. Wind was wrong for this spot so we went to another spot.

We went into an immature pine stand for the third spot. Many times they will feed in around pine for grubs as well. I was going to take pics of some rubbing trees (where they scratch themselves against a tree) but when we were going to a spot that has a bunch, we ran into someone who was hunting the spot already. (thus we left and went to our forth spot of the day) But all you need to look for are trees that are covered in dried mud up 3 feet high. Its pretty obvious. I also was going to get a pic of pig poo for you, but only saw one pile and I was loaded down with a stand and the bow at the time, so I couldn't get the camera free. This spot was where we hunted. It was a nice little trail that is absolutely destroyed with pig rootings, but also is covered in deer tracks and a few bear tracks. I will go again next week, and if anyone is interested, get more pics.

[NY Bearhunter]

MORE PICS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD THING, LOOKS INTERESTING FOR SURE...

[WAHOONBOX]

COOL VISUAL TIPS AND ADVICE JARED.......THANKS FOR SHARING

[Thin Blue Line]

I'm always looking to learn something new along the way. Thanks for taking the time to photograph this stuff and the explanation.

[weekender]

good stuff, thanks

[seapower]

If you're up for request's; next week I'd like to see one hanging upside down, next to you with a neat little hole poked through his chest. Not tryin' to be too picky here, but somewhere around 175 to 200 pound's and black would be much appreciated. Thank's, Frank

[Jared D]

If you're up for request's; next week I'd like to see one hanging upside down, next to you with a neat little hole poked through his chest. Not tryin' to be too picky here, but somewhere around 175 to 200 pound's and black would be much appreciated. Thank's, Frank

That's my kind of request. I will see what I can do. I have a new spot I would like to slide into real quiet like. Should be loaded w critters.

[seapower]

Lookin' forward to the result's. They are awful fun to hunt. I don't know how they act in your neck of the wood's, but the area that I have hunted, they don't havehard pattern's. You hit the nail on the head calling them "nomad's", here today, gone tomorrow. You can think you've got them "pinned down" and never see them again. They'll feed in the pine's, then in the swamp. Lay up in the reed's, then lay up in the pine's. No doubt from what I've seen, it can be a real "love hate" relationship. Good luck, hope to see a good one soon. Frank

[Jared D]

I went again, but the spot I hunted didn't have any really good things to photograph. I took a few pics from the stand I was in. Its a hard wood section right beside a swamp. I am sitting over an old logging road that has been overgrown for a number of years. To the left was some mature pines which had been control burned in the last 2-3 years.

They pigs are bedding back in the swamp, then coming out to the hardwoods to eat the acorns that are dropping. They had destroyed it right before day break. I could smell the fresh dirt in the dark. The had knocked over a big oak (Well, they had rooted so much around the roots that it toppled in the wind) and a small oak.

I did shoot a spike this am, but failed to recover it. Two and a half hours of looking in some of the nastiest tangled mess you have ever seen. Blood trail dried up on me. I am pretty bummed about that, as I hate to kill in vain.

While I was following the blood trail, I came across another viper. This makes three (1 rattler and 2 mocs) that I have killed in as many trips. Another reason to carry a side arm. All these snakes are making me more patient wearing the snake boots even if I do sweat to death in them.

[seapower]

Of all the snakes, that's the only one that worry's me. A cotton mouth will bring the fight to ya'. He doesn't know what backing down mean's. I'm starting to wonder about your hog hunting skill's. I hunted a few week's last winter with the same result's. The year before I brought 3 home. To me taking a good hog is way harder than a deer. Keep at it, you know what they say, "a blind hog........" well you know the rest. Frank