Hey guys, just wondering, I may have a chance to hunt pigs on Oklahoma, S.E. I think, anyway if the area has patches of good cover/habitat what are the prospects of finding the pigs in their haunts after you have shot them off a feeder and stalking up in range when they aren't moving during the day? Do any of you make a practice of such an idea or is that just lunacy?
I'm a Dakota spot & stalk guy from the get-go and this Minnesota stand hunting gets old. Obviously you could try it but are you just asking for trouble?
What are your experiences?
Thanks, Barry

If you can find (or figure out) where they are bedding, spot and stalk is very doable. The problem with pigs that have been hunted much, especially over feeders, is that they go almost entirely nocturnal. I think they are somewhat that way anyway, and that really makes it hard. Sometimes a sow will get up and run piglets in the middle of the day to tire them out (I am guessing), so she can get some sleep, so you might catch that happening, too. But all in all, it is tough walking up hogs unless you know for certain where they are.

I'm not sure what the terrain is like where you plan to hunt.

Where we are it is so thick and rocky, that to spot and stalk is a recipe for getting lost, spraining an ankle/breaking a leg, or getting heat stroke, say April through November.



If you could hunt at night, a better strategy would be to corn the roads and go out on an electric golf cart with spotlight or in a Pick-em-up truck and spotlight. Night hunting can be productive over feeders or baited areas. Especially if you have game cameras patterning their activity and the right equipment.

Best

GWB

If you can find a drainage or ashady creek bed where you have the wind -- you stand a good chance of jumping one at close range.
A lot of successfull Texas hog hunters tend to look for them at dusk or at night on corned roads with a light or over feeders. Hogs are not used to being pusued during the day and walking them up can work as long as you're working into the wind. If you don't have the wind you will never see them.
I got to go to Africa to hunt elephant once. I noticed that pigs and elephants rely on similar defece mechanisms. We spent 12 days tracking elephant in Botswana--- from the water's edge back into the bush. (It helped that we had bushman trackers with us.) The elepants relied mostly on their sense of smell to detect trouble. They fed into the wind and if they got nervous would run dounwind to try to smell what was following them.
During the heat of mid day the elephants would rest/sleep under some trees much as pigs will look for shade & mud to lay up in.

Pigs also let my exersize large bore rifle.
Good luck!

I do all of them on the ranch I hunt in TX there are no feeders. The picture looks a lot like the area we hunt.

It is a heck of a good time a compress and gps make sure you don't lost. Really not differants then a big woods or swamp here in the north.

A lot more thorns But then I perfer to hunt there Dec-feb. I really don't like snakes

Just perfect for my 06 scout rifle and 220s or my 44 mag and 315 hard cast.

Go stalk them and have a good time doing it. Like mentioned above a hogs sence of smell is its' primary defence. I get stir crazy in a stand waiting on hogs so I generally prefer to stalk them with a bow.

What time of year will you be doing this?