Wednesday - March 14, Day 2
South Texas Hog Hunt
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A.M. Hunt
This morning we went out at about 4 a.m. to sit in the blind at the same location as last night. We hunted until about 7 a.m. in the blind without seeing anything. I forgot to mention that the evening before we did see a bobcat from our blind, but no hogs. We did see the group of exotic rams again. 
Exotic sheep 
More Exotic sheep When it got light we saw that all our corn was still there, so the hogs hadn't visited last night. We took down the blind and went to check another spot where I had set my Cam-Trakker trail camera up the night before, at a feeder I hunted last summer with a lot of hog sightings. Below are a few of the pictures that were taken. 
Some fat porkers, eh? I like the blond one 
See the one with the light stripe down his back? Cool Clearly, this excited us, and there wasn't a kernel of corn left on the ground. We also went to check some of the other feeders, and just like the previous 2 nights, some were hit and some weren't. The hogs are not hitting the feeders real consistently right now. We decided to set up this evening where my Cam-Trakker got the photos, hoping the pigs would hit this spot 2 nights in a row. We headed back to camp for a mid-day siesta and will head out about 5 p.m. this evening. P.M. Hunt We got to our spot and got our blind set up and everything ready by about 5:20 p.m. We were pretty encouraged that this spot had all the corn eaten last night and the photos taken that you see above. I figured if we would wait long enough we would see something. Well, we sat until almost 11:30 p.m. and nary an animal came into our area. A few times I was roused from my sleepy stupor by the sound of hog grunts, until I realized it was my cousin's hungry stomach growling. Oh well. By 11:30 we couldn't take it any more. We packed it in, but left the Cam-Trakker up to see if any hogs would come by after we left. 
Our blind set-up for this evening 
My patient cousin We were planning to head home no later than 9:00 the next morning so we weren't going to sit our blind the next morning, but we decided we would drive around in the golf cart for an hour or so right at first light and see if we could catch any hogs headed back to bed. Day 3 - last morning This morning we got up and headed out about 6:30, just a few minutes before it started getting light. We went by to check the Cam-Trakker and no photos were taken and all the corn still there. The hogs didn't hit it. We checked a few more feeders that also hadn't been hit the night before. Then, as we were driving along right after light, about 500 yards away we saw a group of at least 20 pigs in the middle of the road, eating on the corn the hunting manager had fed the day before. We tried to get around on them on foot, to get the wind right, but as I expected they were gone by the time we could get there. It's pretty tough to manuever in that thick brush. It was exciting to see the big group, though. Well, that was the end of our hunt. Disappointing, because of the hogs erratic movement, but I know the place is loaded with hogs because of the incidental ones we saw this year, the ones I got on the Cam-Trakker and my experience there last year in the same spots. I'm going to try and come back and hunt again maybe in June. Hope you enjoyed the hunt!
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