Just got back Sunday from 4 days of hog hunting at Fort Stewart. I anticipated heat, mosquitos, ticks, snakes and maybe a hog. Out of 3 of us I was the only non hog shooter. I did miss a couple with the Big Jim's Thunderchild. An absolute miss at 10 yards on a broadside 30 pounder. I did get the consulation prize of hitting the tree besides it. The other was a Hail Mary on a running hog. went right over it's back. The other fellows killed a couple of hogs and also had a few misses as well. The weather was not nearly as bad as I anticipated. I guess the coastal wind helped keep the heat down to the 80s in the middle of the day. Mosquitos weren't as bad either. I wore my antiquated Bug Tamer jacket with lots of permanone. Only seen 2 snakes. a black racer and my first Dusky Pygmy rattler. We took a JANoe down the Canooche river one afternoon. I really figured I would see a load of cottonmouths. Never saw a single one.
If you had never hunted Ft Stewart it was pretty neat. Nearly 300K acres of upper costal plains. The yearly hunting pass is only $80. I didn't see a lot of deer but a few that were randomly spaced. I did not see enough big deer sign to make me want to go down during deer season. I'm sure the locals know where the deer hide but that's a lot of acreage to hide in.
We stayed in Hinesville which was around 30 minutes from the area we hunted.
We may go back in February to try again.
If you had never hunted Ft Stewart it was pretty neat. Nearly 300K acres of upper costal plains. The yearly hunting pass is only $80. I didn't see a lot of deer but a few that were randomly spaced. I did not see enough big deer sign to make me want to go down during deer season. I'm sure the locals know where the deer hide but that's a lot of acreage to hide in.
We stayed in Hinesville which was around 30 minutes from the area we hunted.
We may go back in February to try again.
