Does anyone here hunt?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 10:05 pmMy Go To is a Winchester Model 70 Classic Featherweight, which has taken many hundreds of hogs, and not quite 100 deer (I keep a log of the deer). It like to shoot Nosler Ballistic Tips to 1/3 MOA at 100 yards, but I do not like how Ballistic tipped bullets blow out the back side of deer and hogs, so I shoot Nosler Partitions at 0.5 MOA at 100 yards, sighted into zero at 200 yards.
The swamp and woods immediately adjacent to my south and west 20-acre rural parcel in Mims, FL is THICK with palmetto and palmetto palms. It is a portion of the 28,000-acre Seminole Ranch, on the East side of the St. Johns River, that is set aside as Conservation Land and not hunted. To my immediate north is Buck Lake Management Area of the FL Wildlife Commission that is hunted only in season.
Game is free to wander as it will. Hogs, by law, are a nuisance animal that belong to the landowner upon which it occurs. On Managed State land, there is a specific hog season. On State Conservation Land there is No Hog Season and No Hunting.
On Private Land there is always an Open Season, No Bag Limit, and No Size restrictions. Shoot the little footballs if you want. The hogs that wander, and wander they do, do not know this law. We are allowed (even encouraged) to feed them through corn slingers, shoot them on sight, erect solar lights for night hunts, and haul them out of the woods 24/7/365. There is a LOT of trigger time in hunting hogs on private land and the State land around me is a HUGE WILDLIFE PUMP.
I purchased here because I am a meat hunter and wanted to shoot deer in season. When hogs are plentiful snakes and deer are scarce. I have two black bears hanging around scrounging corn too. They are protected and skinny. I will leave the guts of the hogs for them, and the buzzards, before taking the hog(s) to a processor for preparation of Cajun spiced sausage, which is superb. Ribs, pork chops, hams, and shoulders I can and do myself. A 19-cubic feet chest freezer is mostly full of meat.
I cannot say how many hours I have spent on stand in my 35-years of ownership, but it has been A LOT.
The swamp and woods immediately adjacent to my south and west 20-acre rural parcel in Mims, FL is THICK with palmetto and palmetto palms. It is a portion of the 28,000-acre Seminole Ranch, on the East side of the St. Johns River, that is set aside as Conservation Land and not hunted. To my immediate north is Buck Lake Management Area of the FL Wildlife Commission that is hunted only in season.
Game is free to wander as it will. Hogs, by law, are a nuisance animal that belong to the landowner upon which it occurs. On Managed State land, there is a specific hog season. On State Conservation Land there is No Hog Season and No Hunting.
On Private Land there is always an Open Season, No Bag Limit, and No Size restrictions. Shoot the little footballs if you want. The hogs that wander, and wander they do, do not know this law. We are allowed (even encouraged) to feed them through corn slingers, shoot them on sight, erect solar lights for night hunts, and haul them out of the woods 24/7/365. There is a LOT of trigger time in hunting hogs on private land and the State land around me is a HUGE WILDLIFE PUMP.
I purchased here because I am a meat hunter and wanted to shoot deer in season. When hogs are plentiful snakes and deer are scarce. I have two black bears hanging around scrounging corn too. They are protected and skinny. I will leave the guts of the hogs for them, and the buzzards, before taking the hog(s) to a processor for preparation of Cajun spiced sausage, which is superb. Ribs, pork chops, hams, and shoulders I can and do myself. A 19-cubic feet chest freezer is mostly full of meat.
I cannot say how many hours I have spent on stand in my 35-years of ownership, but it has been A LOT.