05-10-2020, 01:00 AM
I got out to my hog stand this morning, Moon was bright enough so that I did not need a flashlight to walk the swamp edge. I usually walk thru water to get to this area but it was bone dry today. I quietly got to my ladder stand and put the pull rope on my grendel..I looked behind me and there was a Hog walking to me only 12 yards away. As I was getting my rifle back he ran off but I could see him running off thru the scrub, I put pressure on the green light switch and put cross hairs on his nose and missed him as he was running back thru the scrub. I sat in the stand till 8:30am watching A doe and her yearling from last year feed all around me and then at the hog feeder. I did not find any blood and I grid searched for 45 minutes and never found any sign of a hit. The water level is down in our woods and swamps so I was scouting as I was grid searching finding a lot of last years buck rubs. I went back to the stand and pulled the SD card from the camera. When I reviewed the pictures I saw about 20 pictures of deer feeding with a hog or two. In my area deer always run from the hogs, when I have deer or turkeys in front of me they let me know if the hogs are near by running off. I have hunted deer and hogs for 42 years here in North Central Florida and deer always run when hogs or bears are nearby. Things are changing...Last year I had one picture of a hog and deer together and had at least 20 pics in the last 3 weeks of them together. It looks like most of the deer are young bucks not the old smart does.