Spring Comes To The Lowcountry
March 9th, 2010
Anthony with a huge SC hog

Guy and his cinnamon hog
After months of nothing but cold weather and rain, Spring has finally come to the lowcountry. The temperatures are now getting up into the 70s during the day, the saturated ground is drying up and the plants are ready to bud. But most importantly, the turkeys are gobbling and the hogs are moving.
And that was welcome news to everyone down this past week to hunt our lowcountry hogs, especially our group from NJ. Rocky started things off with when he knocked a nice 100 pounder down, then Anthony got in the game when he dropped a huge sow, and Guy rounded their hunt out with his beautiful cinnamon hog. Only their buddy Razo went home empty handed out of their group, but that is fair chase hunting
Two other hunters in camp during the same time was Mike and Kurt, and Mike harvested a good 100 pound eater pig.

DC's Mike and NJ's Rocky with SC hogs
Our next group, down from Niagra Falls, NY, also saw quite a few hogs. And while darkness kept several of them from getting shots off, two of their members, both first-time hog hunters, put the smack down on hogs to ensure that everyone had some pork to take back up north. First Ken shot a 120 pound sow, then Todd hammered a good 160 pound sow.
However the first time hog hunters weren’t done. Patrice, down from Gaffney, SC with her husband Robbie also easily met the challenge and killed a beautiful 130 pound sow over on Boggy Creek. So a huge congratulations to all of our hog-hunting converts.

Patrice with her first hog!

NY's Ken with a 120lb sow

Todd with a 160lb sow
That left Ben, visiting from TN with our good friend and veteran Greg Stube, to close out the weekend by killing a big 190 pound hog over on Boggy Creek. So as you can see, a pretty good week of hog hunting in the lowcountry. Now we just have one more week until turkey season starts, and then we will be chasing those longbeards in the mornings and still hunting the big boars in the evening. Come join us if you can. We would love to show you a little slice of our lowcountry life.

Ben and his 190lb Boggy Creek hog





And speaking of our turkey/hog combo hunts, the spring season is now just 11 days away. And with all of the big gobblers sighted around the woods along with their booming gobbles at daybreak, we are chomping at the bit to get at them. We would love for you to join us, but we only have a few dates in April left, so if you want to add a giant lowcountry redhead to your collection, please give Becky a call ASAP.



Just in case we haven’t had enough crazy weather affecting the hog hunting this Winter, we now have one more condition to add to the constant rain and windy conditions the lowcountry has experienced - SNOW!









However, while we only had a few hunters earlier in the week, the conditions were definitely better and so was the hog movement for them. That allowed Thomas, home locally during leave from the military, to harvest a nice boar over on the River during his one day hunt. The decent winter weather also helped Tony, down from Laurens, SC, to also take a nice 130 pound sow down on the River as well. So congratulations to both of them.
PS: Included in this post is a great shot of Matthew, down from GA during the last week of deer season. Check out the two nice bucks that he was able to take during his visit. So not only a huge congrats on his fine deer, but a big thank you for emailing us the shots for us to share here on the Cypress Creek Skinning Shed 
Jeremy with his HUGE Lower End boar

Muzzleloader Dave with a great boar
I am going to hold off on putting any more pics up or telling any more hunting stories, however I will go ahead and tell you that several more hogs have already been killed this week. So stay tuned for more hunting updates about those lucky souls that are here now as well as about the big group coming in this weekend… The temps are supposed to stay cold, but rain is forecast. So we will hope that it holds off for them and gives them some decent weather for their hunt. And if it does, they should see some of the good hogs that we have been seeing on the trailcams lately. Just check out the couple of tasty meat hogs getting a snack at 7am down on the River property.
























