Originally Posted By: Matt AntleIve shot 3 from my back deck this year. Pretty much cleared them out I think. Haven't seen one since. I'm always looking out the back window checking for them..
Shot two with the Savage .17 at about 75 yards. Man as soon as them things see you they take off running to the hole. Made a bad shot on one, it rolled up on his back for a minute and by the time I got down to it it already made it into his hole. My dog finally dug it up about a week later and left it on the front porch as a present. Needless to say the smell about knocked me down when I walked out the door.
Got that one at about 50 yards in the same spot with the 10/22.
Where do you guys find spots to hunt them? And how do you do it? You bait them?
Welcome to the forum Matt.
As far as finding new land to hunt,I do a lot of cold calling. I find a farm that looks like it would be a good place to hunt and stop and ask the landowner. I have had very good success that way. It also helps that I have a pretty good reputation with the farmers in my area for reducing the ghog population so when I tell a potentially new landowner the other farms that I hunt,it makes them more at ease.
When I hunt the piggies,I usually set up on top of a small knoll over looking the field I am hunting. I spend a lot of time glassing the fields with the binos.I do all my shooting from a bipod. I only take what I need with me. Sometimes I will walk 800 yards just to get to the spot I want to set up on.
Dave