Characterize your hunting land...

[Land_Owner]

I hunt in East Central Florida along the floodplains of the St. Johns River.  The major flora are pine flatlands, scattered oak hammocks, palmetto and palm, and adjacent sweetgum and bay swamps.  It is THICK stuff,  No place you want to be on all fours looking for an injured 200 pound boar or sow.  Anchoring hogs that are in the open is critical to recovery.

[S_J_KENNELS]

The land we hunt here in south Texas varies. The ranches are usually a mixture of open pasture to thick rosehedge, white and black brush, catclaws etc to open woods and pasture.

Most of the places we hunt are open farm fields surrounded with thick brush where every plant has thorns, and you have to crawl if you want to get the hog. If this pic works then you will have a good idea of what the brush looks like. Better yet I will just post the link and if a mod can fix it they can.

http://boards.tx-outdoors.com/photo_albums/sendbinary_large.asp?filename=brush2.JPG&user=S_J_KENNELS

http://boards.tx-outdoors.com/photo_albums/sendbinary_large.asp?filename=brush3.JPG&user=S_J_KENNELS

http://boards.tx-outdoors.com/photo_albums/sendbinary_large.asp?filename=CIMG0023.JPG&user=S_J_KENNELS

[jmayton]

I'm in the Texas hill country.  Rocky and hilly.  It varies from thick bee brush, cedars, and mesquites to open fields and hillsides with live oaks and cottonwoods.  The ranch I get to hunt on (6000 acres) has lots of water from several springs.  I've had to shoot through brush and also had a couple of shots over 200yds.  I could take some 300-500yd shots if I wanted to, but I can usually get closer than that. 

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I hunt in East Central Florida along the floodplains of the St. Johns River.  The major flora are pine flatlands, scattered oak hammocks, palmetto and palm, and adjacent sweetgum and bay swamps.  It is THICK stuff,  No place you want to be on all fours looking for an injured 200 pound boar or sow.  Anchoring hogs that are in the open is critical to recovery.

it  won't  be  thick  long  with  all  those  hogs  tearing  up  the underbrush  and  rooting

[Land_Owner]

it  won't  be  thick  long  with  all  those  hogs  tearing  up  the underbrush  and  rooting

...and you should know.  You've been there and seen that.   

The hogs have been nocturnal for a while now.  They don't show their hides during the day and we don't hunt them at night.

If this pic works then you will have a good idea of what the brush looks like.

...and it looks thicher than my woods which look like this:

[alsaqr]

Much of the area i hunt is made up of bluestem grass, johnson grass and oak woods.  There are lots of plum thickets.  Terrain varies from level to hilly with deep gullies. 

Have stands located at several wheat fields near the Red River.   

We own three places in different counties.  When we bought those places there was no hog sign anywhere.  Now there is hog sign at one of them and our 80 acres in Garvin county is quick becoming a hog pen.  Hate to see hogs come to that place as it is a haven for the deer.     

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Land where i hunted this year at home would make a FL. Swamp envious lol  Just wish it would warm up so i could sucker them into this mud holes and give me some sign as to where to set up 

 I'll try and get a pic or two for this thread


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[cabledad]

I hunt some small places that I spotted by the roots in wheat field.Asked the owner if I could hunt and he said yes I just hunt over corn at night ,there is houses all around so I have to call the game warden and let him know I am hunting.I have one ground blind and also hunt out of an old barn.Not much shelter,the good part is its 5 miles from the house.Killed 2 hog in the last week.Were covered up.Chuck

[chutesnreloads]

Our place is east of the "hill country" on edge of Lost Pines.Gently rolling hills.Lot of cedar and oak with thickets of briars.Few "creeks" running through and nearby that are dry when it doesn't rain for a while.Plenty pasture mixed in. I've seen them cross pastures during midday.Seeing more and more hit on side of the road.That IS scary,especially at night.

[Mohawk]

In our area of Central Texas we have rolling hills and cedar, cedar, cedar, cedar, oak, cedar, mesquite, cedar, cedar, and cedar. A few hogs but deer love it. The oaks are big a produce a ton of acorns.

[HL]

In my part of San Saba County, in Central Texas, it's mostly mesquite, pecan, live oak and post oak with pastures ranging from small open areas to areas heavily covered with bee brush and catclaw. Creek bottoms are heavily wooded with pecan and briars.

[B-dog]

99% of area that I hunt pigs is in blackberry infested plantation forest (pinus radiata) the pigs get chased/shot at/ harassed 24/7 as a result the pigs that are left to breed are the smart ones! They tend to be leggy and aggressive when caught- that's if you have the dogs that can catch them! If the habitat that they live in was more open I'm sure that the pigs would be wiped out within a few short years. On an average hunt I bump in to 3-8 other parties of hunters with dogs! 

[scootrd]

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[squirrellluck]

Some hardwood bottoms piney hills and lots of overgrown clearcut too thick to walk through.

[kingj]

I hunt in north Fl and the terrain is much like what LandOwner described. Very wet right now,probably a little colder as we are 165 miles northwest of his location.Some clear cuts as it is a timber lease also.