Serious question - why won't the DNR let us do any hog trapping on public land? There are several states that allow for trapping of various furbearers and nest raiders on public land. Was this something that has ever seriously been considered by SCDNR?

One of these days I'll probably just have to head to the lower part of the state to increase my odds, but whenever I follow hog sign up here I wind up at super thick stuff around the rivers. There's no way I could sneak through that undetected. A few times I've flushed them out like quail in that stuff so I stopped doing that. I'm not afraid of them but given their likelihood to be temperamental it's probably not best to sneak up on them where I can't see them.

8 days left of small game season and I want some wild pork.

Saturday evening right before dark I heard them snorting and grunting while I was sitting by a heavily used wallow waiting. Backed out slowly, facing the noise, never saw them.