a bit a hog will be gone for good it always amazes me how good their sense of smell is and it's for that reason i take no chances i always try to hunt with the wind in my face and that's if i'm spotting and stalking or if i'm sitting in a stand i use the wind to my favor i also recommend that you do everything humanly possible to eliminate human odor and it's that reason that i use scent killer as a staple in my arsenal of tools so if you're watching this video i hope you're learning something good lord i spend enough time with pigs i hope i'm sharing it with you and the thing is i'm kind of pissed off right now the reason why is because my guys back in the office told me that over half of you yeah you and you you and you over half of you these guys over here i'm not talking to you but all you other guys that are not subscribers to channel i want to know why do you i mean you're watching don't you like it come on man hit the subscribe button so let's talk about the best time of year to hunt hogs there really is no bad time of year to hunt hogs and in states like texas where there is no hunting season on hogs we hunt them year round i'll go over the changes and why we do what we do starting with early in the year in january february and into early march there's little for hogs to eat in comparison to the warmer months vegetation is limited and where deer hunters have had out deer feeders hunting hogs around feeders is a great way to become successful another very effective way to hunt hogs early in the year is from the air although you can hunt hogs year round out of helicopters in texas you'll be much more successful the first two to two and a half months out of the year because this is the time of year there's less foliage on trees and hogs are much easier to spot and shoot from the air so if you've ever considered doing a helicopter shoot for hogs do so before the annual greenup starts and you'll be happy you did speaking of greenup in texas the green up period is between mid-march and mid-may this green up is when leaves are now starting to pop out and all the new growth starts once this happens hogs don't hit feeders as regularly and they are less predictable when the green up starts that's when i like to pull out the thermal gear because that's when you find hogs rooting up fields and destroying crops and they primarily do this at night one thing you'll find out about heavily pressured hogs is that they can use the cover of darkness to do their movement and the thermal gear will absolutely blow your mind how effective it is another way that we're very effective taking hogs during the greenup period is with dogs the dogs we use live to hunt hogs and typically we start early in the morning when the weather is cool and we hunt until the dogs get hot and then we call it when hunting with dogs we like to use knives to dispatch the hogs a good sharp knife with a rigid blade is the perfect tool to dispatch a hog quickly and ethically and it is the
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