Hog Hunt 2014 Day 4

Woke up to a much colder morning.  Claude and Dennis left before light.  Jerry and Jack went for breakfast.  Jack and Jerry were scheduled to leave in the morning but decided to hunt the afternoon and then leave.
Rick and I grabbed fast food breakfast before heading out to feed stands around the lodge.

The weather forecast was deteriorating for the afternoon, but the hog sign still looked good. While pulling up to the stand where I shot the very large boar a few years previous, there were several smallish hogs as well as one large one - likely the same group we saw previously, but the very large sow wasn't seen with them.

We met back up at the lodge where Kevin (who I hunted with briefly last year) had arrived with his brother Chris and friend Mike.  We talked around the lodge for a while before heading out for the night.  The forecast for the evening was for the temperature to drop, rain to move in and turn to freezing rain and sleet.

I played junior guide and drove Jerry and myself to our stands.
I was on the stand where we saw the hogs while feeding.  It started raining shortly after getting into the stand and rained intermittently most of the evening.  The rain turned to freezing rain and sleet.  I was wearing a Frog Togg to help stay dry and once it got wet and frozen it was a bit noisy.  Rain built up to a considerable level over the evening.  Between the rain, wind it was a fairly miserable night.

No animals showed during the evening.  It was the first time I had sat on that stand where I didn't even see deer.  Off and on for the evening there were a couple groups of hogs squealing and fighting to the left of where I was sitting.  They must have been self-involved and not very hungry.  It was a bit both amusing and frustrating to hear them through the evening.

At dark I was ready to be off the stand, dry out and warm up.  I picked up Jerry and we waited to meet Rick to drive back to the lodge.  Jerry had missed a hog.  Chris had connected on a nice size pig.  Nobody else had seen hogs that might.

We drove back to the lodge.  Jerry had his shirt tail cut before he and Jack left to head north on potentially frozen roads.  Hopefully this was to clear up before too long in the morning.
Rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow where expected to continue for the night.  This is definitely not typical coastal South Carolina.