Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Albemarle North Carolina
Posts: 811

I'm gonna hunt my pup down there and I was wondering what is the hunting like down there,I heard swamps and alligators or is that not true.I wanna get him some hunting time in the same atmosphere.

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Registered: Aug 2007
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Depending on what cast you draw out with. Alot of the hunting is thick swamp bottoms. Some places arnt that bad to hunt but some places are really rough. Yes there is a gator ever oncen in a while, along with the wild hogs. Again its all in what cast you draw out with.

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Registered: Nov 2004
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I doubt the gators will be out. Turning cold again after this weekend.

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Registered: Jun 2008
Location: SC
Posts: 1012

My fiance and I run our deer dogs at a club about 15 miles from Orangeburg...most of the time we've got several types of terrain there. Some of it is your run of the mill woods, but a lot of places get REALLY thick with briars, vines, and stuff like that. We've only got a few places that are really swampy, and most of them haven't had water in them in awhile. I've noticed in the past month that we've had more water standing in different places than there has been in a year or more. As for the gators, I try not to think about them! Everyone tells me there are gators in the swamps and the river but thank goodness I've only seen a baby that someone found. I'm hoping that they're like the snakes down there- I've never seen one in the woods, and I hope it stays that way! They've all been out in the road. Like Crook said, I imagine it's too cold for the snakes and gators. Good luck!

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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Georgetown, S.C.
Posts: 523

" I've had enough snow" Picture was taken Dec.19. Warm days and nights bring out all kinda things. Why you think they call it " Hellhole " Come on down and get you some. LOL.

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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Port Matilda,Pa
Posts: 246

In Janurary reptiles are in a type of hibernation, their body temperature has to be a certian level to digest prey, so they won't be out looking for food. If you are lucky you will draw a cast along the marsh with a guide who knows how to read the tide. We use to hunt the marsh an hour before high tide and tree bunches of coons. They feed in the marsh at low tide then are driven to the banks during high tide. It wood be nothing to tree
5 or 6 in a row as fast as you could turn the dogs loose. Of course this was always when we were goofing around, never in a hunt. I went last year but unfortunately couldn't guide because I wasn't a SC club member or SC resident. I had permission on the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort to run dogs by the base gamewarden since I am a retired Marine. Now that would have been a winning cast with one heck of a score, we pleasure hunted it on Thursday and Sunday night last year during the weekend of the Grand American and the tide was just right. We were treed 5 in a hour with 3 dogs, an hour not an hour's worth of hunt time with time outs and such. I really like the Low Country for coon hunting. I drew Hell Hole Swamp last year in Charleston, it wasn't bad, some guys withdrew because of the rumors.

Hunt what they give you and you'll be fine. Sc is a blast as far as coon hunting!

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