I'm okay with driving a couple hours to south Alabama I live 15 min north of bankhead but kind of wanting to go to Talladega I've heard the population is a little higher. You cannot hunt WMA's this time of year so I'm looking for somewhere on the NATIONAL FOREST part. I dont want your hunting spot I just wanna get on some hogs. So question being if I'm going to wake up in the morning where are my best chances?

Swamps on the north boundary of oakmulgee if I was looking for one.

If Bankhead would open up the Sipsey Wilderness area more it could use it. The hogs have grown back in numbers down there. You can go in at Randolph Trailhead and take 201 to 209 towards Bee Branch and there are signs of fresh rooting everywhere. It's a shame really because they are really tearing the place up down there.

Near the shooting range in oakmulgee. Tons of hogs. Find low areas that are wet. Please go kill them

Along Sandy Creek east of the choot’n range? Lots of restrictions 09/01 to 09/10 deer gear. 09/12 to 02/28 rabbit and squirrel guns (rimfire, #4- scatters, muzzle loaders .40- or air rifles) except gun and primitive weapons days for deer then those guns. I guess bow gear 10/15 to mid feb.

Does that include the area of CR 721 and 751 on the Bibb County side?

Don’t go by what I think. The rules are kinda tough to read. I looked at the back of the Oakmulgee WMA map on the outdoor alabama app. There is a high likelihood the mileage of others will vary.

Where I've seen them are in the low drainage areas south of the shooting range which was WMA land. I know a couple of property owners further north closer to 82 and they see them fairly regularly as well. So that gives you an idea of how spread out they are. They run in large groups and are fairly mobile, but a good hog hunter that knows sign should be able to get on them I believe.

Reading the rules on the WMA permit for hog hunting is about like interpreting Japanese. I thought that you could hunt hogs all year down there outside of the main hunting seasons, but it doesn't appear to be very clear. Who writes these stupid things anyway? And no wonder there's a growing hog issue in the WMA if they aren't allowing folks to hunt them until September (if I am interpreting the rules right)

"BOBCAT, COYOTE, FERAL SWINE, & FOX: Open during any other scheduled WMA Hunting Season using weapons and ammunition approved for those hunts. No Dogs Allowed. Daylight
Hours Only. One fox a day"

Any of the NF lands bordering the WMA would be a good place to go, a lot less rules to abide by.

The truth!