I know this has been asked 10000000 times. Where is the closest place to hunt hogs relative to Huntsville? Am I gonna be going south of Birmingham?

Never been, never even seen a wild hog. But want to shoot one for the meat for a little project I've been working on.

I haven't been in a while, but Bankhead was loaded with them last time I was there. You can rifle hunt them year round off the WMA.

Numbers in Bankhead don’t seem to be what they used to be, IMHO. FWIW, I don’t mess with the WMA and their rules anymore.

Mulberry fork has plenty

They’re thickest in the Sipsey Wilderness and they only have special seasons for gun.

There’s some good national forest land in Lawrence County (still Bankhead) that you can year round hunt them. Take 36 across 157 and turn left at Speake school. You’ll follow that county road up the mountain and that stretch of forest on your right always holds hogs.

Grab your BIL and hunt Ft Rucker. If you can get a flat bottom boat, Mobile delta.

I’m going to see if I can find some on Bankhead or mulberry fork if I cannot find them on sam r Murphy

The Delta down here is loaded with em.

Found some decent sign today.

There’s pigs on Sam Murphy around the river

Hopefully we can get in to some tomorrow or Saturday

I hike and backpack Sipsey a lot, I always see sign on the 206 and 209 trails. I have seen and heard more pigs while on the 206 trail. I’m not sure what areas you can hunt, I haven’t checked it out myself.

Curious what do you guys kill pigs with? The WMA has stupid rules and they can only be killed with weapons and ammo legal for the hunt? So #4 turkey load, would that kill them? And from what distance have you been successful?
I seen two last Saturday, 20 and 35 yards

.22lr

Illegal or I didn’t see where 22lr was legal for turkey?

4’s will kill small hogs up close but you have to get lucky on one with any size. Bow hunting is leagal for turkey so that’s an option. If bow hunting doesn’t work for you then I suggest either waiting till you have a better option for weapon or finding some private property to hunt.

My opinion as well. They piss and moan about hogs but really don’t want the hunters that pay most of the bills to get in the way of their grant gravy train for hog eradication. Another reason is just plain old lazy enforcement.

They absolutely don’t want any help. I’m pretty sure it’s a money thing myself. The hog guy at Black Warrior pretty much said “they’re in the woods”when we asked him where to start looking for them. Now Bankhead ranger station was much more help. We still didn’t find pigs there, yet.

If you have a boat, the Corp of Engineers Land on the Tombigbee between Gainesville and Boligee. I painted those property lines and those spoil areas are infested with hogs.

Used to wear that place out when I was goin to school at UWA. Lot's of hogs. Surprisingly low deer numbers

Corps of Engineers has same bs regarding weapons as WMAs, unfortunately.

same here. Always did better with the deer bow hunting it. Find you a block surrounded with thick cutover and the hogs are there. We always did better with the hogs up closer to the dam better with the deer more toward epes

One MLK day, I shot a huge buck right across the river from the mill barge chute. Never found it. Still sick over it

I thought hand gun no scope was legal for turkey . Used to be

It was until all the AR, pistols came along.

I spent good bit of time searching. I Can't Find Where It Says YOU Can't OR That It's Illegal.

Hand gun it not mentioned

From what I read it has to be what’s legal for the hunt, so for instance you cannot kill turkeys with a handgun so it would be illegal to kill a hog with one

]where you see you it is illegal

Look at the list that say how you can not kill one . Thats the one that counts .

Let us know how it works out for you. It clearly states it has to be legal for the hunt. In the example I gave a pistol isn’t legal for turkey therefore not legal for hogs.

Yup, and then the idiots wrote out all legit handgun hunters instead of just saying no AR pistols. I’d be handgunning for hogs in the WMAs otherwise.

Might be a long trip, but Barbour Co. WMA near Clayton Al has hogs. Abercrombie's fish camp (Clayton as well) has several cabins for rent and a restaurant on site. We are about 10 miles SE from there - we are becoming overrun with hogs.
That said i have never hunted Brbour WMA for anything, so I do not know the rules or the process. There is a processor nearby in Baker Hill, AL with a USDA license to process hogs.

Another long trip from N AL, but the RedHills WMA has hogs galore. Drove through a couple of the county roads this spring and saw 2 groups crossing the roads in front of me and saw a bunch of fresh tracks in numerous road ditches here and there. Easy to see as all the roads are all dirt.

Yeah that place is ate up with em. I deer hunt it a bunch and usually end up killing a few hogs every time I go. Shotgun with slug or MZ only though during gun season.

I saw it was shotgun/mzlder.. I'd like to get down there with my flintlock and stalk around in some of those drains looking for sounders to smoke up. Just a bit far from me in Elmore Co to warrant the trip wiithout some good intel.