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I will say that I hunted free-range with revolver, that I saw pigs and evidence of LOTS of free range pigs, and that the set-ups were very well thought out and well maintained, and that Forrest and Denny were a pleasure to hunt with.

I did NOT bring home a pig, but that was not due to lack of shot opportunities, it was due to lack of good shooting.

I will go again.

This place is BIG!

There was much more hog sign on non-enclosed land than I have EVER seen anywhere. The hogs were incredibly wary.

The primary cover is large areas of broken ground, washes, gullies, and low bluffs that appear to be partly rock outcrops and partly old "dunes" of loess (wind transported soil), all overgrown in cedar and wild plum, and scrub oak (Blackjack and post oak)

the hogs are using these gullies and cedar/plum/oak thickets and greenbrier tangles as daytime cover, and slipping into the cropfields at night. The sows appear to use the hay roundbales at field edges as beds, after they've rooted them into a mass of tangled dry grass (I've not seen this before)

We made a shot happen by stalking up to two smallish sows bedded in a torn-down roundbale, with small piglets, even the young sows were wary, but we got in position so I could handily miss an offhand 25 yard shot (by creeping up behind a pile of bulldozed cedar ) that with my longbow would've been a chip-shot.....

the sows cleared out but the piggies stayed, and eventually the ladies calmed down and fed their way back to the logjam, from a steady rest on a log, I bore down hard and displayed my awesome revolver skills by missing a slightly quartering to 40 yard shot.

After that stellar exhibition of my dedication to the Elmer Kieth school of handgun artistry, we (eventually) worked our way into a godawful cedar patch and by nose and ear located a knot of pigs, who suspected things weren't quite-so, and milled about, but eventually settled down,. Finally, from a prone position, with my forearms rock steady on a cedar blowdown log, and with an in your face 15 yard shot, down a steep wash embankment, at a stationary, broadside shoat, I managed to slightly wound one.

This gave Forrest the opportunity to display his not-inconsiderable bloodtrailing skills, which, when they were defeated, were absolutely dwarfed by those of "Denny-the-Pig-Whisperer"....I will be honest, fellas it was almost worth the >2,000 mile drive to WATCH this man on an impossible bloodtrail....incredible.

If a hog is hit, and dies, this man WILL find it!

Also while blindsitting a VERY large boar came in right at dark (6 minutes legal light left) and when I cocked the hammer, the very slight click of sear catching hammer, blew him off the bait, he pause long enough at 30'ish for me to waste a round, then hauled pigtail out of the countryside.

Anyway, in a pale attempt at my own defense, when I returned home, I set up a target and discovered my sights were dead-on (left and right) and 7 inches LOW!

I theorize the vibration of the 1,100 mile drive with the gun under the front seat in a hard leather holster, caused the rear sight adjustment screw to run down. I adjusted it 1&3/4 turns up and shot a 6 shot group at 30 you could cover with the palm of your hand....still, a man must maintain his equipment, and I didn't. Lesson learned.

I WILL return, with the recurve, to this place, and make bacon, soon!

The enclosures are large and have good cover, and the hogs IN the enclosuresare REAL wild-trapped animals, not pen-pigs. Wary as heck.

The exotic stock is, well, exotic stock. LOL

I would SO do a buffalo hunt here!

They are semi-approachable, and a bowhunterWILL get shots, but you'll have to work at it.