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Post by bluewaterfever on Jun 23, 2023 12:21:42 GMT -5
Just wondering of any of you guys on here hunt in SC?
I dont hunt in FL any more, have a nice lease in SC that's only a 5 1/2 drive. Great camp set up and plenty of deer. Nice and peaceful up there.
It used to be great here on public land but the growth and population along with the inconsiderate people it ain't worth it to me.
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Post by One Man Gang on Jun 23, 2023 12:29:23 GMT -5
Unfortunately we lost our SC hunting property this year to a new EV battery plant. Back to schlubbing full time on public land in FL.
We're gonna miss it badly, until we can find the right replacement.
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Post by richm on Jun 23, 2023 13:38:33 GMT -5
Only did that one year - drive was just too long.
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Post by johnnybandit on Jun 24, 2023 13:31:15 GMT -5
Unfortunately we lost our SC hunting property this year to a new EV battery plant. Back to schlubbing full time on public land in FL. We're gonna miss it badly, until we can find the right replacement. That might be the place to go... |
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Post by bullfrog on Jun 24, 2023 16:19:52 GMT -5
I used to hunt a plantation that bordered the north side of the Savannah River by invitation 3 or so times a season. Some of the most fun hunting of my life. It was Bill Bostick’s spread, former GFC commissioner. Not to be confused with the Bostick Plantation, which was an unrelated operation. I used to hunt with all the retired GFC regional commanders of my grandfather’s era, with Bob Brantly, Frank Montalbano, and others. Most have passed now. I miss them greatly. I think Col. Brantly may still be alive but I haven’t spoke to him in years if so.
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Post by pinman on Jun 24, 2023 17:00:56 GMT -5
My Dad got in with a group from down here in SE FLA on a lease on the Okeetee Plantation many decades ago. Gun season started August 5 and they ran dogs in the Savannah River bottoms in the morning. After that it was best to go back to the motel in Ridgeland and take a dip in the pool and nap in the AC....
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Post by 4ward on Jun 24, 2023 17:08:25 GMT -5
We hunted Hampton County many years ago, when the old farmer died we were done.
The old man kept us because he loved us and we respected him. When he was gone, the money moved in.
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Post by tampaspicer on Jun 26, 2023 11:02:47 GMT -5
Hunted Orangeburg County outside of Bowman for a couple years. I killed a lot of deer there and killed one that made the SC Big Buck records.
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Post by bluewaterfever on Jun 26, 2023 19:28:59 GMT -5
Only did that one year - drive was just too long. Rich, were you in Carolina Moon? |
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Post by 4ward on Jun 26, 2023 21:38:44 GMT -5
Only did that one year - drive was just too long. We could leave Gainesville after work, stop at captain D’s in Starke for the poopoo platter and make it to Crocketville just in time to fight for the shitter. Drive was perfect 😉 |
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Post by richm on Jun 27, 2023 8:38:06 GMT -5
Only did that one year - drive was just too long. Rich, were you in Carolina Moon? Yes - that's me. |
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Post by zola049 on Jul 22, 2023 15:52:59 GMT -5
Been hunting the low country public lands since 2009. Hunt several wma’s a few times a year. Longer 2 week trip during the rut in October. Love it up there.
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 24, 2023 11:01:53 GMT -5
The rut in SC was insane when I hunted up there. Solid 3-4 weeks of hunting mid-oct thru mid-nov.
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Post by bullfrog on Jul 24, 2023 13:46:51 GMT -5
The rut in SC was insane when I hunted up there. Solid 3-4 weeks of hunting mid-oct thru mid-nov. Yes when I hunted their rut in late October it was like something out of a hunting magazine. The sort of defined rut that never really happens in Florida. I learned to rattle there. The river bottom was very open. It was possible to see 300 yards through the hardwoods. It was a good place to learn how bucks react to rattling. They’ll come in upset then get stealthy the closer they are. Listening and smelling. Standing still for 15 minutes at a time. The sort of thing they might do here too but you’ll never see because the woods are too thick. I also got to watch a full chase sequence between a doe and a mature buck, being circled by spikes and forkies. Biggest deer I saw on the hoof was there. Tracks the size of a yearling cow. Monster 6 point I had to walk because club rules were 8 points or better. One trip I watched a big 7 point, covered in fighting wounds, hit the same feeder every evening and be so desperate to eat that he ignored me shooting does all around him. |
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 24, 2023 14:13:56 GMT -5
I hunted close to Bowman in Orangeburg County. We had around 4000 acres and would kill almost 300 deer each year(most were bucks). Never saw a doe with less than two fawns/yearlings and plenty with 3 sometimes. Another thing was there weren't hardly any yearling spikes. Most were 4points-8points. This property had some amazing genetics and I wish it would have been managed better because the shot everything that was legal and we still killed some amazing deer. I would have stayed but hunting was like a competition to them and they didn't like it when you showed up from Florida shooting all the nice bucks. Just not my kind of crowd. Met some great guys hunting there but the board members were complete ass holes.
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 24, 2023 15:00:51 GMT -5
Oh and these are the same board members that wanted to cut all the oak trees down so the deer would keep eating the corn piles in the middle of the roads. LOL
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Post by bullfrog on Jul 24, 2023 15:04:30 GMT -5
Our lodge was at Estill and the lease at Garnett.
What memories this brings. I just pulled up an aerial of Garnett and it took me all of two minutes to find my favorite food plot. The plot on Sister’s Ferry road on the north side of the river. WHere it says “Sister’s Cut” on Google. I likely haven’t been there in 15 or more years. But the same food plots are there. I miss those woods.
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Post by osprey11 on Jul 31, 2023 14:06:12 GMT -5
Hunt 3500 acres in Graniteville for the past decade or so. My long time hunting partner lives there and just his family hunts it. It pays to have friends!
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Post by tampaspicer on Aug 1, 2023 11:09:47 GMT -5
Hunt 3500 acres in Graniteville for the past decade or so. My long time hunting partner lives there and just his family hunts it. It pays to have friends! Guy I hunted with in SC lived in Aiken County. He said there is some really good deer out that way. How has the hunting been in your opinion? |
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Post by osprey11 on Aug 1, 2023 20:39:45 GMT -5
Hunt 3500 acres in Graniteville for the past decade or so. My long time hunting partner lives there and just his family hunts it. It pays to have friends! Guy I hunted with in SC lived in Aiken County. He said there is some really good deer out that way. How has the hunting been in your opinion? Plenty of deer. Kill a good one every year. Pictures of a wallhanger or 2 keeps it interesting.. Unfortunately the place is growing faster than Florida if possible. |
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