I was watching a 5 pointer opening morning trying to decide whether he was a true cull or not.  Suddenly he looked to the trail he had entered the area by, and jumped back about 8 feet.  He looked one more time and hauled butt.  I thought a big bruiser was fixing to come through any second.  To my amazement, a group of about 11-15 wild hogs stormed into the feed area and started sucking up corn like a dozen Hoover vacuum cleaners.  About half of them were around 25 pounds each.  The rest were over 125 each.  I picked out the biggest of them and made a little hole going in a big one going out. 

This is the first hogs I have actually seen in the three years I have had this property SW of Rocksprings.  I knew there were some around, but again, this is the first I  had actually seen. 

What I'm wondering is, will these hogs run the deer completely out of the area?  After that incident, there were no more visits to that feeder the entire weekend by deer, and the area stunk heavily of hog urine.  That particular stand almost always has deer at it morning and evening.  Looks like I will be trapping this weekend...