Best Times to Hunt

When should you plan a hunting trip to harvest a wild hog? The time of year and time of day can impact your success when hunting this species. For wild hogs, nights, cooler parts of the day, and winter months are typically the best times to hunt them.

Hunting at the wrong time (or at a less-than-ideal time or at the spur of the moment) can be fun, but it's also likely to leave you heading home empty-handed.

You'll find a variety of waterfowl to hunt in North America, with the most common being mallards. These birds are frequently hunted throughout the U.S. near bodies of water like lakes, rivers, ponds, swamps, and coastlines.

Upland game is a term for hunting upland birds such as quail, pheasant, grouse, woodcock, prairie chicken, chukar, grey partridge, and others. These birds prefer to live on the ground in heavy cover, which is why dogs are often used to help find them while hunting.

Have you ever hunted moose? They are the largest animal within the deer species, with mature male bulls reaching heights up to seven feet tall with an antler span of six feet wide.