Why Summer Hog Hunting Is Actually Easier Than You Think
Most hunters think summer is the off-season.
Deer season is months away. Turkey season wrapped up in May. The bass are going deep. It's 97°F by 9 AM and the forecast is the same for the next twelve days. The idea of sitting in a blind or walking a sendero in that heat feels like a form of punishment rather than a recreational activity.
Here's what those hunters are missing: the hogs don't care that it's summer. They're out there every night, working the same property you've been hunting for years, in numbers that would surprise you, on patterns that are more predictable than anything you'll encounter when deer season arrives and the whole system gets disrupted by rutting behavior, acorn drops, and hunting pressure.
Summer hog hunting — specifically summer night hog hunting — is one of the most consistently productive and least pressured hunting opportunities in North America. The people who know this hunt through the summer months and come out of it with full freezers, controlled property damage, and a hard-earned confidence in the low-light skills that carry directly into fall. The people who don't know it sit inside watching reruns and wonder why they're not getting better.
This guide is about closing that gap. What hogs are actually doing in summer, why the conditions favor the hunter more than most people assume, how to locate and pattern summer sounders, and the gear that makes night hunting in hot weather not just tolerable but genuinely effective.
The Case for Summer: Why the Calendar Works in Your Favor
No Hunting Pressure
This is the foundational advantage that everything else builds on.
From October through January, feral hogs on heavily hunted properties are pressured from multiple directions simultaneously: hunters pursuing deer and turkey, predator hunters running coyotes, hog hunting guides bringing clients, aerial operations in some states, and trapping programs running year-round. Under this pressure, hogs respond predictably — they shift their activity deeper into the night window, they move through open terrain more quickly and with more wariness, and they alter travel routes that have been compromised by scent or disturbance.
By June, that pressure has evaporated for most properties. The deer hunters are done. The guides have moved to other pursuits. The property has had four or five months of relative quiet. And feral hogs — intelligent animals with excellent memory for threat associations — have recalibrated accordingly.
Summer hogs are relaxed hogs. They move on earlier in the evening, use terrain they'd avoid under pressure, and hold in locations for longer periods without the constant wariness that makes pressured hogs so difficult to pattern. If you've been frustrated by hogs that seem uncatchable during hunting season, the summer version of the same animals may be genuinely surprising.
Predictable Water-Driven Patterns
Summer hog behavior converges on one resource more reliably than any other time of year: water.
Feral hogs do not have functional sweat glands. They regulate body temperature by wallowing in mud and water, seeking shade, and shifting their activity to the coolest hours of the day — which in summer means dawn, dusk, and deep night. In practice, this means that every hog on a property is oriented, throughout the summer, around water sources: stock ponds, creek crossings, seasonal seeps, irrigation runoff areas, and man-made wallows.
This predictability is a hunter's asset of almost incalculable value. A trail camera on the primary stock pond of a 500-acre Texas property in July will show you every hog on the property within two weeks. The same camera on a random sendero in November might show you a quarter of the hog population and no consistent timing. Water concentration in summer turns a large, distributed population into a predictable convergence.
The pattern is not complicated. Hogs move from daytime shade cover to water sources at evening. They wallow, drink, and feed in the cooler temperatures of night. They return to cover before full daylight. Set up between the cover and the water, with the wind right, after dark — and the pattern brings the hogs to you rather than requiring you to find them.
Longer Nights and Cooler Windows
The hog hunter's productive window — the hours when hogs are actively moving through open terrain — is entirely contained within the dark. In summer, sunset in the southern US comes between 8:00 and 8:30 PM. Full dark arrives by 9:00. And the temperature, which has been 95°F–100°F through the afternoon, drops 20 to 25 degrees in the two hours after sunset as the arid-adapted land sheds heat rapidly.
By 11 PM across most of the South and Southwest, temperatures are in the mid-70s to low-80s°F — genuinely comfortable for a hunter in moisture-wicking clothing. By 2 AM, they're in the upper-60s in many locations. The heat that makes summer hunting seem prohibitive from a daytime perspective simply doesn't exist during the productive hunting window.
What does exist is the dark. And the dark, in summer, is 10–11 hours long. A hog hunter who arrives at their setup at 8:30 PM and stays until 4:00 AM has 7+ hours of productive hunting time in conditions that start comfortable and stay reasonable through the session. Compare that to the November dawn sit, conducted in cold, on a one-hour window of pre-light opportunity, on an animal that may not move at all.
Understanding Summer Hog Behavior in Detail
Sounder Structure and Movement in Summer
Feral hogs live in social groups called sounders — typically a dominant sow, her daughters, and their combined offspring. Summer is the period when sounder structure is at its most complex. Sows that farrowed in late winter or early spring (a common timing window) have litters that are now 3–5 months old — old enough to travel with the group, large enough to show up clearly on trail cameras and in thermal, but still dependent enough that the sounder maintains a tight geographic range centered on resources.
A summer sounder with young pigs has a shorter daily travel range than a pressured fall sounder. They're not ranging five miles to follow mast crops; they're working a 1–3 mile circuit between water, shade, and established feeding areas, night after night, with the consistency that comes from not being pressured to change. This compressed range and consistent schedule is exactly the pattern profile that makes a sounder huntable.
Mature boars, in summer, have largely separated from sounders and are pursuing their own minimalist routine: maximize shade and water during the day, maximize calories at night. A large boar's summer pattern often involves a single primary water source, a predictable arrival time, and a feeding route that doesn't vary significantly night to night. They're identifiable by their distinctive large, solitary thermal signature, and their predictability makes them specifically targetable.
Reading Sign in Summer vs. Other Seasons
Summer hog sign has specific characteristics that differentiate it from fall sign and that tell a more complete behavioral story to the hunter who knows what they're looking at.
Wallows are the most diagnostic summer sign element. Fresh wallows — damp, disturbed mud with the distinctive rooting and rolling marks of hog activity — indicate very recent use, because summer heat dries wallow surfaces quickly. A wallow that is still damp and disturbed at 7 PM was used within the last few hours, meaning the hogs will likely return. Find the wallow, find the wind, find your setup position.
Rooting patterns in summer concentrate on moist soil areas — the edges of creek banks, the margins of stock ponds, the low areas near irrigation infrastructure — because dry soil is harder to root and lower in the food resources (earthworms, grubs, bulbs) hogs are seeking. Summer rooting that follows the moist soil gradient through a property maps the feeding route between water sources.
Tracks in summer mud are more readable than fall tracks in dry or leaf-covered soil. Stock pond edges, creek crossings, and wallow margins in summer accumulate detailed track records of every animal using the location. A stock pond edge showing the tracks of multiple pigs of different sizes, in varying states of freshness, confirms the sounder is using that location consistently across multiple nights.
Rubs on fence posts and trees are year-round sign but increase in summer as hogs use rough surfaces to remove ectoparasites encouraged by the warm, humid conditions. Fresh rubs — with visible wet or fresh wood exposure, mud smeared at shoulder height — indicate regular use of a travel route.
The Thermal Advantage in Summer Specifically
Summer creates one condition that might seem like it would hurt thermal imaging performance but actually plays in the hunter's favor in a specific way: the differential between hog body temperature and ambient air temperature is lower in summer than in winter, which means the thermal contrast is reduced.
This is true. A hog at 101°F against a December night at 35°F produces a more vivid thermal signature than the same hog against a July night at 75°F. The contrast is lower.
But here's what offsets it entirely: the vegetation contrast in summer.
Green vegetation — the heavy summer grass, crop fields, brush — is significantly cooler at night than the soil beneath it. In thermal imaging, the green landscape of a summer field or sendero creates a uniformly cool background against which a warm-bodied hog is still clearly visible, just at slightly lower contrast. The combination of a high-sensitivity thermal sensor (≤40mK or better) and the relatively uniform cool background of summer vegetation produces a detection scenario that is operationally effective at hunting distances.
The bigger advantage: summer vegetation provides cover that conceals your approach and your setup in ways that winter and spring can't. Getting within effective shooting range without being detected is easier in summer cover. The hogs feel secure in ways they don't in open winter terrain.
Finding Summer Hogs: The Location Strategy
Start with Water, Work Backward
The location strategy for summer hog hunting begins with a satellite map and a simple question: where are the water sources on this property and the surrounding land?
Mark every stock pond, creek segment, seasonal drainage, irrigation area, and low-lying terrain feature that holds or channels water. In a dry summer in central Texas or Oklahoma, the number of functional water sources on a typical ranch shrinks dramatically from the theoretical maximum, which concentrates the hog population around the remaining functional ones.
For each water source, identify the shade cover within 200–400 meters — the areas where hogs will spend the day within easy walking distance of the water. Mesquite thickets, cedar breaks, creek-bottom timber, and brush draws are the primary daytime holding cover in most southern and southwestern environments. The travel corridors between the shade cover and the water source are your primary observation and hunting positions.
Set trail cameras on the water sources first, then on the corridors. Within two weeks of camera deployment, you'll have:
- A population count (how many hogs, approximate age and size distribution)
- A timing profile (what time the sounder arrives at water, how long they stay, what time they leave)
- A size assessment (which animals are the largest boars, which warrant the shot)
This intelligence, gathered passively before you set foot in a hunting position, is what makes summer patterning so effective. You're not guessing — you're executing against a documented pattern.
The Corn-and-Water Setup
The combination of a corn feeder or broadcast corn near a water source is the highest-production summer hog hunting setup available. The water drives hogs to the location; the corn concentrates them in a specific area within that location and extends their time at the site. A sounder that would otherwise water and move on in 20 minutes will spend 90 minutes working a corn scatter, giving ample opportunity for a shot sequence on multiple animals.
Timed feeders set to spin at 9:00 PM — after the initial arrival from cover but before the sounder has fully committed to the area — produce the most consistent results. The sound of the spinner attracts animals already in the area and draws those still in transit. In thermal imaging, the arrival sequence of a sounder responding to a feeder — the first animal approaching cautiously, the others following once the lead animal has cleared the area — is one of the most readable behavioral sequences in all of thermal hunting.
Sendero and Road-Hunting in Summer
For ranches with senderos (cleared shooting lanes through brush), summer nights produce optimal conditions for mobile thermal-assisted hunting. The vegetation bordering the sendero is thick and green — providing cover for the hunter moving in and concealing the approach — while the sendero itself provides an open corridor with maximum detection range for a thermal device.
Driving senderos slowly in a vehicle with a thermal device, stopping every 200–300 meters to scan both sides of the corridor, allows a hunter to locate a sounder's position before dismounting for an approach. This mobile-detection approach is specifically enabled by thermal imaging — without the ability to scan at 300+ meters in complete darkness, the stop-and-listen method produces far fewer productive contacts.
The Gear That Makes It Work
The GTGUARD Hawkeye AI15 Thermal Monocular — $529
For summer hog hunting specifically — where the use case is detection at sendero and field distances, sounder counting and assessment before approach, and situational awareness during a moving hunt — the GTGUARD Hawkeye AI15 at $529 represents the most value-per-dollar of any thermal device in the serious hunter's consideration set.
Here's why this particular device is well-matched to summer hog hunting, specification by specification.
The sensor and AI processing: 256×192 at 12μm, AI-upscaled to 384×288 performance
The AI15 utilizes AI Resolution Technology to upscale a standard 256×192 sensor into a 384×288 visual experience — meaning the displayed image quality is equivalent to what a native 384×288 sensor produces, at a price point well below what native 384×288 devices have historically cost. The device uses the industry's high-performance AI inference chip, with AI super-resolution technology to increase the performance of the 256×192 sensor to 384×288.
For hog hunting, this matters at the distances where the work happens. At 80–200 meters — the range within which most thermal-assisted hog hunting produces shots — the AI15's displayed image resolves individual animals in a sounder clearly enough to assess size, count animals, and identify the largest boar in the group. When tracking a group of feral hogs moving through tall grass at 80 meters, heat signatures are crisp and unobscured, with the engineering minimizing weather-related vulnerabilities — making it weather-resilient enough for typical outdoor use, including dawn patrols and post-rain searches.
Thermal sensitivity: NETD ≤40mK
The AI15's NETD ≤40mK sensitivity detects the slightest heat variances. In summer conditions — where the temperature differential between a 101°F hog and a 78°F ambient environment is 23°F rather than the 60°F+ differential of a winter night — this sensitivity level is what separates a device that shows you hogs at sendero distance from one that shows you blurry approximations. At ≤40mK, the AI15 resolves individual animals in a sounder at summer hunting distances with the contrast needed for confident target assessment.
Frame rate: 50Hz
The fluid motion of 50Hz high frame rate ensures zero lag while tracking fast-moving targets. This matters specifically for hog hunting in ways that wildlife observation doesn't require. Hogs spooked by a shot run fast and change direction unpredictably. Tracking a fleeing sounder on a 25Hz device produces a stuttering, blurred image that makes follow-up targeting nearly impossible. At 50Hz, the image is fluid — a running hog at 100 meters tracks as a smooth heat signature, not a stop-motion approximation.
For summer hunting where multiple-animal opportunities are the norm, the ability to track moving targets after the first shot is a meaningful operational advantage.
Optics: 15mm germanium lens, 1–8× zoom
Equipped with a 15mm lens, the detection distance is increased by more than 60% compared to a 10mm lens. The material is germanium, which is twice as hard as sulfur.
Germanium is the standard optical material for high-quality thermal lenses — it transmits the 8–14μm thermal infrared wavelength with high efficiency, maximizing the amount of thermal radiation from the target that reaches the sensor. The harder material also provides better durability than softer lens materials, which matters for a device carried in field conditions.
The 1–8× continuous zoom range covers the full spectrum of summer hog hunting scenarios: 1–2× for broad scanning of a sendero or field edge looking for sounder presence; 4× for assessing individual animals at moderate distances; 8× for close examination of a specific target before the shot. The continuous (rather than stepped) zoom allows smooth transitions without taking your eye off the target.
Display: 1.43-inch AMOLED
The AI15 is equipped with a 1.43-inch AMOLED large screen. Compared with common 0.23-inch or 0.27-inch screens of similar products, the screen area has increased by more than 20 times.
This is the specification that most hunters don't think about until they experience it. Standard thermal monoculars use small eyepiece displays — the image is viewed through an eyepiece like a conventional scope, with the small display magnified by the eyepiece optics. The AI15's 1.43-inch AMOLED screen is viewable directly, like a small tablet, without pressing the device to your face.
For extended scanning sessions — watching a sendero for two hours, tracking a sounder for twenty minutes before the approach — this display geometry is substantially more comfortable. You're not pressing the device against your eye socket; you're holding it at arm's length or at cheek level and viewing a large, bright screen. In summer heat, this also means less facial contact with a device that's been carried in a warm pack.
The AMOLED technology produces deep blacks and high contrast — critical for thermal imaging where the contrast between warm animals and cool backgrounds is the fundamental visual mechanism.
Detection range: 1,500 meters
The AI15's 1,500 meter detection range places it among the top-performing handheld thermal monoculars in its price category. Many competitors offer 800–1,000 meter ranges, making the AI15's extended reach a significant competitive advantage.
For summer sendero hunting — where the hunting corridor is often 300–500 meters long and you want to know what's at the far end before you drive down it — 1,500 meter detection capability means you're seeing hog presence at a distance that allows a controlled, deliberate approach rather than an accidental close-range contact.
Battery: 4000mAh, 10+ hours, USB-C
The AI15 boasts a 4000mAh lithium battery for over 10 hours of continuous use. For a summer hunting session running from 8:30 PM to 3:00 AM — 6.5 hours — a full charge covers the session with margin, plus the drive-home scan. No battery management needed, no spare pack required.
USB-C charging means the same cable used for a phone or power bank charges the AI15. In a truck console on the way to the property, a quick top-up while driving is completely practical.
Storage: 32GB internal, with Wi-Fi and GT-Share App
The AI15 is supported by Wi-Fi connectivity and GT-Share APP for remote control and image sharing. 32GB of internal storage covers multiple full-session recordings. Wi-Fi transfer to a smartphone means footage from the night can be shared immediately — with a property owner documenting harvest for management records, with a hunting partner scouting a different section of the property, or simply to the hunter's own phone for post-session analysis.
Multiple scene modes and color palettes
The AI15 features multiple scene modes (Normal, Outline, City, Forest, Rainforest, Birdwatching) and color palettes (White Hot, Black Hot, Iron Red Hot, Red Hot, Green Hot), adapting to different environments and user preferences.
For summer hog hunting, the Forest mode optimizes the image processing for environments with high vegetative thermal complexity — exactly the dense green background of a summer sendero or crop field edge. Outline mode enhances the edge contrast around heat signatures, making individual animals stand out from a complex vegetation background more distinctly. The ability to switch between these modes in the field, adapting to the specific environment of each night's hunt location, is a practical advantage over devices with fixed image processing.
The AI15 at $529 in context
The AI15 sits in a specific and meaningful price position in the thermal market: above the budget-tier devices ($200–$350) that lack the sensor sensitivity and display quality for serious hunting use, and below the mid-high tier ($700–$1,200) where the performance gains are real but the price premium is substantial.
At $529, the AI15 delivers the specifications that matter for hog hunting — NETD ≤40mK sensitivity, 50Hz frame rate, 15mm germanium lens, AI-upscaled 384×288 display quality, 1,500 meter detection range, and 10+ hour battery — at a price that fits the budget of a serious hunter without requiring a financial commitment that colors every field decision with cost anxiety.
It is the device to buy when you want to start hunting with thermal this summer, rather than waiting another season.
The Summer Hog Hunting Session: What It Actually Looks Like
Pre-Hunt Setup (30 Minutes Before Dark)
Arrive at the property while there's still enough light to navigate without a headlamp. Get to your observation position — whether a fixed blind near water, a sendero entry point, or a truck positioned for mobile hunting — before the light is fully gone. Animals that detect your arrival before full dark will be slower to return than those who never knew you arrived.
Check wind direction at the observation position. In summer evenings, thermals — the air movement driven by temperature differential between the warm ground and cooling air — can override prevailing wind direction, creating a complex wind environment that changes over the course of the session. Early evening typically produces upward thermals as the warm ground heats the air above it; late evening, as the ground cools, produces downward thermals. Know which way your thermals are running, and position accordingly.
Set the AI15 to the scene mode that matches your environment. For a crop field edge or open sendero, Normal or Outline mode. For a brush-bordered waterhole with complex vegetation background, Forest mode.
The First Hour: Detection and Assessment
The first hour of a summer hog hunting session is the intelligence-gathering phase. You're not looking to shoot immediately — you're building a picture of what's present, where the sounder is, and how many animals are in the group.
Scan systematically. In the AI15's 1× or 2× setting, sweep the full width of your visible corridor in a slow, even arc. A sounder of hogs at 300 meters produces multiple individual heat signatures that are clearly visible against the cooling vegetation background. Count the animals. Note the size variation in the group. Identify the largest individual — likely a mature boar if one is present — and watch his position within the group.
This assessment phase determines everything that follows. A sounder of twelve animals, including two large boars, requires a different approach than a sounder of seven with one shooter-sized animal. Knowing the group composition before you move prevents the situation of advancing on what you think is a single animal and discovering it's a group of fifteen who heard you coming.
The Approach
Once the sounder is located and assessed, the approach begins. Summer vegetation is your ally here — the dense grass and brush that makes summer daytime travel unpleasant provides genuine concealment for a hunter moving deliberately.
Move against the wind, in short increments, pausing to re-scan with the AI15 after every twenty to thirty meters of movement. Each pause gives you updated information on the sounder's position and behavior — are they still feeding? Moving toward the water? Heading toward cover earlier than expected?
The AI15's 50Hz frame rate is specifically valuable during the approach, when you're tracking moving animals through a screen rather than through an eyepiece. The smooth, lag-free image lets you monitor movement and adjust your approach vector in real time.
Close to within effective shot distance — whatever is appropriate for your shooting setup and the conditions. Summer vegetation often enables closer approaches than winter, because the cover that conceals you is also the cover that keeps the hogs' attention directed toward each other rather than toward the perimeter.
The Shot and Follow-Up
The thermal monocular in a hog hunting scenario serves two distinct shooting phases. Pre-shot: confirming target identity, assessing the angle, ensuring no other animals are in the shot path behind the primary target. Post-shot: immediately scanning to track the hit animal's movement and direction, and identifying whether other animals in the sounder are still present or have fled.
The 50Hz frame rate of the AI15 makes the immediate post-shot scan fluid and functional — the sounder's reaction to the shot (typically a sudden directional sprint, scattering in multiple directions) is trackable in real time rather than a blur of motion.
For follow-up shots, re-acquire in the 1–2× zoom setting for the broad view that keeps multiple animals in frame, then zoom in for target confirmation before the follow-up shot. This zoom-out-zoom-in sequence becomes automatic after a few sessions and is enabled by the continuous zoom range of the AI15.
Common Mistakes Summer Hog Hunters Make
Setting Up Too Early in the Evening
The temptation to maximize time in the blind produces the counterproductive result of alerting hogs that arrive before full dark. Hogs in summer are often on the move toward water by 8:30–9:00 PM, which in many locations is before full dark. A hunter who arrives at 7:30 PM and settles in creates a 30–60 minute window of human scent accumulation and possible noise that the first-arriving hogs detect, associate with danger, and respond to with wariness that ripples through the rest of the sounder's visit.
Arrive later, get settled faster, and let the property settle before the hogs arrive. In summer, 9:00 PM arrival for a 9:30 PM first-movement window is often better than a 7:30 PM setup.
Hunting the Same Location on Consecutive Nights Without a Reset
Summer hogs that have been shot at, heard a shot, or detected human scent at a specific location will avoid that location for 3–7 days before resuming use. Hunting the same stock pond or feeder two nights in a row after a shot usually produces diminished results on the second night.
The solution is a rotation of two or three setups, allowing each location a recovery period of 48–72 hours after activity. With a thermal device, rotating between setups is also a scouting opportunity — each visit to a location that's been resting provides fresh intelligence about whether and when hogs have resumed using it.
Hunting Into the Wind on Approach
Thermal imaging identifies where the hogs are with precision that daylight or night vision scouting can't match. That precision is wasted if the approach into detected animals is conducted upwind. Wind discipline in summer — with thermals complicating the conventional wind — requires attention at every pause of the approach.
When in doubt about thermal direction during an evening approach, use a wind-check puff or fine powder to confirm actual air movement before committing to an approach line.
Building Your Summer Hog Hunting System
The elements of a productive summer hog hunting operation are each individually straightforward, but their combination is what produces consistent results:
Water source identification and mapping tells you where to concentrate effort. Trail camera documentation at those water sources tells you when and in what numbers hogs are using them. Setup rotation between two or three proven locations prevents over-pressure. The AI15 thermal monocular gives you the detection, assessment, and tracking capability to execute efficiently once you're in position. And wind discipline throughout the approach ensures that the intelligence the thermal provides isn't wasted by alert that defeats the setup before the shot.
Run this system on a summer property for four weeks and you will know the hog population, their timing, their size distribution, and their specific travel routes in more detail than most hunters accumulate about any property in a full season of hunting. That knowledge doesn't go away when September arrives. It informs every decision you make from then forward.
Summer isn't the off-season. It's the season that serious hunters use to get ready for every other season — and to put meat in the freezer while they're doing it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is summer really a good time for hog hunting? Yes — for several compounding reasons. No hunting pressure produces relaxed, patternable hogs. Summer heat concentrates hog activity around water sources, making locations predictable. Nights in summer are long (10+ hours) and comfortable after dark. And hog populations in summer include spring-farrowed piglets that are now large enough to hunt and that have not yet been pressured by any hunting activity.
What time should I plan to be set up for summer hog hunting? Plan to be in position by 9:00–9:30 PM. In most southern states, full dark arrives by 9:00–9:15 PM in June, and summer hogs on unpressured properties begin moving toward water and feeding areas by 9:30–10:00 PM. The peak activity window is typically 10 PM to 2 AM.
How far can the GTGUARD AI15 detect hogs? The AI15 has a published detection range of 1,500 meters. For hog hunting applications, recognition range — confidently identifying animals as hogs and assessing individual size — is 150–300 meters under typical summer conditions. At sendero and field-edge distances (80–200 meters), the AI15 produces image quality that allows individual animal assessment and shot confirmation.
Does thermal imaging work in summer heat? Yes, though with somewhat lower contrast than cold-weather conditions. The temperature differential between a hog at 101°F and summer ambient air at 75–80°F is still 20–25°F — more than adequate for a ≤40mK sensitivity sensor like the AI15's to detect and display clearly. The AI15's high sensitivity rating specifically maintains usable image contrast in warm-weather conditions that challenge less sensitive sensors.
Do I need a thermal scope or a thermal monocular for hog hunting? A thermal monocular like the AI15 is the recommended primary tool for most hog hunting setups. It handles detection, sounder assessment, approach guidance, and post-shot tracking. For the actual shot, most hunters use either a conventional illuminated riflescope (with the monocular used for everything except the shot itself) or a dedicated thermal weapon scope mounted to the rifle. The AI15 at $529 provides the detection and scanning capability at a price that makes the monocular-plus-illuminated-scope combination an effective and affordable overall system.
What states allow hog hunting year-round? Feral hog hunting is open year-round with no bag limit in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and most other southeastern and south-central states where hogs have established populations. Always verify current regulations for your specific state and property type before hunting.
