hunting season

I went up to my deer lease this morning just to check some stuff out real quick.  I wanted to check my feeders and see if I can start figuring out these deer a little better.  That way when October 1st comes, watch out.  I gotta have a plan of attack so I can be on these deer in bow season.  So far I have two main spots that I already know I'll be hunting.  One in bow and one in gun season, mainly.  The bow spot is crazy but I'll get to that later.  Let's see if I can paint a picture for ya.  My gun spot is REAL thick overgrowth.  Like you might get lost if you go in there more than 20 feet.  It will be a little less thick later on in the year when the plants start dying.  There are about 5 good deer trails coming out of it that I could hunt.  Gotta see where they're coming out at for sure though.  Where the overgrowth starts, there is a massive trail.  I have a feeder about 50 yards up the trail with corn and a salt block where I would head up the trail.  The deer are cruisin in the overgrowth fields cause they think they're safe.  They are for now...  About 200 yards from the start of my overgrowth plot, is the start of my other area.  You turn off the road and go about 100 yards back in the woods on another road.  I can hunt anywhere on that road.  Good sign today, as soon as I parked the truck and took about 5 steps back the road I heard a deer blow and saw a pretty little white tail going through the woods.  That means they are there!  At the back of this section, there is about a 50 yard by 30 yard clearing.  That's the spot.  There are so many tracks in that opening, it is ridiculous.  I'm thinking that the deer come out, feed around in the clearing and then go back in on the other side where I'm standing when I took this picture. 

I have a feeder up where the trail goes back into the woods.  You can see the feeder in the next picture.  All it is is a 5 foot PVC pipe tied down to a tree filled with corn and covered with whatever I could find in my garage.     

Pretty crazy trail.  Told ya.  Anyway, when I get to the feeder today, I find this!

Serious...  Look at this!

At first, I'm thinking deer on steroids.  Then I calm down and realize what really happened here...  HOGS.  The other feeder that I had up had the same thing happen.  You can kinda see the scuff on the side of the pipe from the hogs demanding more food.  Now I have a new plan, hog hunt before deer season.  Good thing about Texas, you can hunt hogs year round.  There is no season.  If your deer hunting and see a hog, shoot it.  Turkey hunting and see a hog, shoot it.  They want them gone.  This is two weeks in a row that they have left they're mark on my spot.  Now it's time for revenge.  The entire road back to the opening was torn up by hogs.  I'm guessing that with the drought, they are looking for food and water wherever they can get it.  They found it in the form of my deer food.  Stupid hogs.