re: Anybody have a guesstimate on the size of this deer?

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wish they made some type of tracking device or camera that you could set out and try to capture images of things like this.

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I too, wish I could afford one. But we don't have the extra to spend on one right now. Because I'm not the typical OT/OB baller. Though I really, really want one right now to simply prove everyone saying it's a hog, wrong.

And regarding the hog thing, again. As previously mentioned, we live in Talladega county on 17 acres. The 1500 family acres I mentioned earlier is roughly 20 miles away. While an Outdoor Alabama article claims hogs have been seen in every county. I cannot find 1 single piece of information confirming hogs have been seen in Talladega County. There are several articles or forum posts which mention hogs in the Talladega National Forest. But the TNF stretches intermittently from Tuscaloosa almost to the Georgia border, and the "Talladega" area everything references is south of Tuscaloosa, 2 hours away from here.

I'm not an OTer who happened to wander in here. I post on the OB fairly regularly. I'm not a hunter, but I'm also not a "city slicker" who doesn't know his head from his arse when he is surrounded by more grass than concrete. If hogs were on our property, I would have heard about them being around this area long before now.

Unless it just so happened that some jackass recently let a few he captured elsewhere go free in my immediate area, which I guess is possible.

In the past 1.5 years there have even been multiple 100% confirmed sightings, in several different cities no less, of black bear in both northern and southern Talladega county. But not one reported sighting of wild hogs.

Edit: I'm going to put some corn out in the part of the garden that doesn't have any tracks, and try to keep an eye out the next couple of nights. See what rustles up.