Bill Cochran is a Roanoke Times outdoors columnist.

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Bill Cochran's Outdoors

Recent columns

• Less freedom at Hatteras for surf casters
• Here’s the scoop on hunting shed antlers
• Want more grouse? Get used to hearing chainsaws
• Sunday hunting bills aplenty, but some hunters hold out
• Column archive

Bill's Mailbag

• Hunting for a book on rabbit hunting
• More comments on Sunday hunting
• Mail archive

Bill's Field Reports

• Winterize your boat? Heck no! Keep on fishing
• Senator gets attention of DGIF
• Field reports archive

Resources

• Trout stocking schedule

Saw a hog trotting through the marsh on our way out to the hunt area and saw a dead 201-pounder that a hunter took at the end of the day. Saw a couple deer, half-dozen squirrels, but no hogs.

Very interesting habitat. Several hunters reported seeing coyotes. Neat day, overall. It was a little unnerving hunting a public hunt after hunting private land for over 20 years. I got a little jittery when I saw an orange-clad hunter moving through the woods, but I didn’t hear of any accidents or near misses. God bless hunter orange.