This is sure to be an exciting year with an 11 team circuit comprised of Challenge veterans, several TV show personalities and some fresh meat. The teams matched their skills in filming hog hunts in the Wild Hog Challenge in the first leg of the 2010 Campbell Outdoor Challenge Circuit.
The event took place at Bangs Paradise Valley Hunt Club near Ehrhardt, S.C. February 16-21. Winning the Challenge was Travis and Leigh Creekbaum of Team The Chase with a videoed scorel of 246 and are currently occupying the top spot of the leader board in the overall Circuit. This event was the first of four events in the 2010 Campbell Outdoor Challenge Circuit.
Teams competed in the four day event by submitting video footage of wild hog hunts. The video was scored based upon a copyrighted scoring system from the Campbell Outdoor Challenge where teams receive points based on required increments of video footage. All team members were filming hunts for wild hogs in the swamps and wood lots of South Carolina.
Filming hunts for wild hogs is definitely a challenge. Adult males are usually solitary outside of the breeding season; however, females and their offspring live in groups that range from a variety of sizes. If surprised or concerned, a hog can and will defend itself and its young with intense vigor.
It was a tough couple of days as a couple of teams had excellent video footage of the hog hunt but were unable to actually submit a hunt for scoring.
The challenge was hosted by Bang’s Paradise Valley Hunt Club near Ehrhardt, S.C. The Campbell Outdoor Challenge airs nationally on the Versus network at 12 Noon CST reaching over 74 million homes. “Most of the viewers of wildlife hunting shows and videos have no idea how much of a challenge (hence the name of the competition) it is to successfully film a hunt for free-ranging animals in the wild,” stated John Campbell, host of the Campbell Outdoor Challenge TV Show. “This competition highlights the skills of the cameraman who help bring the ‘outdoors indoors to millions of viewers.”
Next, for the second leg of the Circuit, we are off to Tell City, Indiana for the Wild Turkey Challenge.