Tennessee Hunt
Eddie Wergin


The hunt was purchased at the Fundraiser last year on the silent auction. The hunt description was half price hog or ram hunt for 2 people in the Smokey Mountains. Wilderness Hunting Lodge in Monterey, Tennessee, about a 4 hour drive from Birmingham, donated the hunt. Eddie invited chapter members Herschel McEwen and Harry Monroe along to share in the hunt. There are two lodges which accommodate around 20 people and three different high fenced sites. Everyone hunts on their own (no guides). Every morning they would turn dogs loose on one or the sites and hogs would be running everywhere. If the hunter sees a hog that he likes he can take him. The lodge would then send someone out to pick him up, dress him and cut him up for you.
Eddie was interested in a hog with big tusks. Although he saw lots of big boars in the 200 to 300 pound range he didn't see a boar with tusks that appealed to him. Eddie opted instead to take a Mouflon ram. Harry was only interested in sheep and took a Corsican ram. Herschel came looking only for a big boar and tagged out in the first 15 minutes of the hunt.
The lodge has a wide variety of exotics from water buffalo to Angora goats, with prices much less than the fenced ranches in Texas.