willy and fwb, all the Ossabaw hunts are quota hunts and may take up to 5 years of rejection applications (priority points) in order to be picked for those hunts.
The island for some reason has a lot of appeal to many people. It's normally easy to access, the State people are usually very helpful, even taking you to your drawn hunting location and picking you, your game and hunting stuff up, supposed to even have hot showers.
I only applied once and didn't get picked, for me not knowing where I might be hunting on a specific day of the year and having to plan time off and possibly not going just didn't appeal to me.
A party of up to 5 applicants may apply together for rejection or approval.
There were 2 hog hunts, Jan 21-23 and Feb 25-27. Apply by Dec 1 for lottery drawings. Quota of 100 hunters each.
This is how the hog/deer hunts broke down last year.
Apply by September 1.
Archery Oct 22-24. Quota 100.
Primitive Weapons Nov 5-7. Quota 100.
Firearms Parent/Child Nov 26-28. Quota 75. Apply by Sept 15.
Firearms Oct 8-10. Quota 100.
Firearms Dec 10-12. Quota 100.
As far as I know, all the hunts allow use of archery, regardless of hunt status.
Some of the hogs may not be edible, depending on their diet. If you get one that has been on a marsh/snail diet, you will not be able to eat it. I can't describe it but it is much like the difference in eating grain fed ducks as opposed to fish eating ducks.
Lots of other stuff goes on there.
http://www.ossabawisland.org/indexa.php?docid=97
At one time the National Geographic did an article on the hogs, there was even some argument weather to have them listed as their own species, being they were there so long.
If ya'll need more info just holler!