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Post by chuck41 on Jun 4, 2009 14:46:01 GMT -5
We had a number of feral hogs on the deer lease a couple years ago. They really damaged a lot of feeders and tore up feed plots, but they were quite tasty. Thinking about heading down there this summer to see if they are back. Some migrate into the area periodically.
Anyone got any tips into what works to attract them to your shooting lanes.?
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Post by davewolf on Jun 4, 2009 17:01:01 GMT -5
Chuck:
Hunted them in S/C and found if you find a wallow, a hog will be certain to pay it a visit. The place also had corn spread on the interior roads, the hogs did eat it, but there was so much of it, they only did so when they crossed it.
All I know is they like swampy and wet areas.
Have a great day!
Dave
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Post by mike3132 on Jun 4, 2009 21:34:56 GMT -5
Corn and molasses work good. If there close by it wont take them long to find it. Mike
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Post by kevin k on Jun 5, 2009 14:49:07 GMT -5
Chuck see if you can find some hog wild its a powder it works great but deer also love it cabelas has it punch in hog wild hog attractant you can mix in dirt or with corn very sweet strong scent not bad on pocket ether and light to carry in thats what the dnr up here told us to use when alot of hogs got lose from a hunting ranch boy did it work we had holes dug from them digging for it and got a feww of them lots of fun thanks. kevin
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Post by boarhog on Jun 16, 2009 0:19:14 GMT -5
They work the corn feeders hard 'on our club, and will tear up any feeder they can reach or tump over. I have gradually replaced all my feeders with tripod types with legs tall enough that a large hog can't reach the timer. If they can reach it, they might break it off of the barrel, spilling all the corn out at once. We have to stand on the 4-wheeler rack to re-fill, but worth the effort. Molasses helps attract them, as does apples and pears if you can find a few bags at a store that are about to go bad. I haven't tried Hog Wild, but it sounds interesting.
We've had some success stalking, or still hunting, when we find areas freshly used by hogs. You can tell the difference in rooting that looks fresh, and rooting that is fresh, by smell. My Sons and I have actually scent trailed hogs up like a bloodhound. Once you smell the musky odor hogs leave, you will not mistake it for anything else, and you won't have to stick your nose in the dirt to smell it either. Our trouble is that often there is simply too much hog sign everywhere, and you're better off just getting in a comfy deer stand near a feeder.
Just some advice, don't shoot any large sows or boars if over 150 lbs. If the sows don't have little ones with them, they are ususlly pregnant. And boars much over 150 lbs will smell and be so tough you'd have to grind him twice to eat him! We try to stick to pigs 50-125 lbs for good eating. A ham from a hog that size, seasoned well, and put on the smoker, is Food O Da Gods!
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Post by chuck41 on Jun 16, 2009 9:55:28 GMT -5
Boarhog,
I know what you mean about wild hog meat. It's great. It is great like you mentioned, or bar-b-qued, but "Hawaiian Pork" is our favorite way to fix it. Cut it it into cubes, place in a crock pot with juice from a can of pineapple and cook for about 4 hours until tender. Take the juice and cool then add corn starch to thicken and put it back in the crock. Season with a bit of salt and pepper and some Worcestershire sauce. Then add green peppers and onions and the pineapple from that can you opened previously and sweeten and cook until veggies are tender. I use Splenda or Sweet 'n Low to sweeten it but you could use sugar as well. Serve it over rice for a real treat!! We like it even better than the venison!
We have pigs and bear around our lease that tear up feeders. I have gone to using the feeders hanging from trees to get them out of reach. I try to suspend them at least 8' above the ground because of the bears. They are not as common as the hogs, but more destructive.
We have had several feeders on tripods that have been overturned by hogs. If they can't reach the timer they have learned to attack one of the legs until it collapses then feasting on the corn. Bears just swat the timers and break them off or beat on the barrel to overturn the whole thing. Unfortunately there is no bear season where we hunt. That is a real shame because I hear they taste just as good as the hogs.
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Post by ozark on Jun 16, 2009 11:55:00 GMT -5
I bought pulleys and ratchet type equipment that is use to drag boats onto trailers and secured them to tree limbs with rope leading to a nearby tree. This allowed me to lower the feeder to service and then ratchet it back up. Even then some bear would crawl out of the limb and if they could reach the feed container they would cause damage. Finally I just bought a stock type feeder and discourgage bear legally or illegally depending on season and my degree of anger.
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Post by mike3132 on Jun 16, 2009 15:16:44 GMT -5
Berry flavored Kool-Aid mixed into the corn in the feeder is another cheap attractant that works real good. My friends in Florida use this all the time. Mike
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Post by boarhog on Jun 16, 2009 23:31:08 GMT -5
Chuck!
Man!! I am ready to hog hunt now! Can't wait to try that recipe. Yummie!
We have a couple of hanging feeders, but don't have the cable yoke and winch attachment for a tree perfected yet. A bit inconvenient to re-fill, but working out a diff design. We have seen a few bear tracks on our club, but very rare. A few years back, a big truck hit a bear 3-4 miles south of our club, lost control and hit a car head on. Killed the driver of the car if I remember correctly. We hunt the Saline River bottoms and I would not be surprised to see bear, or Big Foot !
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Post by chuck41 on Jun 17, 2009 17:51:45 GMT -5
I buy two pulleys (about 1" dia or so). I tie one as high up in the tree as I can reach, or I tie it to a board or big stick tied between two trees about 10' up. I attach a second one to the top of the handle on top of the feeder. Tie one end of a rope next to the pulley up in the tree then down and thread through the pulley on the feeder, back up and thread it through the pulley up in the tree. This cuts the weight you have to pull to raise the feeder by half. Works great and I can easily handle a full 50# feeder by myself. Just let out enough rope for it to drop to about a couple feet off the ground and tie it off while you check or refill. Refill, then pull back up to its protected high spot and tie the rope off until next time.
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Post by boarhog on Jul 6, 2009 19:07:01 GMT -5
Guys, The following pix are of a few of the hogs bagged by my youngest Son, Aaron AKA Little Pig, at the deer camp.  The next pix are from the 2008 deer season. All killed with Traditions ML, Pyrodex, and 300 gr Hornady XTP.  If you look close at this pix, you will see the scale above the hog. We couldn't get it's nose off the ground but it still weighed right at 300 lbs. Normally we won't shoot a boar this large, but it was near dark, the hog was running through the brush, and A didn't have time to think about it. While we were skinning it, A asked me if I noticed anything strange about this boar. I said yes, it doesn't smell as bad as any 300 lb boar I've ever been around. We also noticed it's testicles were less than half the normal size. To shorten the story, the meat from this boar was wonderful! Not nearly as tough as we would expect. Great eating.   This is another view of the 300 lb hog shown hanging from the scale. I have many more hog pix, if anyone is interested, I will try to dig a few up to post. Boarhog |
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Post by ohiobuckeye on Jul 10, 2009 15:51:38 GMT -5
I would like to go on a hog hunt, anyone know of a good outfitter or a place to have a good hunt? thanks
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Post by boarhog on Jul 10, 2009 17:33:25 GMT -5
Ohio,
All of our hunting is incedental to deer hunting. We are just lucky enough to have quite a few hogs on our club. I have friends that have hog hunted in Texas, Alabama, Tennesee, and one of the Carolinas. Either they found an outfitter by word of mouth, or on the WWW. I've been hearing that areas of Texas has a bad hog problem. I would get plenty of references, and call them all. Good luck! I hope you find a good one and have a fabulous hunt.
Boarhog
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Post by speedtrap on Jul 11, 2009 0:06:15 GMT -5
Bunch of hogs in TExas, and a lot of reasonable priced hunts....
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Post by chuck41 on Jul 11, 2009 9:30:53 GMT -5
Our club is actually a "dual club" with two clubs sharing 1600 acres. We are confined to our own 600 acres until after two weeks of modern gun season has expired and then can hunt the whole area for the rest of the year. Since hog hunting is a 12 month season, that is a lot. Year before last hogs were a big problem at our club.  However, I did get some really good pork out of the deal. ;D Last September some of the guys in the other club put out a trap and pretty well caught all the hogs in the area with it. We only saw one the entire deer season and had no damage to feeders from them. Still had a few feeders ravaged by bear though. I need to go down and try to get me a couple nice porkers before the trappers wipe out this year's crop. Only problem is hunting is not a lot of fun in 90* plus days of July and August in Arkansas. |
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Post by boarhog on Jul 11, 2009 13:18:24 GMT -5
Sweating while hog hunting is pretty tough, and ticks are a bit worse, but the Chiggers are the Devil's Spawn! I have a friend that got them so bad a couple of years ago, that he had to get some sort of hemoglobin shots and had a 3000.00 emergency room bill. Some sort of allergic reaction. He said that from now on, he won't take a step into the woods until it is cold enough that when you poot, you hear it hit the ground behind you!! That has got to be pretty cold!
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Post by ohiobuckeye on Jul 11, 2009 18:46:22 GMT -5
Thanks for the information, I just sent a e-mail to the Tn. DNR to see if they could be any help, I would rather not drive all the way to Tx just to hunt pig's, so if there is any hunters on the board from Tn. that would share any information that would be help full, thanks Don
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Post by chuck41 on Jul 14, 2009 11:49:16 GMT -5
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Post by ohiobuckeye on Jul 18, 2009 14:15:24 GMT -5
Thanks Chuck, I have been gone all week, I will check these out, do you know of anyone that has hunted with any of these outfitters? good or bad? Thanks
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Post by rossman40 on Jul 18, 2009 15:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by chuck41 on Jul 24, 2009 14:24:12 GMT -5
Thanks Chuck, I have been gone all week, I will check these out, do you know of anyone that has hunted with any of these outfitters? good or bad? Thanks Nope, sorry. However, if you contact them they will likely give you contact info for some of their satisfied customers. |
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Post by littlepig on Sept 24, 2009 23:14:45 GMT -5
Hello everybody! I'm boarhogs son.I read the post on hog-trapping that chuck41 put up and one thing we have learned is that even trapping won't get em all! Thank you huntin gods for that!We really enjoy gettin a hog or two and i personally believe that wild hog is about the best "wild" table fare out there in the woods.Dad and I talked about something else that is pretty important in hog hunting.That is bullet quality for good penetration.Even a 100lb hog is a tougher animal than the biggest whitetail in the woods!Boars in particular are a tough lot.Their shield is the primary reason that I believe this to be true.If you plan on hog hunting then you should make sure that you are shooting a premium grade bullet like the Barnes X or Nosler Partition.The shield on a boar reaches as far back as right behind the shoulder which is where alot of hunters aim at an animal for the optimum kill shot.There is the definate possibility that if you hit the shield on a medium to large boar that your bullet simply WILL NOT penetrate that shield and all you succeed in doing is wounding the hog.I hope this helps anyone that might be interested in hog-hunting!Thanks a bunch!
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Post by boarhog on Sept 25, 2009 0:15:39 GMT -5
Heeeeeyyy! I just spotted this post! Welcome to the board!
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Post by jjenkins on Oct 4, 2009 16:38:28 GMT -5
i shot this one friday evening, 123 yards 250 grain xtp in a harvester short black sabot on top of 67 grains of IMR 4198  |
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Post by boarhog on Oct 4, 2009 23:15:54 GMT -5
JJ,
That looks like some of the hogs we have in our territory. Bet it was some good eatin!
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However, I did get some really good pork out of the deal. ;D Last September some of the guys in the other club put out a trap and pretty well caught all the hogs in the area with it. We only saw one the entire deer season and had no damage to feeders from them. Still had a few feeders ravaged by bear though. 