baiting hogs
 

i live in southern oklahoma and we have a good # of wild hogs i have really got into huning them w/ my bow and have been fortunate enough to take 4 w/ my bow last year. it is great because you can hunt them year round. my question is what is the best way to bait them in and keep em coming on a consistant basis. the one thing that i have found is they are very unpredictable.
thanks!!

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Buy you some Hog Wild and corn and follow the instructions on the Hog Wild bag..... If you can't find Hog Wild use grape kool-aid and a 2 quart Mountain Dew on your corn.... They love either one... We have caught up to 11 in our trap at one time with these...

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Just regular corn feeder works great...... are you up around the blue river??

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I built a feeder out of a 55 gallon drum with a moultrie motor on the bottom. I fill it with corn and let it spread 4 lbs each cycle with the theory that hogs just cant eat enough! Hawg wild works great, but is $6-7 a bag. Powdered kool-aid mix as mentioned before works great. I also like red cream soda or "Big Red". I buy the walmart brand or HEB brand to save money. I just pour it on the ground around the feeder. The best hunting we have found has been at night under a full moon. It is more like dove hunting than hog hunting.

Congrats on getting those with a bow! I cheat and use a 30-06.

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thanks, i live in tishomingo about 8 mile from blue river.

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well the epa wont like you but you can pour motor oil on the ground and they will wallow in it. also, I have been putting 25lbs of lard under my feeder with 2 bottles of syrup and a 4 lb bag of sugar. they sure like that stuff. tear the ground up. i had heard of the motor oil trick and was a little skeptical but it sure does work. i used old motor oil for the job.

I have heard also soak 5 gallon bucket of corn in diesel fuel and burry it under the ground. the hogs will tear it up also. I haven't tried that but plan to do so.

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Pigs will eat just about anything that gives off a good smell. I don't know if this would work for wild pigs, but I can remember as a kid that my uncle had a pig farm and he used to go and pick up a small truck load of bananas that had gotten to ripe to sell. I swear, the pigs would murder their mothers to eat these bananas! So, it might work on wild pigs...good luck finding a truck load of free bananas LOL.

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I use to go to Wonder Bread every Wed and pick-up a load of Feed Bread and
Twinkies. On the 4th day after 3day old bread they have to dump all of it.

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Would baiting them work in the Green Swamp Reb,?

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Yeah Chuck, just don't get caught!;)In Green Swamp it's considered
a game animal. On private property, it's considered land owners property,
and can be hunted year round...day/night.

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corn, a milk jug, post hole diggers, and about a week. Put about 3/4 corn in the milk jug, fill the jug up with milk. set it outside inthe sun for a week. Go to your hunting spot and dig a hole about 2-3feet deep and cur the jug open/poor it into the hole. the hogs will find you pretty fast, maybe a day and they will not leave until they get ALL the corn. -Peace

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Yeah ......I forgot these guys were hunting on private property.
Thanks.
Brother Chuck

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If you don't want to deal with the mess and the game laws, check out my webpage. I have a Sour mash attractant that is already bottled and extracted. Feel free to use the link below to see our products!

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Like your site BB. When the Budweiser Brewery was open, I use to
pick up BeerTank Waste for $10 a barrel. Man, talk about hog bait!
Suckers would get drunk on it and slow them down. Chickens got in
it one day and were wobbling all over the yard. What a laugh!!

Do you make your own?

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Nuff, we use to put 25# ofwhole corn in a 55gal drum, fill it with water just above
the corn and add 2 cans of Red Devil Lye and mix real good. In about 5 days, the
corn will puff up like Hominy Grits. It will smell like puke, but the hogs love it.

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We make a super strong extract from a similar formula. This allows the spray bottle to carry the same power as a big pile without all the hassle and mess. It works great for avoiding the game laws and getting back into hard to reach spots where carrying a 5 gallon bucket or similar would be impossible. Having it all in a handy 2 oz. misting bottle makes it a lot easier for a lot of the hunters we deal with.

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also if you get a 5gal bucket, some cheese from your local fish/bait store and your corn, mix it all together with water, let it stand for a few days in the heat, itll make you puke when you open the lid, HOGS LOVE it. Also Strawberry koolaid mix (powder) works awesome, just pour it over your bait corn when you pu tit out.

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Big Boar
How much for shipping and about how many hunts will I get out of one bottle?
Thanks
Chuck

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2 things bigboar. One i just ordered my scent spray from ya, and 2 why dont you start a thread in this forum about your page that way if we need something we just click and roll, instead of looking for you online =) i forgot who was selling the stuff until i saw you say try my scents. NEwho sticky you something out front =) -Peace

PS: for chucky, shipping on my bottle was about $3.00 and im in texas

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Thanks Sho nuff

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rush creek,

As others have said, a hog will eat anything, and if you keep it out all the time they'll actually learn your vehicle/atv and meet you driving to your feeder location.

Some of the things I've seen used, watermelons/cantaloupes, onions, corn, candy syrup from candy factory, even dead chickens from chicken houses, old cooking oil from restaurants, you name it, they'll eat it. A hog will even eat their young. A word to the wise though, they will multiply pretty rapidly and you could end up with a big hog problem.

When I retired in l987 and moved back home, my brother had a homemade gravity feeder fixed up that would hold 3 or 400 pounds of corn, he kept it full. One day I was riding around our club and actually counted 300 hogs (this included the pigs with sows) in one field. It was so bad you couldn't deer hunt for the hogs, as a matter of fact, they'll wipe out your acorn crop before the deer have a chance.
dog1

dog1

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Dog, you know it!!

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thanks for all the replies looks like a lot of stuff works you just gotta get out and keep it baited

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I can't figure them out. they come by my location so irregular. I have put 25# lard on the ground for em. I have my corn feeder going off 2 x a day, put numerous bottles of syrup and sugar, salt, et on the ground and I still can't get them to come buy on a regular basis. what I mean is there wallow is only 40 yards in a ditch from my new bait station. the pigs have yet to hit my bait. they come from the west every time entering the ditch. my bait station is 40 yards to the east of the ditch. don't figure. saw about 15 of them today about 200 yards eating off another guys feeder that just filled it up for the first time this weekend. mine has been out feeding in the area for about 2 1/2 weeks now. any other suggestions. I keep pouring stuff on the ground but heck, they ain't eating any of it. some of my problem has been the coons and squirrels eating the corn up. I have numerous picts of them under the feeder. thats why I started putting the lard, cooking oil, sugar, and syrup on under the barrel as I figured they wouldn't want to get there paws oily like a hog would.

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I have the same problem in the summer. I have a feeder about the same distance from a wallow and nothing. When you're dealing with the 4 th smartest animal on the planet, you're destined to be fooled. I think in the summer especially, scent plays a major role. I try to eliminate any odor from what I touch, but when you're sweaty and working with a feeder and your touching stuff, it's almost impossible. A pig really needs to come across food to come to it consistently. I have heard before that they won't just smell out food and come to it unless it has been imprinted in their brain that that's where it was last time. It sounds like they came across your friends feeder. I usually run a line of corn out of a hole in the bag, across a bunch of well used runs over to my setup. It's helps a little, but they have a masters degree in outsmarting us. That's why we love it! I do use my Tuff Tusk attractant to spray a line over to the feeder as well. I sometimes hang tampons on well used runs with the TUFF TUSK on it as well to get them in. They're playin tricks on you, so play tricks on them. A sour mash attractant can work as a curiosity scent as well as a cover scent. Thats why I spray it on palmettos. It dries and blows in the wind as the bruch moves.But food is the number one motivator for pigs. They're just real wary sometimes.

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a nice gravity feed feeder with a large resivour and a "plate" on the bottom works pretty well for us most of the time. we mix poweder strawberry koolaid with it. The pipe feeders work well also but you have to put the hole low to the ground for them to eat. I am wanting to get the TuffTusk in and see how she smells and give it a trial run. - Peace

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Best way i have found is to dig a hole as deep as you can with a post hole digger. Fill it half with corn and then pour a pack of dried strawberry jello in it. Then top off the hole with corn. They will root at the holes for a few weeks. Put you out a couple of holes and I promise you it will work. OR you can make a hog feeder out of PVC pipe or a bucket. I use 4 inch PVC pipe at about 3 to 4 pluse feet long. Glue a perminant cap on one end and drill a hole through it. Thread a cable/chainthrough the end so you can anchor it. Drill a number of holes in the pipe that will allow corn to fall through. Put a screw on cap on the other end. Fill the pipe with corn, screw on the cap, and anchor the chain to a tree or something that will not allow the hogs to run off with it. The hogs will push the pipe around releasing the corn for a considerable time..

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I have poured all kinds of jello mix on and in the corn feeder (strawberry, grape, etc).

I will try the sour mash.

do you just mix corn and milk together for it and let it sour for a few days?

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We do this too, it WORKS. But my feed don't last two weeks. We dig the hole about 24 inches in the sandy soil and fill it with corn and koolaid mix. I guess we pour a whole bag into the whole and it will be gone the next weekend.

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have any of you guys used "hog in heat lure" by the texasboars.com for baiting the pigs into your feeders? just curious if this would help establish new feeders or just a waste of money?