The Hogs Have Been In Invisible Stealth Mode Lately...
05-06-2018, 11:15 AM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 77
The Hogs Have Been In Invisible Stealth Mode Lately...
The other night I walked in after seeing no hogs for the past 5 nights and told my wife.. "Babe we've got a hog problem.. the problem is I haven't seen any hogs lately!!" She looked at me like I was an idiots which is her go-to look for when I talking about anything that she could care less about.. haha! No hogs is a good thing but it looks like I'll have to start patrolling some of our other fields away from the house.. No more lazy front porch hunting for me.. Got a couple hunts here where I caught a couple lonely boars slippin'... What are y'all seeing out there??
05-06-2018, 01:17 PM
#2
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 27
Kinda spotty here too.
My hunting is always sporadic tho.
I normally cover about 7 miles of road every night, under NV with my truck in black-out.
Shot one sow last week from a sounder of 10-15. They were active after the front came through and it rained.
Ranchers are moving cows a lot to keep them on grass, that affects things too.
I guess the seasonal change will affect their patterns.
My hunting is always sporadic tho.
I normally cover about 7 miles of road every night, under NV with my truck in black-out.
Shot one sow last week from a sounder of 10-15. They were active after the front came through and it rained.
Ranchers are moving cows a lot to keep them on grass, that affects things too.
I guess the seasonal change will affect their patterns.
05-07-2018, 07:22 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Germany/Calif.
Posts: 2,664
Usually here they cover a lot of territory. They may be around for a few days or until two or three out of the sounder get shot and you won't see them again for weeks. They say a sounder can have a territory anywhere from a hundred square miles to four hundred square miles and covering twenty miles in a single night isn't unusual.
I've found that they get cravings. Protein is a big one, certain plants and trace elements is another. Here they seem to crave earthworms. And at other times certain plants. I planted a plot of Watercress in a seep and they periodically hit the Watercress hard.
I also put out a plot of Lovage. many years old now. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovage, they love the stuff. Makes tracking them and finding their fresh bedding areas easy, Lovage has a strong distinctive odor, kind of like super Celery.
Feeders and baiting is forbidden (regulated) here, more than a pound of Corn cannot be used. So we have gotten sneaky. Fish guts, offal and blood meal will draw them in, especially if they get hungry for protean.
A giant steaming pile of horse manure, straw, compost (kitchen waste) and Chicken bones works as well as a corn feeder.
I've found that they get cravings. Protein is a big one, certain plants and trace elements is another. Here they seem to crave earthworms. And at other times certain plants. I planted a plot of Watercress in a seep and they periodically hit the Watercress hard.
I also put out a plot of Lovage. many years old now. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovage, they love the stuff. Makes tracking them and finding their fresh bedding areas easy, Lovage has a strong distinctive odor, kind of like super Celery.
Feeders and baiting is forbidden (regulated) here, more than a pound of Corn cannot be used. So we have gotten sneaky. Fish guts, offal and blood meal will draw them in, especially if they get hungry for protean.
A giant steaming pile of horse manure, straw, compost (kitchen waste) and Chicken bones works as well as a corn feeder.
Last edited by MudderChuck; 05-07-2018 at 07:37 AM.
