Posted: 12/9/2016 12:21:58 PM EDT
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I will be going out tonight and was wondering if anyone had any tips for baiting? A few groups of Piggies have been making the rounds at the feeders already but I need for them to show!
I was thinking about buy a few bags of corn and piling it up and maybe making a coarse trail of corn, while soaking it with some of that syrup stuff they sell at the hunting stores. Should that be good enough? |
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5 gallon pickle buckets........partial fill with deer corn.....sprinkle 2 packets of yeast, cherry jello ......then pour 40 oz of cheap beer over it. Let sit with cover in garage.
Dig deep wide hole and dump stinky rotting mess into hole.....cover throughly. Only thing better is.............fish scraps, put in middle of corn in bucket......with the other stuff. Cover and let sit.......will smell like bulls butt, but, the hogs will root deep holes to get it..........AND.....in doing so will have to stay around longer. Might also look up the pvc pipe feeders alternative. 4" pvc holed drilled large enough to let corn dribble out.....anchor with chain tru eyelet in pvc cap and stake it out. Hogs have to knock it around to get corn. Will stay around longer. Good luck |
| Going hog hunting in February. Friend has 1200 acres in south Arkansas. We will be there Thursday-Sunday and I'm looking for some surefire feeding tricks to bring in some piggies. They kill several during deer season but I'd like to up my success during our weekend hunt. So far I'm thinking corn and vanilla pudding powder. What else you got?!? |
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+1 on using the soured corn. It smells terrible, but it sure seems to draw the hogs in quicker vs just pouring corn on the ground. Other benefit with the soured corn is that the deer and many other critters will leave it alone, but that doesn't phase the pigs. We've built a trap and used it there to great effect. Generally takes 2-3 days for them to start working into the trap. We put up a trail camera over the trap / sour corn to check the visit times & numbers. They would often be there just after dark once they know the sour corn is there, so that can be useful in hunting them as they move into the area headed toward the corn.
The pigs are good eating, only had the sows and little'uns so far, never tried the big boars and hear they mostly taste & smell terrible without addtl work to prep. I will try the pudding and kool-aid mix with the soured corn next time we hunt pigs, have also heard good things about those. |
| A timed feeder plus plain ole whole corn. A salt lick in warm weather is a good thing to have to. Another good draw is a cresote railroad tie with some barbed wire wrapped around it. They just love to rub on them. Refresh it with diesel fuel every couple of weeks. The pipe roller feeders are good at holding them too. I'll post some pic's later photo bucket is not functioning. |
| I've used plain corn, soured corn, and those liquids they sell in jugs. They all work. The post hole idea works too. Keep in mind if you're using a feeder that your feeder will get destroyed if you have bears in the area. That's our biggest problem right now. Bears will rip a barrel feeder to shreds. They'll work on a pipe feeder until they get enough play in it to dump all of the corn out. |
| The best bait I have used was soured soybens. No need to add anything to it just put the soyneans 3/4 full in whatever size container you want fill the rest of it fill to the top with water and cover. If you want maybe throw some sugar in the mix to speed up fermentation. Most of the time its ready to go in a week or so. |
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PVC pipe feeders or as I have heard them called, pig pipes work real well and keeps others critters from eating your corn. Used a small wire dog run leash first, but they kept chewing thru it so make sure you anchor it with a chain.
How to build one web link http://wildhoghunters.com/content/424-how-build-pig-pipe.html |