Attracting hogs...

Never saw nobody here pouring diesel into boar’s food, although some spray it in trees or mud holes because boars like to scratch (missing the right word here) their body/skin with it.

In January and February are the peek months for driven hunts here, so people are putting large quantities of corn in the forest areas where the hunts will take place. To ensure that boars find the corn very fast, they spray creolina on the trees near by, as I said before. That thing smells miles away.

This next Sunday I will go to a driven hunt and we will use about 5 packs of dogs (25 dogs for each pack) in a 500 acres area. Sure hope the pigs sleep there over night, or we will spend 3 hours shooting foxes, lololol

I don't know what it does to them, they like to roll and rub in it. It doesn't hurt the pigs and it is safe for you to eat it, and like I said it has improved their hunts by 60%.

I sour corn with beer or red soda water....it gets rank pretty quick...best bet is a reliable feeder that goes off when you want it to cause the pigs get used to the sound. I got one pasture where the hogs got to be within a few yards when it goes off cause a black cloud covers the ground under the feeder just a minute or so after it goes off, dead pigs under the feeder dont seem to bother them either.

I don't know why they like diesel either but using it is stupid and irresponsible. I can understand accidently spilling some fueling up your truck but dumping it in a hole in the ground is a different matter.

It has nothing to do with being a fanatic either. As hunters and sportsmen we are stewards of the environment and shouldn't be doing that kind of crap.

Saying you kill animals to feed your family and to maintain a healthy population of game while dumping diesel in a hole in the ground is just plain hypocrisy.

So FLA, I guess you don't drive a car, mow your lawn, drink bottled water, and use plastic trash bags.

We used to pour leftovers on old stumps and the hogs would remove the stumps for us. Powdered Jello works too (strawberry).

So FLA, I guess you don't drive a car, mow your lawn, drink bottled water, and use plastic trash bags.

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And that has what to do with dumping diesel down a hole to attract hogs?

Oh wait, you're going to tell me that by putting those plastic items in the garbage that I'm accomplishing the same thing.

Sorry...but Reed Richards couldn't make that stretch. One, I recycle and two what isn't recycled goes to an area designated to put that garbage in the ground. You know, those landfill thingies...not dumping it down a hole.

Don't know where you're going with the car and lawnmower thing though.

And who is to say that it doesn't hurt you to eat meat from hogs that have been feeding on diesel fueled corn? Ever heard of Unknown long term effects? There are many things out there that can activate the cancer gene and we probably don't even have a clue about 1/16 of them all. There is a HUGE difference between spilling a little diesel while fueling up your truck and pouring diesel into a hole in the ground where a possible underground water source could be close by.

We used to pour leftovers on old stumps and the hogs would remove the stumps for us. Powdered Jello works too (strawberry).

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^^ They are a FANTASTIC stump removal crew aren't they!!!!!

Diesel fuel in itself is not particularly toxic. Chemically, it's not far removed from vegetable oil. However, most folks don't realize how many extremely toxic compounds are added to diesel fuel - cetane boosters, lubricity improvers, and additives to improve cold flow properties are just a few. The use of such additives has become almost universal, especially since we've begun widespread use of ultra low sulfur diesel in the U.S. The diesel doesn't bother me so much, but I definitely don't want any of those other compounds in my pork or my groundwater.

Leftovers from the local restaurants and fast food chains will help draw those hogs back again and again.

The best way to attract wild boars is to use a domestic disinfectant called creolin (commonly used by farmers to disinfect animal’s homes from pigs to rabbits).

Don’t ask me how but boars instinctively know that creolin will kill all skin parasites, so they will scratch their bodies against all things that have creolin on it. You can spray the disinfectant in stones or trees (dead or alive), and boars will spread the smell to whatever they touch next (trees, mud holes, etc

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Thanks very much Fernando. Creolin, who would have thought? Grew up on a small farm where we used a lot of Creolin. We used Creolin to treat cuts, bruises and other injuries to ourselves and the animals.

Will buy some Creolin early next week. We have a place that is over-run with wild hogs. The Creolin will keep them around longer so we can kill more of them.

H&H,

WHEW, that gals a real porker alright!! Hope she ain't in an eatin' establishment. REEEE, Reeeee REEEEE !

Diesel and creosote...they like the smell it seems. Anything you spray it on they will rub against. Pour some in the hole with the corn and the deer, coons, etc will leave it alone.
Another thing to pour in the hole with the corn is grape, orange, strawberry etc. soda.
Still another is kool aid powder.
We spray the hogs in the pens with diesel using a pump up sprayer...it kills the mites etc. very quick.
Diesel makes a very good pesticide for just about anything really.

Take a 5 Gallon Bucket with lid and sour some corn in it. 5 Gallon Bucket is easier to take it into the woods... If hogs are around, they for some reason love it.

Good Shooting,

Jason Lumetta
ExtremeGunCare

Just make sure that bucket has a good lid. You DO NOT want that stuff spilling in the back of your truck.

It is true the other animals don't like it (diesel ) but hogs go for it...Mix some with the corn, not much as mentioned...Soaks into the corn...

Sort of like putting some vinegar and oil on your own salad

Alsaqr, creolin is a very fast attractant. Sometimes it works overnight (you use in the day and boars find it immediately at night, even in hidden or remote places – you can drag them from fields to a specific tree or spot in no time).

Yesterday we caught 3 ugly bastards in a driven hunt and many others got away (most escaped between 12 gauge hunters, lol).






By the way, does someone know what is the name or measure of the screws used to attach the scope bases or rail to a Remington 700? If you have to buy it in a normal store (not a gunsmith), what would you ask for? Because those screws are not in metric standards but in fraction of inches. I ask this because today I tried to buy those screws and the guy in the store told me: “Nop, this is not european standards, we don’t have this”.

I make my sour corn with water, beer and corn. Find a six pack of old beer, fill the bucket up about 3/4 of the way with corn and the rest of the way with water and beer. Let it sit until there are dead cockroaches on the corn then cover it up and take it to the woods.

Why pigs like stuff capable of killing cockroaches is beyond me but they do...

The best way I know is spend hours on a tractor and thousands on fuel making a medow smooth as glass. They will be there shortly to turn it into something closer to a lunar surface.

Hogwild/pigout, gallon of stuff that smells like koolaid and looks like honey, over corn does the trick.

Fernando, congrats on the nice boars.

The scope mount screws on the Remington 700 are 6/48 size. If you can't get them at home send me a PM with your name and address and i'll send you some.

Thanks, Alsaqr

6/48 must be on imperial scale. Your 6 size screws are probably our M3.5 on metric scales, although I don’t know if the turns (what you call tpi) are equivalent. But now that you told me that rem 700 uses 6/48 I’ve been searching the web and found this link that has those screws:

http://www.leupold.com/hunting-and-...ssories/tools-and-accessories/torx-screw-kit/

I had a scope waiting in the closet for a rifle since the first months of 2010. Because I have already another rifle (30.06), and because the opportunity presented it self, in May I ordered a low cost rifle to hang the scope. It was supposed to be a Mossberg 100 ATR, that uses the same bases and screws of the Remington 700, but for some problem in the order they imported only Night Train models. Because I’ve had nothing to do with the wrong order, I end up getting the Night Train at the price of a regular 100 ATR (I think the gun is identical but in the Night Train the bolt is black and it comes with a cheap scope and bipod). I received the rifle last Friday.

Saturday I got rid of the barska scope and the bipod and installed the meopta 3-12x56 RD on the gun but the rail was loose. When I took the screws off I saw that they where a bit bitted and that they wouldn’t go all the way down. Monday I went looking for new screws but found none because they were not metric, so when I got home I glued the rail and inserted the same screws (took 1mm off with sand paper). I will shoot that thing again two weeks from now and if the rail becomes loose again I will have to really get new screws. Now that you told me what to look for I might get lucky in the search. If you ever need something from this side of the Atlantic just say so, I’ll be glad to help.

Here a pick of the thing:





I sure hope that it shoots straight now that I’ve glued the rail.

So that this post is not totally off topic here is a pic of a simple thing to attract and keep boars near. Double wall so the moisture or rain doesn’t affect the corn. If you need pics of How to Build one of those things I have them lolol

I am surprised they don't destroy that feeder, with their tusks

Regards

Pig out and corn .

“I am surprised they don't destroy that feeder, with their tusks”

Well, the first generation of feeders didn’t last long because they were very simple and had just one wall. But soon I realize that I could make the feeders boar-proof if I change the fabrication method, lol:

First: always use glue and screws (not nails):


Second: use metal parts also:


Third: protect the wood with immunizers (avoid humidity and fungus):


Forth: use double walls (two layers of wood):




Fifth: protect the outer wood with paint:




If you follow these rules it will not matter the shape of the feeder (although I prefer the taller and thinner feeder because boars accept their presence faster – probably they are not so intimidating):


If you see the photo of the feeder in my last post, it has marks of teeth. Most boars will hit the feeder it their noses - it will get muddy - and only some will use their teeth to mark it. Usually they’ll be happy if they manage to leave it empty and without the cover (so I know its time to fill it up again, lolol):

Fernando, that Meopta is a fine scope.

Most of my hogs are killed with a muzzleloader. There is a problem with a muzzleloader: If a big sounder comes in to the feeder you get only one hog. The landowner of my favorite hunting place told me to forget the muzzleloader and start killing hogs.

My favorite short range hog gun is an AR-15 in .223. The scope is a Zeiss 4X32. For long range hog hunting over wheatfields i use my .300 Win. Mag. It has a Zeiss 3X9X40 Conquest scope with Rapid Z reticle.