Attracting hogs...

[Fernando]

Yes, and it was because the meopta is a fine scope (killed allot of boars with it) that I choose to not let it die on the closet. Wouldn’t sell it for peanuts and couldn’t throw it away. And I was curious to see how well I can drop boars with a .308 (I started with a .300WM, and then went down to the 30.06). Saturday I manage to cut a 12mm construction steel grade rod with a .308 fmj American eagle, so I guess I will still be able to pierce boars from one side to another, lolol (I thought the .308 was a lot weaker).

I admire your courage to go after boars with only one shot. If I had only one shot I think I would start killing them from inside the car, lol because I certainly would not feel safe at night in the forest if I could only get to say booooom once. Crap, my semi-auto takes 3 bullets and even so sometimes seems too short.

I now painted the meopta with green, black and brown to cover previous ring marks, but last year I photographed it next to the scope I bought to replace it:



I have always preferred 3-12x56mm scopes because I usually use them at night (no lights allowed here). Image quality is very similar in both scopes but the zeiss has a few things that the meopta hasn’t: 2 illuminated retiles (one cross in first plane and a dot in the second plane – only the dot will be red-visible in highly illuminated environments); auto-shut off of power; easy recall of the zero, etc.

Hopefully the zeiss and the 30.06 will stay home more often now, if the .308 behaves good (I know the meopta will).

 

[alsaqr]

i've been chased by hogs four times. One was a wounded boar that weighed about 250 pounds, one was a +200 pound boar that answered the distress call of a sow i had wounded: That one came close to getting to me. Now i wear chainsaw pants when going after a wounded hog.

This is a pig toy. It is a piece of 6" PVC pipe with caps on both ends. One end cap has screws so it can't be removed. It has a chain attached for a stake. The other end cap is removeable for filling with corn. There should be three or four 5/8" holes drilled in the pipe: This one had too many holes, hence the tape. The hogs roll this toy around and toss it in the air to get the corn out. It takes them quite awhile to do this. Killed a lot of hogs at this pig toy.

 

[Fernando]

Yap, nice feeder. Some people here use pvc pipes also but in a more simpler way: they just place an open pvc pipe (that may or not have holes) vertically on the ground and stick an iron inside. The boars smell the corn inside and hit it until the grains shows below in the ground.

I don’t use pvc because it does not blend so well with the environment, lol. I use wood in the forest or near it, and rocks in the fields. But this is just a personal choice and it does not mean that pvc it’s not as good or even better (more durable than wood is for sure).

Here is a discrete feeder:


Ps: if you want a super discrete feeder, rocks are the best. And if even using rocks some piece of crap neighbor tends to sabotage your feeder with nafetalina (naphthalene?) balls or burned sulphur, just spread the corn wide in the field or forest because even then boars will manage to get every single grain of corn, lol

 

[JohnBlaze]

great ideas, guys! I'm going to be trying a few of them this weekend, God willing. The pig toy is one I will try for sure. very intriguing.

 

[SadesBlack]

Baiting hogs...

Another good way to bait hogs, if available, is with a dead cow. Just about any dead animal will do really, the cow is just big enough to last longer. I have seen this work every single time used!

 

[CMC]

Hog wild and corn http://www.cabelas.com/food-plots-f...-F5D2-DF11-82EF-001B21631C34&mr:referralID=NA

 

[FLAvalanche]

Another good way to bait hogs, if available, is with a dead cow. Just about any dead animal will do really, the cow is just big enough to last longer. I have seen this work every single time used!

If I find my neighbor's longhorn at my feeder one more time I'm going to test that theory.

 

[Fernando]

Photos from yesterday. It can’t get simpler than this:











The pvc pipe is from a friend’s waiting spot (night hunting). Now it’s inside the terrain we will use next Sunday for a driven hunt.

This one is mine (boxes, as I already shown):

 

[Myles]

I like the looks of that hog toy - great combination to draw them in, and keep them there. Are those Apple trees? I'd fill the freezer, too, while defending those.

If I find my neighbor's longhorn at my feeder one more time I'm going to test that theory.

The used to hang people like you. Then again, most Texas hog-gunners/slob-hunters and I don't get along. To me, as a game animal, a hog deserves the same respect as a deer. I've been to Texas. Unless we are talking genuine farmland.... Those mean hogs chewed up your worthless stretch of useless brown, untilled acreage. They needs a killin'!

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

Well Myles, you are certainly entitled to your opinion be it wrong or not. But maybe you should try reading the full text of a post before you start accusing someone of being worthless and such. FLA was referring to his neighbors steer robbing his feeder constantly on HIS property. You obviously have no experience with real hog problems or with Texas period. When you have a pack of say just 25 hogs, you can kiss about 200 acres goodbye in about 3 weeks time. It will be wallowed out, holes all over the place, can't mow because you will break an axle or a drive line on your bush hog or your hay bailer, and thats not to mention they will run the deer off your land because they will destroy any browse and feed for the deer. Try learning a bit more before you spew about something you obviously know little to nothing about.

 

[Flintknapper]

Myles wrote:

They used to hang people like you.

Huh?

Then again, most Texas hog-gunners/slob-hunters and I don't get along. To me, as a game animal, a hog deserves the same respect as a deer.

Feral Hogs in Texas are NOT game animals. They are a scourge. They are not protected or regulated. The State rightfully allows the hunting of them by any legal means, at anytime and in any numbers.

Of course, you are free to view hogs as you please, but please don't demand the same of us who have to live with the destruction they cause.

I've been to Texas. Unless we are talking genuine farmland.... Those mean hogs chewed up your worthless stretch of useless brown, untilled acreage.

I'm guessing this is calculated to incite a scathing response from someone.

But, in the event you are serious...I can only say that it will please us Texans to no end, if you do not return.

They needs a killin'!

And...."They needs it NOW".




http://www.agr.state.tx.us/agr/program_render/0,1987,1848_5446_0_0,00.html?channel=5446

Texas is home to nearly 2 million feral hogs, the largest feral hog population in the U.S. Their numbers are continuing to increase because of their high reproductive potential and the lack of natural predators. Feral hogs wreak havoc on property, livestock, crops and pastures across the state and frustrate landowners because of their destructive nature. Landowners have reported extensive damage to crops, fences, roads, ponds, fields and feed loss. Texas AgriLife Extension Service estimates that statewide annual economic damage caused by feral hogs is $400 million. And, unless aggressive control measures are undertaken, the feral hog problem is expected to worsen in the years ahead.

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

Quoted directly from North Carolina's Wildlife resources commission page

Outside of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties, feral hogs are not considered to be wild boars and our agency does not regulate them. Therefore, the Wildlife Resources Commission does not set bag limits, season restrictions, or times when feral hogs may be taken.

Even your own state does not regulate them Myles! All states with an active feral hog population have found them to be a PEST animal and highly destructive. Yes they make for great table fare and I do love hunting and eating them. But I also have to agree with the eradication type of hunting of them in most states and ESPECIALLY Texas.

Now that being said, I do NOT agree with some methods of kills as I am the type that feels ANY animal taken should be taken humanely and ethically. So those that go out there with .17HMR's and says things like yes it kills them, just most the time it takes a long time for them to die but oh well it's cheap. People like that, in my opinion, need to be strung up by their privates for a few hours and taught a lesson in how to treat natures animals that were on this earth LONG before we were. Are they a scourge? Yes. Do they need to be reduced and well controlled (damn near impossible because of the way they breed) but yes. But as with any creature that nature has saw fit to create, be them big or small, beautiful or ugly as sin, worth money or totally useless to us monetarily, tastes great or tastes like crap, ANY of those matters not in the grand scheme of things. They should still be taken cleanly and humanely and ,if at all possible, used for food. If you don't want to fool with them, there are literally HUNDREDS of places that will gladly take the meat from them for donations to hungry folks. And with todays economy, there are many of them out there. In the past several years I have donated several to hunters feeding the hungry and found absolutely no problems in finding places to donate.

 

[surjimmy]

Wow, freedom F. didn't you know a hog's life was worth as much as a man's life.

 

[alsaqr]

Fernando: i built a two upright pig feeders per your instructions. Both of them use a wooden base with a hole in it for the post. Mine are over five feet long and made from 4" PVC pipe. BTW: Those look like olive trees in the photos.

They should still be taken cleanly and humanely and ,if at all possible, used for food. If you don't want to fool with them, there are literally HUNDREDS of places that will gladly take the meat from them for donations to hungry folks. And with todays economy, there are many of them out there. In the past several years I have donated several to hunters feeding the hungry and found absolutely no problems in finding places to donate.

What Freedom Fighter said. So far this year i've killed over 20 wild hogs. No wounded hog escaped to die a lingering death. My shots are picked very carefully. Every one of those hogs went to someone who will eat the meat.

 

[Fernando]

Yap, they are olive trees and some Mediterranean pines in the back but all around that terrain I planted in the last five years several fruit trees (apples, plums, cherries, nuts, hazelnuts, quinces, etc… - I hope I translate things right, lol). In the land I seed wheat and oats, and two months from now I will seed corn in the middle. Obviously, boars will destroy everything lolol

 

[o Unforgiven o]

In a 5 gallon bucket;

2 gallons of water

2 small boxes of strawberry jello

1 small box of orange jello

fill the rest of the bucket with corn and stir


Hogs love it, and the reason I add a box of orange jello is to cater to florida hogs who love the orange groves around here.

 

[FLAvalanche]

The used to hang people like you. Then again, most Texas hog-gunners/slob-hunters and I don't get along. To me, as a game animal, a hog deserves the same respect as a deer. I've been to Texas. Unless we are talking genuine farmland.... Those mean hogs chewed up your worthless stretch of useless brown, untilled acreage. They needs a killin'!

Now THAT was funny.

I'm in a good mood so I'll lend you a clue on the cheap. First, I was talking about my neighbors cow raping my feeder. Second it was sarcasm but I'll take the blame on that one. Third, I've got that little line under my name over there on the left that I believe shows my location. Note it's Florida, not Texas. Fourth, I can't think of one state that counts hogs as a legitimate "game" animal. They are nuicanse animals. Fifth, if you read through some of my posts you'll find that I hog hunt an orange grove not "useless brown untilled acerage".

Have a good one.

 

[alsaqr]

First, I was talking about my neighbors cow raping my feeder.

I can relate to that. Had a deal with one of my neighbors that each of us would re-build one-half of the the property line fence. Went after it and got my half mile built. That lazy sob has still not built his share of fence.

That neighbors cows ate up the game plots on my place. Talked to the guy twice and called him once when his cows were found on the place. Next time i found his cattle on the place i opened a gate and chased them down the county road. Next time some will become Angus burgers: That is a fact.

 

[Harley Quinn]

John Wayne was happy with his pig heart valve, as I recall
Wiki knows all

Did John Wayne have a pig heart?
Not a pig heart but a faulty heart valve was replaced with one from a pig.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/John_Wayne_have_a_pigs_heart#ixzz1CdLW5CVr

 

[Fernando]

The problem in attracting boars to fields with young trees is they tend to break them. This apple tree is 5 years old and it was broken twice (they lean on it and bend it until it break). After the first time I attached a wood stick to it; after the second time I decide to attach a steel chariot axel, lololol. Now they scratch their back there without making damages:

 

[Myles]

FLAvalanche Wrote:

Now THAT was funny.

I'm in a good mood so I'll lend you a clue on the cheap. First, I was talking about my neighbors cow raping my feeder. Second it was sarcasm but I'll take the blame on that one. Third, I've got that little line under my name over there on the left that I believe shows my location. Note it's Florida, not Texas. Fourth, I can't think of one state that counts hogs as a legitimate "game" animal. They are nuicanse animals. Fifth, if you read through some of my posts you'll find that I hog hunt an orange grove not "useless brown untilled acerage".

Have a good one.

I apologize, I did not get the sarcasm. Most of my post was poorly thought out and posted without forethought as well, aside from some of my own unfortunately stated opinions of slob-hunting in Texas. Some people give all hunters a bad name.

I've had cattle shot, and Vet bills/dead livestock are not fun.

EDIT: I have tusk scars from tracking a wild boar in scrub oak/saw palmetto with a handgun in Florida, my home state. Bad shot by a friend, it had to be tracked and finished. I'm here, his head is on the wall (not Steve's). Hogs, deer, elk, moose, bear, etc: in my opinion, killing an animal is not something to be done lightly. If it must be done, it must be done. If it is your land, it is yours to protect as you see fit, but please don't take the act of killing lightly. When the love of killing is so openly expressed, it does not help hunters or gun owners.

 

[FLAvalanche]

Apology accepted.