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[scott billingsley]

I'm pretty new to the site and new to hog hunting. We're starting out second year on this new lease, year one was all about getting it back into shape. Shot some hogs but I wouldn't say we hunted them, however they hunted my feeder and destroyed it, another story. Our lease is in W. Texas just south of Rule.

This year I want to hunt hogs and see if we can't get them into some new areas on the property. I've seen a lot of bait products for sale, and found a few home made ideas but would like to get them all in one place. I'm going to try and get somethings going this month to see if we have any luck and see what we catch on camera.

Thanks for the infor!

[Pelon]

As far as baiting them in , I think straight corn . You could try some of the products that advertise right here on T.B. In West Texas your best bet is a tank (water) , with a feeder set up close by. If your trying to get them out of one area and into another , just start hunting the area they are in (more pressure). They will leave that area and maybe just maybe go to the other area . It's not like driving cattle into another pasture ,pigs go where they want when they want witout reason . Just my thoughts don't hold me to it. Oh yea ,and welcome to Texas Boars
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[Randy Tausch]

Paul is right, usually plain corn works a well as anything and is much less likely to spook them with an unfamiliar smell. You can run trails of corn from point a to point b to get them to follow to a specific spot. That being said, they still may not go where you want them to.
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[scott billingsley]

What about all these guys I see using Big Red, rotten veg, rancid cooking oil as bait or attractant. All mixed with corn as best I can tell.

[Pelon]

you can try it , but I still say CORN .
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[TxPhantom]

Last week when I was at the ranch I put down some banana peels around the feeder. They were still laying there a couple of days later and may still be there. I don't think west Texas hogs know what a banana is.

[TORO]

Now that they're in season and available.....watermelon and cantaloupe rinds work great.

All year 'round, corn is the best.
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[Raymond Gendron]

Hey Scott...
Welcome to TexasBoars and the FORUMS

Corn is definately the best bait there is hands down especially if there is corn in the fields anywhere around the area.
Other things work too depending on the crops grown locally.

As TORO has stated, watermelon and cantalope as well as pumpkins will bring them in.
Exercise a little caution in doing this as the SWINE have a tendancy to stick to the sources of food available in the areas they reside.

Here there is corn in every field and they are actually living in the corn right now because there is shade, a readily available food source and usually water within 1/4 mile of every field.

All the other crops are not tall enough to provide shade enough and a nightly trek from the bush to the fields is the norm.

The ONLY attractant and cover scents I use are GrimReaper and Sowin Heat.
I keep it as natural as possible and that does seem to work the best here.

Best of luck on your quest of the SWINE



Ray
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[Crotalus]

I used to raise Durok Hogs, and found that one thing that hogs will not touch/eat is potatoes or their peelings. Strange.

[TORO]

Strange indeed, as every once in a while I raid my buddy's trimmings from his BBQ resteraunt.

His potatoe salad ingredient offal was always a hit with the pigs out at the ranch.
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[scott billingsley]

Thanks for all the replies, great info. The overwhelming opinion is keep is simple with corn.

[bigreddwon]

I've seen 50 gallon barrrels of peanut butter used with great results as well as sour corn, and plain old corn. I like the PB on top of the dirt or the sour corn poured into a 3ft deep post hole. Keeps them busy and nose in the dirt so I can sneek up on them

[Scott Howington]

I don't know if it's been said already or not, but I like to use about half a 5 gallon bucket full of corn, dump a cheap six pack of beer on it, seal the lid and leave it for a few days.

Every day or so, roll it around to make sure the beer stays stirred up, and mixed over all the corn.

After about a week, dump it in a hole, and sprinkle some around where you want them. Throw a little dirt over what you dumped in the hole, just to make them root some.

I've had GREAT results with this for some reason. Sour corn, and sour beer, make really sweet bacon.....

[Crotalus]

[Pelon]

[Alton Wade]

I made some sour corn with beer and poured it out on the ground, my cousin and I sat in my truck in the middle of his pasture waiting to see if the hog's would come out at dusk dark. Well they came out and we were between them and the rotten corn. I think they would have went under the truck to get to the corn if we hadnt stuck gun barrel's out the window and started blasting them
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