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These pics are to show the terrain that I'm talking about in his post.
If u don't want to read all of it, skip to the bottom, but it appears that pigs are very smart and adaptive, so the details of this might matter.
My dad's property is 4.5 hours away in Camp Wood tx. I make it out there for a few days once a month or so. Hogs don't run around much out there during deer season, I think, because the pressure from all the deer hunters make them smart enough to stay away from the feeders until all those smells and activity calms back down. I was there during deer season and did some hog scouting my last day (end of Nov) .
In the general area (within a few hundred yard radius) I saw what I think was about 10 day old rooting and also saw what I think were hog tracks and hog scat. I also found some hairs near the bottom of a barbed wire fence where it looks like they're crossing. But no pigs on any of my dads, or his neighbors' game cams since the last one I shot out there in October with the exception of one or two on game cam only a couple times during Nov/beginning Dec. There wasn't a lot of rooting, tracks, etc. and typically when they are on someone's game cam out there, it's typically only 1 boar, or maybe a group of 2-4 pigs. It's usually between May and Sept that they are seen the most often on cam. Rarely a sounder of 10-ish will travel through but it seems they only stick around for a couple weeks (when I'm not there). I don't really see the same pig/pigs out there consistently for more than a month or so. I think it's due to the fact that a lot of properties out there are between 5 and 50 acres and a lot of the land owners shoot them on sight which makes them smart real quick, keeps them on the move or just dead.
So, I found a specific spot right in front of a good amount of tree cover, that also has several heavily used game trails intersecting at multiple points within about 20 yards, and it is also near a low spot of a dry creek bed with a rock bottom (it's usually very dry around there, but if there is gonna be water on the property, it would settle there after a rain). I'm going back in a couple weeks to rescout and prepare a pig set up for success this summer. If there are still signs there, I will move a feeder and maybe a box blind. I plan on using the dry kool-aid trick on the trails and near the fence, throwing soured corn down in the cracks between the rocks in the area, setting up a game cam, topping off the feeder and setting to throw at 8 pm and midnight (will adjust throwing times when/if I can start luring them consistently to the feeder and get them on some sort if schedule). I really want to make a rub post and a pig pipe, but the terrain is very rocky. I can hardly get a pop up blind anchored down on 4 corners bc the steaks hit rock after about hammering them through 2 inches of dirt. (See pics) Maybe I will just have to use nearby trees as a rub post and to anchor a pig pipe. I guess my questions are,
1. What is the best way to set up a pig pipe and a rub post given the rocky terrain won't allow me have them staked into the ground? Is there a better way than using a tree to prevent it from getting all tangled?
2. Does anyone have any other suggestions to help set up this spot for success and start luring/baiting them in to that feeder?
Thanks- Blake
If u don't want to read all of it, skip to the bottom, but it appears that pigs are very smart and adaptive, so the details of this might matter.
My dad's property is 4.5 hours away in Camp Wood tx. I make it out there for a few days once a month or so. Hogs don't run around much out there during deer season, I think, because the pressure from all the deer hunters make them smart enough to stay away from the feeders until all those smells and activity calms back down. I was there during deer season and did some hog scouting my last day (end of Nov) .
In the general area (within a few hundred yard radius) I saw what I think was about 10 day old rooting and also saw what I think were hog tracks and hog scat. I also found some hairs near the bottom of a barbed wire fence where it looks like they're crossing. But no pigs on any of my dads, or his neighbors' game cams since the last one I shot out there in October with the exception of one or two on game cam only a couple times during Nov/beginning Dec. There wasn't a lot of rooting, tracks, etc. and typically when they are on someone's game cam out there, it's typically only 1 boar, or maybe a group of 2-4 pigs. It's usually between May and Sept that they are seen the most often on cam. Rarely a sounder of 10-ish will travel through but it seems they only stick around for a couple weeks (when I'm not there). I don't really see the same pig/pigs out there consistently for more than a month or so. I think it's due to the fact that a lot of properties out there are between 5 and 50 acres and a lot of the land owners shoot them on sight which makes them smart real quick, keeps them on the move or just dead.
So, I found a specific spot right in front of a good amount of tree cover, that also has several heavily used game trails intersecting at multiple points within about 20 yards, and it is also near a low spot of a dry creek bed with a rock bottom (it's usually very dry around there, but if there is gonna be water on the property, it would settle there after a rain). I'm going back in a couple weeks to rescout and prepare a pig set up for success this summer. If there are still signs there, I will move a feeder and maybe a box blind. I plan on using the dry kool-aid trick on the trails and near the fence, throwing soured corn down in the cracks between the rocks in the area, setting up a game cam, topping off the feeder and setting to throw at 8 pm and midnight (will adjust throwing times when/if I can start luring them consistently to the feeder and get them on some sort if schedule). I really want to make a rub post and a pig pipe, but the terrain is very rocky. I can hardly get a pop up blind anchored down on 4 corners bc the steaks hit rock after about hammering them through 2 inches of dirt. (See pics) Maybe I will just have to use nearby trees as a rub post and to anchor a pig pipe. I guess my questions are,
1. What is the best way to set up a pig pipe and a rub post given the rocky terrain won't allow me have them staked into the ground? Is there a better way than using a tree to prevent it from getting all tangled?
2. Does anyone have any other suggestions to help set up this spot for success and start luring/baiting them in to that feeder?
Thanks- Blake