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What do you use to bait hogs?

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#1 ·
Hello,

I was wondering what some of you use to bait hogs? I've used Swine Wine which seems to work okay.

Any homemade recipes?

Nolan Hamilton
 
#2 ·
JLA gave me one that works pretty good.

1 bag of deer corn
2 2liter bottles of generic Dr Pepper soda
2 5gallon buckets with lids

Divide the corn between the buckets and add one bottle of soda to each. Put the lids on and let it ferment and spoil. Dump in piles where you want the hogs to be.

Get ready to fire.
 
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#4 ·
hogs will eat anything. There is a hog sweet feed you can get at the feed store, corn works well, i have even seen them eat hog guts left in the woods.

Hunting hog is not like putting a quarter in a coke machine and pressing a button. Hogs will eat at one location for a while then travel somewhere else and deplete that area. SO it may be a while before you see them again.

Once you start shooting them you need to change up the feeding area a bit. They learn that when they go to eat at that spot they get shot at. So move the feed area some 100 feet. They are smart but not that smart.
 
#6 ·
When I was young we had hogs and they would rather root corn out of cow pattys than corn from a trough. When you feed corn to cows they do not digest all of it and some comes out almost whole. The hogs preferred corn that had been though the cow one time over fresh corn.
 
#10 ·
I use whole corn or deer corn.. cheaper, and a lunch of fruit on the soft side I have been able to pick up from the fruit stand for a dollar. Is, stuff they can't sell. 5g of rotting cantaloupe and venues will bring the piney woods rooters out fast!
 
#13 ·
We just get a call from a farmer,drive over,and kill the darn things.I've seen 5 acres look like it was tilled.In Al.killing hogs is 24/7 and a felony to transport a live feral hog off the property you trapped it on.
 
#14 ·
5 gallon bucket full of deer corn, 32 ounces of molasses, 5 packages of strawberry jello powder, 2 twelve ounce cans of Big Red.
sprinkle jello over corn and pour big red over jello to wash it into the corn. Then pour in the molasses and stir bucket until every kernel of corn is coated with the molasses. After stirring, dump the corn around a 400 sq ft area (20ft x 20ft). Throw some into trees about 6 - 8 ft off the ground.
The strawberry and molasses smell carries a long, long way. The pigs will come straight to it as soon as they catch a the scent. If you don't see pigs, then there were no pigs down wind.
 
#20 ·
My first thoughts were Walmart! Then I was at Walmart and wondered why "I" was there! I grinned and some one looked at me wondering why I was grinning. They probably thought I must of ripped one or five. Then I saw some one with big tats (that's with an "A") and her gut hanging out from under her shirt down mid thigh and thought of this post again and thinking my first impressions were right. Not sure if she had an inny or outty as it was on the bottom of the lard and if I asked, I'd gotten hurt. Now I wonder how long I will have to stay out of Walmart to get this post out of my head!!!
 
#23 ·
I've never hunted hog; I don't think we have them here outside of Karaoke bars and Walmart. But in Scouts I remember baiting the wild pigs on Catalina Island using red licorice, which the camp store sold in large boxes, We covered the floor of the Scoutmaster's tent with the stuff, and in the morning there wasn't a scrap left, and the tent occupant reported some very odd dreams.:D
 
#27 ·
It's easier to catch hogs when there is a layer of ice on the ground. Cut a hole in the ice 3' in diameter and 5' or so into the ground. Put a package of strawberry Jell-O into it. Hide in the bushes and when a hog comes, he'll stick his head into the hole as soon as he smells the Jell-O. Then just quickly jump out of the bushes and kick him in the ice hole.
 
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