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Offline willis5

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« on: May 07, 2003, 06:35:21 AM »
Do your techniques change for hogs in the summer? Do you look for more water as opposed to food? I have heard that hunting baits is teh most productive at nights as opposed to days because of temp. What do you guys think?
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2003, 06:38:18 AM »
when the temperatures begin to rise, and things in the woods dry out, a water source is a good location for finding hogs.  Since they don't perspire the way some other critters do, they need the water/mud to cool themselves.

Night time is a good time to find hogs at bait sights.
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« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2003, 06:44:54 AM »
Great. My problem is, that i cannot hunt at night.

Also, do you like to hunt out of a portable stand or blind or what near the water where you have found sign? I am going to do some scouting soon and I want to know what kind of place to set up near the sign that I hopefully find.
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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2003, 07:33:18 AM »
What  i  do  is  manipulate  the  hogs  when  it  is  hot  they  will  be  close  to  water  i  general  from  my experience  they  frequent  the  same  wallows  over  and  ovr   so  i  move  my  feeders closer  to  the  water  within  good  shooting  distance.  when  still hunting  i  carry  a  portable  blind   if  i  find  a  good  area  i  can  set  it  p  in  just  a  few  seconds.  I  am  leaning  more  towards hunting  out  of  tree  stands  here  lately    when  i  am  chasing  hogs  for  meet  rather  than  tropy hnting  as  my  stands  have  shooting  rests  on  them
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« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2003, 08:33:49 AM »
great point about the baiting close to the wallows. I am going to have to try that one.
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another thing i do
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2003, 11:47:05 AM »
another  thing  i  do  is  take  a  55  gallon  barrel  put  heavy duty  eye bolts into  the  sides  near  the  top find  two  decnt  size  trees  and  hang  it  about  2,5 feet  off  the  ground   i cut  about  six  slits  in  the  bottom  sides  of  the  barrel  and  fill  it  with a  75-25 mix  of  corn and  rice  bran,  talk  about  some  fun  watching  them  literally  fight  over  a  shot  at  knocking   the  surprise  out  of  the  barrelll of  this  is  done  withing  70  yards of  the  creek  where  all the  wallows  are  at     which  al of  this  is  adjacent  to  a  2  acre clover  pasture   which  they  actually  have  torn  it  to  peices  looks  like  a  tiller  went  through  it   just  my  2  cent  worth
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