Anyone calling pigs?

[crabo]

Anyone using an electronic call to call pigs?  What works if you have done it.

Thanks,

Crabo

[Graybeard]

I used to call pigs. Back when I was a boy and carried the slop out to them I'd say SOWEEE, SOWEEEE, PIG, PIG, PIG and they'd come running to eat.

Forget calls. Bait works pretty well. The less sound and smell you put out the better off you are.

[jmayton]

I call them all kinds of things when I miss and they run off. 

Nope, never used calls.  I agree with GB, be quiet and try not to smell human.

[Old English]

There was an article in this months predator magazine saying that they tried it and it worked. I tried it earlier in the year and it worked for me. I used the piglet in distress sound on a Foxpro, called in a sow and her piglets at a run. I have tried it since and not seen anything at all, but hogs moce a lot, were there any in earshot, dunno? When rifle season opens up in TN I'm gonna try it again. Baiting is not allowed here, calling is.

[pigguy]

I used the phantom pro call ,pig in distress, and called in a HUGE bobcat,so pretty sure it must sound like a little piggy.I am still gonna keep trying it for hogs,let us know if ya do some good with it.

[clum sum]

You can call'um with the sounds of corn, acorns or garfish.

[S.B.]

Don't know what type of pigs you refer to but, Hog Hunter magazine(a few issues back) had an article by Larry Weishaun(sp) said he uses any varmit squeeler in Tx. for Javelinas?

[rockbilly]

I think the best call here in West Texas is the sound of an electronic feeder going off.  I have feeders set for 7 AM and 4 PM, it's like ringing a dinner bell when they go off.  A couple of weeks ago I saw what I thought was a doe approaching the feeder just as it was going off, it was a light colored pig.  As it made it's way toward the feeder I glanced away, when I looked up I had 40-50 pigs on the feeder, it only took a few minutes and the ground looked like it had been vaccumed.

The pigs have been so bad this year that we have been shooting them and just draging them off for the buzzards. (or for the other hogs to feed on.)  So far this year I have killed seven, and my son has killed three.  I got my deer early, so now I am out just to shoot pigs.

[Old Fart]

I'm sure glad this wasn't another disrespectful rant about law enforcement response time.

It's a seventies thing. 

[Land_Owner]

Glad I was not drinking a beer when I read that Old Fart.  LOL.  I am still chuckling.  I didn't see that one coming.  good one.

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This has gotten interesting .. Unfortunately i dont have a pig squeel on  any of my predetor calls ... Might have to look into that and hunt them like yotes . call     Wait   rinse wash repeat .

  but i agree the corn call has been the best i have found to date 

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[kiddekop]

Don't know what type of pigs you refer to but, Hog Hunter magazine(a few issues back) had an article by Larry Weishaun(sp) said he uses any varmit squeeler in Tx. for Javelinas?

Some CA archery  hunters were in AZ were using a piglet distress call to bring in some javelina but to their surprise they were charged by a herd of woofers (slang name for javelina), they had to climb up in trees(many trees in AZ are members of the bean family so they have very sharp thorns)to keep from getting slashed by tusks of  the woofers .I graduated from the univ of az with a bs in wildlife mgt so I learned a lot about javelina from our instructor and a grad student working on his masters degree on javelina.