Hog guys need info

[TEXASCOLE]

Ok soi hunt I'n Elbert on the brazos and we are covered I'n pigs. Here's the problem. We mostly bow only hunt but have been hunting alot lately and the pigs have gone nocturnal Now i have no problem sitting I'n a stand till ten at nite especially with my new Mini Sniper Hog Lite. Now i will have to say the last couple times I've been it's been half moon type situations so i understand. But recently I've noticed that when I've shot a pig out of a stand the mommas stay way back I'n the woods just sniffing and grunting. I'm scentlokd down so i don't think there smelling me but they won't come out I'n the shooting lanes although they will send there piglets out to mop up the corn. I literally had 75 piglets under me last week and couldn't get a big pig to come out on the road where we have shot a couple these last few months. So how do i help get them comfortable coming out during the day or even at nite for that matter thanks guys

[killerbee]

Get further downwind of your feeder.......when they come in stalk up on them! Works for me....they usually settle down once they got their faces shoved into the gold

[Kingrabbit]

once you start to pressure them in the day , they go nocturnal, now they are going to change up their times on you during the evening.. and as soon as you get em figured out ..they will change on ya again..

love hunting hogs.. never know what the lil guys are going to do..

good luck to ya and keep at them..

keith

[Type1Daddy]

Put a LOT less faith in the scent lok, and a lot more effort in hunting them with the wind in your favor.

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[Hawg Slayer 4]

set up on the trail the pigs come in on

[Txbhunter1]

X2 If you have shot some at that time of day or night and they have been around, then the pressure is going to change everything up on ya. Give it a break for awhile and hunt somewhere else. Things will calm back down and get back to normal.

[Texas Grown]

That is something educated sows do. They now know what to expect. Sit enough times and let the piglets feed. Eventually the sows will come back in. But they will always be very skittish having seen what happens. So let them walk a few times after they come back. Let them get comfortable again before taking any. And then only take a sow on occasion or they will go back to the bush again, as they are now and only the piglets feed.

[TEXASCOLE]

Thanks guys. Leaving tomorrow

[leebtattoos]

i dont care what you have sprayed on or wearing for scent protection, if an alert pig gets downwind of you, you are busted. find their path that they are using for their approach to the feeder, and set up downwind of them. good luck! also, sometimes you just have to give a stand a break when they get smart to it

[Coach W]

Yup you may need to give them more distance I try for 30 - 40 yards with the bow.

I also have moved on the trail they are coming in on. All animals are more weery when they are feeding cuz they know they are more vulnerable.

Sometimes some good time off helps a spot.

I have hunted the clear fork of the brazos alot, and if your pigs are anything like ours were you shouldnt have to give a spot any time off. The pigs on our place where so over populated you could bust one every thirty minutes with a highpowered rifle from the same spot. They just kept coming in! Me and 2 buddies hunting 200 yards apart put down 42 in one moon filled night!

[panhandlehunter]

Coach, that sounds like our pigs. LOL. If I ever saw 75 piglets at one time I'd leave the bow at home and grab the shotgun and do some work.