Question about hunting hogs at night

[rhendrix]

Gonna go try my luck next week and put some bait out for some hogs. I don't have any feeders up right now though so I'm just planning on putting some beer soaked corn with koolaid out and waiting. My question is this...without a light, and a half moon, should I hunt with my bow light with a green lens or should I put out some outdoor solar lights? I'm thinking if I do the latter I'll end up being out there all night and not seeing a darn thing. Just curious what you guys normally do or what you would do. Thanks!

[Twztid]

Just bow light it...you can see the black figures and deff hear them munching and snorting....light up the sky and slowly drop your light on them and let it fly...

[Crews]

Just bow light it...you can see the black figures and deff hear them munching and snorting....light up the sky and slowly drop your light on them and let it fly...

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[30-30]

Don't expect pigs to hit bait on the first night unless you regularly bait the spot. It usually takes our pigs two or three nights to find corn in new spots.

[rhendrix]

Don't expect pigs to hit bait on the first night unless you regularly bait the spot. It usually takes our pigs two or three nights to find corn in new spots.

I realize that but that's the only time I really have to go out there, unless I somehow and someway can take it out there tomorrow. Probably not gonna happen though.

[Okie in Texas]

Don't expect pigs to hit bait on the first night unless you regularly bait the spot. It usually takes our pigs two or three nights to find corn in new spots.

This is the bane of my existence. I mix up a great batch of stinky hog mess, put it out on Friday when I get to camp and don't see nothing all weekend. Then come back in a few weeks to see that there were 50 pigs camping there 3 days after I left until everything was gone.

If you can, get out there tonight and put some out.

[gonehuntin68]

Unless you have been putting out some beer soaked corn with koolaid in the past and the hogs know what it is it will only scare them the first couple of nights because they don't know what it is. Go with straight corn. When I go to hunt a new place that doesn't have feeders going, the best way is to corn as many roads as you can and then wait a couple of hours after dark and get the wind in your favor and glass the roads. With a decent pair of Bino's you will be able to see pigs on the road from well over 100 yards away with a quarter moon. By corning the roads you will be able to cover a much bigger area and are more likely to see pigs then just baiting a few select area's.

[AJ the TP Guru]

A gamecam would be a tremendous help to determine a pattern.

Using an infra-red activated light over bait that is not regularly thrown out by a feeder would only tend to scare the hogs.

Your bowlite should be fine so long as there is at least minimal moonlight.

[Bowdark]

Just bow light it...you can see the black figures and deff hear them munching and snorting....light up the sky and slowly drop your light on them and let it fly...

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The game cam suggestion is good too, so as not to waste time.

[Dirtymike]

Hey do what you can do. Dont talk yourself out of them being there. You cant kill them if you are not there. Take advantage of the time. Set a few bait stations. Stalk up from one to another. Move slow, and keep your ears open. You never know. Its like talking your self out of a hunt.

[Muddy Bud]

I agree with gh68. Go with straight corn feed a long road or sendero where they might cross and find the corn. But your best best would be to get a feeder up and going as soon as possible.

Good Luck.

[Dirtymike]

Unless you have been putting out some beer soaked corn with koolaid in the past and the hogs know what it is it will only scare them the first couple of nights because they don't know what it is. Go with straight corn. When I go to hunt a new place that doesn't have feeders going, the best way is to corn as many roads as you can and then wait a couple of hours after dark and get the wind in your favor and glass the roads. With a decent pair of Bino's you will be able to see pigs on the road from well over 100 yards away with a quarter moon. By corning the roads you will be able to cover a much bigger area and are more likely to see pigs then just baiting a few select area's.

even better idea

[rhendrix]

There's not really any roads to corn. I set out a bunch of rotten old corn a month or so ago and had several hogs hitting it up a couple of days later. I figured I'd try to do the same and put a stand around it and see what happens. Would making several bait stations and stalking to them periodically be more effective than doing what I plan on doing currently? Gonna get up there early in the AM to put out corn.

[Bisch]

Another way to do it if you have a long straight road. Corn out the road for a good ways. Get a pair of 10x50 binoculars and watch up and down the roads to see the pigs. With a decent pair of 10x50's you will be able to see the pigs under a half moon easily. Then sneak up on them and shoot them.

Nevermind - I just read your post above mine.

Good luck and I hope you get one!

Bisch

[gonehuntin68]

Since you don't have any roads, find a water hole that the hogs are using and corn it because they will want to go to water and they will probably find it there faster than anywhere else. Big Difference between rotten corn and beer soaked corn with koolaid. Again, I wouldn't put out anything but straight corn for a same day hunt unless I had been baiting for some time with the other stuff.