hogs and feeders?

[andy1clancy]

i have shot 3 hogs with a 7 mag in 5 mins... i dont think they are worried about the feeder. last weekend a friend and i shot 3 in one sit.

[extremehunter]

Hogs are very smart.Their only downfall is they LOVE corn.It's not unusual to take more than one hog in a setting.

[Wac M Trac M]

Hogs are way smarter then deer. I think what matters most though is how much pressure you put on the area and how many other deer/hogs are in the area.
If there is one group of hogs using your feeder and you shoot at them once or twice they will leave for sure. You wont see pigs there till another group moves in. Deer on the other hand will return always in my area..of coarse I'm in the hill country so deer are everywhere. I think the spooked deer see other deer on the feeder and eventially come back.

We dont have many hogs here so once we shoot one off a feeder we might as well pull the battery for a few weeks. If it's not deer season.

[gonehuntin68]

its different everywhere in my opinion!

Bingo

[Chuey]

Bingo

yes sir.....

[CaptainDave]

We have never really had a problem with hogs not coming back to feeders. After you shoot the cannons a few times they will leave, but it seemed like they would be back to their regular "right at sundown" feeding pattern within a few days. For an example, we had one of our cameras up at a feeder many hogs had been visiting right at sundown. After waiting them out and blasting a few on an evening hunt, we left the camera out to see how long they stayed awayed. They didn't come back that night or the next, but the next evening, they were back to there old ways. Like someone said earlier, hogs Looooooove corn, and its hard for them to stay away. Now maybe if you were shooting at them on a daily basis?

Now the hogs are smarter than deer thing. From my experience this is true during day light hours, but at sun down, the hogs at our place don't seem to be scared of anybody. They will hit up a feeder at sundown, and will make all kinds of noise. You can hear them from a good ways away. You can even get out of the stand 20 yards away while they are feeding, and they won't even leave.

[Horitexan]

Here's the deal with hogs and feeders, in my experience-

If you want to shoot a BIG hog, don't crowd the feeder- they will always circle the feeder before coming in and, if you're inside their loop, they'll bust you. The best thing to do is to trickle a few kernels at a time away from the feeder (to lead them away from the feeder itself) and then corn a shooting hole at a ground blind about 60-80 yards away from the feeder. If you can, setup so you can still see the feeder, so you'll see 'em coming and have plenty of time to get ready. Most importantly, play the wind!

If you're looking for meat hogs (up to about 125 pounds) it's fine to shoot at the feeder. The younger ones are less cautious and fore food driven and will charge right into a feeder. I've shot a lot of hogs at feeders and had the rest of the herd hardly quit feeding while one (or even two) dropped or ran squealing into the brush with blood squirting out of them. So far, my record is 4 hogs out of 1 group, LOL!

Deer and shooting hogs at a feeder -

If you shoot a hog under a feeder and there's blood all over the place, right there, it CAN spook the deer off for a day or maybe two. It won't be long, though, before they come back; and I've seen bucks come to a feeder in the morning where a hog was shot the night before. But, since most of the time there's not a lot of blood at the spot where you shoot a hog, there's a good chance that it won't bother the deer at all. They'd probably appreciate you getting their competition out from under their food source!

Personally, I don't like the idea of shooting a deer that's right under a feeder. To me, the feeder is a "safe" zone for deer. I won't setup any closer than 75 yards from a feeder. But that's just me- it's personal ethics.

Hope this helps you. Have a great season!

[bow4my2]

thanks for the input, lots of good info

[DFWPI]

Hogs

I know some people will not hunt over feeders for deer because the deer will associate the feed with danger, does this ever happen with hogs or are they to dumb?

Kid on our lease last year killed for pigs, the biggest 325, in a 15-minute period. The four came in at once, and he shot one, they ran off, 3 returned, shot, 2 returned and so on.....