Hogs in the daytime

[SaltwaterSlick]

We have been managing and shooting hogs in the daylight for over 15 years on a piece of property we have specifically for hog hunting... We don't spot and stalk them, run 'em with dogs, or hunt them at night... Just about every morning and every evening we have them at our feeders during daylight hours... Oh yea, only bows too. No guns... Hogs are smart animals, but like someone posted, they are slaves to their stomachs. They however are also controlled by their nose. You fool their nose, they are easy to kill. Stay downwind. Don't hunt your feeder or food plot in a bad wind. You'll have hogs day and night... We take well over 200 hogs off the place every year and have been for over 15 years...

If you adopt the KAP anytime/any way, indeed they will go nocturnal or leave... They will also patern you just like we do them... they'll wait until you leave, then come out and wipe your feeder out when you're not there...

[pblaetz]

Most people think they are nocturnal because they aren't seeing them in open fields or at feeders during the daytime. Hogs are slaves to their stomach. No way they go all day without eating. The problem for us hunters is they have food everywhere right now. Deer may turn their nose up at wet acorns but hogs don't. They are still feeding during the day they just don't travel much. They will root up pastures and hit the feeders at night but during the day they are in the woods.


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This^^^^^^I killed 8 a few weeks ago, all in daylight hours, all spot and stalk, most where were eating acorns. Sometimes of the year, they could care less about corn.

[Bear82]

My daytime activity seems to have slowed lately. During summer spring and summer they were always out feeding around noon. Now its just early or later in the day when feeders go off.

[Pin Oak DXT]

Mine still haven't shown up at my feeders during daylight hours. I usually kill quite a few of them bowhunting in the afternoon hours. We had a lot of acorns in Oct/Nov which probably contributed to few sightings. Things should get more interesting after this last freeze. But winter months (Dec-Feb) are when my pigs become most reliable on the corn.

[cva34]

once acorns are gone will make them have to feed longer looking for food

[sqiggy]

No problem on our place. The last time I went deer hunting, I saw hogs just about every trip. Then, when we start hog hunting every weekend starting in Feb till it just gets to hot, we'll kill them mornings and evenings. I can count on one hand how many hogs we've killed after dark in the last 10 yrs.
Go figure!!

[Beerkat]

I've never been able to nail down hogs. They're smart and they learn as they grow old so finding a patern is tough.

[CastAndBlast]

I have been telling my son that "once it cools off and we have fronts and rain etc that the hogs will start moving more in the daylight hours. As of this past sunday we have not seen a hog in the daylight hours. Whats going on? Doesn't hog movement usually change in the winter months?

Temperature won't affect hog movement that much. Decreasing food supply will though. The bad thing is that they eat most anything. However, once their food supply starts getting short, they will start hitting feeders more in the day light. We never kill hogs at night. All of ours are during shooting hours. However, there are a lot of them and it is a race to get the corn before another group does. There is very little pressure put on them as well. In a good year, we will kill 100-120 hogs in our group. All during the day, and all with a bow.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Temperature won't affect hog movement that much. Decreasing food supply will though. The bad thing is that they eat most anything. However, once their food supply starts getting short, they will start hitting feeders more in the day light. We never kill hogs at night. All of ours are during shooting hours. However, there are a lot of them and it is a race to get the corn before another group does. There is very little pressure put on them as well. In a good year, we will kill 100-120 hogs in our group. All during the day, and all with a bow.

Wait a minute.... your numbers and mine don't match... I said 200+... I think you're shortin' us a few! Can't go by last year ... well maybe you're close to right since everbody started deer hunting too... hog numbers may be down a bit... ...but we COULD kill 2 hunert if we wonted to...

[Hogmauler]

Lots of good info.