So I just recently gained access to a chunk of land. There is a creek running at the back of the property. A couple blinds set up at trail intersections. Should be a wonderful place. My issue is that I don't have access to game cams yet but I know that the landowners have seen hogs on their cams and seen the damage on site. I want to know what the likelihood is of me finding them active at daybreak is. That's pretty much the only time of day I'll be able to make it to this property to hunt, is primarily in mornings. I intend to bury a few buckets of soured corn using the posthole digger method but want to know what y'all think I could do to keep them up "late" and be feeding at daybreak or just before.

Quick and easy, fling a rope over a tree branch near the rooting. It'll run morning and evening and you will have success some mornings (it's still hunting). Or get a 55 gallon feeder and stake it down...

http://www.moultriefeeders.com/6-5-gallon-pro-hunter-hanging-metal-deer-feeder

How long do you suppose it would take to train them to the timer?

I've been training my pigs to eat at my feeder on time for 5 years and they ain't got it right yet...

Haha I can appreciate that. I've just read so many articles about guys that SUPPOSEDLY have sounders trained to be waiting at the feeders. Maybe its [censored]. Maybe they're lucky. Maybe I'm just naive.

You can try to train them. I've come to realize pigs aren't easy to pattern. Sometimes they just up and disappear for days, or even weeks at a time. Get a camera up, feeder out and see what happens. Pig hunting can be feast, or famine.

Bass Pro has a Wild a Game Innovations camera for $49.00

Pigs disappear from our place for weeks at a time but when they reappear they come back with a vengeance. You just can't pattern them. Middle of the night seems to be the best time to catch them coming and going.

That's why I said "you will have success some mornings". I would only go so far as to say you'll have more success with it than without.

Plenty of hogs killed on morning hunts just get to Corning the area and go hint

Stick a feeder and camera out and give it time. One property took 2 weeks. Another property took 2 days. Another property I don't even feed b/c they just come through.

Maybe try something other than corn for bait. If you have good mast trees then I would recomm. Acorn Rage or one of the other mast based products for deer. In years when hogs wouldn't touch corn due to acorn crop we put out the Acorn rage and it brought them right in. Once you shoot at them once they know and may not come back around for days. Are they rooting or just traveling the property?

They've been rooting around. The landowner want them gone. I have lots of acorns at my own home so ill fill a couple buckets with those too, and throw it in with my baiting. I just wont be able to do a night hunt at that property for several months so im just trying to increase their morning activity so ill be more likely to drop a few.

I just ordered a camera and hope to put it up and get some bait out this weekend. Hoping to get back out next weekend to stalk to the area with rifle in hand and then pull cards and see whats been going on.

Buckets of acorns should do the trick. They love those things.

I was actually able to get out there yesterday and see the land better with my own two eyes. I found two spots that they had been frequenting\rooting along the main trails and set up bait at both with a cam at the more open area in the front of the property. After that was done we rode through to another corner to take my 3 yr old fishing in the creek and it was just like a war zone. They have been rooting EVERYWHERE in the timber. I don't think the bait I put out could make it much worse lol hoping to get back out next Monday morning and stalk in with my rifle to check the cam. If I shoot something on the way its just gravy.

Sounds awesome...be sure to keep us posted! Good luck!

On my lease, when the hogs are in the area, when the feeder goes off, they come running. Note I said, when the hogs are in the area. Of course, everyone around me has feeders as well. I would give it a try.

nothing there when i walked in, but it was also storming like crazy an hour before i pulled up too. lots of pics of pigs there around 11pm-3am. looks like I'm gonna have to sweet talk the mrs into giving me a pass from the kiddos one night to head out and do a night hunt.