I think they get used to "normal smells around the feeder" and when things change, they can become wary.
Every day, I walk right by the feeder and get the memory card from game camera.
On the way back, I shake the pig pipe to see if it still has corn, then walk over to the feeder and push up on it to see how much corn is in there.
I even pee on the feeder legs every once in a while just to set them off.
I have numerous game cam pics of sows smelling the leg that night so go figure.

Soak a burlap sack in diesel and step on that before you go down to feeder.
They seem to love corn soaked in diesel out of my pig pipe.

You mean you don't wear the sack around your neck? May need to have some words with all the old guys my dad hunted with when I got started.

Take a coffee can, fill it with corn, mix a little diesel in and every time you go spread a little around. You don't need much. Captdavid

I hunt in pine woods, so I use a pine cover scent. I've shot pigs after spraying myself down with it. And I've shot pigs after forgetting it in the truck.

I've shot pigs a few hours after having a tractor come through there and brush hog the entire place (fresh cut grass makes an excellent cover scent, in my opinion) and I've shot pigs an hour after walking up to the feeder to check it.


My game camera showed them coming up the night after I backed my truck up to the feeder to fill it and walk all around it with a weed-eater.


Around my feeder scent seems to be one of their lesser concerns.