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Not Sure what happen
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03/05/12 03:49 PM
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jojo1
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Woodsman
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I have no idea whats going on at my place.I had hogs in there pretty thick for weeks. I would fill my holes and fill my pipes and they would come in. I have not seen one hog for 3 weeks now. I have cams out and nothing just some coons and a yote any advise plzzzz. Thanks
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: jojo1]
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03/05/12 03:57 PM
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Huntin Dog
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where is your place at? i know i have seen a change in hog activity as well on a few of my properties. im blaming it on the weather changing and all the new growth.
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" Steven Wright
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: Huntin Dog]
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03/05/12 04:17 PM
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East
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where is your place at? i know i have seen a change in hog activity as well on a few of my properties. im blaming it on the weather changing and all the new growth. This
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: East]
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03/05/12 04:52 PM
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CoolBarrelBill
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I am on a lease in Lone Oak it is like the hogs just vanished.
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: CoolBarrelBill]
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03/05/12 05:34 PM
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jojo1
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Our place is in Rusk , just outside of Lanville
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: jojo1]
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03/05/12 06:00 PM
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TxYoteHunter
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Ours will come and go  . But.....they will be back 
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: TxYoteHunter]
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03/05/12 10:23 PM
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dfwroadkill
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Nothing odd about this. It isn't weather or new growth. Hogs are nomadic and are constantly changing their habits. I contend there is no pattern. They go wherever they want when they want. They won't visit a particular place 24/7/365...
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: dfwroadkill]
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03/08/12 02:28 AM
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Double Naught Spy
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We joke about this for the hogs and the deer at my place outside Forestburg in Montague County. What I also found interesting is that a guy that has a high fenced deer preserve that is roughly 1 section of land will occasionally find that he can't find most of his deer either and he knows they are still there, somewhere, but can't find them. That makes is regular population counts more difficult.
We joke about the pigs and deer going to Vegas. In October, both will stop showing up very much at my place. That happens to be when the acorns really start coming off the oaks and the deer and the hogs really prefer fresh acorns to even corn.
Now my land is a bit of an isolated forest island. It is triangular in shape and is bounded by open pasture on one side, a busy road on another, and then two properties on the third side, one of which occupies most of my fence line on that side and is a weekend hunting place. 200-300 yards of my fence connects to a huge property that is mixed pastures, deep ravines, creeks, COE dam reservoir, a few small tanks, and very little human traffic except when the guys are feeding the cattle or rotating them to other properties.
When hogs come and go from my property, they mostly go to that last place based on their tracks. We now have persmission to hunt is and it has hog sign all over the 600 or so acres we have surveyed, but finding the hogs is another matter. We just had our first successful hunt there last night and a couple of weeks ago took two of the hogs on my place just after they came through the fence from the other property.
We haven't explored this other property fully. The forested areas have game trails, but the trees and high grass is loaded with briar. Based on sounds we hear at night, the hogs seem to spend a good deal of time down in the deep ravines inside the forests with all the briar.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but we get so much briar growing into the trees, it makes heavy "curtains" of briar that can be difficult to get through without power tools or a tractor with an enclosed cab. It is what the local fire chief refers to as "ladder fuel" when we get wildfires. It affords the hogs and deer considerable protection.
Of course, this probably isn't the only place they go. From the adjoining property we have found the hogs crossing under the fence to the property on the far side from mine as well...so basically what dfwroadkill was saying is spot-on.
What the others have said is true as well, at least part of the time. The hogs will be back. The hogs also will tend to change their patterns with the weather and growing season. Hogs won't be at my place for two or three weeks and then we get a nice shower and they show up and hit the feeders within a day or two, and then be gone again.
We have seen that with showers only. We don't see it with really heavy rains, snow, or even with swings in the temperature. Don't know why.
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Re: Not Sure what happen
[Re: Double Naught Spy]
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03/12/12 12:24 AM
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Kleancutt
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we hunt off dixie school and its hit or miss. Unless your running dogs!
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