Interesting what the common denominator always is.

CORN... think I can contribute here with my vast knowlage of hog hunting. corn alone has very little aromma, they find the corn faster whin its thrown from a feeder, using thar hearing. the souring is designed for the sence of smell. diesal addative tis for their feelings, hogs are bye nature sluggish, puts a fire up thar arce. an they like the taste of good ol corn whiskey. were do I get my expertees from years of doing The Dip Test. started out using it ta tell how fresh the trail was, soon realized ya can tell what they eat bye studding their crap. CAUSION: this method has been proven ta be hazzordas to your health.

Good post. I've used the George Dickel's sour mash, but these days I just use corn in an 18" deep post hole. Draws them and keeps them coming back for a while. They will turn that post hole into a small pond, though.

Hogs in our area are so infrequent that whateaver we "add" to the corn is long gone by the time they make their way back...could be the "attractant" pushing them away but too hard to tell since they dont have a true pattern.

My vote is corn, cheaper and less time consuming.

The other thing that gets us seeing hogs is when we dont have a firearm with us or ready.

corn... I have used our old fryer grease from the restaurant and they did seem to hit that pretty good..just a mess to deal with!

Daniel, perfect! I had forgotten about grease. I tried from deep fryer grease from the local burger joint. It actually smelled pretty good to me, like burgers and fries. The only result from it that I saw was that the raccoons laid in it where we had poured in over the corn on the ground.

I work at a Mexican place and the love it roll in it and eat the dirt

One day I put out 16 containers full at 35# a container

So you put out over 100 gallons of the stuff??? At that point, even if it worked as an attractant, the level of difficulty, nastiness, potential for spillage where you don't want it, etc. would rule it out for me as a viable tool.

I used about 3 gallons worth. The smell lasted for more than a week.

Yup it stunk but i have a 20 ft coral trap and within days i had 7 at once.. Havent really messed with hogs right now been deer hunting.. But i have 15 bags of corn that got wet in plastics sack that stinks to high heaven.. Ill use it in febuary

Just read this on another forum. Sprinkle Kool-Aid powder on the ground in your hog feeding area. The powder then gets on the feet of hogs and they track it away from the feeder and basically leave trails of attractant leading directly to your kill zone. It is reported to work great and to bring in new hogs all the time.

I used to use hogwild it worked great. My grandfather used to mix corn and pearl beer in a 5 gallon bucket and cover it and let it sit for a week and pour it in the hog trap and the traps would be loaded with hogs when we checked them. He also would take old croaker sacks and wrap them around the bottom of the trees near the traps and pour old oil from the tractors on the croaker sacks. The hogs would rub up against them all the time to protect their coats from fleas ect.

your left overs piled up in a barrel for a few weeks will work well and save you money on corn

Not just corn, but Indian corn.

New corn additive I am adding to attract hogs. It is all natural.

From Duck Buster

I had the Coop leave a dozen telephone poles in a pile that they were getting rid of. I heard that pigs loved them. I put out a game cam and never got a single hog picture. My feeder with corn 75 yards away had a lot of pigs.
We experimented with beer-soured corn and raspberry jello. The deer would show up and eat it all, the hogs would go to feeders for the regular corn, we quit with the strange concoctions, I was afraid the deer would get sick. We shot several deer with purple stained corn in their mouths.
The diesel-corn we tried was also eaten by the deer, I also quit with that.
I am going to try some of the more "natural" attractants here to see how they do as the pigs seem to have left the area.

I can't swear by soured corn over non soured, but I know soured corn has a stronger smell and pigs have strong noses, my logic tells me it may be a good way to help them find your feeding area from farther away if they aren't already hitting it on the reg.
I use the commercial restaurant sized 1 gallon container of cherries and pour the grenadine/cherry juice into a bucket of corn and add some beer, and or liquor. Put the lid on and let it set for a week or two. Has a solid stench by then and the corn ends up with a nice pretty reddish pink color that makes u feel all warm and fuzzy inside... That last part is how my lady friend would describe it... Until she catches a whiff of it.

Sure, but sometimes logic theory gets astounded by actual reality. The problem is trying to actually comprehend one's results when you have random events, erratic events, possible correlation events, and actual causation events. You are right that logic says it should work better, but testing done by several of us reveals that it does not produce better, faster results than corn in an appreciable manner. Maybe is it better, but the improvement so slight as to not be significant.

I had a fellow on another forum explain that you sprinkle a large container of dried KoolAid on the ground under and around your feeder (not mixed with the corn) such that it would get on the hooves of animals and they would track it in all directions, making trails that would lead to the feeder. Claimed it worked every time and produced bigger boars. I don't know how KoolAid could be size or sex specific, so I called his bluff. He then added it needed to be done every two weeks and could take 6 weeks to be effective. I ran the test for 8 week with zero results. However, feeders approximately 500 yards to the north were getting hit by hogs on corn along...despite the prevailing South winds. Go figure.

Man, I sure hate to hear good beer and liquor are being fed to feral hogs...

sorry to derail the thread... yes youre right, there are too many variables to really determine how much it does or doesnt help.. i remember the thread on the other forum about the koolaid, and considering how inexpensive and non time consuming that would be, it may be worth it.. even though your experiment had no success.. i agree that i dont see any way that koolaid powder would assist in in bringing in larger male hogs..
and the beer used is a mixture of beers from a bar/restaurant's draft beer run off... but if i use liquor its usually Johnnie Walker Blue label.... jk its either cheap grape liquor, or the cheapest bottle the liquot store has.

Hehe!! But that runoff mix is so good...

I guess the thought is that this gives it a stale beer smell and the pigs will think it's a dive bar?

Hog wine.

We are going to try the sweet aroma of sow in heat. Have a guy that will be collecting for us from his sows to see how effective it will be. Should be interesting.