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Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 12:43 PM
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I have heard from several folks that they have used Diesel fuel as an attractant for hogs, has anyone ever really tried this and does it work. I would think the smell/scent of it would travel quite far if they in fact like it. My concern is that it could do just the opposite and drive them away?
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 12:48 PM
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Yep using it right now, used it for years. It works.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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thanks, I have a couple of friends that want to go hog hunting this weekend and I was thinking of trying it. We have quite a few hogs on camera and they have been really tearing up a couple of spin feeder locations but you know how hunting goes, the time you want them to show up for a hunter they don't, so...I thought I might try some added incentive.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 02:32 PM
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Have used it before in areas where there were lots of squirrels, coons and crows packing off the corn in my pig pipe. It works more as a repellent to those critters until you get a good rain or couple of morning dews, then it washes off the diesel and it's game on for them.
It may or may not attract pigs. So far, I haven't heard of any diesel tractors being attacked by pigs though.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 03:06 PM
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How does it affect the meat?
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 03:07 PM
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Based on everything I have read on this forum, just about anything "attracts" hogs. However, to attract hogs, you already have to have them. If you already have them, then just plain old corn works fine. Also, sudden new baits often scare away hogs briefly, even of tasty foods sometimes. YMMV
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 03:46 PM
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thanks, I have a couple of friends that want to go hog hunting this weekend and I was thinking of trying it. We have quite a few hogs on camera and they have been really tearing up a couple of spin feeder locations but you know how hunting goes , the time you want them to show up for a hunter they don't, so...I thought I might try some added incentive. like pappy always say's: the more money ya have the more Freedom ya have can't aford the diesel for tracktor, so worken the food plot by hand, keep running outa gas. Blessed with rain, so deer got plenty of browse, save on corn, havent seen hair or hide, nor, sign of hogs. don't do no good ta complain. in past years hit WMA land, no baiting allowed their, finding hogs was easy part. best wishes
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 04:33 PM
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If diesel repelled hogs everyone would be spraying diesel on their fence lines.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 05:14 PM
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If diesel repelled hogs everyone would be spraying diesel on their fence lines. Good point
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 09:44 PM
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I used diesel years ago but more as a cow repellent than a hog attractant. I'd dig about a two-foot deep post hole (I'm in sand, it's easy) fill it up with corn, and top off with about a cup of diesel. It didn't seem to discourage the pigs at all, but the cattle and other animals wouldn't touch it. The post hole keeps the pigs in the area. They're greedy as, well, pigs, and will keep coming back to work on on that hole until the last kernel of corn is gone. Be forewarned, though, if there is a sounder or two in the area that post hole could very well be a small pond by the time they're done.
edited to add: A bonus to the post hole method is that you can dig it and fill it one day and come back a few days later and if they've found it, pigs will still be hitting it.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 10:13 PM
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Red diesel has worked for me in the past, I pour it on a tree and they find it fairly quick. And they rub on it like crazy. A guy once told me that it help them fight off insects????
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 10:40 PM
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as pappy always say's: proof tis in the pudding the diesel debait set up two cam's one cam with corn soured with diesel in front of it & the other cam with plain old corn in front of it & post pics. would do it here but no hogs. checked for sign were they usualy cross creek, noda
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/14/14 10:52 PM
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we used it in Ga and Fla for hogs, we put it on the corn in the hog traps because the deer won't go near it. now, they love motor oil too, they roll in it and it keeps the skeeters off them, as well as any other parasites. If you use it around the deer feeders, they then turn into hog feeders. the deer won't come near it. i'd put out some corn piles with some diesel in an area where there you dont plan to deer hunt.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/15/14 12:35 AM
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I have friends that swear by it. I seem to get just as many hogs as them without it. As someone said, if you have hogs they'll find plain corn. For me, I just don't like the idea of using diesel, either on the ground or on bait. Not a rabid tree hugger, but I don't see the plusses out weighing the unnecessary minus's.
I'l keep the diesel in my truck and tractor.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/15/14 01:55 AM
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I decided to experiment a bit a while back, the kids had fun with this one. I set up a camera in an area that had signs of pigs, then put out a bunch of baits that we have heard of, 10 pounds of each Diesel corn Corn soured in beer Corn soured in water Just plain corn And beer corn with raspberry jello added And even a deer block
To our surprise the next morning it was all gone. We checked the camera to see the results. We had pigs at 9:00PM, about 20 of them. The regular corn and the corn soured in water were the first to go, the others disappeared pretty quickly after that. Diesel was the last to go. Our experiment proved nothing except that 20 pigs can eat 50 pounds of corn very fast. It is hard to say if the diesel attracted them, and they ate the other mixes just because they were better tasting. Now we just use regular corn or sour it in water, no extra expense that way.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/15/14 02:36 AM
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we did experament too. 7:00am put plain corn out 8:45am hogs came to corn 8:46am hogs down. we did some en & chillen.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/15/14 08:45 AM
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Based on everything I have read on this forum, just about anything "attracts" hogs. However, to attract hogs, you already have to have them. If you already have them, then just plain old corn works fine. Also, sudden new baits often scare away hogs briefly, even of tasty foods sometimes. YMMV ^ This ^ diesel keeps the deer, coons etc off the corn, or at lease they eat way less of it, leaving it there longer for the hogs to smell and find. Also, if theyre showing up regularly to straight corn, i wouldnt do anything different that what youre doing now.. try to change as few variables as possible if youve already got them coming in.. go in leaving as little of a scent trail as possible, and position yourself upwind. I dont suggest going in there witha group of guys laughing spitting peeing all over the place looking for tracks and other places to throw some "foreign" type of corn the same afternoon that u plan to hunt.. hogs may bolt if something smells fishy (I know theres a sarcastic comment coming about the difference btwn the figurative and literal term "fishy").
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/15/14 01:48 PM
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I was told the diesel not so much attracts hog but keeps everything else including deer out of the corn. But I have no idea if it affects the meat.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/15/14 02:03 PM
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Red diesel has worked for me in the past,... So you are saying that there is something special in the dye???
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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I have heard from several folks that they have used Diesel fuel as an attractant for hogs, has anyone ever really tried this and does it work. I would think the smell/scent of it would travel quite far if they in fact like it. My concern is that it could do just the opposite and drive them away? mixing corn with diesel will add to smell. so will plain water & letting it sour. tis thinking if hog has eaten corn & diesel mixture, should be easier ta track, comes ta think of it, them thar hogs that caught on camera could have eaten some diesel mixed corn. they did smell funny, & were fattening a lot, & whin barked like a hog, they took off running like they was on high octain fuel. if it does make em sick, as U suggested it may turn em away.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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Red diesel has worked for me in the past,... So you are saying that there is something special in the dye??? Not really but thats what i had so i used it! And the hogs came so either it has something or not, it still worked
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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10/17/14 05:26 AM
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Have used it before in areas where there were lots of squirrels, coons and crows packing off the corn in my pig pipe. It works more as a repellent to those critters until you get a good rain or couple of morning dews, then it washes off the diesel and it's game on for them.
It may or may not attract pigs. So far, I haven't heard of any diesel tractors being attacked by pigs though. This^^^^. You may want to put up a pole with creosote for them to rub against, or use used motor oil
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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Red diesel has worked for me in the past, I pour it on a tree and they find it fairly quick. And they rub on it like crazy. A guy once told me that it help them fight off insects???? Buddy of mine made the large fence type traps...he always had a tree in the center of his trap with diesel poured on the tree..besides corn, he would pick up old fruit/veggies from the local supermarket to add in his traps...he was a successful based on the number of pigs he sold.
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Re: Does Diesel Fuel Work?
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Have used it before in areas where there were lots of squirrels, coons and crows packing off the corn in my pig pipe. It works more as a repellent to those critters until you get a good rain or couple of morning dews, then it washes off the diesel and it's game on for them.
It may or may not attract pigs. So far, I haven't heard of any diesel tractors being attacked by pigs though. This^^^^. You may want to put up a pole with creosote for them to rub against, or use used motor oil I got a place with telephone poles running across it that pigs rub several of them...I put some used motor oil on one of those poles and the hogs went to the one with motor oil and avoided the others thereafter....
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