50-60 to 1

Just enough to impart a strong smell (which isn't hard to do, don't get any on yourself).

Hogs naturally like to rub on rough barked trees but are also attracted to creosote soaked fence posts and utility poles.




In the one case (rough barked trees) hogs rub them for several reasons....

1. To help remove parasites. Often hogs will wallow in mud which traps parasites (fleas, ticks, lice, etc) then they rub on the tree/other to dislodge the mud and parasites. And it just feels good to them...dislodging old hair and scratching.

2. In the case of creosote coated posts....I believe it again gives them relief but I think that is secondary to them being attracted to the smell and using the object as a 'sign post' leaving their own scent behind.

I say this after years of observing their habits. When I see rubs on trees, they are heavily caked with mud and as soon as the bark is worn smooth... the use stops.

Conversely, creosote soaked posts/poles are visited over and over again. Are not heavily covered in mud and will be used in some cases to a point where the post/pole is literally worn half way through.

flintknapper is giving great info.
This pole is right near a pond on the BIL place, look at how deep the wallow and rubbing trail is around this pole.

Also, forgot but apparently they really like silage hay, the sweet stuff. Sorghum would probably get them in too.

I don’t have to use attractants. They’re everywhere.

I noticed the guy with the "hog attractant" for $60/bottle lives in Wyoming and forgot to proofread his website for errors. Just sayin'.
I did trap daily for a few years and it is fun to experiment with different products on different properties to see if something works here but not there or better than something else. I did find that in different areas hogs were attracted to different baits than other areas. It was good to play with various concoctions although for me the base product was always steamed crimped corn (looks flat and about $1 a bag more), soak it in water or your favorite smell, it seems to carry that corn smell quite a ways more than standard corn.

Humm, which Guy in Wyoming are you taking about, not me I have no website. But, I am from Texas have been coming down to hunt hogs every year since the 90's on the family place.
And I am no "guy".

Nothing personal or against Wyoming brother, lived 30 minutes from Cheyenne for many years, it was in jest about living where there are no hogs and selling hog attractant.

I sour hundred pounds of corn at a time, mix in some yeast, sugar, red soda water. Cheap and it works. Never had anyone tell me they had luck with diesel. Maybe just our luck. I used old Purina molasses tubs and keep a plywood lid over it.

I have had hogs really be attracted to diesel. Used to mix it with used motor oil and brush it onto trees and had them rub and lick to their hearts content.

I use this at a couple sites and it works pretty well if they are in the area. Real well.
What is really neat about it is that if I let it get really ripe the deer won't pick it clean off in the evening before the hogs get there and the raccoons lay around like drunk hobos if they get a belly full.

One particular site Ive had 2 weird encounters using it.

A couple weeks ago 2 larger boars got their fill and laid up a few yards behind the spread bait and hardly flinched when we shot another one less than 40 yards away. I had to work at throwing things at them multiple times to get them to stand up for a clean shot. They were laying together nearly motionless so I didn't even know there were 2 until one of the rocks caused the last one to flick it's ears shortly before the first one stood up. I don't know if they were drunk or not but it wasn't exactly normal behavior.



Another time in the exact same spot I shot an opening volley at a group of half a dozen who were going wild in the pile. 2 dropped on the spot as I started swinging on the runners. About 20 seconds into the killing one of the pigs in the original group ran back to the pile and started gobbling up the stuff with the 2 still twitching and kicking a few feet away. I could hardly hit it laughing so hard. We were shooting shorty guns with cheap 7.62x39 less than 50yds away from the pile. God awful loud suppressed at the same time spitting fire balls and he still had to come grab a couple mouthfuls.

That is hilarious. That is like getting Picante sauce from New York City or Tex-Mex in Ontario. To add to your comment, I don't think I have EVER seen such a small quantity of bait sold on a "4 easy payments" plan before. If you are selling a small jar of bait on a payment plan, your product is way too expensive. It better comes with a teleporter to transport hogs to your location on demand for that kind of money.

But then again if your gettting that kind of money for it your laughing all the way to the bank everytime someone checks out! A fool and his money are easily parted.

To me, "attractant" means it's pulling hogs into where there weren't hogs before. If you pour it by a a feeder that they hit (regularly or irregularly), that doesn't count in my book. Hogs are transient, they're constantly moving. We monitor 11 feeders at the ranch and you'll see them hit a feeder three nights in a row, then dissapear for weeks, or you see multiple different sounders move around, sometimes intermingle, plus the lone boars or small groups (pairs or trios). If any of you know how to pattern them, let me know, I've been hunting hogs for a long time and have never been able to figure that out. Corn works well for me, corn with jello powder or the cheap grape soda from Walmart also seems to work well (better than plain corn? Don't know, maybe it's self-delusional). I'm definitely not paying $60 for a bottle unless it comes with a money-back guarantee!

That's how Pigman shows an attractant works. He pours a bunch out under a working feeder and if a hog shows up...at some point, then the stuff worked, LOL.

I'd even be OK with that IF the hogs only ate the attractant and not the corn or if not a food product....ignored the feeder and concentrated only on the attractant, which of course they do not.

Time and money are better spent making a place more 'attractive' (in general) to hogs than trying to pull them in with any one product. If you can provide food, water, cover and don't over-hunt a place....you'll likely have hogs to hunt semi-regularly.

Bingo

I soak corn in diesel or put it in a sprayer and soak corn when I bait traps. Keeps coons from eating the corn also. Spray diesel on bushes or tree trunk and hogs will rub all over it

They are sure sporadic and roam a ton

Yep my experienc as well on my place. I can pattern some of the big lone boars at times but even then they will all the sudden stop coming in. Just this week had a large sounder with young ones and mixed sizes come in at 10:30 a.m. in the morning out of nowewhere and hit a feeder. Majority of activity has been late night and early morning. I haven't seen them again on my cameras. You just never know with these bastards.

They rub on the diesel places to keep the fleas off them.