Posted By: Linux_Box
Hunting strategy question - 01/09/21 03:30 PM
I'm hunting on a friends land near San Antonio. ~135 acres with deer fence on right side. Back side and left side are regular fences to land owned by the same person (we have a good relationship with them). Front is regular fence to a normal paved/public road. Since the hogs on our land also frequent our good neighbors land (we see them during the daylight), they cross our fence line. While we have 3 blinds with feeders, we also hunt the back and left fence lines.
We've managed to get 26-28 hogs in the last 9 weeks or so. As such, they are getting a bit scarce due to hunting pressure. Pretty sure they are going more nocturnal at this time. I'm putting out cameras to verify when and where they cross.
Question 1: Should we stop hunting the fence line (we bait when we go out) to encourage them to come across? I'm thinking we may want to set up temporary baited locations 100+ yards inside our land get them onto our land. Hopefully they might stay after we shoot one of them from the sounder. Good idea? Any other ideas?
Question 2: Should I put out soured corn for a day or two before hunting it? Wondering if letting them have a chance to eat it without being shot may help "train" them.
We used sweetened corn (with kool-aid) which definitely helps with deer (I don't hunt them). Hogs seem somewhat indifferent although it may help attract them to some degree. We're starting to use soured corn... first batch (not hunted, just dumped) was absolutely a hit with them.
We've managed to get 26-28 hogs in the last 9 weeks or so. As such, they are getting a bit scarce due to hunting pressure. Pretty sure they are going more nocturnal at this time. I'm putting out cameras to verify when and where they cross.
Question 1: Should we stop hunting the fence line (we bait when we go out) to encourage them to come across? I'm thinking we may want to set up temporary baited locations 100+ yards inside our land get them onto our land. Hopefully they might stay after we shoot one of them from the sounder. Good idea? Any other ideas?
Question 2: Should I put out soured corn for a day or two before hunting it? Wondering if letting them have a chance to eat it without being shot may help "train" them.
We used sweetened corn (with kool-aid) which definitely helps with deer (I don't hunt them). Hogs seem somewhat indifferent although it may help attract them to some degree. We're starting to use soured corn... first batch (not hunted, just dumped) was absolutely a hit with them.