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Post by gregg on Oct 31, 2005 20:45:00 GMT -5
I seen this afternoon. I was checking my coonfeeders and as I got to the last one, up jumped a big ole hog , not 20 ft from me. I was carrying a bucket full of corn and just about droped it an craped in my pants. The hog looked at me and I looked at it, for a split second, it turned and ran about 25 yrds and turned around and looked again, i was sure it was going to charge me but after a few seconds it turned around an just waled off into the brush. Tomarrow I am going to get in my tree stand and see if he comes back around. I have been seeing sighn of hogs in the edge of the swamp , but never figured on seeing one up close and personal like that. I think he has been eating corn from one of my deer feeders . May be I can get a shot at him.
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Post by Gunslinger on Oct 31, 2005 21:14:57 GMT -5
I bet you were ready to feed him some corn ;D!! Good luck, mybe you will have some pictures of him to post..
dd444
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Post by doghunter101 on Nov 1, 2005 19:16:58 GMT -5
Wow sounds awsome........ Maybe it is time to get some hawg dogs? Naw seriously good luck with him hope you get him, the only thing I can get to eat my corn is big ol fat raccoons........
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Post by kiwi on Nov 1, 2005 20:21:28 GMT -5
hope you get a shot at him , should always take a rifle with you in the bush, don't have to shoot what you see , but you can't shoot it if you want it without one0. get some photos for us when you get him, he won't go far. cheers
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Post by BrandonHavis on Nov 1, 2005 20:31:46 GMT -5
gregg, if you want to get him then the best thing you can do is take about 150 pounds of corn and put it in 5 gallon buckets and after they are full of corn fill them up with water, and let them set there for about a week and when they start to sour put a bucket of sour corn out each time you fill your deer feeder, just put the sour corn 75-100 yards from the deer feeder so you dont mess up your deer huntin, start dumpin sour corn on the ground a couple of times a week and the hogs will dig a hole in the ground tryin to get more of it, they love it and its cheap, and since its sour the deer wont mess with it.
also a big hog dog guy i know says he pours diesel all over his corn before he puts it out for hogs and the hogs dont care but no other animal will eat it, but i wouldnt do this within 2 or 3 hundred yards of deer cause they will steer clear of it.
and make sure ya got more than a 22 lol cause it takes a REAL rifle to put a hog down within a range that you will actually find it.
brandon
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Post by gregg on Nov 1, 2005 20:41:17 GMT -5
I stayed in the tree stand until dark, but didnt hear or see anything. I use sour corn in my coonfeeders, I will try and pour some on the ground and see how it works. Thanks
I took my .270 with me
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Post by BrandonHavis on Nov 1, 2005 20:48:44 GMT -5
also i didnt think about it, but a big hog hunter told me that he takes and digs a hole in the ground with a post hole digger and pours sour corn in it and the hogs can come up and eat the corn off the top of the ground but the corn thats down in the hole they cant hardly get to, so they cant just eat it all up before you can hunt it but they will still be comin back. this is good for a spot that hogs are already traveling and eatin corn, it dont make more hogs come it just makes you corn last a lot longer when you put it ou so that you dont have to come and put corn every other day of the week.
brandon
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Post by gregg on Nov 1, 2005 20:53:51 GMT -5
Thanks for that tip, was just thinking how I was going to keep them from eating it all up every day. How for are you from Amite, La? I go coon hunting down there every Feb to a real good friend of mine
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Post by BrandonHavis on Nov 1, 2005 21:04:08 GMT -5
i dont know where amite is at, but i live 30 miles east of shreveport louisiana. im in minden louisiana and hunt in simsboro which is about 1 hour east of shreveport. when you come over to coon hunt this feb you should go hog, squirrel, or rabbit hunt with us.
brandon
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Post by gregg on Nov 1, 2005 21:15:31 GMT -5
Thanks Brandon, willsee if I can make a hunt with you. Amite is north of NO just below the Miss line, right where the storm came through. I was talking to my buddy and we still plan on hunting Feb 24-25 , he told me lots of trees down but the hunting was still good, told me he would see how much I like to coon hunt with all the down trees. He knows if I can get cut overs around here blowdown timber want be bad.
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