So I figured I would start a thread so you guys can follow along in our hunting journey down here in FL. Hopefully this will end with lots of bacon and pork chops.
My brother and I got access to a property to hunt hogs on about six months ago. We put up a feeder and a camera and have watched it ever since. The first few months were very sporadic, with the hogs coming in at all kinds of various days and hours. We couldn’t get a pattern at all.
About a month ago we started putting some corn mash out there like once a week and we started getting the pigs to come in more regularly.
About a week ago, I shot a big sow but we couldn’t find her. The wind hasn’t been good since then, but we went back out there last night. We had a few pigs show up, but we couldn’t get a good shot. We think they were leery because we had to replace to feeder earlier in the day and smelled where we had been. We could have taken a bad shot, but we were thinking they would go ahead and come into the clear. There were branches and stuff in the way most of the time. Plus, we really didn't want to blow the spot with bad shots.
A couple of days ago, a big bore actually broke the box off the bottom of the feeder. He would sit under it and push on it with his nose. That’s why we had to replace the feeder.
If you look at the left leg of the feeder closely, you will see the box broken off the bottom.
We put all three leg sections on the new feeder to get it up higher. We have the feeder behind a barbed wire fence to keep cows out. We made the first feeder short because it’s hard to fill a high feeder when you can’t back a truck up to it. We have to take a ladder in now to fill it but that’s ok.
https://youtu.be/781EjOaaPKs
My brother and I got access to a property to hunt hogs on about six months ago. We put up a feeder and a camera and have watched it ever since. The first few months were very sporadic, with the hogs coming in at all kinds of various days and hours. We couldn’t get a pattern at all.
About a month ago we started putting some corn mash out there like once a week and we started getting the pigs to come in more regularly.
About a week ago, I shot a big sow but we couldn’t find her. The wind hasn’t been good since then, but we went back out there last night. We had a few pigs show up, but we couldn’t get a good shot. We think they were leery because we had to replace to feeder earlier in the day and smelled where we had been. We could have taken a bad shot, but we were thinking they would go ahead and come into the clear. There were branches and stuff in the way most of the time. Plus, we really didn't want to blow the spot with bad shots.
A couple of days ago, a big bore actually broke the box off the bottom of the feeder. He would sit under it and push on it with his nose. That’s why we had to replace the feeder.
If you look at the left leg of the feeder closely, you will see the box broken off the bottom.
We put all three leg sections on the new feeder to get it up higher. We have the feeder behind a barbed wire fence to keep cows out. We made the first feeder short because it’s hard to fill a high feeder when you can’t back a truck up to it. We have to take a ladder in now to fill it but that’s ok.
https://youtu.be/781EjOaaPKs