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Hog Wars by Jerald Horst

Bill Shiree....a few days before his wife Laney had killed a 543 pound hog in same area.....Our scale only goes to 500 pounds, hogs larger than that we have to weigh in 2 pieces, the skinned body separate from the rest of it.

The biggest one I killed so far was 592 pounds. I have personally killed 5 heavier than 400 pounds and the other members of my family have killed another 5. (hunting in Livingston Parish, S of I-10)

New deer lease overun with hogs. He and his wife and two sons killed 36 hogs in first 2 months of hunting: 24 of them were heavier than 250 pounds.

...hunts hogs 200 nights a year....

Talking to writer...."Smell that? It smells like burnt rubber. It's a big boar urinating. You can't mistake that."

The biggest factor in using corn for bait, said Shiree is to use lots of it. Hogs will come to feeders, but feeders don't work well for his technique. For a feeder to drop enough feed it would have to be running constantly.

Shiree outlined his baiting strategy. "Pick a site with at least one side near heavy cover because hogs are skittish in the open. Begin the site by dumping 100 pounds of corn on the ground."

"Check the site everyday. If the corn is being eaten, we start hunting it."

.....Important to set up light post and camera at same time feed is placed....

"Never let the feed run out."

Shiree often "sours" his corn...attracts pigs with smell and keeps deer off.

Use $20 Solar floodlights...aims light to shine to hit ground behind the corn pile for silhouette.

....occasionally will use ground blind, his current preface is for a 2 man ladder blind....

...uses .257 Weatherby.....scope necessity....