What do you consider the best time of the moon to hunt hogs? Will be hunting three days (from 1 pm on day one to 11 pm on day three. The feeders have lights and I have a Trijicon scope so night hunting should be no problem. Just wondering which is best dark or full moon, or between.

I really enjoy hunting them at night. We sit stand or stalk previously corned areas under a full moon. If there's no or little cloud cover, you can hunt all night with no artificial light, which is quite fun. Lighted feeders will aid your night hunting as well. If it were me, I'd go when the moon is full or nearly full. That's when I schedule all my hog hunts.

Put a trail cam out to take pictures of your feeder. The best phase of the moon to hunt is the phase in which the pigs are hitting your feeder.

Based on 6 years on a South Tx ranch in LaSalle County (Cotulla area), I would say you are better off in the dark of the moon, especially if the hogs have been hammered a lot. On our lease, we turned on and turned up all the feeders on Sep 1st, and by the time deer season opened in Nov, we had hogs everywhere, for the first two hours in the AM and the last two at night. If the ranch manager/lease manager uses a road feeder frequently, the hogs learn the sound of the dinner bell rather quickly, and respond soon after the truck goes by.

Good luck, and good shooting.

Charles,

If your're hunting over bait, I believe hunting pressure, is a much greater factor. I feed year around and currently have 3 cameras out at feeders. Hogs come in every morning and every evening. What works for me is to let the hogs feed at the feeders for a month or two before you start shooting them. Seems that they get it in their piggy little brains to come to the feeders. I've shot upwards of twenty hogs at one particular feeder. I can shoot them in the AM and usually they will be back in the PM. At most I will have to wait a day or two. If you get a chance, pick up some roasted soybeans. They smell like peanut butter and hogs love them. Mix them with a bag of corn and maybe some hog wild.
Good luck and good shootin'
GWB

Thanks for the tips. Me and my grandson will be hunting July 8=10 near Crystal City Tx with Hunting With Jeff. Have hunted there before and I am sure to see hogs. All we need to do is to hit them. Will let you know haw it goes. The last time out with my grandson we feel that we were ripped off. No hogs and no fresh sign.

hunting with jeff//he sure does have a nice facility////hunting in south texas I like a 3/4 to full moon comming up an hour or so before sunset. but if all else fails take a white sheet or two and hang them on a bush behind the feeder so that you can back light the hogs after dark. a sheet of plywood painted white works to but a old bed sheet is easdier to carry////khh