I have heard that when you shoot hogs in your trap that the smell produced will alert the next hogs and they will not enter the trap until the scent dissipates. have you seen this to be true or false. a friend and I shot 8 pigs that were about 25 pounds dressed wt. Saturday morning two days ago and that night two or three different groups of pigs came into the trap that we had purposely left open and placed corn in.

Best answer I can give you is "maybe, maybe not" as I have had instances of pigs avoiding a trap which I had recently killed one/some in and then I have game cam pictures of hogs in traps in the 24 hours after a kill.


One thing I do believe, "appetite trumps caution" and baiting the trap heavily after a kill session will bring 'em in.

thank you dustoffer. we have been feeding 50# of corn per night. I thought about spraying the trap down with home made scent killer made with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide but haven't tried that yet. quite a few came in the night after the morning shooting the 8. but being small pigs I thought perhaps they didn't produce the scent that alerts the others to danger. I don't see why blood would invoke a fearful response but I don't know what pigs think.

Phil:

Don't have much experience.
Never with a trap either.

Place I shot a couple two days in a row
in Fla. with in a weeks time had 14 more
all shot from the same stand and within
ten feet of each other.

Sure don't sound like blood and death
bothers 'em much to me.

George

Phil:

Don't have much experience.
Never with a trap either.

Place I shot a couple two days in a row
in Fla. with in a weeks time had 14 more
all shot from the same stand and within
ten feet of each other.

Sure don't sound like blood and death
bothers 'em much to me.

George

I am with dustoff. Maybe, maybe not! There is far more involved than just the blood or smell. I only hunt under lights. Shot one and no pictures for a week. Shoot one and hours later (same night) had pictures eating around the blood. From a Friend's porch watched them walk by a feeder full of fresh corn, caught one in a set trap that had no corn for a week! When they get hungry for corn they'll be back.

I think hogs tend to react differently in different areas. My place is about 150 miles from here. I can tell you that if you shoot a hog there, you had better move it and in a hurry if you want to shoot another. If those hogs see it or smell it, they are GONE and I mean instantly. Around here, they pretty much don't give a damn.

Why is that? No idea. I have seen it over and over.

I know at my place, one will not traps hogs in the same trap in the same place too many times.

had 8 this morning. 7 50# pigs and aa 150 pound boar. caught pigs twice, 8 both times. they were avoiding the root stick so I cut a 6 foot thin limb and put it in place for the trip stick. deer come in early and trip the trap sometimes but that is just part of it I suppose. I don't know how to keep the deer out.

I don't worry about the deer as I've not figured out a way to keep them out. I do put a piece of the corral panel across the entrance about 24" above ground to keep the calves out however--

It depends on the hunting pressure as is in most cases with wild game..Hogs hunted heavy are wise and cautious..Same in varmint calling, coyotes when hunted a lot won't come to a call as easy as they do in a fresh unhunted area..

I have not seen this however with deer feeders, they come when the dinner bell rings, but they are not trapped they just jump in a sheep fence eat and jump out..If it were a trap they might do different over time, don't know. I know the really big bucks are the last to show up at a feeder a few days after season opens..or they leave just before daylight.