For a replacement hog to show up for the one taken 4 days ago. this one is definitely bigger and is definitely a boar.

Looking back at pictures, I realize there have been 2 or 3 hogs visiting.

This is possibly the one I shot:


This is the big one that showed again last night:



And this may be another one all together:

Yea, it doesn't take long for another boar to take over. As to being multiple boars, I thought the first set had 2 different hogs but wasn't certain. On one, the ears looked to be positioned almost straight up -- rather unique -- while the other was more conventional in that regard.

similar to a big-bass honey hole -- catch one and another soon takes it's place.

Must be a fundamental law of nature?

Bobby, your suspicions were obviously correct. I now think there may have been 4 different boars hitting the feeder. The one you mention with the ears straight up also had gray hairs around his tusks--and is probably the one that I shot. He also had a very long snout.

This is the one I think you are referring to:

Hogs, especially the boars seem to move around a lot with multiple territories/ranges overlapping each other.

I kill 4-5 boars to one sow. You may find a lone sow with pigs but mostly they run in sounders. Take a sow out of a sounder and they learn fast! A lone boar down is just an opportunity for the next GUY!

Hogs are much like coyotes. The old saying is:
"kill one and the hole fills up before the days over".
I've heard: "The only reason that happens is you just haven't killed enough of 'em yet".

Time to get with the program it seems like.

Have fun and good shooting.

George

Seems like an opportunity to put more sausage in the freezer!

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Originally posted by DesertRam:
Seems like an opportunity to put more sausage in the freezer!

Borrowing a phrase..."You're gonna need a bigger freezer.."