This is a small patch of trees in the middle of an already harvested corn field. I put the feeder inside it.


A mud bath just outside the trees


This is my plataform, is the same place from were I have shot the axis and pigs a couple of weeks ago. Is in my brother in law farm. Is one of those used in the construction or to paint walls.


The feeder is ready


A game trail that goes straight under the feeder


View of the cornfield and the bush behind looking from the feeder


The floor under the feeder, you can see the corn....the feeder is working !!!!


Next thursday night I will be there, wish me luck

L

wow nice,
hope you pick a couple up for the effort.
greg

Excellent, Lorenzo! Please keep us posted -- and take some more pictures this time around!

It looks great. Pictures! Packy

Thanks !!!
I can't wait till thursday night!!!!!!
Every day at 18:30 the thing goes "trrrrr" for 15 seconds

I love that stuff, it's like hunting at home, every night I go to sleep with a smile thinking that in that exact moment a bunch of pigs is feeding under it, wife thinks I am sick

I promise lots of pictures.

L

Great set-up and wishing you all the very best!

Go gett'em my friend the time is approaching....

Awesome pics!!!

Seems promising... good luck and keep this thread updated !

BTW, why this thursday ? Moon phase isn´t the best yet... in two or three more nights you will have a nice moon, not so luminous (which big boars dislike and distrust) but enough to choose the best tophy that might appear there ...

A mi particularmente no me gusta mucho reflectorear ya que la urgencia del disparo te impide elegir la presa apropiadamente ... con tantas sombras (estando apostado en el medio del montecito) y debiendote guiar principalmente por el sonido que hagan, no vas a tener muchas oportunidades de elegir bien ni de ubicar bien el disparo (para un argentino esto ultimo seria pan comido, pero ) ... lo que sea, buena suerte

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Originally posted by Afrikaander:
(para un argentino esto ultimo seria pan comido, pero ) ...

I have a nightvision device that I bought from an UN soldier who stole it during his mission in Africa

So despite not having to much moon I can choose my pig before turning on the spotlight, and honestly we are of the idea that a pig is a pig no matter its size, all are trophies for us

I am going now, next week, the week after that and so on, the farm is 40 kilometres from where I live (Montevideo) so not big deal. I just go for a couple of hours so my wife don't complain too much

Tomorrow is D day

Thanks everyone, I promise lots of pictures for all of you but the sausages are mine

L

Good luck Lorenzo! We expect a full report within the next couple of days!! Good hunting amigo!

Very bad luck, a thunder storm appears one hour after I arrived and I decided not to take any risk and return home earlier

I check the feeder and it seems a small pig have been feeding but nothing more. There is still plenty of food in the cornfield so I don't worry, more sooner than later they will have to eat from the feeder.

I went to the main house to say hi to the man in charge and he told me that in the morning he saw a bunch of axis near my stand with a very good buck in the group...

I heard some axis alarm barking tonight but nothing more.

I hope to have more luck next week

L

Lorenzo,

Its just a matter of time! Be Patient, IT WILL HAPPEN for you!

You've done your home-work and you've worked HARD on your set-up....

Time is on there side, but use it to your ADVANTAGE!!!

PATIENT EXPECTATION, will make this hunt happen!

Good luck and keep us posted!

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:

(.....)

I went to the main house to say hi to the man in charge and he told me that in the morning he saw a bunch of axis near my stand with a very good buck in the group...

I heard some axis alarm barking tonight but nothing more.

(....)

L

Dude, to me that would have been more than enough to start a "search & hunt" mission !!!

And in these cases, rain can usually be an ally ... in rainy nights deers would likely be sheltering under the trees while the same rain would somehow hidden your own approach to that possible shelter ... and the direction of that barking would have been a good start where to look them for

Come on, Lorenzo !! Go for it !!

And keep us posted !!

To chase deers under a thinder storm ???
I am a coward, the first lightening and I dissapear

Tomorrow morning if rains slows a little I will go and check everything and see if something has been there.

I am breathing them in the necks..

L

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:
To chase deers under a thinder storm ???
I am a coward, the first lightening and I dissapear

(....)

L

Huummmmm ... I am afraid that with so little audacity you won´t ever never conquer any argentine woman, Lorenzo ...

C´mon man !! Where is that "charrua" spirit ?

You cannot tell me that you wouldn´t enjoy a night hunt under a lightning storm !!

BTW, I will tell my friends of Entre Rios to carry some flashlights in their next "piquetes" around the "papeleras"

Lorenzo, when are you going out again to hunt? Come on man!! You have the ideal set-up!!

Well, I have never been very brave under a thunder strom and with 40 years under my belt I don't see the need for a change .

So lets concentrate in my hunting adventures (or disadventures ?? )

Today morning I went to check for tracks or any other sign of animal activity.

In the cornfield, nothing, nada, niente...only the tracks of a couple of foxes after the rain..

Then I walk around a field that is side by side to the cornfield and that has been planted with a special grass for feeding the cows.

It was full of axis tracks and one seemes to be the father of all axis !!! This confirmed what the man in charge told me the other night about a big one in the neighbourhood.

So it seems that against all my wishes I will have to poach another deer from my brother in law farm

He said no deers only pigs....but if there are no pigs I am not guilty true ????

Well, the thing is that next monday morning I will try to go again and move my plataform so I can have a better view of the other field.

So next tuesday or thurday night we will be prepared. If it's a brute I will tell my buddy to shoot it, I have kill one a few weeks ago so I must behave like a gentleman..

That all for the moment..

L

Good luck, L !!

I do hope it to be a fine deer !!

Actually I cannot decide which deer I like most, if the red sag or the axis ... I do wish yours to be a nice trophy !!!

Good luck and good shooting !

And don´t forget to take many pics

Lorenzo,
Don't give up. This looks like a promising situation. Thanks for sharing and keep us posted.
Jeff