Hi I was Wondering about wild boar hunting. I'am a little new to hunting boar. I already know about hog sign but i would like to know some more. If anyone could help out i would appreciate it. I would also like to know what you can use to bait an area for hog.


Thanks, mntman23

mntman -- welcome to the forum! Hogs love corn, and this is a gross understatement -- we call it hog crack. That is mainly what we use to bait areas. Where do you plan on hunting them and with what if you don't mind me asking?

PUT GASOIL IN THE FLOOR,PUT THE CORN IN A CAGE WITH HOLES ,SO THE BOAR NEEDS TO FIGTH WITH IT AND GIVE YOU TIME,BE CAREFULL WITH THE WIND,PUT ONIONS POTATOS OR APPLES IN THE FLOOR ...JUAN

Thanks for talking to me. Im going to be hunting them on my farm in east TN ,we have 500 acres. There has been alot of hog activity there and sightings. Im thinking about using a 30-06 springfeild. there are some big ones there on the farm. I have never hog hunted but I have family and freinds who have. I'am exited to start.

That sounds like a great opportunity! Mixing corn with diesel works great, but you can't go wrong if you just use corn -- they will come! '06 will make a great hog hammer with a good premium bullet. Hogs are a lot more densely built than deer and they test bullets more as a consequence. Keep us posted! And take lots of photos!

This is going to sound stupid , but diesel with corn how does the diesel work?

They love the smell of it and are very drawn to it. Not a stupid question at all.

Mntman23,
Welcome to AR. There are many folks here that have a wealth of info and experience that can help you.
Here are a couple of thoughts.
In Texas we can take hogs any time, night or day by any legal means (I do not know if dynomite is legal). I think you will find baiting hogs much more productive. You can do it cheap or expensive.
Short term.
If you know where hogs have been, dig a hole and pour in 40 to 50 lbs. of corn. Get some ‘HOG WILD†or strawberry jello and pour in the hole and mix up with the corn. Or you can get a 5 gallon can, fill it with corn, add diesel to cover and let it set a couple days before you put it in the hole. Cover it with some dirt so they have to dig to get it. Set off 40 to 100 yds and wait.

Make a hog pipe out of some 4 or 6 inch pvc pipe. Drill some 7/16 holes all along the pipe. Cover one end with a glue on cap. Put a threaded collar and cap on the other end. Drill a hole in either end and set an eye bolt with fender washers on either side of the cap. Attach some 3/8†air craft cable or a stout chain to the eyebolt and then to a tree or bush or put a screw in auger in the ground. Fill this with corn, diesel corn , corn and strawberry jello etc. Once the hogs find it they will worry that pipe until the corn runs out. You can keep them in the area all night if you have a big enough pipe.

Long term and more expensive. Get a 350 lb spin cast feeder. Set it up where you know there are hogs. Fill it with corn, deer pellets and roasted soybeans. Roasted soybeans smell like roasted peanuts and the hogs go absolutely nuts over this. Spin it twice a day, letting out enough mix so you won’t run out for at least a month. Wait a month or six weeks before you hunt it. In that amount of time the hogs get it in their "piggy" little brains that this is where the groceries are. Its like it is instinctual for them to come to the feeder. I have one feeder that I have been killing hogs off of for five years. I keep killin’ and they keep a comin’. Two or three of these feeders spread out around your farm will keep you killin’ hogs till your trigger finger gets callouses.

A 30-06 will work fine. A hogs heart is very low in his body so if you shoot them like a deer, they will run off, and if its pretty dense, you’ll have a tracking job. I try to shoot them about two inches below the ear, on a line between their ear and shoulder.
I skin them like I skin a deer. However they will dull a knife pretty quick. I use gerber's version of a Wyoming skinner to open them up, a forshner knife that looks like a fillet knife for caping and a battery operated sawszall for splitting the brisket and cutting out the ribs and the vertebrae. Be sure to post some pix of your kills later on, we would love to see them.
GWB
PS. Soon as you skin out your hog, take the tenders and soak them for about 15 minutes in teriyaki sauce, then season them with some garlic powder, tony chacheries original creole seasoning and black pepper. Grill them over a hot fire till they are about medium to medium well done and eat right off the grill. Its good enough to make you want to slap yo' daddy down

Geedubya wrote:

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PS. Soon as you skin out your hog, take the tenders and soak them for about 15 minutes in teriyaki sauce, then season them with some garlic powder, tony chacheries original creole seasoning and black pepper. Grill them over a hot fire till they are about medium to medium well done and eat right off the grill. Its good enough to make you want to slap yo' daddy down

You just HAD to go and mention that right before lunch time. Now that leftover casserole we're having for lunch doesn't sound so palatable anymore...

Thank you all for this valuble info!

Does anyone know how much it would be to get a boar mounted?

Shoulder mount? Right around $400.00 (give or take) the last time I checked. Here's one of mine:

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Originally posted by Geedubya:PS. Soon as you skin out your hog, take the tenders and soak them for about 15 minutes in teriyaki sauce, then season them with some garlic powder, tony chacheries original creole seasoning and black pepper. Grill them over a hot fire till they are about medium to medium well done and eat right off the grill. Its good enough to make you want to slap yo' daddy down

It made me hungry reading this in the afternoon, but now I am positively slobbering reading this segment of Geedubya's post......damn........

Witworth that is a nice boar! How many punds did it weigh? Were you using bait when hunting it?

Thank you sir!! He went right over 200-lbs (see picture below). We baited a road that I was sitting in a stand looking over. It was a hard 3-day hunt and I got him just as my visibilty went south, and I was on the verge of climbing out of my stand when he popped out of the forrest....... I took him with my .416......