Had an excellent opportunity to test this -- shot a boar Monday night and spined him, right in front of the trap. You can see the dark bloody spot between the feeder legs.




Here is the same night--about 2.5-3 hours later.




Guess I should have stayed in the stand?

The only thing I am pretty certain of, is that neither deer or pigs write or read all those books concerning how they are "Supposed" to respond to certain things.

Yep--gonna be back in the stand tomorrow night or Friday. Got time on my hands, sharp broadheads, and pigs that need killin'

I've had deer sniff carcasses of freshly-shot coyotes, bobcats and hogs and not spook at all. And I've killed hogs within feet of where I recently took out another hog.

Only killed the two wild hogs. First one Sunday morning, that afternoon others killed a couple on the same spot from the same blind. Next morning I killed my second one.
I was told that was an almost everyday producing spot. "no telling how much blood has soaked into the ground there" he said.

Friend Jimmy kills about ten farm pigs a week within 2 feet of the same spot in his shop everytime. Puts a handful of ground corn down and sticks the muzzle of a .22 between their eye's and pops 'em. When done butchering, rinses it off with a hose. No way the smell can be rinsed off. IF it wasn't inside and having to walk on it they'd likely not even hose it off.

George

In Florida, I shot a pig on a travel route and the rest came back a little later to finish the corn I had put down. They were moving the one I shot with their shouts to get the corn under him. No, blood doesn't bother them.

I've read where there's been bodies disposed of in pig pens.

George

I shot the Alpha buck this year in my area on the ranch in the morning. About 20m later I shot the doe that kept staring at the downed buck. Nice double lung there with a healthy spray.

In the evening not five hours later I had plenty of deer feeding on the corn I dumped in the blood.

I used to believe that shooting a deer would taint the land and other deer would stay away. Not anymore...

When I was guiding hog hunters, we would leave the one that we shot in the evening so that during the night we could hit the carcass with spotlights and get a few more.

Did that twice a week for a few years lol. Was great fun. The AR forum had me addicted to purchasing new firearms and trading to new calibers. I was able to test a lot of different calibers and loads on the pigs. Loved it.

Early on in my hog hunting career, if I may call it that, I killed a hog in California. We field dressed him to make retrieval easier that afternoon. On the way by the next morning, I noted that nothing was left of the offal except for a bit of blood and lots of hog tracks.

So no, I don't believe blood spooks them at all.