I don't know how many of you hunt pigs at night but I am courious and open to learn new tips..!!!

I for example have 10 top rules:

1)In a bucket I put for a couple of weeks corn, sugar and water. I spread that on the ground when a feeder doesn't have much activity.

2)I set up a small scaffold and use it as a hunting plataform.

3)The moon must be in my back to give light to the bait.

4) The scaffold must be under a tree to keep me in the shadows.

5)Better not to have much bush around the scaffold. One or two trees is enough. Pigs prefer to move in the thick bush so if we have fairly open land behind us we will avoid pigs coming from behind us and winding us.

6) The bait must be a little bit retired from the bush to give us time to a second shot before loosing eye contact.

7)All candys and chocolats without papers.

8)The scaffold should be at least 80 metres away from the bait. Spooky pigs will work their way into the bait down wind so we should give them some space.

9)Get into the blind early

10)If something has not show up by midnight (12 pm) you can leave, after that they don't have any given hour to appear, it can be at 3 am, 5 am or never. Pigs rest during the day (at least here) and the first thing they do is going after the "sure food". Usually they will show up something between 8 pm and 11 pm.

I highly recomend a small light scaffold, they are easy to put together and easy to carry disasembled (sp)in the back of a truck. Also they are cheap and you can move it from here to there depending where the pigs are. I wire them to a tree or something to make it more stable.

What tips do you have ???

L

I have never hunted them at night as in Florida, where I have done most of my hog hunting, it isn't legal to hunt them at night. That said, I would love to do it. I hope to change that in the near future!

I like to hunt under a full moon and a clear sky. Then, artificial light is not needed.

What I do is frequent areas which have lots of hog activity. I look over the open areas and the fringes. The dark-coloration of the hogs makes them stand out like a sore thumb, especially against light-colored foliage.

Lorenzo-Your methods sound terrific!

On the last ranch I hunted, I either shot them from our regular deer stands (elevated box blinds) over corn feeders or I would drive the ranch roads just before dark using a truck-mounted tailgate feeder to spread corn on the roads. Then I would go back to camp, park the truck, and begin stalking the roads on foot into the wind. I have a red light that clips on my scope and I carry the 12v battery in a canteen carrier on my belt. I have often walked up to within 10-15 yds of a group of hogs busily vacuuming the corn off the ground with them being totally unaware of my presence until "bang" and then it was a mad scramble. Only drawback to this method is that corn in the road attracts rats and mice, and in turn, the rattlesnakes. You have to remember to look down and around as well as ahead.

I also hunted them with bow and arrow from tripod seats set within good bow range of the feeder.

Walking the roads at night was by far my favorite method.

Another great tip for night hunting:

I know that some hunters spread white sawdust on their feeding ground. This way you can see the pigs even when it is cloudy. We aren't allowed to use any artificial lighting or nightvision or anything like that, so creating a clear contrast between the dark pigs and light ground is the only way to go.

A few years back in a Texas Trophy Hunters magazine I read an article about using one of those "green lights" that are sold for fishing. The author took b&w photos of a feeder with a green light affixed to one leg; the feeder had pigs under it, and it was well after dark. He explained that the light is soft enough that it doesn't bother the pigs, and apparently this is true, judging from the photo.

He used a photo-cell and an automobile battery as a power source.

I am a hobby bullet caster, and one of the things I want to do is develop a subsonic load for .30-30 using heavy cast bullets, an NEF Handi-Rifle, and hunt over a feeder set up with a green light. A subsonic load should let you work on them pretty good, I would think!

I use the Red LED 6V feederlight sold by Texasboars.com .This boar (130lb) was shot by a friend of mine at a feeder last friday at 8:00pm under the red light.

Sean

step 1 ---
wait till dark!!

you can do it a couple ways..
1: have a friend spotlight for you
2: have a red LOW LEVEL light system
3: do it in the moonlight
4: truck/atv head lights

When I use to guide hog hunters in Crane we would.....

#1 - Spin out corn from all feeders during daylight so that the night would be productive.

#2 - walk up to the blinds that were around 75-100 yards from the feeder.

#3 - Listen for the hogs feeding.

#4 - Tell hunter which direction the feeder is, tell them to turn their scope to low power (3x, etc) for quick finding.

#5 - guide would look through night vision and find hog, tell hunter which side of the feeder the pig was at, size, etc.

#6 - Guide would turn on spotlight whenever hunter had round chambered and safety off, hog wouldn't know what hit him

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Originally posted by 475/480:
I use the Red LED 6V feederlight sold by Texasboars.com .This boar (130lb) was shot by a friend of mine feeder last friday at 8:00pm under the red light.

Sean

Sean,

I have already decided to buy one of those, I have heard VERY good things about them. I am trying to find someone to bring them to my country for me which is not something difficult.

BTW, great hog !!

L