I was lucky enough to acquire a place to hunt less than 20 mi from home. Problem is its only 40 ac and I am not sure if expensive feeders will disappear or not. Didnt expect to see much when I went to see it, but jumped a 8pt whitetail and 2 doe. Deer and Nilgai tracks all over, and lots of hog tracks, all less than 2 days old.

I am going to put out a pig pipe first as it wont be noticed in the thick salt grass (and its pretty cheap to make).

Any other ideas to low cost or no cost baiting? Terrain is coastal flats, clay soil, and very bushy salt grass and light brush.

Just hate to put up all the goodies until I feel it will be safe.

Use your imagination.

If you have game fence with holes, snares work great for hogs and coyotes.

A variation on a pig pipe. Get a 4 to 6 ft section of 6" pvc pipe. Put a 90 on it with 18" or so of pipe for the bottom leg or "L". Cap it. Cut a 3 or 4" hole in the top of the horizontal leg. Fill it with corn. It will then become a demand feeder. You may have seen the 5 gallon buckets with the broom handle or dowel hanging down out of a funnel. Deer nudge it and it also becomes a demand feeder. You can dig a hole 18" or so and fill with corn mixed with hog wild. Leave uncovered for deer. Put 4 to 6 inches of dirt over it for hogs.

If you have hogs, take a burlap feed sack, soak it in burnt motor oil. Wrap it around a tree or telephone pole and secure it with tie wire. Hogs like to rub against it. Helps with the fleas. Get a mineral block drill a hole all the way through it. Hang it from a tree limb say 40" off the ground. Deer will work it.

Like I said, use your imagination.

Best

GWB

That's further south than I got. But, where you talking about from Mission Air Field? Sure a hot SOB in Aug.
Hauled a load of dried beef blood from Rath Packing in Denver down there for uncle Sam's screw worm fly operation. Hired some locals to unload that stinking mess of dusty blood. When they were done the poor bastards looked like they'd been scalped & blood running all over 'em.
Couldn't have paid me to unload those trailers of 40,000# paper sacks. When they plopped 'em down on the pallets the red dust just flew. First trip we opened the door & the stink of those dead cows hit us like they'd been left in there all summer. Yikes!!
Wondered for years if that operation was still going or not. Do you know?
George

Bout 65 miles east of these, not to far from the Gulf.
The airfield is now used for other govt research, but similar aradication efforts are still in place.

I had a similar problem with trespassers at a lease I used to have. What I ended up doing was modifying the feeder barrel to attach to the top of the longest 4x4 post I could find. It was a lot of work to hump out and set up. But it was also too much work for anyone to ever bother stealing.

It lasted fine. Til a bear figured out to chew through the base of the pole and push it over.

Well, I hid a trail cam and threw some corn in front, got some good pics but no hogs. I am going to put a feeder at this spot and I bet they find it soon.

Try this for hogs: with post hole digger, dig a hole about 24" deep and fill it with corn, dump in a couple of packages of grape or raspberry jello and then pour diesel fuel over the corn until the hole is full. I know it sounds crazy, but for some reason they really like diesel soaked corn and will root a hole like you won't believe...or at least they do in our part of Texas.