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I did not want to derail the baiting post with this one. So how close do you get to your bait for night time hunts? Reason I ask is we have been out a couple nights this summer and they are coming close but not close enough to light up (literally :-) ) We have one stand ~ 30m from one (right next to standing water) and the other is about 50m off (this one is open field). We have doe coming in so I would think we are scent neutral but you never know. Or maybe I should change my cologne  | ||
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Dew, I get within 20 yards of the feeder. I can take a couple of longer shots through the holes in the swamp but due to were I hunt it is all got to be close. When I get the hang of posting up I will show you what I mean. I've taken them at up to 100 yards but not were I regularly hunt. | |||
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Thanks, just wanted wanted to run it by the forum. I think we need to focus on our bait...not smelly enough to bring them in  | |||
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Put n take place I shot two in Fla in '11. Feeder threw plain corn out about 30 FEET from the blind. Lot's of hogs everytime it went off they'd come on the run. Some would just stand there staring at us, they knew we were there. Including the two boars I shot. There were hogs shot from that blind nearly every day I was told. Once they get to feeding on it regularly it seemed like they'd be there when the bell rang regardless of the shooters killing one often. Good luck, George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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First of all, "put n take" places have almost nothing in common with free ranging feral hogs. In the example you mentioned, the hogs probably are fenced into a really small area and the feeders are the only real food so, naturally, they come in anyway. In my experience with wild hogs at my place in NE Texas, if you shoot one or two at a given location, feeder or otherwise, they will often avoid it for an extended period of time, measured in weeks or months. However, because of a general lack of food, I understand, the hogs in SW Texas are more programmed to come to feeders and will return sooner. To answer the OP, it depends on the terrain and the wind. You can be practically on top of hogs if they don't know you're there and the primary way they know that is scent. Hogs have unbelievable noses, at least as good as deer IMO. Secondarily they have acute hearing. As a general rule, for guns, I'd say 25-30 yards downwind would be about as close as I'd like to set up (farther would likely be better), IF the terrain allows. If you're bow hunting, way up in a tree, then you can be basically on top of them, literally. Put out some solar powered landscape lights. It will take them a few days but the hogs will get used to them and you will be able to see them well enough to shoot. xxxxxxxxxx When considering US based operations of guides/outfitters, check and see if they are NRA members. If not, why support someone who doesn't support us? Consider spending your money elsewhere. NEVER, EVER book a hunt with BLAIR WORLDWIDE HUNTING or JEFF BLAIR. I have come to understand that in hunting, the goal is not the goal but the process. | |||
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Damn good advice all the way round. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Gato: Yeah I realize that. Seems like he said it was 47acres. But, they'd busted a whole thru the outter fence and ranged into the forest too. Imagine open country hogs are a whole lot different. Maybe I should have thought of that before posting. Thanks for the education. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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My bow setups are 15-20 yds from the feed pens and my rifle sets (same feeders) are 100-125 yds. I have the solar paneled landscape lights at each feeder, and I can put the crosshairs on a hog from that distance easy. An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool" | |||
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I draw the line when I get powder burns on the pig! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Easier that way--don't have as many bristles left to scald and scrape!  An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool" | |||
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