Although we seldom see them, my deer lease is over run with hogs, who root so aggressively that some areas look as if they were just disced.

Unfortunately we don't have access to dogs, and I'm hoping that someone can give me some tips on the best way to hunt them. My current plan is to hunt them out of stands over post-holes filled with soured corn. Any strategies, tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated.

I've had good luck with them coming in to corn -- feed the areas close to the rooting or close to water and look for signs that they are hitting it. If it is legal (it generally is in Texas with notice to the game warden advisable) you may have better opportunities at night. Once they are hunted hard they may become completely nocturnal and quite shy, in which case you may have to try trapping them.

If you are not seeing them then you are not yet fully infested! Good luck taking some of them.

feed in an area for them if you dont see them in the daylight move a stand about 50 yards from feed and hit them with a spotlight at night when you hear them. easy enough to hunt them with scoped rifles and full moon over bait or use hog lights at your feeders

where you located? you may have access to dogs and not know it

pigs are nocturnal,and thats why you don,t see them that much.If you use corn,put a tiny bit of diesel fuel mixed in it. Yes thats what i said! The hogs will still eat it and it doesn,t bother them,but the reason is,is that it keeps the racoons away from eating it all up before the hogs find it! It does work. van

Another method is to take a burlap bag, wire it to a tree or fence post, soak it in used motor oil, and put a stand up close to it. The pigs will use it as a rubbing post to rid themselves of parasites. (That is the reason you see creosoted posts polished smooth in areas where there are lots of pigs...)

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Originally posted by Doubless:
Another method is to take a burlap bag, wire it to a tree or fence post, soak it in used motor oil, and put a stand up close to it. The pigs will use it as a rubbing post to rid themselves of parasites. (That is the reason you see creosoted posts polished smooth in areas where there are lots of pigs...)

An area in south texas with the largest population of hogs I've ever seen or heard of has a creosote telephone pole that's been rubbed so much by hogs it's about to break and fall over.

Nocturnal? Not the ones on our lease. I seldom sit a blind without seeing from 10 to 20 hogs, ranging from 40 lbs to 200 lbs.

They do tend to move later in the hot weather however, and I spend more time shooting them at night with a red light in the hot months.

The hogs have to be "somewhere" durring the day.

If you feel adventurous try this.
Get the wind right. Then very quietly walk your lease. They will usually be in thick cover.

Just this last weekend I walked up on 3 pigs sleeping near the river.
Could have shot one but did not want to fool with butchering it this week.

I have walked up and shot a lot of them at 17 to 30 yards or so.

Bait them with corn ,near thhe water hole put corn and gasoil in the floor ,put a tree stand and wait you will kill some ,can you hunt at nigth with moonligth ....Juan

This is purely based on getting rid of them on my family's place.

We had the best luck finding their main bedding and feeding areas, and then going after them in jeeps at night. Pigs tend to be pretty noisy, and it was very quiet 22 miles from town. We'd go out walking at night, listening, and finding their main areas.

I'm assuming you want to eliminate them. You won't disturb your deer too much (they'll all be back when the pigs are gone, at any rate.) and if you keep hitting their bedding grounds/main feeding areas, you should be to drive them out/kill them off.

Buy a trap, leave the door open and feed it for a week. Set it the next week and you will catch as many hogs as you want. Get a trap that keeps trapping after the door is sprung.

Perry

Trapping is the best way to remove a large # of hogs at once.