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For any of you who hunt in a state where feeding or baiting hogs is legal, here's a recipe. Get a couple 6 gallon buckets, pour them about 1/2 to 2/3s full of corn, not all the way full because the wet corn will swell. Cracked will work even better because it doesn't go through a feeder and being cut up or cracked will allow faster fermenting. Cover the corn with water, then add about a teaspoon of baker's yeast and a couple tablespoons to a half cup of sugar (Or hell maybe some cherry Jello). Let it sit for 4 or 5 days. Add some hog wild or some cherry, strawberry or other red colored jello powder or at least pour a bottle of Big Red Soda in it, and mix it in. Hogs love that. Then if you have coons, you can add about a cup or two of Diesel Fuel. Believe me, the hogs won't care and the coons will avoid it like the plague. If there's any pigs in the neighborhood, they'll be there soon. Oh yeah for this just throw it on the ground or take a post hole digger and dig some holes about a foot and a half deep and pour some of this corn in each hole up to about 6-8 inches from the ground level and cover it up with dirt, stomping on it with the heel of your boot to pack it. It's a little work, but the hogs will smell it and root it out. But the cows or coons, OR crows even won't bother it. Hogs love to root. It's what they do.
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What does the diesel do, besides keep the raccoons away? Wouldn't the diesel fuel be poisonous?
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Thanks for the recipe. Me and the other hog shooters in my group will give it a go. We've had a couple feeders stolen already and we've resorted to these sorts of baiting methods more frequently.
Ross, TJ Max and other discount stores like that sell off brand jams, jellies and even corn syrup too. It's cheap and makes a great sweetner for hog bait.
And the coons are welcome...all...are welcome... :devil:
Interesting mix for the hogs. Over the last 25 plus years I've tried some of these homemade bate mixes. I never say never but I've not seen any of these mixes bring in any more hogs that weren’t already showing up on the game cameras. Your mix has one ingredient that I use when we have kids, friends and family from out of state come out to the ranch to hunt.
I never want anyone who comes out to the ranch to hunt to leave without seeing hogs and at least getting a shot on a hog. No hunt is guaranteed but I really stress over those hunts and do my best to put the kids where the hogs are consistently showing up. On those hunts I’ll spread three or four packs of Jello (they seem partial to watermelon flavor on my ranch :cool2:) on the ground under the feeder and throw it up into the mesquite trees so the wind will carry the scent. More times than not when I do this we see the hogs about 20 minutes earlier than normal. I think the fine Jello powders scent in the trees travels farther than what’s on the ground.
I’m gonna pass your mix to my neighbor who loves to try out these concoctions! Thanks for sharing!
John 3: 1-21
One thing , after you mix your bait, put it in a hog pipe (google it) and chain it to a creosote coated telephone pole section. Hogs will rub on creosote poles enough to eventually break them. It helps them De-flea themselves. One bonus on the hog pipe is that the pigs will make enough noise to wake you up in your blind
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Anyway, thanks for the advice on the Creosote posts. Hogs are weird. They like anything with creosote, Diesel and any kind of mineral spirit, and Jello, or big red. The creosote and Diesel must be because what you said, it must de flea them. They like sweet stuff too. And as Jeff said above, I don't think you will draw hogs from far away with anything. They will show up at your feeder eventually if you have them on the property, but the jello and all that mentioned just seems to lure them in to where you are specifically and get them out of the brush where you can't see them. But any red fruity concoction they do like. However, I knew a guy that would cut up onions on top of a pile of corn and pour buttermilk on it all. He swore this worked better than anything and he didn't even ferment his corn.
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This is what I've heard too and the big reason I pour it on the rotted corn. Something about any red berry they love. Or even a cherry.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
I absolutely HATE Anise. But then again I'm not trying to lure myself, and Hogs love a lot of crap I wouldn't eat, like tires and creosote and Diesel and even manure for instance.
I'm definitely going to try this. I have about three good places where I can shoot hogs on this property, and I'll try different things at different places. But something about Anise makes me think a hog will love it.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
OK I'll bite, what the hell is Sambuca?
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Hey, they may really come in to Red wine, Here have a drink porky!!!:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
As my wife would say it's Japanese carburetor cleaner they drink! :rotflmao:
John 3: 1-21
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.