Best Way To Attract Deer And Hogs?

Attract deer or hogs would be the most accurate statement. Hogs have a great way of running deer off rather quickly. Its been my experience that the best way to attract hogs is to try to get rid of them.:D The harder we work at erradicating them, the more there seem to be.
 
Best way to attract them.......Plant some crop you don’t want them to eat. They’ll come running and bring friends.
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This is so true. If you care about it, THEY WILL COME and eat it. Rosebushes, raspberry plants, flowering dogwoods, EUCALYPTUS SAPLINGS. If your wife or mother loves it, you can't build fences high enough.

EDITED TO ADD: My mother once read to spray vinegar on her plants to repel the deer. Worked the opposite way, it must have been like salad dressing to them. So maybe spray some on the corn :p
 
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My best answer is to go to Utube and look up a bunch of fellers that make pig chow that works according to them. Their UTube I.d. is: Bohemianhuntingclub. (Topic: HOW TO-RECIPE #1 HOG BAIT)__No speculating. These boys appear to know what their doing most of the time.
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Along with regular feeding of corn, a salt/mineral block also works well for deer.

When I used to feed corn off the ground and was starting out a new area, I'd usually mix some molasses and apples in with the corn for first few piles. After the deer got feeding regular on the pile, I'd just use corn.
 
Food plots, its already the time of year where you can be planting things that will attract deer.

You don't want hogs if you can help it, but if you put out stuff for deer to eat you might end up with hogs.

There is a lot of stuff you can plant to attract deer, consider buying a couple different seed mixes for whitetail food plots. I think this will help more than corn. Although if you do want to use corn, get yourself a feeder. It will spread out corn without leaving your smell around it.
 
Corn. All that is needed. Hurt deer digestive tract? No way. I live in a sparsley populated rural subdivision. A neighbor spends $200.00 a month on corn for the deer. They eat what he puts out then come to my place for more.
The salt block is good too. But I don't use it because I take a lot of pictures of the deer and that big white block ruins the pics.
 
Alex, I thought the best reason for feeding corn was to get deer used to your smell. Deer smells you and says "hmm, smells like my food." Instead of "hmm, I better throw tail in air and run." I spend so much time on my trophy hunting land that deer smell me year round and pay my smell very little attention. On my meat hunting land, its a whole different story.
 
reynolds357..I really never thought of it like that....The deer on my management property are less skiddish than those on other property..but my thoughts were they are around people more and there is less hunting pressure....They all come to corn tho....
 
I thought the best reason for feeding corn was to get deer used to your smell. Deer smells you and says "hmm, smells like my food." Instead of "hmm, I better throw tail in air and run."
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Have a good friend that feeds the deer on the far side his land by hauling it out in pails everyday or so in the back of his 4-wheeler. He has been doing it for years. The deer are so accustomed to it, that all he has to do is start the 4-wheeler by the garage and they start to come outta the woods heading toward the feeding spot.
 
Corn works!

Next to my property about 30 yards from the treeline I weed whacked a patch of thick grass out and spread some corn (just to get deer moving in the area, not to hunt) and I went back the next day and the corn was gone and the patch was full of hoof prints! :D. Looks like the deer are feeding!!
 
The best way for me to attract a pig is to say to myself, chances are I'm not going to run into a pig, then I hike down to the pecan bottom without my gun. Works every time!
 
Deers like sweet clover too. Make a clearing and plant it. I've also heard the sound of a chain saw will sometimes attract deer??Why, because they know they'll find lots of the tender new growth shoots of the tree they can't normally reach.


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Corn works!
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Yes, deer and hogs will eat it. You don't have to do anything to it and they will eat it. Having a proper delivery system will make it a lot easier on you to provide the corn and then ideally concentrate your population at least during feeding periods.

You can use soured corn, but I haven't seen anybody with a good metering system that dispenses it at regular intervals. You can dig a post hole and fill it with corn, but then you have to dig a hog and if the hogs get into it (which you hope) then your post hole grows exponentially in size and sooner or later you need to back fill it. Digging and backfilling can be a lot of unnecessary work.

Pig pipes are great for pigs, but have to be filled fairly often once the pigs find them. You can attach a bell on the pipe and hear from a distance when the animals are getting after the pipe, but unless you can fill it every few days, a pig pipe may not be the way to go.

On demand gravity feeders do a good job, but can be emptied by pigs in short order as well.

Motorized dispersing feeders, depending on size can cost $100-500+ (I have never paid more than 140 and if you do fabrication, you can save a lot of money) and can meter out corn or a specific schedule (digital timer) with multiple feeding times and varied amounts of dispensed corn. As mine are smaller feeders, I get about 3-4 weeks of feeding out of 75 lbs from one feeder and closer to 10 weeks out of 150 lbs from the other.

Food plots can be absolutely wonderful. They can also be a lot of work, are not portable, and as with farmers, your food plot can readily be killed by nature. Food plots can be relatively pricey when you consider time and equipment involved and their appeal really varies over time, but it can be a fairly long period of time if not wiped out early. My winter plot (planted in late Sept) has provided browse for the deer all winter (becoming of interest in December after the acorns started to become scarce) and now has a particular appeal to a population of turkeys (though they seem to be harvesting bugs from it, not the plants yet as there is no grain). The hogs have already destroyed about 10% of it from rooting over the course of just 2 nights and if last year is any indication, the hogs and deer will virtually obliterate everything in about 3 weeks time once the grain comes in to maturity.

What goes in your food plot will vary depending on your local environmental conditions and how much work you want to put into it. On some of the hunting forums, there are guys who grow award-winning-like food plots that have electric fences on them for the first few weeks, install irrigation systems, fertilize, pesticide, herbicide, etc., just like growing real crops for human consumption. They grow wonderful plots and have good hunting, but they also have significant investments in time, labor, and materials. I like to plant forage that will thrive well in the local conditions without all that work.
 
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Where we hunt there are no grain fields or apple orchards. Deep timber places. Deer love to eat fallen acorns, especially from white oak trees. We gather seveal bushels from trees right in town and owners are glad to see them gone. Then we spread an area day before we hunt there. This strategy works enough of the time to make it worth the effort.

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Yeah, I think if I could figure out a way to conveniently harvest and store acorns from my own property, I would do so. In north Texas, acorns are preferred food for deer and hogs and the feeders are largely ignored during October and November. No doubt in other parts of the country other resources are such as pine nuts in the Great Basin.
 
When I want to attract deer, I plant a garden :) they will eat it down to nothing without the electric fence, fall I take the fence down and have deer right there off the deck.....

really, a garden full of tomatoes and sweet corn will bring em right in. Apple trees work too.
 
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