How far can a hog be baited?

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How far can a hog be baited?

I almost hit one on a dirt road approx 1.5mi as the crow flies from my house. There's a pretty substantial creek and a corn field over there. I was just wondering how difficult it would be to lure one all the way over to my house. It would be about 1.5 miles through thick GA pines.

Would that be possible? Probable??
 
In my experience with the dang things while hunting here in the low country. If there is a corn pile or food plot they WILL find it!
 
IMO you can get them that far no problem,Its rid of um is a pain in the backside.I would shoot him over around the creek & not bring him live to your home.Kill him over yonder!!! :D THATS JUST ME.
 
I went for my phone to shoot him with the camera but he was GONE! It was dark and he was black and before I could get the shot he had tore off through the cow pasture. Probably about 150lbs. All that land belongs to my neighbors and what they don't farm they lease out to a hunting club. Don't think they'd look to kindly on me for shooting up the neighborhood in the middle of the night. Don't put it past me to drop a trap out there at 1am on a tuesday or something, though ;)
 
Any pungent bait will attract hogs from a long, long way when they're downwind.

It has been reported here and at THR that anti-freeze, poured on the ground, is an attractant, as is corn which has been soaked in beer until it's stinky.
 
When I had pigs bedding down on an adjacent property, they would come to one of my traps when the wind blew that direction. Those pigs are gone now.
 
I don't think that it would be impossible to get pigs to travel over a mile, but they follow a routine for periods. Generally, unless disturbed, what they did today, they will do tomorrow.
 
Fear not ferel hog hunter. If the hogs are at the neighbors or the neighbors neighbor, they will be trampling your place as well. Water and feed (corn) and for sure for sure you'll be in hog heaven til it turns hellish.
 
Agreed, if you saw one 1.5 miles away, then they are probly closer to you than that already.


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If you have any stumps on your place, pour some used motor oil over one or two. The hogs will rub up against them.
 
Find out who the president of the club is who leases that property. You might be surprised he just may thank you for taking care of the problem. Many hunting clubs around here actually welcome non members when deer season is out to come and take out some of them.
 
used oil does work and mix cherry or berry or grape jellow with alittle water in a bit of corn but I usually get about 2 gallons of corn and about 2-3 cups of diesel and mix together and pour out or use in trap. Hogs love it and critters and birds leave it alone.
 
Used oil/creosote posts are medicinal anti-cootie rub attractants.

As for baiting, I use straight up sour corn using only corn, yeast and water. I save the "juice" liquid poured back to the bucket to sling up high on the surrounding foliage (6 feet to 12 feet high) so the scent goes further, faster on the breezes.

I feel after just a few hours on the breeze, you are drawing from miles away. if they have plenty of food and water where they are, they will possibly ignore it. But if on the hunt, they will find you bait.

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save the "juice" liquid poured back to the bucket to sling up high on the surrounding foliage (6 feet to 12 feet high) so the scent goes further, faster on the breezes.

I feel after just a few hours on the breeze, you are drawing from miles away. if they have plenty of food and water where they are, they will possibly ignore it. But if on the hunt, they will find you bait.
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Works for me too.
 
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