Here, boars love to rub themselves on pine trees (the resin kills the parasites)
Tar works pretty well too.
Quietness is the golden rule to keep them on a spot.

X2 on the diesel, other animals won't fool with it. Doesen't take alot of diesel by the way.

A 3 liter bottle with corn, a little bit of flat soda maybe, or something sweet and fill it with water and cap it for a few weeks.  When it's good and smelly, tie it to a tree, T-post, or just bury it up to the neck.  without the cap.  They'll come around and start batting it about trying to get the corn out.  Cutting a few holes in it helps too.

After a good run on the catfish, I dump a 5 gal bucket of heads and guts out, keeps them comming like flies.

[/QUOTE]I'm not sure that hogs have universally bad eyesight. I think it matters as to the environment. I think in the forest, where they don't have to see great distance, they focus only where they have to... like for truffles.

However, when hunted in the plain or on the ranches here, when they saw you coming from a distance, even great distance of several hundred yards, they were off at a dead run, and so that experience has led me to believe that their eyesight is somewhat driven by the environment they find themselves.

I think that they hear pretty good too, but their nose is every bit as you say...

Much Aloha..   :cool:  [/QB][/QUOTE]

I've always heard they don't see very well until they see ya.  :rolleyes:

you guys that use diesel fuel must not eat the hog meat?

I wouldn't want anything I was eating to be ingesting diesel fuel...

Have to ride with Ray on this one. Like my pork sweet.

Diesel fuel, hummm. Just shoot 'em and light a match to 'em. Have your pork roast right in the field.    

Sour the corn with water and the cheapest beer I can find in a five gallon bucket. Add in Kool Aid and any fruit that I can find. Seal up the  bucket, and usually when the top begins to bulge out (2-3 weeks), it was ready. I just poured mine on the ground because I wasn't going to put that stuff anywhere near my feeder, but I did have the luxury of hunting them away from my spot. Good luck, and kill 'em all.

QuoteOriginally posted by marshratTC:
Sour the corn with water and the cheapest beer I can find in a five gallon bucket. Add in Kool Aid and any fruit that I can find. Seal up the  bucket, and usually when the top begins to bulge out (2-3 weeks), it was ready. I just poured mine on the ground because I wasn't going to put that stuff anywhere near my feeder, but I did have the luxury of hunting them away from my spot. Good luck, and kill 'em all.

X2!  Once they get a taste of the "spirits" they enjoy getting buzzed on it and cannot help themselves to return.

Has anybody tried putting out a Keg with a nipple on it!  

QuoteOriginally posted by Benjy:
Has anybody tried putting out a Keg with a nipple on it!    

That would work too.

I bet even I could sneek up on an intoxicated hog!

I may have to put a bucket in a hole and put a six pack in to see what happens! That could be interesting. I think I'll try it this weekend!

Benjy

Might catch a Mike Vines wollowing around in it if your real quiet.

Mike, I hope you're not going to be in SC this weekend!

Very interesting guys.

Thanks for sharing.

QuoteOriginally posted by Mike Vines:
Might catch a Mike Vines wollowing around in it if your real quiet.

I was thinking the same thing.  If you guys leave out a bunch of free beer, I'd probably show up too.

try grape koolaid with the sugar already in it just pout it in your corn or pour it around the corn. i have had good luck with sow in heat scent,,,,,only for big boars though.  if you want meat hogs , sows just stick to the soured corn and koolaid with the sugar already mixed in.

sour corn with left over fish trimmings and used cooking oil poured in with all.  Keeps the deer away and the oil keeps the hogs coming back even after all the other has been eaten up.  I have tried the cool aid and seem to have a more immediate response with the fish trimmings and used cooking oil.

I thought I had heard about the diesel fuel before. Will it keep raccoons off, too? We have a problem in our hog traps of the raccoons eating the corn before the hogs show up.