Hogs are getting hungry - 02/11/13
Now that deer season is over, we are targeting the pigs directly. I snapped a few camera-phone photos the other day when we were baiting up.
This was just a 2.5' deep post-hole full of corn a few days earlier. My 3yr old could bathe in that hole now. You can see the box stand about 150yds back. I've got to do something about that horrid mint-green paint.
Here's one of our tripod feeders and the preferred method for filling it up. We back up the Tacoma underneath and use the short stepladder or just stand on the bedrails.
It's somewhat of a pain, but the taller solid-pipe legs get the feeder unit up high enough to keep bears from tearing it off. Also, the green posts and u-bolts keep the hogs from bumping the legs and spraddling them out, which will eventually dump the feeder. It's hard to tell, but all the legs on this feeder are suspended in mid-air, held up only by the posts and u-bolts, as the pigs have rooted holes around each leg. They are not as dumb as you might think. That pine plantation has game trails running through it like cattle have been feeding in there.
Then next step is some lighting on the feeders, as my daughters and I had 5 or 6 big black beasties come to that feeder Friday night, just past dark. We could hear them snuffling and grunting at the feeder, but it was just too late and dark to bring home any bacon. Anybody found an inexpensive (under $125) lighting setup that they like? I'd think that the motion lights would likely be a better bet for us, as we only hunt them once or twice a week and it would seem that a constantly "on" light would spook them when they see it only occasionally.
This was just a 2.5' deep post-hole full of corn a few days earlier. My 3yr old could bathe in that hole now. You can see the box stand about 150yds back. I've got to do something about that horrid mint-green paint.
Here's one of our tripod feeders and the preferred method for filling it up. We back up the Tacoma underneath and use the short stepladder or just stand on the bedrails.
It's somewhat of a pain, but the taller solid-pipe legs get the feeder unit up high enough to keep bears from tearing it off. Also, the green posts and u-bolts keep the hogs from bumping the legs and spraddling them out, which will eventually dump the feeder. It's hard to tell, but all the legs on this feeder are suspended in mid-air, held up only by the posts and u-bolts, as the pigs have rooted holes around each leg. They are not as dumb as you might think. That pine plantation has game trails running through it like cattle have been feeding in there.
Then next step is some lighting on the feeders, as my daughters and I had 5 or 6 big black beasties come to that feeder Friday night, just past dark. We could hear them snuffling and grunting at the feeder, but it was just too late and dark to bring home any bacon. Anybody found an inexpensive (under $125) lighting setup that they like? I'd think that the motion lights would likely be a better bet for us, as we only hunt them once or twice a week and it would seem that a constantly "on" light would spook them when they see it only occasionally.