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Title: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on March 01, 2016, 04:03:12 PM: Well yesterday trapping season ended here in VA. So tomorrow I start running a hog bait. I got a new wireless trail camera that sends photos via text and e-mail, which will save a little gas. I'll share photos of the hogs I get on camera here and write about my hunts. I'll be hunting mostly at night. I have a motion activated green light, which turns on slowly and increases light over a few seconds. I'll be bowhunting with a lighted sight.

Couple of photos from last year

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on March 01, 2016, 04:18:06 PM: tag ;)
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Jonathan_S on March 01, 2016, 04:25:59 PM: I hope you have better luck this year. Stick a few!

Can you run hog traps there? The big pen style ones?
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on March 01, 2016, 04:35:41 PM: You can, but I can't on these properties. I have 5 properties that have hogs on them and they are all part of a hunting club. Can hunt as hard and as often as I want, but no trapping. :(
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: gaddy on March 02, 2016, 10:06:31 AM: how many can you take a year?
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on March 02, 2016, 11:24:28 AM: Quote from: gaddy on March 02, 2016, 10:06:31 AM
how many can you take a year?

No limit, as many as you can kill every day of the year.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: rtspring on March 02, 2016, 11:28:52 AM: What Trail cam ard you using for text pics? Im shopping for one on my property and dont know which one to get. Also whats it cost to set it up with your cell phone provider??
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on March 02, 2016, 11:36:37 AM: Spartan GoCam Blackout IR (Verizon Version) Got it for $400 at the Great American Sports show in Harrisburg, PA last month. Eventually you'll be able to add the device to your existing Verizon plan for $5 a month. Hopefully by the end of April. But right now I am on the HCO plan which is $17.99 a month. I can receive about 5000 photos a month at that rate.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Kit Carson on March 02, 2016, 04:17:20 PM: Looking forward to this thread! Get em Machias!! :tup:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 02, 2016, 04:20:27 PM: :archery_smiley:

Hope ya get a chance to stick some :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: rtspring on March 02, 2016, 05:14:13 PM: Quote from: Machias on March 02, 2016, 11:36:37 AM
Spartan GoCam Blackout IR (Verizon Version) Got it for $400 at the Great American Sports show in Harrisburg, PA last month. Eventually you'll be able to add the device to your existing Verizon plan for $5 a month. H
opefully by the end of April. But right now I am on the HCO plan which is $17.99 a month. I can receive about 5000 photos a month at that rate.

Thank You!!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: shootem on March 03, 2016, 12:39:20 AM: Keep the story coming
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: bowhunterforever on March 03, 2016, 01:41:41 AM: Quote from: shootem on March 03, 2016, 12:39:20 AM
Keep the story coming
:yeah:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on March 03, 2016, 05:03:04 AM: Will do, probably be a little slow until they find the bait site, but since I'm using one from last spring they should be on it pretty quick.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Karl Blanchard on March 03, 2016, 05:21:05 AM: Tagging along. Give em hell Fred!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 04, 2016, 07:13:54 AM: FINALLY, I moved my bait site a week ago and they finally hit it last night. They were on the bait from 0330 to 0615 and the four hogs cleaned up 50 pounds of bait last night.

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on April 04, 2016, 11:39:15 AM: Gonna be some expensive Bacon by the time you land one :chuckle:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 04, 2016, 11:40:34 AM: Time to stack some bacon!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: JakeLand on April 04, 2016, 09:51:23 PM: Hopefully some bacon in the smoker soon !!! Keep us filled in :tup:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 05, 2016, 06:30:23 PM: Bait site #2 got hammered this morning!!

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: JakeLand on April 05, 2016, 08:39:55 PM: Lets see some hanging in the meat locker!!!!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 06, 2016, 04:29:15 PM: Sadly it will be several days before I get a chance to hunt them. I'm heading to Florida tomorrow for 5 days. So it will be all the way until next Friday before I finally get a chance to hunt them. I made a couple of pig sticks, so hopefully that will keep enough bait in the area until I get back and rebait next Tuesday.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: ribka on April 06, 2016, 06:52:09 PM: Good luck Fred

You think they are tougher to hunt than a mature whitetail?
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: JimmyHoffa on April 06, 2016, 07:15:11 PM: Are you using dry corn for your bait?
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 06, 2016, 07:21:46 PM: I think they are on par with a cagy whitetail. Yes dry corn.

It's KILLING me, I have a wireless camera and right now there are hogs on my bait.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: JimmyHoffa on April 06, 2016, 07:34:06 PM: Some things I've seen in the past to slow them down when eating:
dig a hole with a post hole digger and pour some corn, then add a rock/brick/cinderblock, then add more corn, then rock/brick...etc. They have to dig a little, then they have to get the rock moved out of the way, then dig some more.
The other thing was making sour mash. Then you can spray it on trees and grass, they'll smell it and keep searching even when the kernels are all eaten up.
Those might be a little too much effort, plus the fun of explaining why you are making sour mash out in the woods.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 06, 2016, 07:38:07 PM: I did dig three holes with a post hole digger, so they are having to work for it. I think the pig stick is really going to help, 4 inch PVC pipe with a few half inch holes drilled in. It's on a short chain staked to the ground, so they can roll it around and slowly eat the corn.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: pianoman9701 on April 06, 2016, 09:17:23 PM: I hope you're able to get some pics or vid when you start killing these pigs, Fred. Have fun.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: jasnt on April 07, 2016, 06:08:13 AM: Tagging along
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Jonathan_S on April 07, 2016, 09:31:49 AM: Quote from: Machias on April 06, 2016, 07:21:46 PM
I think they are on par with a cagy whitetail. Yes dry corn.

It's KILLING me, I have a wireless camera and right now there are hogs on my bait.

This makes me want to run traps for them so bad!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 13, 2016, 07:05:54 AM: So I went to Florida for 5 days and had pigs on the bait almost non-stop for 5 days. Got home and rebaited. FINALLY got to hunt last night. Got into my stand at 1900 and sat until 2300. Had a couple of coons come in and a deer. No pigs. Get down and make it back to the truck at 2325. Drive home and walk in the house at 0025. Check my phone and I have a couple of photos from my wireless camera and low and behold I have three pigs on the bait. First one strolled in at 0015. Who's tracking who??

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Jonathan_S on April 13, 2016, 07:06:50 AM: Wow. Those scoundrels must have a sixth sense :o
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 13, 2016, 07:52:55 AM: While I was in Florida I got 2500 photos at the 2 bait sites. One really nice boar with some big tusks. Also I rarely get a daytime photo.

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: jasnt on April 13, 2016, 09:59:52 AM: Sounds a lot like baiting deer or elk. All the pics are at night
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 13, 2016, 03:35:53 PM: Yes, but unlike deer and elk, I get to hunt them at night. :)
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Kit Carson on April 13, 2016, 07:20:13 PM: That's creally! Lol who is tracking who...that's right!
You'll get one soon
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 13, 2016, 07:41:33 PM: :tup:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 15, 2016, 06:20:49 AM: One of my bait sites, when I first had the pigs coming in back at the end of March had 4 nice sized pigs on the bait. The last 2 weeks only 3 have been coming in. I thought maybe someone had shot pig #4, but I was wrong. She showed back up last night and brought in at least 2 tiny little pigs. Plus the pig that is second from the right is about to have a litter as well.

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 19, 2016, 08:39:05 AM: Ok, this is starting to get personal!! :) Last night I stayed in the stand until 0015. Being a work day today that was already later than I should have stayed! This guy showed up at 0146.

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on April 19, 2016, 08:48:30 AM: Fred
How big of a tract of land is this? Do you know where they go (do wild hogs have bedding areas)? Are there other hunters in the area? Sorry for all the questions :o
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: pianoman9701 on April 19, 2016, 08:56:35 AM: Fred, take a buddy out with you and sit for a couple of hours. Then have the buddy leave at 10 or 11 while you wait. :tup:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: jasnt on April 19, 2016, 10:58:06 AM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on April 19, 2016, 08:56:35 AM
Fred, take a buddy out with you and sit for a couple of hours. The have the buddy leave at 10 or 11 while you wait. :tup:
:yeah:
Works well with coyotes
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 19, 2016, 06:23:12 PM: It's on about 250 acres and there are other guys hunting this tract for hogs. I know of at least one other bait site being run. They are not waiting for me to leave it's just a matter of timing. Unlike a bear they are not hanging out just out of range and waiting for me to leave. It'll happen, I missed a few nights due to bad wind direction, can't hunt this spot with a East wind at all. I have another property about 6 miles away that I have 7 hitting. I was going to hunt that tonight, but the trucks clutch was acting up and I did not want to have to get towed home at midnight so I came on home. It'll happen, I just have to put in the time.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on April 19, 2016, 08:43:09 PM: It's fun to tag along. Thanks for the ride :tup:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: daddysprad on April 20, 2016, 11:37:22 AM: Fred, where's the pork?
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 20, 2016, 12:20:53 PM: Still running loose in the woods!! They were on the bait last night off and on from 2130 until 0500 this morning. Round #3 tonight!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: JimmyHoffa on April 20, 2016, 12:23:05 PM: If the wind/scent are spooking them too much, you can leave items around that have your scent to get them used to it. Like leave shirts around the area, various trees/your stand/next to the bait pile. Eventually they get used to it.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Kit Carson on April 20, 2016, 07:55:00 PM: Good luck tonight!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 20, 2016, 07:58:24 PM: Oh yeah! Hope you put the smack down on one tonight :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: bearpaw on April 20, 2016, 08:03:15 PM: :yeah: pound some porkers
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: pianoman9701 on April 20, 2016, 09:25:19 PM: Quote from: Machias on April 20, 2016, 12:20:53 PM
Still running loose in the woods!! They were on the bait last night off and on from 2130 until 0500 this morning. Round #3 tonight!

Go get 'em, Fred.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: daddysprad on April 21, 2016, 07:52:08 AM: Fred, You awake yet? How'd it go?
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 21, 2016, 08:12:45 AM: I hunted over bait #2 last night until midnight. Had a grey fox, 2 coons and a possum hit the bait but no hogs. Meanwhile at bait #1 had 6 hogs on the bait!! :) :) Going to do an all nighter Friday night. Looks like I will be sitting in the rain as well.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: pianoman9701 on April 21, 2016, 08:35:05 AM: Keep at it Fred. The laws of convergence will work in your favor eventually.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 21, 2016, 05:44:32 PM: :tup: It's been so nice hunting them, even though I have not connected yet, I'm having a blast!!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on April 21, 2016, 07:44:28 PM: Man I don't know how you stay awake at night in a stand i can barely do it in daylight
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 22, 2016, 07:19:26 AM: :) The hard part is work the next day!!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: daddysprad on April 22, 2016, 07:30:24 AM: I can tell you that work is over rated.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 22, 2016, 05:43:49 PM: Quote from: daddysprad on April 22, 2016, 07:30:24 AM
I can tell you that work is over rated.

Man that IS the truth!!!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 23, 2016, 09:29:36 PM: Stuck pig #1 at 2110, cleanly missed pig #2 at 2145. Have to come back in the morning to locate pig #1. Too thick and not able to find my arrow or a blood trail yet. Fingers crossed, sounded like a solid hit! Man O man even with the green light and a lighted sight it is REALLY tough to shoot those dark bodies at night with the bow. Going to switch to the scoped muzzleloader from here on out.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Todd_ID on April 23, 2016, 09:34:03 PM: Quote from: Machias on April 23, 2016, 09:29:36 PM
Stuck pig #1 at 2110, cleanly missed pig #2 at 2145. Have to come back in the morning to locate pig #1. Too thick and not able to find my arrow or a blood trail yet. Fingers crossed, sounded like a solid hit! Man O man even with the green light and a lighted sight it is REALLY tough to shoot those dark bodies at night with the bow. Going to switch to the scoped muzzleloader from here on out.
Good job Fred! You'll find him at daylight. This will be your toughest-earned critter, I'd guess.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on April 23, 2016, 09:42:37 PM: Sweet
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 23, 2016, 09:43:32 PM: Quote from: Todd_ID on April 23, 2016, 09:34:03 PM
Quote from: Machias on April 23, 2016, 09:29:36 PM
Stuck pig #1 at 2110, cleanly missed pig #2 at 2145. Have to come back in the morning to locate pig #1. Too thick and not able to find my arrow or a blood trail yet. Fingers crossed, sounded like a solid hit! Man O man even with the green light and a lighted sight it is REALLY tough to shoot those dark bodies at night with the bow. Going to switch to the scoped muzzleloader from here on out.
Good job Fred! You'll find him at daylight. This will be your toughest-earned critter, I'd guess.

So far that is very true. Hoping the hit was as good as it sounded.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 23, 2016, 09:44:49 PM: sweet! hoping you find it :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on April 23, 2016, 09:56:39 PM: Better order up some buckboard bacon cure ;)
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: lokidog on April 23, 2016, 11:04:33 PM: Good luck finding him quickly, looking forward to pics.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Kit Carson on April 24, 2016, 12:26:47 AM: Quote from: lokidog on April 23, 2016, 11:04:33 PM
Good luck finding him quickly, looking forward to pics.

:yeah:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on April 24, 2016, 12:14:08 PM: Searched for 4 hours this morning and found nada, not a single speck of blood, my arrow or the hog. I'm sure I whacked it hard but found nothing. Didn't spook them too bad as they were back on the bait about 4 hours later, minus the one I shot. I'll probably find him tomorrow when the buzzards are circling. :( Went to bait #2 and switched SD cards and holy smokes I got 10 hogs on that bait.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Kit Carson on April 24, 2016, 06:15:45 PM: Damn....better luck on bait #2!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: JakeLand on April 24, 2016, 09:42:05 PM: Keep at it bud !! Keep making us jealous one of these days I'll get to go for a hog hunt
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on May 02, 2016, 07:49:02 AM: Brutal night Saturday night. Got into my stand at 1925 and sat there until 0600. Started raining pretty hard from 0200 to 0600. I went in on Wed night and put out 100 pounds of corn and when I got into the stand every speck was gone. I had taken in another 50, but I'm thinking with the heavy rain they did not come in like they normally do around 0400 to 0600. Long night with nothing to show for it. One thing I had to chuckle at, my phone kept vibrating all night as I received photos from my other bait and the hogs were on it all night....but the wind was out of the East and I cannot hunt that stand with any Easterly breeze. Wind is looking very favorable for this upcoming weekend.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: jasnt on May 02, 2016, 10:02:02 AM: Gota love the woa's of hunting over bait. So many think it's easy :chuckle: Good luck this weekend
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on May 02, 2016, 10:09:24 AM: making me want to hunt pigs ...
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on May 02, 2016, 12:39:25 PM: I haven't been very "successful" yet, but man have I been having a blast!!
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on May 02, 2016, 12:41:46 PM: How in the heck do you stay awake in the stand a night? I barely can during daylight
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on May 02, 2016, 12:53:32 PM: :) I just make sure the harness is nice and tight!!! Would hate to wake up on the way down!! LOL
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: quadrafire on May 02, 2016, 01:03:36 PM: That's what i figured ;)
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on May 08, 2016, 01:23:17 PM: Got into my stand at 8:05 pm. Wind was hinky last night, around midnight the wind spun around 180 degrees. At 0200ish it started to pour for about a half an hour. At 0439 I finally heard a pig walking into the bait. Once he hit the bait my motioned activated green light slowly came on. I was using my CVA Elkhorn in .50 with 460 grain "No Excuse" bullets and 100 grains of black powder. I knew I hit him solid. I waited about a half an hour and then got down and walked over and found bright red lung blood. I tried following the blood trail which was really good, but he changed direction several times and ran through some really nasty stuff. Decided to hike back to the truck and wait till daylight. When I got back to the bait site right at dawn I was standing at the bait and got charged by the big boar. It was still dark and lucky for me he veered off in the thick brush about 20 yards away. Nice little pucker factor!! I lost the blood trail another time and had to go back and slow down and be more patient. I lost the blood trail every time I got impatient and tried to anticipate his route. So I slowed down and really concentrated on the next speck of blood. There was a lot of blood but with him zig zagging and running through nasty stuff I still managed to loose the trail. So I get to the last drop of blood and I am trying to find the next drop and literally jumped since he was laying a foot from my toe. Nice boar about 125 pounds, no cutters. Lot of fun!!

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on May 08, 2016, 01:24:46 PM: As he lay when I found him. :)

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Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: jasnt on May 08, 2016, 01:32:19 PM: Congrats :tup:
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: carpsniperg2 on May 08, 2016, 02:58:23 PM: Sweet! Been hoping you would smack some. Nice eater right there.

I have had more then one of those moments with hogs. A couple would have been worse if not for some quick gun work. They are dangerous. My buddy got tore up a couple years back on a wounded boar a client hit poorly.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Jason on May 08, 2016, 04:11:11 PM: Congrats on a nice hog! I need to get down to California soon and see if I could get me one.
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Post by: lokidog on May 08, 2016, 08:50:52 PM: WOOHOO! :tup:
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Post by: daddysprad on May 09, 2016, 08:28:45 AM: Great job Fred, rre you bringing some back with you to BBQ?
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Post by: pianoman9701 on May 09, 2016, 10:47:18 AM: WTG, Fred. I'm glad he didn't ram you! :yike:
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Post by: Machias on May 09, 2016, 04:54:53 PM: Quote from: daddysprad on May 09, 2016, 08:28:45 AM
Great job Fred, rre you bringing some back with you to BBQ?

Not on this trip, sorry. :)
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Post by: Kit Carson on May 09, 2016, 10:47:12 PM: Nice work :tup:
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Post by: quadrafire on May 10, 2016, 12:40:30 PM: Fred
What are your dining plans with the beast?
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Post by: Machias on May 10, 2016, 04:35:29 PM: Since he's a uncut boar, young one, but still uncut, he will be made into sausage. If I had the space to do some smoking, I would have smoked the hams and bacon, but I don't.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: daddysprad on May 11, 2016, 06:49:45 AM: Throw it in a suitcase and bring it with you. I'll smoke it.
Title: Re: On to hog hunting
Post by: Machias on May 11, 2016, 09:30:46 AM: :tup: :tup:
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Post by: Elkrunner on May 11, 2016, 11:38:57 AM: :tup: :tup: :tup: