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Originally posted by RiverRat1 View PostI'm NOT an east Texas expert but I'd bet the growling was not the big boar. What I've seen is the big boars smell you they silently disappear and you never know they were there.
Originally posted by tex4k View PostThere are boars at Brushy Hill and Lincoln Ranch that can/will/do and are growling, looking dead at you, and are just out of bow range. The first time it happens it will cause a person to soil their camo undies, second time is usually as bad as the first.
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The smart ones are the fun ones to hunt. I have watched single older ones make small circles around a feeding area before coming in. I have cedar in the area I hunt and will cut up green limbs into small pieces around the area Im hunting for cover a sent. Then settle in for the wait passing on all the coons and oposums coming in for the bait after dark. It makes for a long sit but I usally get him. Nothing like seeing a large hog head silhouette pop out of the brush at 15 yrds in the middle of the night.
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It has been my experience that sows and pigs are not as cautious as a big boar
Every hog that I have set out to kill and had to work hard trying to get has been a boar
They all circle in and get downwind before coming in
Rifle distance from feeder or set up a stand downwind of where they like to circle
I have invested many hours in trying to kill a few extra smart ones, most ended up beating me because I was too stubborn to shoot with a gun
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I had one do that right at dark a cpl days ago. I could hear him circle the stand before stepping out into the field. He was on high alert when he eased out into the field to where the faint sound of the safety caused him to run and stumble (where hogs had rooted). If he was truly smart he would've turned to go back in the brush instead of trying to cross the field.
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I have seen some of the larger sows let the lil ones come in first and hang back. Some not come it at all just have to watch them moving around in the brush just out of bow range while the little ones eat. This year I had a wave of lil ones about 25 hit my corn. Im like cool come on mama's. I was about 20yrds off the neighbor's high fence and three large sows showed up on the other side of the fence watching the little ones eat. They had found a hole they could fit under but too small for the mama's. They were vacuuming up my corn so I stuck the largest in the group about 25lbs to run the rest off. He was not wasted ended up on the pit whole. I hate running a solid BH threw a baby pig.Last edited by mchildress; 12-31-2016, 03:23 PM.
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Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View PostM
The absolute easiest way is to spot and stalk in an area where you know they bed down when its raining. Hogs, even big boars get absolutely stupid in the rain. They don't seem to see, hear or smell very well when it's raining, especially if the wind is blowing pretty good too. That's also a great time to make that stalk on a feeder.
Good luck gettin him.
Then finally during a steady rain one afternoon, there they were out in the open. Lots of cars going by and they didn't seem to pay any attention. Looked like they were completely focused on grubs and whatever else was coming to the surface because of the rain. That was the only time I ever saw that sounder and in the daytime.
Next time I saw anymore signs was in a large pasture close to halfway between the two points where they had been known to be at. Looked like a rototiller went thru there.
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i had a sow just like this that i hunted for 2 yrs before i shot her. this is what i ended up doing to get her:
i found the trail she was using the most to coming in on then i back tracked up the trail 50 to 75 yrds. i carried a climbing stand in 5 hrs before the feeder went off and climbed a tree off the trail but within bow range. climbed the tree with the climber and waited patiently. it was a long wait but in the end i was successful taking this smart sow. even to this day this animal has been the most challenging and fun to hunt.
good luck with the chess game.
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Wait till they stay in a brush pile a d let you walk past before busting out behind you. I have drivdn my general around in the pasture and drove past them in a brush pile then i see a part of hog and back up next to brush and thdy wont buxt and run till i shoot one. I know good and well they heard me comming in the general.....Andy
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