Wild Hog Hunting Tips
Hunting for wild hogs is an adrenaline rush for most hunters. Knowing a few tips about their behavior, diet, and how to spot a hog’s territory is helpful for the beginner hunter. Proven facts can be found within these images.
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When hunting for wild hogs, nothing is more exciting. These predatory beasts can easily weigh up to 350 pounds. Their tusks usually start to develop around the age of two, turning razor-like. The boars can become quite dominant when it comes to their territory and the sows will protect their young at any cost. Hunters have been known to be charged and attacked from time to time.
Their diet consists of roots, bugs, frogs, turtles, rabbits, and dead carcasses. They have even been known to take down small cattle at times.
Young boars will travel together before reaching puberty. Once that stage of development occurs, they will separate and usually travel repetitively withing a 2 mile radius following the scent of the sows.
Baiting them up is the fun part. Knowing that they are out there and possibly watching you can be dangerous if a territorial hog is approached. It’s always best to bait your traps up at different times. The reason why I say this is because they will grow accustomed to the feeding pattern. You surely wouldn’t want to walk up on one, unless you are hunting.
If you are wondering what to bait them up with, that’s simple. Their favorite is dried cracked or whole corn that has been made into a sour mesh by adding water. Sometimes adding diesel at a 1 to 20 ratio will keep the other wildlife critters from eating it. Instant Jello and/or beer can be added to the sour mesh too. Remember, the worse it smells, the more they will like it.
Though hunting for wild hogs can be a dangerous sport, it can definitely get your adrenaline pumping. Always wear a cover up scent and keep a tree in mind to climb if you should be charged. Their territory can easily be found by smell and visual marking. There will be tracks, wallow holes, rubbings on trees, feces, and the worst odor that you have ever smelled.
According to the Federal Wildlife Game and Fisheries, they are considered a nuisance type species because of the damage they create. They can easily destory crops and pastures quickly overnight.
