Hog attractant review

jglass

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When the hogs avoid the bait pile I'll try anything to get them back on the bait. Here is what I have tried and how well it worked.

Big Game Butter-This stuff comes in an orange bucket and the consistency is like cake. Loaded with peanuts
and peanut oils. I tested it last night and the hogs didn't even taste it. I did see a fox run off with a clump of the stuff through my thermo imaging scope.

Wild Beast Attractant-Available at Tractor Supply. Results are mixed. Can't say for sure it works. I'll try it only when the hogs are scarce. It smells like Liquorish so the smell should get the hogs curious and make them investigate the offering.

Liquid hog attractant-Available at Tractor Supply. It comes in a plastic bag with a screw on cap. It was on sale 50% off so I bought some. A brown liquid that didn't smell that much. It appears to be worthless for attracting hogs. I saw no positive results.

Sow urine-First time I tried it a hog showed up 15 minutes later. Not sure if the hog came because of the sow urine or did it just happen along regardless. If hogs are in the area the sow urine might draw them into your bait pile but not all the time. I think the sow urine makes the hogs curious so they come to investigate so it will only work one time on those hogs.P

Producer Pride Hog feed-available at Tractor Supply. I thought regular hog feed, the wild hogs have to like this stuff. Put some out last night. Best I could tell the hogs ate none of it. The cracked corn was gone but most or all of the hog feed was still there. Don't mix different hog baits, keep each one separate because if the hogs dislike the mixture of bait there is a chance they will turn up their noses at eat none of it. A hog farmer told me that one. NOTE: I continued to put the hog feed out since I bought it, always a separate pile, The hogs began eating it and seem to like it as well as corn but it took some time for them to accept it.

Cracked corn-This works better than whole corn, probably more smell to it. The hogs seem to enjoy licking up the corn particles off the mud floor of the jungle. When 99% of the cracked corn has disappeared I am sure there will be hogs on the trail camera.

Soured corn-I didn't brew up any soured corn this year because the cracked corn worked so well. No need to try it but some hog hunters are convinced it works particularly in new bait piles. Keep in mind hogs can smell a bait pile from very long distances, up to a couple of miles.

Note: At one time I thought burying the corn was a valuable hog attractant and it is but....the foxes get a real kick out of digging up the buried corn. So, seeing the bait has been dug up doesn't mean the hogs did it.

I go back to Illinois in a week. I have had a fantastic stay in Florida. So far we have killed 15 hogs. After last night 16 hogs.
 
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TEXASLAWMAN

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I got the sow in heat urine for a birthday present one year. Did not expect much out of it dumped the whole bottle on a rotten tree got three big boars off of it that night. Never tired it again.
 

Mattg1500

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I just got back from Ga where I tried some bear lure I used this year in NJ. Its called Sweet Dreams and it smells like very strong cherry and raspberry. Its a gel in a small can and i smeared some on a post and 5 60lbrs came in. The 2 bigger ones stayed back from it but I think it worked to pull them out into the field. I should have put some corn near it also but....
 

pruhdlr

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Something that I have been wanting to try is Oil of Anise. We used it when baiting for bear in Maine.
We tried the McCormick brand that you can buy at most any food store but wasn't near strong enough. What I used came in a small bottle that had an eye dropper in it. It was ordered from some trappers supply store . . . and it was STRONG !! DAMN STRONG !!
One drop is all that was needed to draw bear from the entire valley that we hunted. Wondering if it would work on hogs ?? --- pruhdlr
 

jglass

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I'm going to try the anise oil and the Sweet dreams. I think hogs are curious so any bait that is different will draw them in for a couple of nights. It seems like bait variation and rotation is effective. Another thing I did, when the bait pile went cold and the hogs disappeared I stopped putting out bait altogether for a few days or a week. No sense feeding the other varmints in the jungle.. Then started a small bait pile to test hog activity and progressed from there.
 

Mattg1500

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Curiosity killed the hog. I tried PB scents and Persimmon but no luck. Grape koolaid was a hit though. I spoke with the owner of signal 11 lures who makes sweet dreams and tried to get him to do a grape version
 

Jethro

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Has anyone used the "Black Gold" attractant that a guy here in TX used to make? I think his name was Cody, raised some kind of European boars or something. I bought 4 quarts way back when, used 1 of them, but can't remember what results I had. Seems to me you were supposed to put it on a post or tree, and the hogs liked to rub on it? I've got 3 quarts of it left. I'm looking for a couple of good spots to put some out and try it again now that I am getting back in to hog hunting.
 

PreacherBoy

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The following has been my experience, don't mean to discourage anyone from trying a product BUT: Tried the Pig Out Wild Beast Attractant because the picture on the jug caught my attention and I had a few dollars left on an Academy gift card. I soaked a rag in the concoction and hung it from the leg of my corn feeder, right in front of the game cam. Then waited a few days with images of lions, tigers and bears OH MY! expecting these wild beast to come a-runnin. The camera clearly shows a sounder of piggies eating corn but NEVER ONCE even sniffing of PIG OUT. I then mixed it with corn and deposited a generous pile on the ground. That was 3 weeks ago and its still there. Pigs walk over it to get to plain ol' feeder corn. Again, just my experience but I have half a jug left if you're interested. Does smell awful good though, maybe with some biscuits?
 

jglass

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That was a great experiment you conducted. Maybe the wild hogs would be interested in the Wild Beast attractant if there was no corn around? If that makes any sense?

Gives me an idea though. Place various hog attractants in front of the game camera, see where the hog go first.

In my original post, I placed commercial hog feed next to a pile of corn. At first the hogs ignored the hog feed but eventually liked the hog feed as well as the corn. If the hogs don't care why pay extra money for hog feed.
 

pruhdlr

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Couple of examples - - -> In extreme NW Maine,where I hunted and guided,there was not an apple tree within 50 miles. During the off season I had a grocer give some unsellable apples. I put them out with a game camera looking at them.
For the first 5 days no deer in the pics. For the next 4 days some deer in the pic but would not get close to the apples.
During the next two days the deer would come closer and closer. Then several pics of 4 deer,but only one attempting to eat the apples.
The next nights pics showed 6 deer tearing them up. By the next AM all the apples (2 bushels) were eaten by about 10 different deer.
Had this same thing happen in NW Fla. with pears and hogs. Also with pumpkins and hogs/deer. --- pruhdlr DSC_0042_2.JPG
 
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