Big boar

[sghoghunter]

This big boy has been avoiding us for a couple months now. As long as there’s feed in these banks feeders he will stay there all night,nibble a lil bit and wonder off and come right back. We had him on one feeder a couple weeks ago that had ran out of feed and you could hear him picking the feeder up but not quite high enough to lift it off the 4x4. He’s been real consistent at this one feeder for about two weeks.

 

[oldways]

he needs you to give him a headache

 

[sghoghunter]

he needs you to give him a headache

If he will stick to his same pattern tonight we will be rolling into camp tonight around 8:30 to 9 and if the good lord sees fit he won’t see another Christmas

 

[ddgarcia]

How high have you got those tubes from the ground? I've got one and the only real problem I've had is with the 250+lb ones "jumping" up and leaning on it to stick their snout in the tube.

I think my tubes are about 38" from the ground.

 

[antharper]

He’s a grown one ! And I’m betting his time is soon ! Them big ones can be slick though

 

[sghoghunter]

How high have you got those tubes from the ground? I've got one and the only real problem I've had is with the 250+lb ones "jumping" up and leaning on it to stick their snout in the tube.

I think my tubes are about 38" from the ground.

Thy started out around 36 to 38 but now they’re around 40 I’m sure with all the rooting they do around them. There’s a couple different boars and each one gets feed out different. Some eat out of the feed ports and some bump the ports and some falls out. The regular hogs just get what the deer drop and move on but them big boys will homestead

 

[sghoghunter]

He’s a grown one ! And I’m betting his time is soon ! Them big ones can be slick though

They are very slick but that’s what I love about it. Most people think hogs are stupid animals but big boars are just as smart as big bucks

 

[livinoutdoors]

They are very slick but that’s what I love about it. Most people think hogs are stupid animals but big boars are just as smart as big bucks

Smarter i think anyway.

 

[sghoghunter]

Smarter i think anyway.

Yes sir. This whipping crazy wind tonight ain’t helping either

 

[Jester896]

how far is the water he is crossing to get there...looks like his time is short

 

[sghoghunter]

how far is the water he is crossing to get there...looks like his time is short

There’s a small creek bout 100yds to the left of the feeder but I’m guessing he has a woller somewhere close by. Almost every night he’ll disappear for an hour or so and come back looking like a brand new pair of church shoes. He came in as usual Friday night but while I was asleep. My brother slipped down there and shot the sow instead of him so the patterning him again starts all over.

 

[sleepr71]

That stinks. Maybe it didn’t spook him off.

 

[sghoghunter]

He hasn’t showed his head since that morning. I’m sure he’s left that area but I'm hoping he’ll show back up soon

 

[sghoghunter]

That stinks. Maybe it didn’t spook him off.

Look who showed back up

 

[Gadestroyer74]

Get em !

 

[Jester896]

 

[sghoghunter]

Get em !

Im gonna have anal glaucoma Wednesday and gonna slip over there tomorrow afternoon hopefully. Gonna treat him like a good buck in the rut. Once he shows on camera you better get on him the next day for ya bet chance

 

[DynamicDennis]

He's showing them other pigs how to eat out of the feeder. They are smarter than dogs, so they say.

 

[Jester896]

 

[sghoghunter]

He came in around 8:30 Tuesday night like clockwork. I jumped on the golfcart and started easing down that way and right after that rain my phone was blowing up from all the animals on all the cameras. Well I parked a couple hundred yards away and slipped down the two path and when I made the turn there he was standing up on the feeder eating. I got the tripod set up and waited on him to turn broadside and put the dot on his head and squeezed and I didn’t hear the whack. I went back to camp and watched the video and it wasn’t all that clear cause of the humidity but if I hit him I hit low on his jaw. We’ll long story short here’s a pic of what showed up last night to the feeder just after I went to bed last night