Flintknapper
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So I've had this little bait site set up for about 3 weeks by a very small pond. It's a different pond than the small pond in my thread "My Best Day".
The site is nothing more than two T posts, some bailing wire, and a 2.5 gallon bucket I converted into a bump or nudge bucket. That's a bucket with holes cut into the bottom. When the pigs bump or nudge the bucket it shakes a little corn out. Well the pigs took a couple days to find it. But once they did, they would empty the bucket in a day. I never put a camera out there because my cameras always get stolen. But I figured yesterday I'd take the chance.....again.
So I fill my backpack with corn, load my catahoula up and head out there. When I get there, sure enough, the bucket is empty. So I refill it about 3/4 full, set up my camera up as close as I could but not in an ideal proximity to the site. My dog was playing around the site marking everywhere like young males do. And we headed back. A couple hours later, I decided I wanted to move the camera closer so I could be sure to get good pictures. No point risking the camera getting stolen for crappy pictures. So I filled my backpack again, grabbed a small spade and headed back.
When I got there the corn I'd put on the ground was gone and there was fresh sign all over. I checked the camera and it had 73 pictures. 4 hogs had come in not 5 minutes after my dog I left and had stayed for 2.5 hours in the middle of the day (14:00-16:37) until 7 minutes before I got back to the site. So I dug a hole, set a natural post, and reset the camera. They didn't care that my dog had been there marking everything. So I suspect they are held up close enough that they can hear me refill the feeder and just wait till I leave. That's easy enough to deal with. I'll just go fill the feeder, walk off, circle around, and set up with the right wind.
So I should have some pics of dead pigs for this thread soon.
Anxiously awaiting pics. Good luck!
I've got to get busy on mine too. I've hadt a group at each bait site for the last 4 days. Just been so busy doing things around the property that I haven't felt like going and sitting in the heat for hogs. Checked my cameras this morning and one group is coming in during daylight hours. Got a little bit of video of young bobcat taking out a fox squirrel on one of the cameras.
Hope you get a few piggies.
Flint.