Help with hogs in the Southern Appalachians

[Bear]

OK, so I'm hoping Terry will take the bait and help me out here. Anyone with experience hunting mountain hogs please chime in.

I've killed plenty of hogs in the swamps and pine thickets of South AL and GA, but these mountain hogs are a diiferent strain. They obviously have more pure European/ Russian look, and so far have been much more challenging.

My spot is completely eat up with sign, and I have some monsters, but so far I just cant get get in front of them. I have a trail cam out now to confirm or deny nocturnality.

Any advice?

[kasey]

i dont think there is hogs  :D

[Bear]

OK, I'll just pour some corn in your drawers and chain you to a stump out there. Then you can tell me what you see.   :D  

As soon as we can get through the pass without a snow plow, we'll check that cam. It would great if they move before the snow melts. Then we could just track them to thier beds.

[eric101]

Are you hunting the fields or the rock shelters and gaps that's a good place to look this time of the year and not to far from water.They like to bunch up 2/3 at a time under little shelters,so if one comes blowing out usually there are more and try the east side your hunting area that's were we used to find them.I never hunted hogs anywhere else but they are harder than deer by far,smell you quicker and twice as fast running.Good luck their should be some good hog dogs around your area if still hunting doesn't work.

[suhshine727]

use sour corn in a post hole with disle fuel over it that deer and coon will not eat it hogs love it and it keeps them comeing back for a long time it should take a week or so for them to get it all out of the ground make the hole about 2ft deep it you can and good luck let us know how it goes                    ps if you need one more gun be glad to help lol

[kasey]

dont like that idea.

[Bear]

Kasey,

Sounds like Eric's advice lines up with what you said about the rock outcrops and such. Might be a good spot/stalk stategy if they refuse to cooperate with an ambush.

[Bear]

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[Missouri Bowman]

Bear, several years ago I went to Big South Fork with a good friend of mine from that area. We saw sign everywhere that the pigs left behind and after a week of hunting never saw one. We hunted just like Eric had said. The locales who hunt them told us if we used dogs we would have had better luck, as that's how they hunt them. I would love to try it again that was some beutiful country.

[Terry Green]

Bear. I'm in Vegas at the moment. Call u when I get back. iPhone typing ain't for me.    

[straitera]

Kill or not, hunting the Apps has to be great. Elevation gives stout fast hogs a big advantage. A good wallow baited with sour corn nearby should work. Boring but better than chasing your tail through briars & thermals.

[suhshine727]

bait is used to just to find them and hold them in the area hogs are here today and gone tomorre hog just go where the food is then do not have a home area like deer so if you are going to hunt them you better have alot of hogs then move in and out of a area have cam pics of same hog 5miles apart in two days only thing im trying to tell you is if you want to hunt hogs use bait to hold them in your area put out like 5 diff. bait sites in a area of about 1mile to hold them then hunt how you want good luck

[Bear]

Thanks guys.

I hear ya, Terry. I love checking up on the gang from my Berry, put I keep my posts short till I get back to a real keyboard.  

[Robert Honaker]

Hey Bear, if Terry has some good tips please share.

I kill a bunch of hogs all times of year in the mountains here except for this time of year.

I don't know where they go , they just vanish and show back up in the spring.

I've hunted the bluffs, creek/river bottms etc.
Just can't findem this time of year.

[Missouri Bowman]

Robert, what time of year do you find them? I thought they had a season that you could hunt them and that was it.

Thanks

[Robert Honaker]

Open year round no limit on private land.

April thru october it is no problem to find them.

Nov. thru march it's like there's no such thing as a wild gog.

Been at it since 1994 and it's the same every year.

[Missouri Bowman]

I see. I know I will try again.