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Eddie
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posted January 11, 2014 06:20 AM
Have any of you guys had any luck calling wild pigs?
I have tried many pig sounds and struck out every time, till the other day. I was trying to call coons by a pond, was playing a young coon dist. Had this 150lb pig come running right to the call.
Was this just luck or have any of you called one in to sounds other than pig sounds.
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trapper2
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posted January 11, 2014 06:52 AM
eddie, know afew guys that have called some with distress sounds, key is to be close to them when you go to calling. any of the sounds with a hog sqealling will sure make hogs run the other way
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Eddie
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posted January 12, 2014 07:00 AM
Thanks trapper I give it a try. The dang pigs move in and the deer move out this year. Me and my hunting buddy are working on getting rid of them.
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Leonard
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posted January 12, 2014 09:02 AM
I don't know of any sound effective
on hogs?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Joel Hughes
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posted January 14, 2014 10:44 AM
I have called hogs (on purpose) and been successful on 4 different occasions. That is not enough to be able to be even close to proficient or knowledgeable, so take this for what it's worth. The times I've been successful, they appeared in a minute or even seconds of turning on the call, which meant they were apparently right there when I started. But each time was with a LOUD pig distress sound. I have about three different pig sounds on my caller (two piglet and one adult distress) and I switch between the three of them. My opinion, and it can't be validated, is that if they are close enough to hear the call, they are coming. But I assume, sooner or later, they become educated to the gig. So while I don't disagree with trapper2, I'd say don't take that as a hard fast rule to avoid hog distress.
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Kokopelli
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posted January 14, 2014 11:08 AM
I've called more Javelina than Feral Pigs but from the reactions that I've seen they react pretty similar.
It's been my experience that the closer you are to the herd, the better your chance of success. <200 yards is good. <100 yards is better.
They will come to distress sounds that are close. Farther away and they just get out of Dodge. A sow may come in to protect piglets but a boar I spine shot with an arrow a few years ago started squealing and the rest of the herd attacked it. It wasn't pretty.
One more thing; Don't be too quick to discount Feral Pigs as a game animal;
Fun to hunt.
Good to eat.
Probably open year around.
Don't need to draw tags or build up points and all that nonsense.
Can be used as an `in` with landowners for possibly hunting other species.
This list could go on, but you get the idea.
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