Hogs at night

[Catcher's Mitt]

Mississippi is allowing hogs to be shot at night this year. Our club is going to allow this after the hunting season. Have any of you done night hunting of hogs? Do you have tips on lights, night-vision, feeders, cool aid, etc?

Thanks

Mark

[SportFishStaff]

Mark, Have you ever seen this? Thermal Hog Hunting.




http://www.jagerpro.com/

[weekender]

that Jager Pro setup looks like it would be a blast. I have to say that the guy doing the shooting in all their videos is one hell of marksman. If you think hitting any running game in the daytime is challenging and TOUGH, just think about it being at night. That dude rarely misses these hogs running full bore. I would NOT want to piss him off.

Now as for night hunting experience. In Texas it's legal and my wife and I have done a bunch of it, all with the bow. We love it. It's fun, it's exciting and it's challenging. The best way we have found is baiting a long stretch 1/4 mile of sendera (mowed road) with corn. We do it by me setting on the back of the truck and my wife drives. We start just before dark. I trickle the corn sparringly with app. 1 grain of corn every 6" or so. Going heavier with the corn just means it will take them longer to get to you. We position our selves on the DOWN WIND side of the corn trail at about 15 yds and set behind a makeshift brush blind. One of us will be 1/3 of the way from one end and the other person 1/3 of the way from the other end. Any hog that crosses the corn trail will start eating and go one way or the other. Those hogs that come out between us in the middle third are going to get shot at by one of us. Hogs that come out on the end, we have a 50/50 chance of getting a shot on them. When the corn trail runs out, they aren't smart enough to return where they started and go the other way. They don't see very well compared to a deer but they will pick up movement such as you drawing the bow. We always plan our hunts to start 5 days before the full moon. Buy doing this, the moon is coming up just as the sun sets. It's best if you can face west with the moon behind you but the WIND has to be the deciding factor. Hogs have a GOOD NOSE. If there are no clouds, we can often shoot them by the moonlight using a Trinium sight pin which has a soft glow without electronics. If it's cloudy, with use miner's style or coon hunting lights with a red lens and a reostat switch so you can turn the light down really dim. Bright lights, even red lights will spoke the hogs bad. You want just enough light to be able to see the outline of the hog. We use camera tripods to mount the lights on for easy manuvering. What ever you use need to be quite. They have big ears. We've shot dozens of hogs at night and had a ball doing it.

[Nauti Natured]

That is bad-ass. I wonder what gun he was shooting. I am going on my first hog-hunt next month.

Weekender, that boar looks pretty damn mean

[Bking]

BAD ASS !!!!

Awesome Hogs weekender!

[Catcher's Mitt]

Mark, Have you ever seen this? Thermal Hog Hunting.




http://www.jagerpro.com/

staff, that is what I'm talking about right there. I am going to have to see about getting a thermal image scope. how much are those bad boys?

[Catcher's Mitt]

weekendeer, thanks for that detailed description of how you wear them out. I might know of a spot or two to try this.

[Captain Michael Buffington]

we dug a hole and filled it with soured corn upwind of a comfortable shooting house or blind and checked it till they found it. Then you refill it and cover it with fist sized rocks and get in the house that afternoon late. When you hear the rocks being nosed off turn on your rechargeable spotlight and start pulling the trigger. It works Mark.

Mike

[Catcher's Mitt]

Pappy, that sounds very clandestine to me. I like it.

[Catcher's Mitt]

what is the best .223 ammo for shooting them about the neck and head?