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Update on my April Vacation

David — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:07:16 +0000

Well my vacation ended last week with nothing to show. After getting the pics and video of the pigs, I decided to go after them instead of turkeys, so I could refill the freezer quick and then go after a gobbler. I hung a climbing stand about 25 yards off the feeder that they were coming too and bowhunted 3 mornings from daylight until 10:30am or so, without seeing much of anything.

I chose not to hunt in the evenings because after about noon the wind always picked up and swirled very bad, so I figured I would be doing myself more harm than good by even going in the area. I have not gotten any more pics of them on the Moultrie D40 either so I thought that they must have been just passing thru, or I spooked them by leaving scent around the feeders.

I will be the first to say if that is the case these are the spookiest, most skittish deer and hogs in this area I have ever seen. I always try to be careful and not touch alot of stuff and leave as little scent as possible in my areas, but I guess I am going to have to start taking extreme precautions. From now on I will wear rubber boots and rubber gloves when checking and filling feeders and even checking my game cameras.

I know that it had to have something to do with it, because even though they abandoned the feeders, they have not left the area. We have 2 small ponds on our place and one is less than 75 yards of the feeders, and they have been all over it rootin’ and makin wallows, so from here on out I will be extremely cautious about scent control and hopefully they won’t even know a person has been anywhere around.

I plan on getting after them again this weekend, but to tell the truth, I just can’t seem to get very much into it right now. After finding out at the first of the month that the plant I have worked at for 20yrs is about to layoff 260 people by August, I have been pretty stressed out trying to figure out what I am gonna do.

I know that we are just now feeling the economic effects that thousands of other americans have been feeling for 2 years now, but if Obama, Biden, Nazi Pelosi and all the rest of those communist’s that call themselves democrats stay in office much longer, you can bet that there will be thousands more! At least I can say I didn’t vote for em’!!! And for the people who did because they wanted change, well all I can say is congatulations, they got it!!

Jello Hogs

David — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:47:25 +0000

Well it’s opening day of turkey season tomorrow and I have not located any birds yet, but I have found some pigs. I have been running one automatic feeder now for about a month and only been getting coon, squirrel, and bird pics on my game camera. I do not hunt turkeys over bait, but I was using the corn to try and see if I had any in the area.

After asking a few neighbors and some of the guys who maintain the county road if they have seen any turkeys around, I have come to the conclusion that if there are any it’s very few. So that is kind of a bummer since I have taken a vacation to hunt spring turkeys, but I still plan on getting out there after them and hope that there is at least maybe one gobbler around in the vicinty.

The good news is that after reading on another site that adding rasberry jello mix to corn in and around a feeder attracts pigs like crazy, I decided to try it and I hit the jackpot. Two days after refilling the feeder and adding the jello mix to the corn, the Moultrie D 40 got several pics and a couple of videos of some nice pigs. I am pumped now because I had just as soon shoot some hogs as a turkey. The video below is one that the D40 got this morning and hopefully by the end of the week I will have a couple of these pigs in the freezer!

The “PigMan” Hunting Show

David — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:19:36 +0000

I have found a new hunting show that I think is awesome! It airs on the Sportsman channel and it is called the “PigMan”. Even Michele likes it, and if she sits and watches a hunting show it must be pretty good! The host is Brian “Pigman” Quaca, and he is the kinda down to earth dude that would be a blast to hunt with. His show is a no bull$*** show and he keeps it real. One of the few hunting shows I have actually seen where sometimes nobody bags an animal, much less a huge trophy.

He will always admit when he got skunked, but most of the time he connects with what he is after! Brian, his dad, and his buddies are all cool and make the show great even when they are having a hard time connecting with something. They are true hunters and will tell you real quick that is why it’s called huntin’ and not called killin’. I love watchin Primo’s, Michael Waddell, and Mossy Oak’s hunting shows because they keep it real and are down to earth cool guys also, but PigMan is my favorite show. If you like hunting shows check it out on the sportsmans channel. I think the new episode for the week airs on Wednesday evenings.

Moultrie D40 is still going strong

David — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:09:47 +0000

I have still been playing around with this camera alot. I found alot of deer tracks going back and fourth across the driveway of our place, so I mounted the camera to a tree to see if I could get some pics. About three days later I went back and checked it and had about six pics of some does that have been coming and grazing the rye grass on the front of our place. They were taken at about 3:50am and 5:30am and the flash and pics were pretty good.

I had checked it Thursday and the batteries were still showing 75 percent, so I decided to move it back overlooking my feeder to see if any deer or pigs had found it yet. After checking it today I had a little over 700 pics of more coons, squirrels, and birds in two days time and the batteries are still at 60 percent! I was a little disappointed that no pigs or deer have been hitting my feeder, but I am still more than happy with the D40 so far. It has taken almost 1100 pics and still has more than half the battery life left.

Before I left I went and set it back up along the creek crossing where I had placed it before. I am just gonna leave it alone for a couple of weeks now and then go see what it got. I know deer and hogs have been crossing there, but what I would really like to see now is some turkeys! I will post the results when I get them. The pic below is one of the does that has been crossing our driveway.

My GameSpy D40 Results

David — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:09:08 +0000

After placing the D40 over a feeder and getting 366 pics of coons,birds, and squirrels in 2 days time, I placed it over a spot on the creek where deer and hog tracks were crossing. After being out about four days I got a few pics of a pig and deer. I had the cam set up to where it would be right on them up close as they came up out of the creek, but instead of coming across they just stayed along the opposite side following the creek edge.

I am happy with the performance of this camera so far. I have it set on low quality image due to the fact I think the higher quality setting will make it slower. The pic below was taken around 5:25 am, and the deer was 15 to 20 yards from the camera so the flash is workin great. I love this new camera and if it continues to work this good I will have to get at least one more before October.

New Game Camera

David — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:35:56 +0000

My old wildview game cam has just about quit on me. Had it out all season over a feeder and a well worn deer trail and did not get any pics except a few night pics, and they were just completely dark which lets me know the flash is out. It has actually been a ok camera for the $69.00 price tag, but it works better over bait areas and scrapes because the trigger time is super slow.

I just turned 39 this past week, and for my birthday my mom and dad bought me a new Moultrie D40 Gamespy camera. I have read good and bad reviews on this cam, but so far I love it, just wish I would have had it back in October. I actually got it earlier this month and went and set it up over the same feeder that I had my wildview over, and was only getting two or three dark pics from. I set the Moultrie up to take 3 still shots when triggered and in 2 days I had 366 pics of coons, squirrels, and birds. Some were night shots and the flash is great, the pics are clear day or night. The camera runs on six Dcell batteries and after 366 pics they still showed 95 percent full.

Another thing I like about this camera is I can set it up to take either a 10 second video or 1,2,or 3 still shots whenever it is triggered. It also stamps the date and time on each pic which would have been very helpful when I had all the hogs coming in on my feeders at night a couple of seasons ago.

I moved it off the feeder Saturday to a spot I found where deer and hog tracks are crossing the creek. I will check the camera again this weekend and post the results. I am not really expecting alot just kind of playing around to see how good it works and how the batteries hold up. If it keeps taking pics and working like it did the first two days I set it up, this September and October I expect to get quite a few pics of some bucks when they start moving around getting primed up for the rut.

Where to shoot a hog!

David — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:18:55 +0000

I found this photo on another website I thought might be helpful for shot placement on a hog

Hunting wild pigs!

David — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:45:14 +0000

I have noticed recently that hog hunting is becoming very popular among hunters including myself! At first when they started showing up on our hunting property I considered them a nuisance because they were tearing up my food plots and my feeders I had for the deer and finally realized i was just gonna have to deal with em I guess!

Hogs at My Feeder with Game Camera

What i did realize though finally was they are a blast to hunt,you can hunt em year round,and that even though they are mean and ugly lookin they sure taste great! My girlfriend Michele even thinks they are great eatin! So now instead of gettin rid of em I just wanna keep em under control.

Another Game Camera Pic

We took 13 hogs off of our place this year during the 08 deer season.I took 11 myself, my son took 1, which was his first kill ever and my buddy got 1 so we been eatin good for awhile this year! lol

: My son’s first hog. Kinda small, but we were squirrel hunting when this pig came along.

Eight hogs I took while I was deer hunting over my feeder and food plots and three I caught in a hog trap I borrowed from a friend. When I got the hogs I trapped back to our camp to field dress and skin and quarter em Michele kept sayin ” That ones kinda fat you think shes pregnant?” I told her, “No probably just fat from all the corn shes been eatin from my feeder” but found out when I started field dressin her that I was wrong! She had nine babies in her and I gotta say I did feel terrible about it but in another sense I’m glad she didnt have them because as I said before I am tryin to keep em under control and with the litters they have they are hard to keep from over populating wherever they are at!

I love huntin em though and bowhunting them is a blast too! Like I said before I am new at this and wish I had alot more stuff to show but from here on out since startin this thing I will start takin more pics and try to even get some video footage of hunts later.

Heres a couple I got last deer season while huntin over one of my feeders. Actually got the small one by accident. There were about 8 hogs eatin under my feeder and I picked out the biggest 1 to shoot and when I shot the big one they all took off except the one I shot and a smaller one that was on the other side of the larger one. I found that my 140Grain Sierra soft point bullet or a piece of my bullet from my 7mm mag had exited the far side of the larger one and hit the other one high in the back and knocked it down too! Thats pretty good bullet preformance I thought seein as how the biggest hog had a layer of fat 2 inches thick!

Not sure how much they weighed because I dont own any scales yet (but plan on gettin soon) but just guesstimatin I know the biggest is close to 300lbs and the smaller ones around 60lbs or so. Hope to show you some more soon!