It is not an easy task to get close to the truth. Main reason, probably, is that each manufacturer has his own, in his own way, correct understanding, just like each consumer has his own vision, which may or may not be correct, if we talk about individual baits in a particular region under certain conditions. Baits, like any product, have their own expiration dates and a “blend” of effective (according to the manufacturer) components; with the same name, it is different for each manufacturer. I repeat - all this affects efficiency in the conditions where and how you hunt.
There is a difference between “blanket” hunting and “drive” hunting, where the use of bait also has its place and is quite effective.
Attracting hogs is most often a matter of what hunters want to do. To lure means to attract a wild boar to an area where hogs do not roam at all or no longer roam using scent-based baits. Scent-based lures are only "grub", with rare exceptions, a waste of time and money when it comes to attracting boar! They do not work, except in those cases when, in times of famine, you managed to designate a habitat halo with the help of food baits. In this case, the boar's associative experience can lead the boar to a new place where you have provided complementary food, but only if these are boars from the halo you designated. I’ll give you an example: my dacha is located in a place called Tammiselka (from Finnish “Oak Hill”), there are so many acorns, as you understand, that you can probably feed all the wild boars in Ukraine, but 100 meters from the site (luckily there’s there are no neighbors, the closest ones are half a kilometer away) in the forest, a friend of the Huntsman made a feeding trough for elk, but wild boars took to it, which then tasted all the delights of potatoes, zucchini and pumpkin, in their parents’ garden and got into the habit of walking. Since then, we have not kept vegetable gardens, but boar trails now pass in the immediate vicinity of the plot, and when I pour spoiled potatoes and zucchini into an empty feeder, raids occur within a day or two. However, I would like to emphasize that this happened over several years, which means...correctly! It’s complete crap and we’re not happy with it, because I’m going hunting today, and tomorrow I hope that I’ll have a trophy...
In general, my experience and the experience of my acquaintances - experienced hunters (I must say that my friend the huntsman in those parts has been hunting for 10 years already), showed that wild boars FIND THE BAIT, because they stumble upon it BY ACCIDENT. This applies to most products, except for a very narrow circle. Honestly, I have the impression that some things are inherent in the wild boar at the genetic level, such as the smell of truffle. Well, what the hell is a truffle 50 km from St. Petersburg? However, the animal goes and goes where I “fill” bait or ordinary truffle oil (there was such an experiment). But it should be noted that some products, or rather their odors, have better diffusion (spread through the air) than others.
In short, the animal is “led” to feed after the fact when it comes across it. Not because I smelled it from afar. This is why I have come to the conclusion that the location chosen to attract a boar is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT because boars are not attracted by scent. They must locate the bait by chance! Even when food attractants and bait were placed just a few meters from the trail, the boars were NOT FOUND!! I would have to place the bait directly on the trail before I could possibly find the bait!! These facts are very important and must be taken into account when attracting wild boars.
In addition, when it comes to luring to a new place, wild boars require constant feeding with fresh food until this place is firmly established in their “GPS”. HOGS ALWAYS WANT TO EAT FRESH FOOD (and we can't blame them for that)! So, why do we waste time and money using food baits based on grains and other “primitives”??
"Seasoned" grain or similar food does have good use...As a fragrant coating to cover other foreign odors. it's very useful.
If you hunt in a blind and boar are not frequent guests in your “investments”, the use of food attractants with strong aromas is unlikely to “bring” them to you. This will require patience and time (as is the case with our dacha). But, as for me personally, I’m not ready to wait a long time for a “cunning” pig, if it comes to the hunt that I’m going on and for which I SPEND money to buy bait. What if the “inexpensive” attractants known to us are based on grains “HOG” (fifty bucks here) and “CRACK”. None of them give quick results, so don’t expect a miracle.
Or so, folk remedy, as many with whom I talked, consider it effective - DOLIARY. They say pour it and the boar goes. So, he will come there not on purpose, but by accident. So what's the question? "smart guys" should think about it. How does solarium work? It's worth thinking about. Attractant? Yeah, of course? - to hell with you!!. This is very effective remedy from... fleas. They fall out and feel better, but only if they really feel like it, otherwise, even though you’re a pig, you won’t fall out in the mud! So don’t even hope that he will come here only because of the miracle attractant. By the way, the “super remedy” (in real quotes) beech resin also works. Honestly? Better pour some diesel!
As a result of such research, I came to the conclusion that in fact it is not such a cunning animal, but we, dear hunters, are so illiterate that when luring an animal we simply do not take into account the characteristics of this very animal. Well, you must admit how comfortable it is to sit on the veranda at the dacha and drink white or red wine and eat a shish kebab, puffing on smoke, shooting wild boars... so if everything was so wonderful with bait, then pour them on your site and here’s a wonderful hunt for you.
However, not everything is so sad. If you approach the matter creatively, trying to understand the animal, you come to the conclusion that if you use a set of baits in the right place, it is quite possible to get a quick result.
The following can be said about correctly chosen places. On each trail there are “bases” where the wild boars stop one way or another, and this is not caused by the amount of food per square meter. If you are going to “laid out” a trail for the wild boar and create a base along it, then at least study what such places might look like.
Next, if the boar has stopped, then take into account where it eats and shits, so if you use bait somewhere, but there is not a single hint around that there was an animal (sorry, but there is no smell of sakami with musk), then this will make the pig much more careful if it is not homemade. This is where the so-called odorous “hormonal” baits. Usually these are the smells of piss or a estrous pig (here even in the off-season there is a perception at the level of instincts) or a boar-hog. These fluids diffuse further and may well attract the animal. And if salt licks are made in this place (much more effective than just complementary foods), then there is a 99% chance that you will force the animal to stay here. Although my comrades never made salt licks, they simply chose rotten stumps or poured food bait under the turf with the smell of fermented food and musk (the usual sour smell where there are a lot of pigs and where they often come, I can detect vegetable vinegar in this smell). If you repeat the experiment in this place, then most likely you will firmly tie the boar to this place, and even if he does not stop, the path will definitely lie there.
And here it becomes clear to me why smoking sticks are used. Neither the smells of urine and excretions, nor the smells of food spread over long distances, but smoke does! Morality? ….
In general, the practice of using a complex of baits is quite justified. Hormonal and food-musk animals are brought in and forced to stop in search of food on the spot, and food and salt licks in this case complete the picture we need.
As it turns out, there are quite a few musk and hormonal foods. And frequent practice has shown a direct relationship between price and efficiency. We had a chance to try "code blue scents" hormonal, and I must say that it is better than other good and well-known baits here, but it is expensive, even if you buy it in America and is rare even there. Recently I had the chance to try American Tinks - it works quite well, but in the end, in order for it to work, I had to pour out so much of it that it turned out to be more expensive in terms of money than the same expensive “blue label”. I think it's a matter of "blend" and a much more liquid concentration of Tinx. The most persistent (which affects your wallet) are gels. Expensive baits, even liquid ones, have an oil-like structure.
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We already had a similar publication, but now everything is exactly the opposite. Now our task is to attract wild boars as quickly as possible. In principle, knowing the habitat of this animal, it will not be difficult for you to bring it to a place convenient for you. It doesn’t matter what time of year it is, it doesn’t matter what month is on the calendar.... Knowing the habits of a given animal, you will definitely meet it, of course, with a certain approach.
Well, for example, now is the end of May, the easiest and effective method attracting a boar looks something like this. We visit any car service center and purchase, beg for, and take 5 liters of “waste oil,” the waste oil remaining in the car’s engine after replacement. Next we buy 5 liters diesel fuel, diesel fuel. Mix this mixture and we get 10 liters of the best “boar spirits”. We move into the forest, find a low spot, a never-drying puddle with traces of the presence of a wild boar, and pour out 2.5 liters of our perfume. Having moved 1-1.5 km away, we look for a similar place and repeat the procedure. Thus, we get 4 bathing suits that emit a solarium aroma. Solar baths work very well in spruce forests! The main thing is, when taking a bath, look around and see where you will sit while waiting for the beast to come out. First we choose a place to hang out, and only then for swimming. In the next 3-5 days at least one bathing suit will start working. Wild boars will appear on it, they will walk densely while the weather is hot. The interval is 1 night, when the temperature drops, the interval is 3-4 nights. All this will continue until late autumn. The beast comes out at nightfall. All this is due to the appearance of a huge number of stinging, biting insects. May and June are the most visited months of the year. And your swimsuit, like a magnet, will collect wild boars from all over the area. The wild boar can smell diesel fuel from great distances.
Next, we select one or two bathing suits for our subsequent hunts. Now our task is to “slow down” the beast in the place we need. The boar is omnivorous, this creature will eat everything you offer it, but even it has its own priorities. From my experience I can say - apples, but they have a drawback - they are noticeable to other hunters. So mask them up, don't forget to cut them up or crush them one or two for scent. And compound feed! The best compound feed, compound feed for fish. It is the most fragrant, and the pile of brown balls is almost invisible. In the absence of such delights, he used ordinary grains - oats, wheat. But the area is full of the same oat feeders and pork lovers. I had to make sure that my feeders were visited first. Next was a trip to the store or market. Through simple negotiations, I received brine from the herring; it is usually poured from buckets and barrels - and it is our secret weapon! How many times have I heard that wild boars don’t go to feeders? The lazy don't go to the feeders! Eat dry grain yourself when everything around you is growing and sprouting. All this works all year round. If there is no brine, I always add salt to the grain and pour unrefined, smelly sunflower oil. In general, smell plays a dominant role in boar hunts. Finding this pile of dry grain in the forest is not easy, but if it smells or there is a swimming pool nearby, then everything is different.
I was told about the following method - they put grain in and burn the top layer of grain or grains of the pile with a burner. The smell of burnt grain attracts wild boars. Unfortunately, I haven’t tried it myself yet, but the logic is there.
The next bait is freshly baked bread. Usually a couple of loaves of this aromatic product do not leave our friends indifferent. I experimented a lot with scented baits from hunting stores. Lures, scents, smoking sticks to attract animals...... I did not observe any particular effect. I burned money for a couple of years - then I quit.
Well, if you want to pamper the wild boars, before leaving for the “land of eternal hunting,” treat them with herring. It will be an act of goodwill, they will appreciate it.
There is no need to pile up huge piles of bait, just 5-6 apples, 1.5 kg piles of feed and the beast is yours. The system is important here - not a lot, but every day! During the summer months, the wild boar moves 4-6 km per night, and it will definitely look at your feeder.
Another important aspect. By placing the feeder next to the bathing area you camouflage your presence. This will be especially useful if a single cleaver or an old seasoned pig starts visiting the feeder. In 80 cases out of 100, she will “buy you out” instantly. In this case, I recommend that before landing at a hideout, storage shed, or tristand, take a 0.33 bottle of diesel fuel and walk around, periodically splashing the diesel fuel, a circle with a diameter of 20-25 meters. In the center of the circle is your seat. The smell is familiar to the beast, but now there is a twenty-meter barrier between you and the boar. The beast, as a rule, has no chance.
This is something like this, we hunt, try it works.
Using bait on wild boar is considered a difficult task.
Baits always have their own expiration dates, as well as a “blend” of effective components
(according to the manufacturer), with one name it is different for everyone
manufacturer. This all affects efficiency in the conditions where and how you
hunt. There are differences between hunts in the “blanket” and “corral”, where the use
baits also take place, and,
quite effective.
Boar baits and
their use
The main attraction of hogs is that
hunters want to do. To lure means to attract the animal to where the hogs are
do not roam at all using scent-based baits. Lures that
based on the aroma of only “food”, with some exceptions, is a waste
time and money when it comes to attracting a boar! They don't work except
cases when you succeeded in times of hunger with the help of food baits
designate a habitat. In this case, the associative experience of the boar can
lead the animal to a new place where complementary food has been provided, but only when these are animals
from the halo you designated.
The boar is being hunted for food after the fact when it comes across
at him, and not because he smelled him from afar. This is why many hunters
believe that the location chosen to attract the boar is
Very important point, since boars are not attracted by the smell. Location
They must determine the bait by chance! There have been cases when food attractants,
and the bait was placed just a few meters from the trail (trail) and the boars
she was not found. The bait should be placed in the trail before
the boar would have found her. These facts are very important and must be taken into account when baiting wild boars.
Besides this, when it comes to luring someone new
terrain, wild boars require constant feeding with new food until the given
place will not be deposited in their “head”. Hogs always want to eat fresh food. Why
we spend money and time using feed baits based on grains and other
"primitive"?
"Seasoned" grain or similar feed has
actually has a good use to block other extraneous ones
odors as a fragrant covering.
When you are hunting in a blind spot, and wild boars are not frequent guests,
the use of feed attractants with sufficiently strong aromas is unlikely to
will "bring it" to you. This will require patience and time. However, as for some hunters,
they are not ready to wait long for a wild pig when it comes to hunting, which
they gather where they spend money to buy bait. More famous
We have “inexpensive” attractants based on grains “CRACK” and “HOG”. After all, neither
one of them does not give quick results, so don't expect a miracle.
Boar baits are essentially artificial
flavoring of male secretions, including
including urine or the smell of an excited female. Some of them work in any
weather. Proven to be excellent: a mixture of fruit and corn oil with aromas
mushrooms, as well as a brown resinous liquid that smells like smoke. And the usual one
the set of baits includes: simulators of female and male urine, sexual secretions
an excited female, fermented fruit, smoldering sticks and a drug,
the overwhelming smell of a person.
The concentration of the odor determines the attitude of animals towards it,
Excessive repels, respectively, small attracts. It doesn't smell like food
As for the opposite, here everything is the opposite: greater concentration attracts more. Also
a lot depends on weather conditions. It is worth considering that with warming,
An increase in humidity increases the evaporation of odorous substances. Special role
Wind speed also plays a role, reducing or increasing the boar’s sensitivity to
smells.
Now there are special gels that are designed for
luring a wild boar. They spread a smell that is so real that wild boars are unable to pass by. At
In the production of gels, natural substances are used, and the bait does not harm animals.
apply. Grass, stumps, earth, trees, snow can be used as impregnation.
near the hunter's hideout, reliably masking his scent. It is worth noting that the oldest
The bait for this animal is resin, moisture-resistant, long-lasting, highly effective,
with an intense odor. Also, many hunters use
kerosene, and very effective.
Until recently, all this was the lot of only professionals,
Hunting enthusiasts have only recently acquired the opportunity to have bait. Hunting with
they make it much easier and more effective and interesting. Huge
assortment, as well as skillful use of baits makes it possible to regulate
movement of the boar in the desired direction.
The following can be said about well-chosen places. On
each trail has "bases" where wild pigs somehow
stop, and this is not caused by the amount of food per square meter. If
If you are planning to “pave” a path for the animal and create a base along it, then at least study these places.
In general, the practice of using a complex of baits is completely justified.
Hormonal and food-musk baits
the boar is brought to the right place and forced to stop in search of food,
and in this case, fodder and salt licks complete the picture we need.
Some types of hunting require the hunter to organize feeding for the animal, for example, hunting a wild boar. Baits force the boar to stay in place. This can achieve a livestock increase of approximately 30% compared to last year’s winter count. But most the increase will be killed by hunters and poachers, so the total number of wild boars, in general, will not increase. Please note that if the wild boar density is below 3 individuals per 1000 hectares of area, hunting cannot be done; such a low density means that there are no wild boars.
In such situations, you can use the “vacuum cleaner” method, which consists of constant moderate feeding of the wild boar at the borders of hunting grounds or excessive feeding in the center of the territory. Then all the wild boars living within a radius of 50 km and beyond will gather on the farm. You will be able to shoot them, as new herds will come and replenish the number of wild boars.
It is not possible to make a good feeding that will not be detected by strangers. Therefore, the place for organizing feeding should be chosen not only according to the habitat of the wild boar, but for ease of control.
In order for the wild boar to remain in the field area, it is better to equip a feeding area next to the field itself. This is a shed where potatoes, grain, corn, apples, etc. are scattered. In the summer, a bath with diesel fuel or waste is made in this place, in the winter - a salt lick.
Near the places where there will be a feeding field, it is worth thinking in advance and providing places for hiding and feeding during the hunting period, when there will be no more fields. It is better to organize fertilizing and fields away from places accessible to auto hunters (farers). In no case do not forget that you need to constantly monitor their access to feeding areas.
In order for wild boars to gain weight and produce hardy and healthy offspring, it is necessary to arrange special fodder fields on the hunting farm, sowing them with cereals. In the forest belt, special troughs (feeders) are installed, into which grain, bakery products and, of course, salt are poured.
Salt is an essential component in the diet of animals. It is needed for the normal occurrence of biochemical reactions in any organism. Wild animals often suffer from a lack of salt, as it is difficult to find in the forest. In order to solve this problem, special salt licks are installed in places where wild boars constantly feed.
Feeding wild boars in the hunting area is organized not only to increase the population size, but also to accustom the animal to one place. This makes hunting it much easier, because it becomes obvious to the huntsman when and where the boar will appear.
Feeders for wild boars do not have any special device. The boar only picks up food from the ground, so the food is simply placed on the ground or placed in a dug hole. There is no need to arrange any kind of shed if we are talking about ordinary feed, and not those that are easily washed away by precipitation.
As a rule, on a bypass area of 12-15 thousand hectares, 3, sometimes 4 feedings are organized. If there is a desire and funds allow, then the number of sites can be increased, this will only benefit the wild boars. To do this in the summer, you need to clear the area for fertilizing, dig a silo, and make a normal entrance. Feed is delivered in September-October. If you do this earlier, they will begin to sprout and quickly become unusable. Until February-March you need to constantly replenish the food.
Suitable feed materials include waste from grain crops, root crops, special feed, and corn. The latter is consumed by wild boars both in the form of grain and in the form of cobs.
The amount of feed should be calculated based on the number of livestock. As a rule, at least a carload of feed is imported at one time to start the biochemical ensiling reaction.
In the case of grain waste, they are laid out on the ground with the turf removed. This creates a “cushion” for wild boars to tear apart.
It's impossible to feed a wild boar, but you can support them winter time: once a week, two bags of oats and 2-3 buckets of potatoes are enough.
The oats should not be poured out in a heap, but divided into portions and placed at a distance of 5-8 meters from each other. This will allow both young and adults to feed at the same time. If there are three fields in a detour, then wild boar hunting should be carried out only on two of them, the third field is a reserved field.
Perhaps there are a lot of wild boars in the place where you live or you just wanted to hunt them? Then you should consider that this beast is not stupid and strong. Hunting will be easier if you make a wild boar trap with your own hands. And you can lure the animal using a cheap device made from a pipe.
On average, a boar weighs about 175-200 kg, body length is 1.5 - 2 meters, so a pressing mechanism may not be suitable for such an animal. In addition, you can try to catch a wild boar in a cage. But such a device will not always help in fishing, just like a trap-loop, a guarded weapon or a net. Therefore, a bait trap can be an excellent solution.
In addition to those listed, there are many other devices for catching artiodactyls. But in this article we will look at the simplest type - a do-it-yourself trap made from a pipe. It should have a small number of holes, a durable frame (for example, made of polyvinyl chloride) and a chain. All parts of the device can be easily combined in 15 minutes using glue and two track links.
Videos and photos clearly demonstrate appearance such a trap: durable, quite long (from 1.5 meters in length), with a thick chain. There should be space for corn, which acts as bait. It is important to choose a high-quality steel pin, which must be securely driven into the ground.
This trap is a feeder for artiodactyls, which can attract the attention of a wild boar for several hours. What will the animal be doing? The boar will smell the treat and will try to get it by pushing the trap from side to side. The device will be limited using a chain and an iron pin. While the forest guest is feasting on the grains that have fallen from the holes, you will be waiting for him in the bushes or on a tree with a gun.
How to make it from a pipe?
To create such a bait, you need to take a PVC pipe and drill holes into it, and cover the edges with lids. But that's not all. There will be a chain or rope attached to it, attached to a post. It is provided in the mechanism so that the boar can only push the pipe in a circle. This means that he will be within reach, and will not roll the trap into the bushes or forest.
The principle of this device for catching artiodactyls is simple: the animal smells corn, finds a trap, rolls it, and the delicacy spills out of the holes. The device must be made so that it is heavy enough even for the animal’s strong hooves or snout. This trick will help protect your corn from deer, raccoons, and other small corn lovers.
Required tools and materials
Here are a few building materials and tools that will be useful for creating an excellent bait for a wild boar with your own hands:
- drill;
- saw;
- 152 cm PVC pipes (polyvinyl chloride) 40 with a diameter of 10 cm;
- cover with a diameter of 10 cm and 7 cm;
- threaded ring with a diameter of 10 cm;
- threaded plug with a diameter of 10 cm;
- 4 x 3/8" stainless steel bolts;
- 2 3/8" nuts and washers;
- primer and glue for PVC;
- 60-150 cm of suitable chain;
- 2 1/8" track links;
- ring with a diameter of 5 cm;
- 5/8" carabiner;
- metal pin type T, at least 60 cm long.
Manufacturing instructions
Note to the hunter! You can attach a bell to the end of the bait, which will ring while the animal is in the process of obtaining a treat.
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