Baiting

[Ruskin]

I have set a feeder that throws corn; however, I am thinking of using a rag tied around a tree saturated with oil(cooking).  I think a member of a hunt club I was in used cooking oil from a restaurant to bait hogs.  I think he just dumped it on the ground.

I am thinking of going to a restuarant and asking for their grease.  I will use it on the rag around a tree.  The smell should have an attraction to them.

I will try bow hunting, and I am concerned with smell.  I was told to take some clothing that I have worn and put it on my stand.  This acclimates the hogs to my smell.

Anyone try what I am thinking of doing?

[S_J_KENNELS]

Just go hunting....these days to many folks are worried about sent and such. Just pay attention to the wind and you have no worries. As far baiting sour corn works great. a old fence post stuck in the ground with creosote on it works wonders as well. I have been hunting hogs all my life and exclusively for the past 10 years as I trade hog meat for deer, and have never done nor tried any of what you said. However I am not saying not to do or try it. If you do let us know an I might even try it. Also Diesel and burnt motor oil will work as well.

[Land_Owner]

Don't put your old clothes on your stand.  Don't spread your scent around your stand.  The fastest way to spook wild hogs is to introduce a bunch of new human scent into their pristine territory. 

If you come home at night, into your own home, and it suddenly smelled like fear, or its equivalent to you, would you continue to go into your home without a thought of your own safety?  Or would you leave and get some help? 

Wildlife is kind of like that.  They go anywhere, anytime.  They have no home and reason to go into something that yesterday was OK but today is questionable.  There is REAL DANGER for them out there, SURVIVAL DANGER each day every day, and you just showed them the way to it.

Cooking oil?  Come on.  I have seen discussion regarding diesel fuel, motor oil, and now cooking oil.  If diesel or motor oil was so good, why don't they lick the dirt up under the trucks parked at the gate?  Too much human scent possibly, but scent doesn't last that long and motor oil and diesel do.  I think the discussion is intended to throw off the uninitiated.  Don't use cooking oil.

If you want to make a smelly concoction try a 1-gal. milk jug slit to hold 1/2 gal of dry whole kernel corn and fill the rest of the jug with water to cover and float the corn.  Hang that over your bait.  Its fermentation will bring the hogs in in a couple of days.

[Zachary]

I'm not what you would call a tree hugger, but I just don't like the idea of having oil saturated into the ground, especially diesel and motor oil, even if it's on your own land.

I have heard that people soak corn in diesel, and that's mostly okay because it's the corn, not the ground, that's soaking it up.  Although do you really want to eat an animal that has been feeding on corn that has been soaked in diesel?

Again, I'm not Al Gore, but let's use some better baits.  

Let me tell you one of my secrets.  Bananas and banana peels.  Bananas are NOT something that hogs are accustomed to.  AND bananas have a strong smell that hogs can smell for a long distance.  I usually eat a banana and put the peels on different parts of a tree and such (especially smaller shrubs).  That way, it gets into the wind better.  I have seen hogs follow the sent of the banana peels and they just eat the whole dang peel.  Granted, I also have regular corn on the ground, but I've seen hogs fight over banana peels.

So try it.  I'm sure that you'll agree that it is better for our environment.

Zachary

[Ironwood]

Zachary.... If you think diesel soaked corn is bad, don't ever look at what a hog has been eating.  When I was much younger I made the mistake of opening up a feral hogs stomach to see what she had been feeding on.  I wont go into what all she had been eating, but I couldn't eat pork for several  months afterwards. 

[whiskey101]

When I lived in Alaska we would get used cooking oil from a Mexican restaurant. They called us crazy gringos, but it worked great for bears. I have tried my own old cooking oil that I used to fry turkeys. It did not work. This was in an area that hogs were in and already eating corn and they wouldn't even rub the trees where we poured the oil down them. I don't think COOKING OIL is going to hurt the environment though. You can try it, but sour corn will work better. Actually, I have found that just plain corn from the feeder is the best. The only time I use sour corn is when I am hunting an area that I have not been baiting with plain corn. Sometimes it will pull them in if they are near by.

As far as the clothes on the stand idea... People used to do it in Alaska to get the bear used to smelling them at the bait station. I think it is bull, I wouldn't do it. Just play the wind and you will have better luck.