Hog Barrels

[bt707]

Awesome idea. Nothing better than some hog hunting.

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

Here are some oy our Pipe Hog Feeders. we put a 8"-10" PVC pipe 18" in the ground and fill with fermented corn. The Hops fight over it and can only get one or two eating out of the buried pipe. All the other Hogs stand around waiting to get shot.
I just refilled these after a few months to bring the Hogs back in. They will dig an 8' circle around these pipes once they start feeding.

 

[Coastal]

We have some pig pipes out but honestly don't really ever fill them. The problem is pigs hit them anytime they want so you never know when that will be. With regular feeders we can get them to show up in daylight.

 

[DUCKMAN11]

I wanted to share something we do at our hunting lease in Central Texas. We have a lot of hogs here in Texas and they're a lot of fun to hunt. One of the challenges is that while they come through our hunting areas daily, they're very unpredictable as to the time. When they come through, they don't stay long unless there's something to eat. To keep them coming back and hanging around longer, we put out poly barrels filled with corn with holes drilled in the side. They role the barrel around the post and the corn trickles out slowly so it takes a few days for them to empty it. You can make these from 30 gallon up to 55 and you can use open or closed top drums. Both have their advantages and drawbacks. The open tops can get roughed up enough by the hogs so they come open and the closed top drums are a challenge to attach to the cable. A few words of advice I learned the hard way. Use metal cable, not chain and run it through some conduit. Also be sure you have a good, sturdy swivel mechanism on the drum. We've had them break several of our chains and cables when they roll the drum around and the chain/cable binds up until it breaks. In the picture of the blue drum, I used a chair caster as my swivel and just took the wheel off. Also use a heavy duty ring around the T-post or they'll break that too. These really work well but you can go through a lot of corn using them. I tend to only run mine when I'm actively hunting. You can see that they can be a bit of a mess when the hogs play in the rain too. One time they broke my cable and I didn't find my drum until the next year, a good 1/2 mile away. They'd pushed it a couple hundred yards into a creek.

We've used similar drums with 3× 3/4" holes drilled in the bottom edge/corner. We used chain instead of cable at first but cable is easier for sure.

The major HUGE MASSIVE draw back to this type of feeder is that hogs can hit it 24hrs a day. And if the property has cattle on it....they will eat the corn before the hogs can.

I don't want them coming in at 3am then 11am then 3pm. Also birds of every non game species will sit in the trees around the barrel and feast on the corn. I've seen 30-40 crows at our barrels before.

I don't own one yet but the "corn cannon" type feeders seem to be the best I've seen in awhile.