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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/07/17 05:17 AM
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IamMr2
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The one thing you don't mention is how did your car get there. YOU drove it...so maybe they are smelling you. Do you use scent killing soap before you go out? Maybe it's your clothes?
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/07/17 12:19 PM
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captdavid
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Who knows, but I will give you an experience. We shot a pig behind the feeder in dense cover. In getting to where we could load the pig we got a flat. We got a truck and left the atv within five feet of the feeder. The next morning when we went to get the atv, all the corn around the feeder was gone, including the corn under the atv! Who knows! captdavid
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/07/17 03:36 PM
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MClark
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Most of hogs The land owner where I hunt shoots them from the running tractor. He will be out doing rancher stuff and the hogs will stand in the road looking at the tractor! Shoot and scoop, front bucket.
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/07/17 04:23 PM
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Simple Searcher
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Hogs do not mind the your smell, car smell, cigar smell, etc. They will come right up to the back porch, down wind of every human smell there is. But they do pay attention to a scent if it is new to the area. Trips often to the blind are a good thing, get them accustomed to you and vehicle smell. If they are hungry, corn smell can override all other senses. I have had them walk up 50 feet from me, down wind, daylight, with me standing at the Gator. They looked at me as if I was in their way, you never know. This has happened several times. I have also bow hunted several times and not seen a deer because the wind was wrong, but pigs will still come in. You never know. But I do show up at the feeder several times a week, and not just deer season either. I hunt year round and shoot about 50 pigs a year, every year.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/07/17 05:23 PM
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CharlieCTx
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My most common tool in hog hunting is a Thermacell.... A hog may deny what he hears, or what he sees, but in my experience, he will never deny what he smells ! Are they just denying your Thermacell scent is there somehow? Most of the time I sleep in my blind overnight. I have 2 IR/PIR sensors on the feeder so if pigs show up, it will send me an alarm to wake up and shoot them using 300 blkout with digital night vision Pulsar N750. Greetings fellow blind-sleeper! I do the same thing... Do you have your windows blacked out at night? I use doubled up black trash bag strips cut to size I tape to the windows (taped in a manner that the plastic moves with the windows when I open them) so I can use my iPad, green headlight, heater, etc. and not have the blind glowing. How big is your arena and what are you using to scan with? I use a Chamberlain driveway alarm and used to depend on it exclusively after about 8pm but in the last couple of months I've started scanning more regularly until I call it a night later and was surprised at the traffic that was coming by but not close enough to the feeder to set off the alarm. If you only have a NV scope, consider getting a Thermal scanning device, you'll be amazed what you see, you're not seeing with NV. I've not tried one, Leupold has a new Thermal spotting scope for $700. Charlie
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/07/17 07:07 PM
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Buzzard Breath
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glue corn all over your car in neat rows, if you drive a VW bus it will look like a giant ear of corn.
Last edited by Buzzard Breath; 01/07/17 07:11 PM.
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/07/17 08:37 PM
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Stripermania
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My blind have 4 sliding windows and I used black Sunbrella boat cover fabric and used pushed pins to cover all 4 windows and when I need to look outside, I pin one window about 5" open and look. Other times, it is completely dark inside my blind when I surf the web with my Iphone. I used two sensors for pig alarm mounted right below the feeder barrel looking down to the ground so it is basically looking around the legs of the feeder. I use a Guardline Wireless Driveway Alarm with an advertised range of 500' and the other is the Miltronic Hunter Alert System with an advertised range of 1000'. I also have a IR flood light mounted 5' above the feeder running off 12v battery with solar panel and charge controller and this will spread about 20' diameter IR light on the ground around the feeder so I can use the Firefield Nightfall II monocular without having to turn on the IR illuminator since the pigs can sometimes see the red glow. Also when I shoot using my digital NV scope, I don't need to turn on the IR illuminator. Thermal devices are out of my price range right now but will definitely buy one at the right opportunity.
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/14/17 06:40 PM
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Tommar
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Kinda simple solution is to move either the blind or the feeder to put you downwind from the hogs.
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: Stripermania]
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01/14/17 08:24 PM
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Beckett
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Set up a second blind so you have a choice based on wind direction. My 2 blinds are both 100 yds from feeder and raccoon's won't even eat if the wind is wrong.
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Re: Does pigs smell my parked car
[Re: DLALLDER]
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01/14/17 08:39 PM
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a74aggie
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Dlallder is 100% correct.
�The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.� Edmund Burke
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person
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