Questions on Deer and Hogs.

[shrxfn]

I have a question for those more knowledgeable than myself.

I just got back from the lease yesterday hoping to get some pigs. Needless to say they are not cooperating with me yet. So I did basic maintenance and filled the feeders while I was there. I also swapped out the memory card in the game camera.

So I get home and I look at this pictures and all 271of them are hogs and deer coming to the smaller feeder at night every night. So my question is about when do they start showing up during the day so that I may commence harvesting some food?

BTW this is driving me crazy.

[Cattleman]

There's a chance the hogs won't come during the day. They often stay at home during the day and start out around sunset. What time are they showing up at night?

[gun toting monkeyboy]

In many areas of the country, deer and pigs are either nocturnal or crepuscular. Which means they mainly come out at night or around the twilight periods of the day. Depending on your location, you might get a few in the morning or late afternoon. But if they are mostly coming in on your feeders at night, then that is when you will need to think about hunting them. Check with your state's agency that regulates hunting to find out the rules on that. Most places allow pig hunting at night. Most don't allow hunting deer after sunset. The get in to your stand well before the active periods for the critters, and be prepared to wait. A good scope and a red filtered flashlight help a lot too. Or wait for nights with a full moon. Good luck and have fun.

[shrxfn]

Deer are only half hour before sunrise and half hour after sunset.Pigs just passed night hunting on private land with 22lr or shotgun. Unfortunately do not have permission on my lease to hunt at night yet.

Deer are showing up anywhere from ~10pm to ~2am and they are showing up every night. I think maybe with the warmer weather they were showing up later and hopefully as we get to fall/winter they will browse more during the day to stay warm.

Pigs are just frustrating me. They come the majority of the time at night usually after midnight but then they show up out of the blue during the day at 9am every so often. It is just killing me to be ready and not having them show up. I was there at 5:30am this last Sunday hoping it would be cold enough to drive them to early morning feeding but no dice. I just sat and froze.

[angsniper]

Sometimes you can get pigs to come to varmint calls. It might be worth a try. I think your deer will start showing up in daylight as the season goes on, especially close to the rut. Set your timer for slightly earlier. I have watched deer loiter in the woods near my feeder and as soon as they hear it spin they head into the clearing for dinner.

[shrxfn]

Right now my small feeder is locked at one hour after dawn and one hour before. I have a newer feeder that I can try and set for closer to sundown to see what happens.

[MikeM53]

I had a pretty big group of hogs show up this weekend just before it was light enough to see the cross-hairs. On our lease in SC they show up real early or real late.

[redyak3]

They show up in the evenings here as well. The time stamps on my cam are usually around 8 pm at the earliest.

[HTR]

If you want to shoot pigs at night, I strongly suggest you get some night vision devices. Our harvest went up at least 100% when we did.

Feral Pigs are naturally nocturnal as it is. Put a little hunting pressure on them, and you will rarely see them during daylight hours.

Gen III is the best available right now, but if you are on a budget, there are generation II devices out there which are decent and with an IR illuminator, they can allow for kills up to 200 yards. Some of them cost less than a Schmidt & Bender or Swarovski scope.

[constructor]

As it cools off they may start coming to the feeder earlier and it may depend on how far the feeder is from where they bed. I have always hit the dense thickets near water during the day for spot and stalk. Last few times we were at Chris's they came in around 11pm, he and I were a good 500yds apart but shot within 2 minutes of each other.