Question for the group. I have my first lease, currently 3 feeders on about 145 acres. I have two of the feeders fenced in so the hogs/cows stay away, but before I fence the 3rd I want some feedback. Like I mentioned we have hogs, we saw about 20 on one of the cams just the other night, but that area is one of the areas we ended up fencing in the feeder. My thoughts were to keep one unfenced to draw them there but was curious how others set their land up? I've seen a few hogs on the game cam of the 3rd feeder that isn't currently fenced.

This land hasn't really been hunted from what I was told in the past, it's out in Bastrop. We've already seen some nice does and smaller bucks starting to show up from the feeders and putting feed out. Which have to say has been fun to start to see them show up more and more. Thinking/hoping there is a big buck out there, just saw one of smaller bucks has one side of his antlers broken off, hoping that was from fighting a bigger buck lol.

Figured maybe you guys had some feedback or point me in the right direction.

Don't fence it. Run the cows off if they show up, but my guess is they won't ruin your hunt long if they show up. I'm pretty much a stand and fill feeder with no fences hunter now and cows aren't an issue (for long). Glad you're seeing some trophy does.

Yea so far so good on the does. Would love to see some bigger bucks but figure we are putting in the work to hopefully get them in.

Good advice above.

Only thing I would do is add some feeder lights so you can shoot hogs at night.

If you want to spend money, I'd do this one in red.
https://sniperhoglights.com/exterminator-ii-feeder-light/

Or you can go cheaper and do four of these. Just mount them on a pole, drive a t post or rebar in the ground and slide pole over the top. Make sure they are pointed away from the shooter so it doesn't blind your scope.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07X8MH1GV?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

Why not fence it in with the ability to open and close it?

You wanna bring hogs in to hunt in the off-season then open it up. Once season gets close and you wanna keep it to only deer close it up.

That is what my buddy does. Keeps pens fully closed Sept-end of the deer season and drops one panel winter and spring to hunt hogs.

Good idea. We have gates on them so that would be easy.

If you only have 145 acres the hogs are going to travel on and off the property. We typically put two feeders (one fenced (36" hog panels) and one unfenced at each blind that we hunt).

During deer season we often stop putting corn in the unfenced feeder to discourage the hogs and cows. During the off season if you want to shoot hogs you can start running the unfenced feeder and drawn them in.

You can always fence all three but run the fence between feeder and blind somewhat closer to the feeder so it'll throw corn outside the fence for shots at pigs.

I like the bounty! I just need to find someone near Bastrop that has a hog problem!

The cows have been more of a nuisance lately, have one camera pointing up in the sky as of this morning lol

Out of curiousity- how did you find a lease of only 145 acres? How many guns on it?

The reason I ask is that I've come across a handful of leases that size and they still want 4 guns on it.

Honestly got lucky and found it on here.

Tarpon how many guns depends on safety. And that depends on the lay out of the property. Ive seen hill country 140 acres that easily handle 5 blinds and 400 acres of flat farm land maybe 3 at most.

aggielax11 said:

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Honestly got lucky and found it on here.

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Damn. Must have missed it because I would likely have been interested in it.

I agree.

I'm with those above not intentionally baiting hogs.

They'll be around the outside of pens regardless.