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« on: August 06, 2012, 11:11:07 am » |
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I've seen several postings on here where guys are having some great hog hunts in milo fields. My question is at what point do hogs start eating the milo? My friends farm has 10 acres of milo. It was planted early summer and has been headed out sevearl weeks now. There is hog sign not far from the field but no hog sign or milo damage in the field. Anybody know when they will begin feeding on the milo?
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Sam3030
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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2012, 11:44:17 am » |
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I've been farming in south Texas for about 8 years now we plant cotton and milo Matthew.... If there's hog in your area I'm 100% certain they are going to damage your fields. My good friend mike Everett and I hunt thousands of acres with milo planted on em and catch hogs almost every night. When the milo is young hogs will go in and scout the area won't damage but they will investigate. When you start seeing the plant head turn orange it's getting very close for the hogs to start damaging the field. As soon as you start seeing bright red colored grain heads then you better start loading your dogs up because there's gonna be hogs... Few words of advice hunt them at night or early morning try and change up your hunting times and don't be disappointed if the hogs break bay it's hard for new dogs to get use to the milo if they just hunt brush or open country. They will figure it out I promise, O and another thing try to stay out of the rows if there's more then one hog because most of the time they run right down the one row your running on haha! Have fun and remember when the milo turns red and you start seeing some of it hanging over or crop circles get your dogs ready
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matthewrbarnard
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« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2012, 11:52:57 am » |
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Thanks for that info. I feel like it should be any time now. They planted half the field in one kind of seed and the other half in another. I know they said one seed was a pretty big seed and the other was VERY tiny. The bigger seed end of the field is a reddish color now while the other end still has a yellowish head.
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« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2012, 12:10:31 pm » |
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yeah right at harvest time you gotta get busy , but i hated hunting them fields . it was hell on the dogs some days hog smell would be so thick the dogs was runnin around jumping like kangaroos trying to sight hunt em lol
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matthewrbarnard
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« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2012, 12:14:19 pm » |
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Haha. I'm hoping since its only 10 acres maybe it wont be so bad. But it is 10 acres of thick milo. We had enough rains off and on that it is a great crop so i'm hoping to have some good hunts in and around it. I just kinda figured they'd already be in it by now.
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Sam3030
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« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2012, 12:41:31 pm » |
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Your just a few weeks from getting busy then  yeah your right most the time in the milo fields they are in big packs so it's kinda hard for the dogs but eventually they figure it out... If It's just a 10 acre block well you shouldn't have any trouble findin them. We hunt fields that are 4 to 500 acre blocks but then again we put our strike dogs on the hood and when they wind they jump off saves them a lot of energy. You should just be able to walk em in try in be stealthy because if it's just 10 acres I'm sure they can hear your pickup Matt. Just ease em in slowly down wind and I'm sure you will be posting pictures of your kills in no time them hogs love that milo and what you said about one grain being bigger then the other must be a different variety of seed I'll tell you one thing the hogs prefer the sweeter one I couldnt tell which one it is unless you told me what type of seed it is for us it's the pioneer brand 3707 orange and white bag they love that stuff. So just watch there damage patterns an go from there I'll post some pictures of the damage they cause down here in south Texas it's ridiculous Matt |
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matthewrbarnard
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« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2012, 01:43:16 pm » |
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Your just a few weeks from getting busy then yeah your right most the time in the milo fields they are in big packs so it's kinda hard for the dogs but eventually they figure it out... If It's just a 10 acre block well you shouldn't have any trouble findin them. We hunt fields that are 4 to 500 acre blocks but then again we put our strike dogs on the hood and when they wind they jump off saves them a lot of energy. You should just be able to walk em in try in be stealthy because if it's just 10 acres I'm sure they can hear your pickup Matt. Just ease em in slowly down wind and I'm sure you will be posting pictures of your kills in no time them hogs love that milo and what you said about one grain being bigger then the other must be a different variety of seed I'll tell you one thing the hogs prefer the sweeter one I couldnt tell which one it is unless you told me what type of seed it is for us it's the pioneer brand 3707 orange and white bag they love that stuff. So just watch there damage patterns an go from there I'll post some pictures of the damage they cause down here in south Texas it's ridiculous Matt Thanks for all your info. Def post some pics of what they do down there. I'll try to take some pictures of the field i'm talking about today and post them tonight or tomorrow. |
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« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2012, 10:14:51 pm » |
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only milo field ive hunted we dropped off my rcds at one end of the field and the whole group took the catch dogs to the other end of the field.ran the hogs straight to the cds so i think it worked real well and caught a good handful.
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Matt H
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« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2012, 10:23:20 pm » |
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Since hogs in this part of the country are notorious runners we let em feed all night in the rice and corn then jump em with a full belly.
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« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2012, 10:58:07 pm » |
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Our poor dogs have their work cut out for them in the milo fields that we hunt.  |
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Sam3030
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« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2012, 09:35:55 am » |
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Good looking block of grain Matt. Looks like it was planted with a spreader or a drill planter, where we hunt it's main planted in 30 inch rows. But you shouldn't have a problem running in that field it's not abundant like overhere but those plants look healthy as can be and have a very good stand with plenty of fruit on them. If there's hogs in that area you better get ready lol have you tried hunting it yet I would suggest you hunt it and see what your dogs do when yOu catch the first one in there it's on like donkey kong until y'all havest it.... I miss running in the milo all of our fields have been harvested and cut down but we still hunt them because when the combines havest it they leave a lot of seed out on the ground so the hogs still go in and root them out. Other night my good friend mike and I killed 6 in less then 2 hours in a plowed field let me tell you I was out of breath but we had a blast the farmers love us for helping em with the problem im hoping one day we can turn it into a business
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« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2012, 10:45:48 am » |
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Don't worry buddy ill be back Thursday ill spend a lil family time in the evening and all night with my dogs and great friends I know the hogs will be in there we haven't hit them in 5 day. They must think we forgot about them lol they r used to us running them 4 days a week , they don't know what's coming
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