Planted the summer crop on my food plot awhile back but we didn't have any rain after that for 5 weeks. Plus,the hogs got all the chufas and the corn. My purple top turnips,iron clay peas,and the soy beans, were terribly stunted due to the drought. When this happens,the crop seems to never catch up. The whole plot looks pretty sickly.

I put up a couple of 4X6 posts in the ground and put a homemade bbl feeder(30gal) with a timer on it. This is attached to a boat winch so that I could lower it for filling. I put corn and a bag of hog finish in it. I mixed in about a gallon of cheap(Ol' Roy) dogfood also.

I immediately started seeing hog tracks. Most were in the 30-50lb range but some bigger. I sat my shooting house a couple of mornings early just to see what showed up. I saw some sows that were 150+ and a couple of boars that were the same size.

A couple of weeks ago I put out a roll bbl. I anchored it firmly to the ground with a screw in anchor. I used 1/8" ss cable attached to a hard point on the bbl. I put in some dry corn. My holes were 1" in diameter and there were 6 of them arround the "fat" part of the bbl.

I went to the club to check on my plot every couple of days and everytime I noticed that the bbl was taking allot of punishment. It was being scored/slashed up by some massive cutters. Part of the bbl was actually cut through and through. The wire rope was always wrapped up tight around the anchor.

Yesterday I went to my plot and immediately noticed that the bbl was MIA. After walking up and down my plot,I finally found the bbl down by the edge of the swamp,hung up on a cypress knee,about 75yds from the anchor point. There were some mighty large tracks around it. The whole area also smelled of irrate boar. (It was comforting to know that I had my 10mm on my hip,loaded with 200gr hardcast.)

The hog(s) had thrashed up the bbl real good. It was unuseable. The top had been ripped off and that is how they got it away from the wire rope. The whole setup will only cost a few bucks to replace. Thing is.......how to make it boar proof. Actually,I figure that is impossible.

Wish that I could have seen the hog that put the whoopin on that tough ol' plastic bbl. Time to dust off the .454Casull carbine and load up some more 335gr WLNGC hardcast. -----pruhdlr

Now that you've got them interested, might just throw some on the ground, set up early and see what comes in.

Hogs can tear up a tank if given enough time! :eek:

Use a steel barrel, and if you want to make the fun last longer, drill fewer and smaller holes in it.

Get that big ol' boar!!!

.....for the input. Forgot to mention in the above that the print was as big as the palm of my hand w/thumb folded along side.

Put out new bbl today. Another plastic redish orange one. These are the one's with the 2 piece heads. A plastic piece that covers the head and then a locking ring that screws down on that. They smell as if peppers(pepperoncini)(sp) came in them. They have some greek writing on the side.

Instead of making the "hard point" the lid,I made it the bottom. I took 2 pieces of metal and sandwhiched and bolted this to the bottom. Then put a eye bolt with a tuna swivel on it. This I cliped my origional beaner to.

I also drilled a total of 4,1" holes in the sides. I had allot more in the last bbl.

If this fails.....?.....well.....I guess it will be the steel drums.

Put 5 gals. of dry corn in the bbl and left it to the animals.-----pruhdlr