Title: Barometer? Post by: hoghunter_1985 on June 25, 2010, 01:57:11 am Well i have heard from alot of ol timers that the barometer has alot to do with tracking. Everyone around here that hunts has been goin thru kind of a dry spell. Well what i was wondering is the barometric pressure high or low for good tracking?
Title: Re: Barometer? Post by: Brushbuster on June 25, 2010, 04:43:52 am A buddy of mine that is quite well known as a hog hunter only hunts when the barometric pressure is around 30. I think, unless he's been pulling my leg. Idk, nothing about it.
Title: Re: Barometer? Post by: Hog Dog Mike on June 25, 2010, 07:33:27 am When I was bird hunting all the time I kept a log of all the weather conditions. Barometric pressure, temp, wind, direction, humidity, ect.. I did this for an entire season and I was running and training lots of dogs back then so it was not just a dog or two.
Here is what I found. Dogs cannot scent as well on a south wind, east is next worst, and north and west are the best. I don't know why but I know it is true. When I was helping out at a hunting camp we were working about 35 dogs per day. I have seen dogs that did not smell birds well in perfect conditions. I have also seen them smell in the absolute worst conditions. I have seen conditions change in a couple of hours dramatically. Don't ask me what changed because I don't know. All I do know is that 4 dang good bird dogs did not do well early one morning in a particular pasture. The brids were there because we had several stop to flushes. We put 4 more dogs in the same pasture and they did great. Then we put the first 4 dogs back down and they were simply outstanding. I guess that is what makes dogs so neat. Title: Re: Barometer? Post by: BarrNinja on June 25, 2010, 07:50:11 am How about this one: a dog cant smell or work a track when the wind is directly out of the East.
I have heard a few things from "old timers" that seemed very doubtful and I always wondered if they were blowing a little smoke and having some fun with me. I cant say for sure but most of us have caught hogs in just about every kind of weather condition. There may be something to this one though because I have seen 1st hand many a time how the barometric pressure can effect the fishing and deer movement. This should be an interesting thread. Title: Re: Barometer? Post by: charles on June 25, 2010, 09:24:28 am well from what iv read so far with the preassure. hogs must be similar to deer then, when i was hunting in kansas, i would wait till the barometer was 31ish but nothing less than 30 and nothing more the 35. dont know why but i was told similar things that the preassure makes a differnce. it must bc i would see more deer activity with higher preassure and just before a big cold front.
Title: Re: Barometer? Post by: jheffern on June 26, 2010, 01:37:53 pm my dad said that the best scenting conditon is when the air is changing tempatures from warm to cool like when a cold front is blowing in. there could be a connection their cold front affect the atmospheric pressure.
Title: Re: Barometer? Post by: Reuben on June 26, 2010, 03:40:35 pm I know when the weather is about to change that my aches and pains flair up. My Grandfather always told me the same thing back in the 1960's.
I bought a casio fishing watch and took it back and exchanged it for a hunting watch because the feeding periods are the same but the hunting watch looked better. If barometric pressure triggers feeding for fish and game then I suspect it includes pigs and hunting hog dogs. I think it is possible for the dogs to hunt at a higher level during the best feeding times. Me, I like to hunt best when it is cold and the weeds are down. Also, on a full moon night with the same conditions. Seems we always catch more hogs during these times. I know that for every ten degree drop we need to increase the dogs caloric intake by a certain percentage to maintain weight so the deer also move around more to feed and my success ratio goes up. If the hogs move around more then the dogs have a better chance to strike a track. Title: Re: Barometer? Post by: hoghunter_1985 on June 26, 2010, 10:10:25 pm well thanks for all yalls input i appreciate it! I dont know what was different last night other then it wasnt as humid but our dry spell pretty much ended. between us and my family we caught 6 last night, but the one we caught did a pretty good number on our dogs the three bay dogs were all cut and we got a pretty good vet bill on our bulldog but they r all still movin and eatin so theyll live to catch another one. thanks again everyone
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