Hogs

[Honyock]

Out of curiosity, would you be open to letting people hunt your land to help clear them out a bit? Assuming they abide by any rules and limitations you set of course

I hunt them and my nephews have night hunted them. The issue with trying to control them with hunting is it’s not that effective. You kill one and another sow has six piglets and now you have five more. We spent quite a bit of time with the wildlife department and they feel that the only effective way to eradicate them is to trap the whole sounder. If you use a small trap you trap one or two and the rest of them get educated and stay away from the trap. Pigs are very intelligent. We use a circle pen with a remote control door. Dump corn in the middle, watch the camera and wait until the whole sounder is in it and close the gate. Sunday night we caught 6 adults and 10 piglets in one trap. If I could figure out how to post a video I would show you.

 

[Doc Holliday]

I hunt them and my nephews have night hunted them. The issue with trying to control them with hunting is it’s not that effective. You kill one and another sow has six piglets and now you have five more. We spent quite a bit of time with the wildlife department and they feel that the only effective way to eradicate them is to trap the whole sounder. If you use a small trap you trap one or two and the rest of them get educated and stay away from the trap. Pigs are very intelligent. We use a circle pen with a remote control door. Dump corn in the middle, watch the camera and wait until the whole sounder is in it and close the gate. Sunday night we caught 6 adults and 10 piglets in one trap. If I could figure out how to post a video I would show you. View attachment 692562

My timber consultant uses one of these and does the same thing, only difference is the whole ring is suspended in the air:

BoarBuster

The BoarBuster trap system is a fully suspended corral trap developed by the Noble Foundation. It can be observed and dropped remotely from anywhere with Internet service.

www.boarbuster.com

 

[Honyock]

My timber consultant uses one of these and does the same thing, only difference is the whole ring is suspended in the air:

BoarBuster

The BoarBuster trap system is a fully suspended corral trap developed by the Noble Foundation. It can be observed and dropped remotely from anywhere with Internet service.

www.boarbuster.com

They definitely work. We back up a trailer, load them up and sell them to a high fence place. Try to recoup some of the money they’ve ate out of our protein feeders and turkey feeders.

 

[Doc Holliday]

They definitely work. We back up a trailer, load them up and sell them to a high fence place. Try to recoup some of the money they’ve ate out of our protein feeders and turkey feeders.

Smart

 

[Honyock]

Still can’t figure out how to post a video but here’s a snapshot.

 

[RWT]

Similar set up. Circle trap with a standard drop gate. Run the feeder in it for a week then set the trigger.

 

[caseybratten]

In nw Oklahoma I've killed pigs just about any way it can be done. Shot this one and a few more on the way home from a Christmas dinner with my grandparents

 

[204_ruger]

Sometimes it's hard to keep them out of my coyote traps. The one picture with just a leg. Only thing the coyotes left. I went thru resetting some traps. Right before dark. Was back at daylight. Caught the hog during the night sometime. Coyotes killed the hog. And eat everything but the leg. The live pig was caught in the same set . Just a few days later.The place is a 5000 acre hunting club. Overrun with hogs and coyotes. I caught 53 coyotes off it.

 

[Yoteassasin]

Kid shot a nice one this morning not the hogzilla he wanted but we did get charged at last night looking at a group and this morning got interesting trying too let him pick out the one he wanted ..... not the ranch I normally hunt ... if it was we would have been going to
The plug hahaha

 

[johnnyboots]

Shot this big guy in SC Francis Marion last year. Unfortunately couldn't seal the deal this year...

 

[johnnyboots]

and shot this dude 20min prior

 

[LostArra]

I hunt them and my nephews have night hunted them. The issue with trying to control them with hunting is it’s not that effective. You kill one and another sow has six piglets and now you have five more. We spent quite a bit of time with the wildlife department and they feel that the only effective way to eradicate them is to trap the whole sounder. If you use a small trap you trap one or two and the rest of them get educated and stay away from the trap. Pigs are very intelligent. We use a circle pen with a remote control door. Dump corn in the middle, watch the camera and wait until the whole sounder is in it and close the gate. Sunday night we caught 6 adults and 10 piglets in one trap. If I could figure out how to post a video I would show you. View attachment 692562

On a ranch I deer hunt the state trapper set up a similar trap with a cell cam. It was less than 100 yards from one of my stands. He caught 10 then rebaited the trap for one last try before taking it out for deer season. I hunted the stand just to see how the deer were affected. Most deer wouldn't go in. One nice buck and a doe would eventually go in on separate occasions but the doe's fawn would not ever go in. Hogs wouldn't go near it. Of course they were too busy in the meadow eating their dead relatives from the first trapping with a hundred turkey vultures and a dozen coyotes. It was amazing how fast they cleaned those carcasses.

 

[Boltgun]

This one got a little bit western. Wounded him, but he got into the thick stuff. I could catch bits of heat with the thermal, and knew he wasn’t far. He started snapping at me, so I had my son get up on top of the quad just in case. Had to crawl in after him, and we played cat-and-mouse for a minute, each trying to get the other. I finally managed a clear shooting lane and dropped him for good.