Hog trapping

Did you catch all of them in the same trap location? I have big, permanent traps and usually cant get anymore to go back in for months after I kill some in it.

Glad you are still at it. I wore out killing them. I have shot a couple in the last few weeks, but have given the trapping a break. Might have to build a trap on my home ground though, they are starting to come up on top the hill. Hot and dry - probably looking for food.

On my property this year, I have killed/trapped well over 100. I am beginning to wonder if it makes a difference. I have really laid off for about the last month, and they don't seem like they are swarming. They may be like coyotes - kill coyotes, and two months later, more have moved in and you have the same number that you did before you killed them. Hogs may be like that. I am wondering if more hogs just move in after you kill them and you end up with the same number. I am wondering if I didn't kill any - if I would still have the same number. I know a guy who has a place in Georgia - actually believes baiting and trapping has brought more hogs in than if he hadn't done it in the first place.

What percentage of sows that you are catching have pigs with them. I have only seen a couple of sows in the last few months that had pigs with them. Have only caught or killed one this year that had pigs - and that is out of several dozen sows.

deadhead said:

Over the last year probably 5%, most of the time if they have little ones they'll get caught with mama. Had 8 littles ones with 2 sows in March, killed them all.

Shot a 5 pound little one on the way out, there were 4 in the group. This sow had milk in 4 teats also.

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I always read where wild hogs can have two litters a year, up to ten in a litter. That may be possible - but I dont believe it is common. Most sows I see have no pigs, and I do see a few litters up to eight, but more commonly three or four.

Glad you are still at it. I finally wore out from hog trapping. I only live 8 miles from my trap - but that was still too much for me.

Man, you are at it steady. Do you have a texting camera on your trap or you just make the drive over everyday. Do you have several traps or catching them all from one trap.

deadhead said:

Texting camera, Covert wireless, $5.99 a month for 1000 pictures. The picture is sent to your phone within 6 seconds of being taken.
Only using one trap now, had a couple but that got to be more like work. I only move a trap after catching every pig in the sounder. Every "expert" told me you had to move after every catch, I came to find out these "experts" never caught a pig much less knew how to spell pig. Trial and error are generally the best teachers.
Should have had a few more on this catch but the door got shut early by the little ones.
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I read a study the other day that said 75% of trapped, marked, and released hogs were trapped again. I think some of what comes from g&f on hogs and hog trapping is exagerated propaganda to help sell their previous hog refuge program. I once had a sow and eight 50 lb pigs coming to a feeder. All either black and white or brown and white hampshires - good looking pigs. I killed five of the young ones over the next two months with my bow. I actually wounded the sow and she came back. Have had that happen more than once. Ended up catching the last three young ones in a trap about fifty yards from the feeder - when they were a year old.

You have ten times the little pigs that are at my place

Keep at it. It can make a difference. I killed 63 on my home ground last year. Put a corn feeder up about Feb 1 and got my first hog pic two nights ago at that feeder. Last year would have had hogs on it the first night.

My lower ground is infested and I cant get to it to trap. Never had this many on that ground since we bought it. That is what leaving them unmolested for six months will do for you. It needs to get hot and dry so I can get down there and start working on them.

GOOD JOB!

Bucks Friend said:

Hey Swamp Cat, looks like you are getting your wish. It may reach 100 this weekend.

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I finally got down on my bottom ground with my sxs. I dont think I can get down this week with my big tractor - but maybe my little tractor. If we have 100 degree weather and no rain for a week - I will be able to go anywhere I want to.

deadhead said:

Back at them!
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Big hog - what did he weigh?

That sure does seem late. I have seen bucks in April with three or four inches of new growth.

Bucks Friend said:

I need you on my place in Lewisville. Just not sure your box would be big enough. I need someone with a big pen

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have you ever called the USDA trappers. They caught 28 off my place. I got a thermal scope and taking care of them now myself

I have had a couple hogs push through on a “figure 6” trap - but not enough to worry about. The next trap I build will have a five foot wide, guillotine drop gate on it

I have had three feeders out on two different properties for a month now. One medium sized, intermittent boar has visited. I have owned the properties for almost twenty years and have never seen it like this. Two properties, five miles apart makes it a little more unexplainable.

deadhead said:

My pigs come and go, especially when the deer hunters start filling feeders. In the winter it's hard to find a pig so the trap goes to the barn. But I can definitely tell a difference in numbers over the years of trapping these jokers. Maybe you thinned them out in your area??
They just started filtering back into the property a couple weeks ago, and man did those deer hunters fatten em up!
Got 2 more good pigs in this sounder and hopefully I can catch them quickly and move to a different section of the farm.

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No doubt, I have thinned them - but didnt think that much

A buddy of mine shot a hog with his bow along the river one morning and threw it in the river so the buzzards wouldnt get on it a ruin his hunting spot. It got hung up in some brush along the river bank and stayed there for the next five days. No telling how many alligators swam by the hog in five days - as there are so many they are a nuisance here - and none of them touched that hog.

lawson6565 said:

that's great work. i still can't beleive agfc won't allow taking hogs on wma land. they are nuts!

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I agree. Why would a hog dogger even go to a wma to illegally hunt hogs to move to another area when landowners all over the state are cussing hogs on their own property every day. I get that hunters could get in on a bait site and fowl the trapping up - but stop trapping for three months during regular fall season and let folks hunt them.