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.
Hog trapping
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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.
Next victim.
No doubt, I have thinned them - but didnt think that much
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Like a bad penny, they'll show back up, unfortunately.
But I do enjoy catching them.
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Dang I bet your freezer is packed!
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I give 95% away, only keep 3 or 4 nice sows a year.
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Do you give 95% of the toms away also? I would handle all the labor involved.
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Nope! I haven't hunted these birds in better than 5 years, might go a time or two this year.
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Yes and they sink when you choot em. So a friend told me thats killed a few out of a boat.
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.
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that's great work. i still can't beleive agfc won't allow taking hogs on wma land. they are nuts!
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.
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