I've been trying to get a deer at the lease rutting has yet to start here believe it or not.
Hunted three days -camped two nights didn't see anything.
Placed a couple of snares on trails but the hogs are pretty leery of human scent.Anytime I go out to the lease and fill my roll-barrel and can feeders the hogs disappear for two day minimum.
Usually guys go out and lay out sour corn etc. then hunt that night and the hogs figure out that pattern and steer clear for a bit.The ones that don't don't live long.
I have two snares on well worn trails that are hung on soft wire on tree branches. I then tied green spider-wire fishing line to the bottom of the snare and up over a limb so I can lift the bottom of the snare up off of the trail.
I do this because I live 60+ miles from the lease and can't check the snare daily.
When I go out I won't have to get close to the snare site and leave scent that will run the hogs off ,I'll be 60-70 feet back away from the trail.
We have very few deer here mostly hogs ,coyotes ,bear ,coons ,eagles ,hawks and alligators. Only the smartest deer can survive here and the deer killed at the lease this year are quite diminished. A couple of measly bucks and two or three does killed on a 2000 acre lease.
ltppowell , we don't have any fence here , pretty much just a swamp jungle. I have had two pictures of deer in two years if there were lots of them I would have to close the loop on the snares .Agree if one of the small size deer we have here gets snared it's over for him -predators would have it within an hour too.
There's about a two weeks left in trapping season on public land so I won't bother even buying a license this year . Next year I'm not wasting my time hunting at the lease during ""hunting season"" . I'm going to take my Gheenoe hunting boat into the swamps and start creating rubs with black gold hog lure and play the numbers game with three dozen snares. That'll keep me out there enjoying the good life.
I'll take pcs if'n I snag one. Mike
