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Does anyone trap pigs? I trap quite a few in my deer feeder pens. I also have a couple drop gate traps. I sometimes catch 20 in a weekend.

Visited the King Ranch and one of their feedlots several years back. They thought they might have a pig problem and trapped 1,300 the first night.

Guess probably it's not a Victor No.2!

WOW!!!

It was one of those lots that can handle about 40,000 cattle, so a little feed missing from the bunks was hardly noticed. In addition, there was some French market for such fare that was priced above our domestic hog prices.

Until we lost our lease a few years back on a particular piece of property, we trapped 50-80 each year. After a little trial and error, we found that figure 6 traps using four cattle panels worked the best for us. We lost some of the smaller ones occasionally but usually my son and his 12ga could take care of the little ones that managed to squeeze out and run.

That is fun shooting them in pens.

I am a licensed feral swine dealer with the state. I use several trap styles but my preference is wide and short.Currently building two that will winch into my deck over dump trailer. 6'wide,, 42" tall, 6' long.

Surely you took pics?

I need to figure out how to do that from my ifone

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Killed him Sunday. 225 or so.

I wonder how many pigs there is in Texas?

This was the biggest day we have ever had. Caught pigs in all three pens one morning.

Bomar learned me how to post pics.

This pig caught in fence climbing over gate. We have caught two like this.

A few more piggie pics

A few more

One we caught Sunday and one caught in top of trap gate last year. I plan on doing a lot of pig trapping when I retire.

As I posted on the shoulder shot thread, we went to buckshot a lot less richetees, easier on the panels and more lead in the air, which is the purpose with a pen full, get as much lead in there in the shortest amount time possible. AND it's fun!!!

I like traps because, they work while you are sleeping, while you are drinking beer, while you are hunting another stand. I wish I had money for the traps that send you texts, lets you drop gate with phone.

This is a pig trap I built a couple of years ago. It has a feeder that goes off once a day.

I snare quite a few. I liken it to jug line fishing or trot-lining. Set your snare and come back after the morning hunt and run your snare line.



















just don't get careless or you'll end up face down laughin' your azz' off at your own stupidity





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I have thought about trying that, but I see a lot of deer going under fences. I would like to see a pig come under and get caught. Is that 1/8 cable? A guy that I know catches coyotes with treble hook hung about 4' off the ground. They jump to grab meat, get caught on the hook. He uses a steel leader and rope.

Catching pigs is fun!!

Hanco-
Are you salvaging meat or is that an eradication deal?

We clean one every now and then, but mostly coyotes eat big sometimes. I caught-killed over 170 last year. The reproduce so fast, I'm not sure we are keeping up. If we manage to kill them out on our lease they move in from across the fence.

Caught-killed 27 this weekend.

Wow, pretty colors in some of them. We started making some "6" traps last year with t posts and cattle panels. The most we ever caught at one time was 12. But we don't have nearly the population in louisiana that texas has.

There must be a big multi-colored boar pig out there. Sows were black. We trapped a big all white male last year.

Yes, there are pigs under every bush here in Texas. Catching them is a ton of fun.

been trapping pigs for years,

170 last year, wow. that's huge

Just walked mail back to daughter a SIL's place. Daughter pipes up, "Dad! Pigs are back!!!"

I says "Hot dog! BBQ time!!!!" Trap is in place. Bait it about 8:00 tonight!!

Report to follow!!!

Hancock have you looked into KAPUT?

Read about it, don't think it's legal yet???

Dang, I thought our lease had them bad, pics of a dozen pigs at a time are common.

Thats a pile of pigs

How big a property?


also, in some of those pics, is that ticks or blowflys?

1000 acres, has year around creek. I'm sure that's blow flies, it was warm that weekend. I'm pretty sure we have so many is the water. They have to have it to cool down when it's hot. You don't really see that many until you put a camera by your feeders. I don't put cameras out anymore, got tired of pig pics. We are getting a lot of Aoudads now. There are a few Elk also. A damn turkey under every bush too. 50 turkeys in a bunch is not unusual. Deer population is fair. I think there would be more deer if we didn't have so many pigs.

what you bait with in ne fla our hogs will not go in a push open door donot no if hogs are to dumb or to smart

Don't k now what other people use but we use sour corn, fill a 5 gal. bucket about 3/4 full with corn then fill with water and set it in the sun and it will get real stinky in a couple of days, we keep about a dozen buckets working all the time, we have 6 traps that we keep working from the end of deer season till deer season starts again.

some days we get 20 pigs others only 2 or 3 , pigs are smart, so we keep moving our traps every few days, look for pig sign set a trap close by, water really helps. remember pigs are predators ,they kill the hell out of fawns, and eat Quail and other nesting birds like candy. when they can't find anything else to eat, they eat each other, catch em and kill em, that's what we do. Rio7

ive tried a trap, no luck

once you kill in a trap, do you move it?

we have 6 traps all sizes we do not move some to big hogs mite take a week to go in we have to wear rubber boots an keep sent free or they stay away trapped on land for 30yrs hogs born trap shy

44mc, what you say is right, unless we have no activity after a week or so, we put a camera on each trap hopefully to see what 's going in that location ,some locations just don't work out , Rio7

some real pig hunting here, nice work guys...i am so jealous.

I have trap gates built in the feeder pens plus one steel trap. Rubber boots and scent killer helps. Don't drive right up to trap either, they can smell the carbon monoxide left by 4 wheelers etc.

I made a pass by feeder in the Ranger one day before I climbed in stand. Several deer walked over the place I had driven, jumped in feeder pen, stayed a while. A bit later a group of piggies came through the fence headed to feeder, when they crossed over the place I drove, they turned double back flips, hauled ass back the way they came. We park a hundred yards away now, rubber up and scent kill. Catch a lot more.

Prop open your push gate with a stick about 18" long, I did that at first, but now use a 3' 2x2. I have a 1/16 cable from 2x2 to bowl under feeder, then to back to other side of pen. This lets more get in before they trip cable.

The enclosed trap has a feeder on top, it goes off once a day. They get used to coming every day. We set the traps when we go to lease. Hope to catch some Memorial weekend. I sure like catching the SOB's. Like shooting cshit out of them even more.

we put a cup of diesol fuel in a 5gal bucket of corn mix well hogs love it like a rag with old oil on it nailed to a tree

I'm gonna try the diesel in the corn next weekend. It may help hide our scent also.

Diesel in the corn is the bomb. Supposedly if you catch them when they are small and castrate them they will go back where they come from.

Found I had a problem .......


That turned into this:


Hanco got me started on my corral pen. Had a few in it immediately.


Nothing stayed in the corral, and noticed in the photos, I had forgotten the hog wire !!!!



Now we're in business !!!!!!! Them boys sure love that blue Kool Aid I put on my soured corn. 31 hogs and counting so far. Thanks again Hanco !!!

That's a bunch of damn pigs. I'm going next weekend to fill feeders. Maybe I will get some.

Is there any pigs in the pan handle of Texas?

I know a few guys that do it. They they buy them a drink for starters, then get them crazy pregnant. Nine months later and Hellllllo welfare mama.

Bow season starts this weekend, hope to catch some pigs, maybe stick some too.

Haven't done it in years as don't get out often enough to check traps. Always reminds me of my grandfather as that was his main hobby after he retired. He would castrate, cut the ears off and turn them loose and then only shoot the ones with no ears as they were better eating. Then he would b**** constantly about his hay fields being torn up

We have a new high school built way out. Pigs are jacking up the landscaping all around it. The ball fields are fenced or they would tear them up too!!

Awesome picture and good stories.

Killed three last Sunday

Pig in trap. He’s not too happy!!!

Looks like his problems are almost over............

Most important thing is, shoot him on the other end. Not in front of the gate!!!

There have been feral pigs for years on the northern part of the San Pedro River. They pretty much stayed in one area and local rancher would let people hunt them for a fee. Now they are starting to move upstream. If this continues we will have the same problems in Arizona. Maybe the wolves will kill them instead of killing calves.

San Pedro River begins in Mexico and flows north into the Gila River.

Pigs are hard to get rid of

Gonna set trap first thing when I get to lease tomorrow. Hope to catch some.

Got a few more

yes but not in large numbers
like farther south.

Got a 5 pack this weekend