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Last week a couple of friends and I built a pen to try and catch some pigs in. It is about 25' in diameter and made of 't' post and cattle/horse panels. We put corn in the pen for 9 days before we attempted to catch anything. We also have a camera on the pen and some nights we would see 15 or so pigs and then other nights there would be just a few. Never figured out why the numbers kept fluctuating, but it is what it is. We decided Friday was to be the night to attempt to catch something. We got 5 shoats that weighed about 60-65 lbs. Some more good eating.
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good deal old man you will be eaten good
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Good job! We've been thinking about trying some panel traps as well.
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Wow! Envious or the catch, but not that fact that one has feral pigs rooting up the country.
Years back I was touring some of the Texas King Ranch feedlots, each capable of handling thousands of cattle. Management thought they might have a pig problem and put up some substantial system to corral the offenders. Locked up 1,300 pigs the first night. Might have a pig problem? Those stolen groceries would feed a bit more stock.
At the time there was some super European market for feral hogs. They did about 30% better on returns than one could do domestically.
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I think a good way to trap them would be to have a big falling type gate and sit in a climbing stand 100 yards away when a big load of them are in the trap yank the drop gate . When I have poured the corn to them by walking along with a bag paving the ground with corn bigger numbers come to it . When I have did that plus pour corn with strawberry/grape coolaid ,sack or two of sweet horse feed etc. they come in in droves . I think the pigs that eat and track those smells back to the pig hang out have pigs go with them when they head out to feed . Like -I'm going with this bunch they have found something good or maybe the pigs track back to where the good smell came from .
That's a good mess of pigs -perfect size too .
I don't care much for wild pork , I'll take a fat young doe any day myself . Around here 1 in 10 is great tasting -'most' aren't that good to eat .
I do remember an 80ish lb. sow shot in the head about three years ago - processed in cold weather that was great . I ate the second to last pack of a sow killed last april last night , had I not been hungry I would have thrown it out .
Hope yours are good Oldman03
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Got these last weekend, while deer hunting.
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Did ya'll hang that pig in the last pic on the trap or did he try to escape and die that way ?
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He got caught going over, had one get caught in same trap gate before, he caught one leg. Had one get caught going over fence this year. I put pieces of plywood in fence panels so they can’t climb over trap gate.
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I hate you guys, always making me feel jealous. Some really big pigs y’all got there. There nothing more fun than hunting pigs.
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1/16” cable pulls stick out from under gate on all but the gate in last pic. The cable pulls piece of angle iron with roller bearing on the end. Cable is hard to see except in last pic.
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We used to have some of those nose-the-door open traps that you buy at Tractor supply. The big pigs were leery of shoving the gates open, even when we propped them partly open. When we'd prop them with a trip stick and run a cable from it to a rigged angled pressure plate and pulley at the rear, it would catch the older pigs. Kind of like a have-a-heart coon trap, but bigger. You guys really have it going on with the pen-style traps.
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I need some info on what locks to use on hog snares. thank you for your time
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I need some info on what locks to use on hog snares. thank you for your time 44mc , Call the snare shop - great customer service and they'll tell you what you need to know about hog snares . They sell some really good hog snares too . I've got two Power Rams - the bigguns - going to set them for a couple of big hogs I have baited up at the lease in Alabama . https://www.snareshop.com/
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