Corral hog trap

Drycreek

Drycreek

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image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg I have had my hog trap set up for a couple months now, but just yesterday installed my poor boy trigger, and cell cam.

Guillotine gate, 5'x8' with a nail to keep it up, cable hooked to the nail, then going through a pulley to a small tire on the ground. A hole dug inside the tire filled with corn and sweet feed. The idea being they root the tire aside to get the corn, tire pulls the cable, the nail pulls out and the gate falls. Anxiously awaiting the first pic with a bunch of trapped hogs !
 
image.jpeg image.jpeg Meanwhile, at another location...........

The top one about a 100 lb. , the bottom one 225/250 lb. according to girth measurement chart.
 
Are you going to be able to remote trigger? I made a cattle panel trap with a continuous catch panel they squeeze through. Caught ten and they bent the squeeze panel when we got to shooting them. Now, the bottom of the squeeze panel lacks about two inches of shutting all the way and I have had two bunches get out. I am guessing they get their nose in that crack and open it up. If I had it to do over again, I would have built a larger trap (mine 22' in diameter) and put a drop gate in like yours. Good luck - waiting on pictures.
 
SwampCat said:
Are you going to be able to remote trigger? I made a cattle panel trap with a continuous catch panel they squeeze through. Caught ten and they bent the squeeze panel when we got to shooting them. Now, the bottom of the squeeze panel lacks about two inches of shutting all the way and I have had two bunches get out. I am guessing they get their nose in that crack and open it up. If I had it to do over again, I would have built a larger trap (mine 22' in diameter) and put a drop gate in like yours. Good luck - waiting on pictures.
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No Sir, it's just a mechanical trigger. I want to make sure they will even go in before I drop $1,000 on a remote trigger. These hogs have been fairly trap shy in the past, but I have more hogs than ever so maybe some ignorant ones will venture in. Historically, only the smaller ones will enter and the bigger sows will not. It has taken a month or so in the past for any hogs to go in but last time I set it I got 17 from 10 lb. to around 100 lb. The large sow and a boar would not go in but we caught her hanging around the trap and shot her. Only the boar escaped.

My trap is 40' and they bang on it pretty good but never have I lost one.
 
Looks like the rifle is mightier than the trap ! Killed two more Friday night and (with the help of the buzzards) found another from the week before. This sow was FAT !image.jpeg
 
image.jpeg Update on the hog trapping. No hogs have even looked at it as far as I can tell. I hope nobody was holding their breath !o_O

However, we have been steady killing two to three every Friday night until last night. They didn't come in last night, and I can't figure out why, but like Swartzeneger, I'll be back !
 
The property where I have my trap is eight miles from my house. Since Oct 1, we have killed 53 altogether, 17 in two trap catches and the rest by gun or bow. Every one counts.
 
SwampCat said:
The property where I have my trap is eight miles from my house. Since Oct 1, we have killed 53 altogether, 17 in two trap catches and the rest by gun or bow. Every one counts.
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My place is an hour away. If it were closer I could hunt it enough to run them out !........maybe:(
 
My place is an hour and a half from home. We spent the money on a camera that texts pictures so we can set the trap and only go out there when it is successful. Works great and saves a crap-load of time and money.
 
THE LLC said:
My place is an hour and a half from home. We spent the money on a camera that texts pictures so we can set the trap and only go out there when it is successful. Works great and saves a crap-load of time and money.
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Did the same I have a Covert and it works great. Had a big boar get out last year before I could get there.
 
THE LLC said:
My place is an hour and a half from home. We spent the money on a camera that texts pictures so we can set the trap and only go out there when it is successful. Works great and saves a crap-load of time and money.
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I have a Spartan on mine, but you have to replenish the bait after the coons and deer eat it up. We've been killing hogs almost every weekend for two months now, but I've had zero hog traffic around my trap. Time to move it to the creek bottom !
 
THE LLC said:
If you're shooting hogs you can forget them going in a trap. Trust me.
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I haven't found that to be true. I had the trap in the creek bottom before and they went in. We've shot hogs here for the ten years I've owned this place. We shoot hogs at home and my son traps them there. The hogs are just not frequenting the area where my trap is now. I can tell because there are no fresh rootings in the area and no tracks in the sandy roads. I'm not saying that every hog that goes by will go in the trap, because they won't. The young ones will though, and a dead hog is a dead hog, no matter the size.
 
Drycreek said:
I haven't found that to be true. I had the trap in the creek bottom before and they went in. We've shot hogs here for the ten years I've owned this place. We shoot hogs at home and my son traps them there. The hogs are just not frequenting the area where my trap is now. I can tell because there are no fresh rootings in the area and no tracks in the sandy roads. I'm not saying that every hog that goes by will go in the trap, because they won't. The young ones will though, and a dead hog is a dead hog, no matter the size.
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I agree - over a four month period, we killed 53 on 60 acres - 17 in two trap catches and the rest by shooting them.
 
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