Hogs are going down soon!

G3 Ranch

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So after not having a lot of problems with hogs for a few months they've returned. I have 3 sounders in my food plots daily, so far their not really rooting and tearing things up but with the hot dry weather their putting a hurting on them. Today I ordered a Hi-tech wireless trap from Bull Creek outdoors, the Game changer Jr . I like that it's self contained on a trailer. I hoping with the mobility I can rent it out and offset some of the expense. I'm tired of these things, hopefully I can get them thinned out before acorns fall and they start rooting, damn things vacuum up everything. They look like a decent unit, comes with a Hogeye live streaming video camera.

 
My line boar hog disappeared a few months ago. I suppose the young renter that traipses all over my north neighbors probably shot it as he was a self professed hog Hunter...

Good luck with the bacon!
 
No problem with hogs here much. We do have Russian boars stocked years ago and they have a season. . Nice thing is DNR will come in and remove feral hogs if we get one. I've only seen one on camera in this area ever.
 
I have close to as many hogs as deer - sometimes more. At times, there may be forty or more working my 300 acres. They come and go - to where they find food to their liking. We have had hogs around my place since at least the 1920's when the landowners ran them in the bottoms and rounded them up with dogs or traps in the fall for butchering. We didnt have deer back then. The deer were able to thrive and increase from the 1960's on - in spite of the hogs. Hogs do root some, which can be a problem - but from my perspective a a food plotter (not as a cattle rancher or row cropper) - they dont kill many of my tree plantings like the deer do, they dont eat the food plots up before they get a chance like the deer do. They dont eat my garden up like the deer do. Deer are lucky I like them or it would be an all out war against them. I have spent a lot of money, time, and effort on my land for us to be able to kill a couple deer a year. We deer hunt three or four months. We can hog hunt year round, including at night and shoot as many as we can find. They provide a lot of hunting opportunity that deer dont. When I first got the place, I was intent on getting rid of them. After a couple of years, I figured out that wasnt going to happen. I have learned to live with them and make the best of it.
 
So after not having a lot of problems with hogs for a few months they've returned. I have 3 sounders in my food plots daily, so far their not really rooting and tearing things up but with the hot dry weather their putting a hurting on them. Today I ordered a Hi-tech wireless trap from Bull Creek outdoors, the Game changer Jr . I like that it's self contained on a trailer. I hoping with the mobility I can rent it out and offset some of the expense. I'm tired of these things, hopefully I can get them thinned out before acorns fall and they start rooting, damn things vacuum up everything. They look like a decent unit, comes with a Hogeye live streaming video camera.

Would you mind telling us how much a unit like that cost?
 
My line boar hog disappeared a few months ago. I suppose the young renter that traipses all over my north neighbors probably shot it as he was a self professed hog Hunter...

Good luck with the bacon!


Thanks,
Your lucky to just have one or two.
The hog doggers near me appear to think their dogs have the ROW... spoiled a bow hunt last year.
 
I have learned to live with them and make the best of it.



I'm not much into hog hunting, I'll shoot them if given the opportunity though. I know I'll always have them but it's getting out of hand, I'll trap what I can & live with the rest. I can say without a doubt the deer pics have been way down in the last month. The hogs have taken over areas where I used to get my best deer pics and hammering my food plots.
 
Would you mind telling us how much a unit like that cost?

Pretty sure that gonna smart ! I do like the double gates though


Smarts to the tune of 7300.00, a big investment for certain. Within 5 miles of me quite a few crops are grown, The plan is to recoup most of the investment renting the trap out....lots of farmers complaining of hog damage.
 
Just a few of hundreds of hog pics.
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I'm not much into hog hunting, I'll shoot them if given the opportunity though. I know I'll always have them but it's getting out of hand, I'll trap what I can & live with the rest. I can say without a doubt the deer pics have been way down in the last month. The hogs have taken over areas where I used to get my best deer pics and hammering my food plots.

Some of our counties in AR have a similar trap to loan to landowners with hog problems. We have had hogs for a 100 years according to the old timers. I dont believe we have them as bad as you. They will displace deer from a feeder, but they dont run them out of the area. I get pictures lot of pictures of hogs followed up in a few minutes with deer pictures. I get a few pictures each year with deer and hogs in the same picture.
 
Some of our counties in AR have a similar trap to loan to landowners with hog problems. We have had hogs for a 100 years according to the old timers. I dont believe we have them as bad as you. They will displace deer from a feeder, but they dont run them out of the area. I get pictures lot of pictures of hogs followed up in a few minutes with deer pictures. I get a few pictures each year with deer and hogs in the same picture.


It would be nice to have traps available through the county, but we're on our own here as far as I know. I haven't had a corn feeder out for over a year not wanting to entice them back, didn't work my food plots replaced the feeders. Just in the last week or so I put out the feeder to pre-bait before the trap arrives. I've had deer & hogs in a few pics as well...but they were keeping quite a distance between them.
 
That looks like a fine spot for that trap! I dislike wild hogs immensely...almost as much as bears...
 
Got my trap set up & baited. May be a few days before they get on it, I'm sure we scented it up pretty good.
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