Repairing Hog Damage in a Pasture

[jwmorris]

We were covered up with them before I built some remote controlled traps. Even the neighbors will come by and shoot them, once I drop the gates on them, if I am not around.

Once you get enough of them in one spot, it becomes blood soaked and avoided by pigs, just feeding everything else then. So I made a sectional trap that could be moved around and that does the trick at getting a lot of them but it still takes an hour to break it down, move it and set it back up.

Well worth it up until 4G service ended and my setups became obsolete.

I'm now using WIFI triggers and cameras but they lack the range I could get with 4G and even it was limiting here.

Clean up, around here is done by lots of scavengers.

You can kill 30 pigs, drag them to "the spot" and not see a bone within 50 yards, in 5 days.

 

[EddieWalker]

A trap like that is probably the best way to get rid them. I thought about building one, but then decided to build a better fence to keep them out since I need a fence anyway.

 

[rockinbbar]

A trap like that is probably the best way to get rid them. I thought about building one, but then decided to build a better fence to keep them out since I need a fence anyway.

Yessir!

A well maintained net wire fence is the apple a day that keeps the hogs away.

 

[Gregster613]

If my wife or I shoot one, and it's in the 100 pound range, we'll usually pull the hams and backstraps off of them because it's quick and easy. When my buddy shoots them, I might pull the hams and backstraps, but it depends on how long they have been dead. He pulls them to an area that we call the bone yard and leaves them there as bait for coyotes. If he can shoot a coyote instead of a hog, that's even better!!!!

We use the meat to make dog food in the crock pot. Our dogs love it!!!

I've never used a thermal, and all the hogs that I've shot have been in daylight. My best ever was getting three of them out of a group. I've also shot two with one shot, but that took longer then I thought it would for them to line up just right.

With all hunting, I've found that it's more fun for me when my wife gets one.

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Good picture Eddie! Your wife looks like a Happy Hunter!