Wild Hog Trapping

[JACKED88]

Been trappin wild hogs for tha past couple of years for the US Army Corp of Engineers. They want um out of a 10,000 acre flood control area because their always rootin up tha dam causing erosion. Tha place is covered with hogs. If i had to guess, I'd say I've taken about 200 hogs out so far.

I'm runnin 4 traps that are 5'x 5'x 15' Highest count in one trap at a time is 9 hogs plus another we shot that was hangin around outside the trap.

Doing this trapping is tha whole reason I bought my MJ. Here lately it seems like more often that not its been pretty muddy trying to run my traps. Sure is gonna make my life easier when my unfinished 4x4 conversion truck actually has 4 wheel drive.

We take tha hogs out of tha traps live. Here's a couple of pics of just a few in our holding pen. I call um "Demons from Hell"

 

 

I had a lot more pix before my computer crashed again. (thanks to some sorry @$$ hi-jacker) That SOB trashed my hard drive so bad that I had to install a new one and in doing so lost everything on my computer. :fs1:

[CWLONGSHOT]

Computer issues SUK!!! I had the same thing happen a couple months ago..

 

Cool pix on the hogs, I know there are a real problem for allot of the southeastern states.... They haven't gotten up here yet... I hear whispers about some here and there but never seen any here.

 

CW

[Pete M]

You say you take them out live, but what happens to them then? I know that hogs are pretty much a big problem wherever they go so I doubt they are released back into the wild. Is there a farm somewhere that takes 'em? slaughter house? Thems some tasty bacon strips right there. :D

 

 

Also, be sure to either partition your hard drive, or (as I do) buy an external backup and keep it separate from the computer (in case of fire, theft or storm damage etc).

[Akula69]

You say you take them out live, but what happens to them then?

 

 

Lunchtime!!!! :D

[Lenard]

nice. the conservation around here "orders" us to shoot them on sight. any means necessary, anytime of day, they just want them dead. :yes: about a year ago there were quite a few killed but since then its been few and far between

[JACKED88]

I sell most of um to a buyer for a slaughter house. The rest we either sell to whoever wants one or butcher um. Due to state laws we can only sell um live to a slaughter house/buyer or to an approved game ranch. (bores only) Sows can only be sold to a slaughter house/buyer. I'm currentrly looking for an approved game ranch to sell bores to. My hopes are that a ranch will pay more per head instead of sellen um per pound to tha s/h buyer. Sellin um to tha s/h buyer I only git $50 bucks for a 200lb hog and it goes down from there for smaller ones. My last load of 13 hogs only paid $310 bucks. Thats why I need to find a ranch that'll pay at least $50 bucks a head. That same 13 hogs would have been worth more than swice what I got per pound.

 

As for my computer crashing. This wasnt tha first time. :headpop: Seems like I would have learned by now to backup my system or at least save all my files to a disc or flash drive. Gonna look into gittin a seperate backup too.

[GATOR88]

florida down in the swamp they are thick i just got a big ole boar (250)pound biggest one i got so far i just moved back to georgia can't wait to hit the woods and see what i come across :D

[CWLONGSHOT]

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These are the last ones I ran across... YUMMY!!!

 

CW

[JACKED88]

CW

Nice hogs ya got there. I wish I was allowed to hunt um where I do my trapping. Gaurentee I could git at least a 3-4 a day/night if not more. I'm thinkin they'd make for some great crossbow practic. :thumbsup: Speaking of, here's what I have; http://www.barnettcrossbows.com/compoun ... r_avi.html

 

250 pounds is a big hog. Wish I woulda had a camera and taken a pic of tha 352 pounder my buyer had in his holding pen tha last time I was there. Its was impressive but still wasnt as big as a couple I've seen where I trap. I havent caught one that big I think mostly due to those big old bores won't normally go into a conventional trap. Ya gotta build a big round pen type trap for those beast. Biggest hog we've taken to tha buyer wieghed 219 lbs. We've caught a couple that were somewhat bigger but didnt have a scale to weigh um with.

Tha buyer told me tha man who brought in that 352 said they roped it. He didnt say but my guess is they were runnin dogs.

We caught 2 more pigs last night. One nice sow about 180lbs and a little 50 pounder. Gonna butcher tha little one and sell tha sow to my buyer. Been kinda slow lately. I think that only makes 5 in tha past week. Gonna have to step it up. Thinkin its time to move a couple of traps.

You aughta do fine in Georgia. I've heard there's plenty of um and seen pix of some a HUGE bores outa there.

 

Good luck on your future hunts. Just but be careful out there. As you probobly already know, wild hogs are mean and can be unpredictable. Put it this way ..... I'd rather be in a cage with my wife than a pissed off wild pig. Just thought of either one scares tha hell out of me. :rotf:

 

 

It may not be a 1000+lb HOGZILLA but check this out. ...... Tha place I trap only gits leased out for ranchers to run cattle on. No hunting what so ever. All togather tha place is over 10,000 acres but about 1/3 of it has been fenced off and turned into a park with socker fields, baseball fields, and an area to fly model airplanes. They fenced it off with barbwire so of course that doesnt keep tha hogs out. It really pisses tha sports fans off when they show up to play and find tha hogs have torn through thier nicely manicured playing fields. I personally think its funnier than sh-t and can't help but laugh my a-s off.

Anyway, Tha old man that had tha last lease told me about a hog that he had seen numerous times that was damn near as big as one of his cows. Claimed one day he was working on a fence row and saw something coming toward him along tha fence and just glanced up thinking it was one of his cows. Said he went on with his fence repair when about that time tha hog let out a grunt that didnt sound anything like a cow. Said he looked up again to see this HUGE beast lookin right back at him. He swore up and down that hog was almost as tall as the top wire on tha fence and would surely weigh at least 500-600lbs. Now being the old rancher he is, I figure he's a pretty good judge of what livestock weighs just by lookin at it.

I don't know if I beleive his story or if it was just an old man makin up lies. I've been out there pretty regular and have yet to see one that big. Not to say I havent seen a couple of BIG hogs but nothing quite like what he was discribing.

On the other hand, considering this land is watched pretty closely for poachers by several different law enforcment departments, (game warden, sherriffs dept & constables) I was told by one of the constables that his story isnt far from being true. That he has seen on several occasions a HUGE hog having the same colors as the old man claimed. Now with that added little tid bit of info you gotta know I after his BIG @$$. Tha constable told me where all he had seen it. Each time was in an area that for whatever reason I havent trapped yet. :roll:

Maybe not today, tomorrow or even in tha next month, but you can bet your @$$ one way or another I'm gonna find and catch that BEAST. It aint goin nowhere and niether am I. :peek:

 

 

L8R!!!

Robert

[daltonmcgill7]

we caught a 350 pound hog in my hunting club last year ran him for 3 hours till the dogs finally bayed him we tied him up took him to a guy that wanted him he killed it got the meat then he got a fullbody mount of him i wish we had a picture of him he was huge

[JACKED88]

Trapping has been pretty slow for tha last month or so. I've only caught about 8-10 since Thanksgiving. Here's a few pix of tha two I caught last night. Both aughta weigh 150+ pounds. I'll know their exact weight tomorrow when we run um across tha scales.