re: Wild hogs are the biggest menace to nature in this country

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Feral hogs are truly a scourge.They moved on my land about 5 years ago and have pretty much destroyed the enjoyment of my property.I don’t have near as many deer and wild turkeys as I did before,they root up all my wood roads,foodplots,etc.I don’t even have near the birds I used to.Only thing I can figure is the birds drink out of the hog wallows,get sick and die.I have hunted them(mostly at night),snared them and now have this big expensive( $8700.00) trap with camera that I operate remotely.I’ve had best success with the trap but it is a huge poa.The camera is very sensitive and sends me text photos all night long of coons and possums.To catch sounder of pigs takes a week to10 days.First you have to prebait a spot for 4-5 days,move the trap there and then it’s 4-5 nights before they all feel comfortable going in to catch them.Then I have to deal with all the dead hogs after I shoot them.After you kill the hogs the trap has to be moved because of all the stress pheromes left behind,that spot is unusable for about a year.
Trap takes a couple of hours for me and my wife to move,take it apart,load it on trailer and reassemble it at the next spot,I had to buy a trailer to load it on to move it.I sure as hell didn’t want to spend my retirement years and money to deal with all this crap.
It’s very discouraging,there are thousands of acres around me infested with hogs so I’ll never get rid of them.I’m thinking about probably just sell the trap and let the hogs have my property.
All that being said,it’s really bad for the farmers,cattleman,and pecan growers.They have enough problems without wild hogs.
I hear people talking about wanting to buy land in the country,when the wild hogs move in (and they will),they’ll curse the day they ever did it.I wish I had just bought a condo.

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