re: Are hog dogs a good way to manage pigs on property.

What is a rooter trap and a C trap?We are going to start trying to trap and kill once the deer season is over

where abouts are yall at?

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Have they hurt your deer hunting?

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Definitely hurts your deer hunting, but what you gonna do? Too much time and effort goes into it to just give up.

Do what most do and build a hog panel pen around your feeder. Deer will learn to jump in without being harassed by the hogs. Food plots are still screwed though.

dogs work if you have large expanses of open grass or mature hardwoods with little understory. If the brush is thick though, it is hard to get good numbers and hard on the dogs.

trapping is a much better option and there are ways to make your traps VERY productive.



Here is what you need to know. Hog trapping 101

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They're thick as hell just north of Intracoastal city

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I've heard that. They must stay away from the I-10 area due to it being more populated?

Trap. I use 8-9 16' panels per trap and make a figure 9 trap, probably 24-30 t-posts. I build a big trap, it will catch. Time consuming and takes patience and persistence but you can knock a dent in the population if you hang with it. What i'd do is pre-bait some areas with corn, get them feeding in those area(s) often and build a trap around the feed spot(s). I haven't gotten into the night hunting deal, but a persistent trapping program and supplemental night hunting for the smartass hogs that wont go in a trap would probably be the best plan. Dogs only if you want to run them to your neighbor.

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Be prepared to move the traps around because once you catch a few, they figure it out and don't go in anymore

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They will return to the same trap but it will take a while.

I'd be prepared to build multiple traps or build a mobile set up out of fence panels with hogwire attached to them. Although moving them is PITA esp pulling T-posts, etc.

I forgot to add in the other post make sure and wire your panels to your posts good - a decent sized hog is motivated and will wreck shite.

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If the brush is thick though, it is hard to get good numbers and hard on the dogs.

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Hog dogs are out, probably a huge waste of time if that holds true. we do have some bottoms, with creeks, but not many.

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a combination of methods may have to be used to get a large population under control,

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such as? I don't know if I can get the whole group marching lock step, but right now I have about 5-6 guys that seem to want to make an effort to get rid of the pigs.

sounds like you need to invite the OB to your property to help build some traps, and then to return the favor, allow us to do a weekend night hunt and take 30-50 of those things out in a weekend.