re: Hog control / Eradication Ideas

As a club we stopped feeders and put that money into seed mixes that last the entire year and saw a significant reduction in hogs.

Whitetail are responsible for more financial agriculture loses a year than hogs across the country.

And there as non native and invasive as the white man, they came with European settlement.

I enjoy hunting them and having them on my place. And I'm a land owner, not hunting leased land. I seem to have a healthy population of deer and hogs. I don't disagree with what they can do to turkey nest. While antenatal though, I've seen turkeys make a healthy comeback around me while covered up in hogs.

I think people are programed to hate them as was said above. I just have trouble buying the argument they are "rooot8ng everything up" in an area where people are pulling disc and spraying glyphosate to purposely plant an non native plant to feed the deer. Whatever your thoughts are on hogs, that just seems like and intellectually dishonest argument. I remeber hunting a lease years ago where we had a fair number of them, and one of the members was going on a rant about them tearing stuff up, while we were standing in about a 3 acre log landing covered in pine tops knee deep and looking down thr hill at skidder ruts you could disappear into.

Don't think for a second the real big money behind big ag that wants to develop poisons and such for wild hogs would not like to do the exact same thing for whitetail deer

Chances are I have passed by your place a time or 2. I’ve been in that area for 16 years now hunting public and club I’m in.

I am sure, we surrounded by the national forest.

Pat texted back to give you his cell, do you have an emai?

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Meadville,

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Dang I hunt pretty close to you. I'm usually east towards Mccall Creek. I'm starting to see hogs along the river quite a bit.

I have a good buddy who has a place in McCall Creek. We are about 25 minutes away from him. His place is on 84.

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Looking for ideas on ways to help control hogs. Our lease is infested with hogs this year, and we are looking for a solution. We have a couple of traps we will set, but i don't think that will be enough to make a dent.

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This probably isn't the time of year for this but what I have had success with is during the off season you push them. Set traps, shoot any you see, etc. Make it where your property is the place where they associate with dead hogs. I'll even place the carcasses on the edge of my property as a warning.

Don't put any feed on the ground. I moved over to Texas Hunter protein feeders. They work even for corn. They come with rebar stakes to anchor the feeder into the ground. I haven't had a bear or hog turn one over. Really limits spillage and therefore lowers the attraction for hogs.

You will never eradicate them but you can get them to choose somewhere else to live.

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I enjoy hunting them and having them on my place. And I'm a land owner, not hunting leased land. I seem to have a healthy population of deer and hogs.

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I'm a land owner too and I hate everything they do to my property. You would have a healthier deer population without hogs.

You concentrate them with corn. Same as deer.