Big Boar! Tractor was Useful During Hunting Season

[Shenandoah MF1760]

I do a fair amount of trapping and use a Boss Hawg rectangular trap with the flip over feature. The flip over feature is nice for getting the pigs out after you shoot them or for releasing trapped deer. But the trap is heavy and impossible to move around by yourself. The pigs also get smart to them quickly. I bait with soured corn and will wire the trap open for a few days, so they get used to going in, then I set it.

I really hate when I trap a deer. They go complete bonkers and usually injure themselves, before you can release them. I'm planning to make a couple open top round traps, similar to these "Swine Saloon" traps. The deer should be able to jump out. They should also be easier to move around.

I tried to go to the referenced Boss Hawg site and my firewall kicked in. I was able to google it and find it at High Quality Custom Feral Hog Traps by "BOSS HAWG", Cross Plains Texas which isn't a secure site, but a lot of small business sites aren't.

I have a number of deer on the property and I like the Swine Saloon as an alternative to the Pig Brig.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Been there done that!!

We don't have near the hogs that you TX, FL and south GA boys have. But they are around in the mountains. My buddy killed this one in the MTNs of east Tennessee. He was deer hunting by kayak on a reservoir. Pulled over to the bank to take a break, hears a commotion and this bruiser walks out of the bush at 40 yards. He pulls back the bow and nails it right in the breadbox. It ran 100 feet and piled up dead. The problem was he had no way of getting it out on his kayak by himself. We went in the next day with a canoe to get it out. We processed it. I didn't mind the meat but the wife was not super excited about it. If I had access to a bunch of nice smaller wild hogs I would definitely put some in the freezer and would probably get really good at pit roasting them whole.

 

[1 Old Man]

I'm glad your friend put it down. But eating a dead animal after it's laid on the ground
from a previous days hunt? Ah.....not happening here. Scalding in the sun or icy from
the cold.....nope. I guess like everything else, everybody has their own way of doing
things. Nice it turned out good for your friend and you.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I'm glad your friend put it down. But eating a dead animal after it's laid on the ground
from a previous days hunt? Ah.....not happening here. Scalding in the sun or icy from
the cold.....nope. I guess like everything else, everybody has their own way of doing
things. Nice it turned out good for your friend and you.

Yep, I am still here.

 

[gsganzer]

I'm glad your friend put it down. But eating a dead animal after it's laid on the ground
from a previous days hunt? Ah.....not happening here. Scalding in the sun or icy from
the cold.....nope. I guess like everything else, everybody has their own way of doing
things. Nice it turned out good for your friend and you.

You can eat anything, if you cook it long enough.

 

[GWagon]

Have had a large sounder of hogs haunting my wild game feeder and dominating the entire area, so I've been needing to dissuade them, and send them to find another ranch besides mine.

They have been at it awhile, keeping deer, turkey and ducks, etc. away. (Not the raccoons though... they seem unfazed)

At times this huge grizzled old boar was with them. Been seeing him off and on.

Could days ago I went out before dark with my .308 and thermal scope.

They didn't even wait until full dark. That boar was with them, and kinda stood out from the other hogs by his size...

Took 2 shots from the .308 to put him down for the count.

My dog, Baxter LOVES to go hunting with me, and I let him have his fun! He's Very good at tracking and at 2 1/2 years old, he has lots of hunts to go on with me. Baxter is a giant schnauzer and weighs about 130lbs.

Lastly, I used the tractor to hang the boar and take him out back to his final resting spot. (You knew there had to be a tractor involved, right?)
Tractors come in handy during hunting season!

I know some of you guys use your tractors to carry or hang game when hunting. Please feel free to show us how you use your tractor in hunting season!

Contrary to popular gung ho hunter types: Killing wild hogs one or even 12 at a

Have had a large sounder of hogs haunting my wild game feeder and dominating the entire area, so I've been needing to dissuade them, and send them to find another ranch besides mine.

They have been at it awhile, keeping deer, turkey and ducks, etc. away. (Not the raccoons though... they seem unfazed)

At times this huge grizzled old boar was with them. Been seeing him off and on.

Could days ago I went out before dark with my .308 and thermal scope.

They didn't even wait until full dark. That boar was with them, and kinda stood out from the other hogs by his size...

Took 2 shots from the .308 to put him down for the count.

My dog, Baxter LOVES to go hunting with me, and I let him have his fun! He's Very good at tracking and at 2 1/2 years old, he has lots of hunts to go on with me. Baxter is a giant schnauzer and weighs about 130lbs.

Lastly, I used the tractor to hang the boar and take him out back to his final resting spot. (You knew there had to be a tractor involved, right?)
Tractors come in handy during hunting season!

I know some of you guys use your tractors to carry or hang game when hunting. Please feel free to show us how you use your tractor in hunting season!

Sadly killing one to twelve wild hogs per hunt actually increases their numbers over a 90 day period. Hunting them is enjoyable, I've done it. But if you want them gone you must trap 90% of the sounder. Otherwise you scatter them and they subdivide. I know every hunter thinks their abilities can take them out in no time. However, they're well meaning but uninformed. Trap them and only spring the trap when they're comfortable and 90% present.

 

[big bubba]

google search: Harmful organisms and pathogens, carried by feral swine, which can infect humans include diseases such as leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, brucellosis, tularemia, trichinellosis, swine influenza, salmonella, hepatitis and pathogenic E. coli.

be careful how you handle one, & yes, if pork fully cooked to 180 degrees, (theoretically) pathogens will be destroyed. between deer wasting disease & the pathogens listed above, believe i'd pass on game for now.
but yes, i've had & it's good if young & tender.

 

[1 Old Man]

Sadly killing one to twelve wild hogs per hunt actually increases their numbers over a 90 day period. Hunting them is enjoyable, I've done it. But if you want them gone you must trap 90% of the sounder. Otherwise you scatter them and they subdivide. I know every hunter thinks their abilities can take them out in no time. However, they're well meaning but uninformed. Trap them and only spring the trap when they're comfortable and 90% present.

I don't know about increasing their numbers by shooting hogs. I do know the tremendous satisfaction
received after putting a few destructive little piggies dead on the ground. Trapping is great too. Nothing wrong with trying to trap as many as possible. I like the idea. I hate feral hogs. They tear up my farm.
They seem to come through here seasonally. So I will continue to shoot any pig; big, little, sow, boar,
shoate, and piglet, I can on my property. I will check into trap expense and diminishing return. I'm in
no way a professional trapper, nor do I want to own a bunch of traps/equipment to store or maintain.
But I do like watching the youtube vids of the guy in La. that traps and puts them down with a .22

 

[paulsharvey]

There was a lot of this brought up in another thread, and I copied and pasted from FWC's official website. They do Not have the goal of eliminating wild hogs. It mentions that, while being non-native, they have been widespread in FLa over 450 years now.

I think it's Missouri that is trying to exterminate them? And they want to stop hunting, and start a wide spread poison program if I remember right. Basically, their though, a sounder of say, 20 hogs, very well might have a stable pop of 20, you shoot 4, they split up, and create 3 groups, that each will grow to around 20 members within a 12 month period.

 

[paulsharvey]

Also, everyone wants to kill hogs, but if you really got the true, very few people want to eradicate them. They just want to control the population (and ranges), and keep them out of ag fields, golf courses, ect. They are part of the ecosystem now, and become prey species for bobcats, coyotes, bears, panthers, ect.

We have iguanas, herpes carrying monkeys, cappibarras, boas, Nile crocodiles, paranas, tegu lizards, ect. And we can't kill or capture the herpes monkeys anymore...