incredible invasive pests you have. yes.,hogs on my place are nomatic as well.
assume escaped monkeys from labs down your way?
Big Boar! Tractor was Useful During Hunting Season
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assume escaped monkeys from labs down your way?
RB5
Silver Member
I want them gone.
RB5
Silver Member
I've been at war with the hogs for years. We live in Texas just out of the Trinity River bottoms. There is no way to get rid of them completely. I used to get 120+ big round bales of coastal before the hogs tilled my fields one year. We had a drought right after and my grass only partially recovered. I thought it was fun to trap them before that happened. I had a circle trap in the back of our place made out of 16' cattle panels. One time I saw boar tracks that were twice as big as any I had ever seen along with a couple of large holes he made. A few days later I went back to check the trap. We had used a cattle panel for the gate. I would hold it open with a cable and get them used to going inside. Then I would put corn leading to the feeder and close it. The hogs could push it open but not get back out after it closed. That big boar decided he did not want to stay in the trap. He bent the cattle panel into a horseshoe shape when he went through it. A few years later I trapped a boar that was easily 350 to 400 pounds in my 4x8 cage trap with a guillotine gate. I shot him with a .38 plus p plus and he just looked at me. I then use a magnum and he dropped. We pulled him out of the trap with my truck and a chain. The tracks he left were not as big as the other one. Needless to say I always carry at minimum a 357 when I go to the back. I trapped 14 this past June in 2 settings of my portable trap. The first ones I gave away. The second time there were 9. I made two trips to carry them to the train station in the back with my tractor where they could feed the coyotes. I've even trapped them in the yard just 30 feet from the house. One year I looked outside and several of them were eating acorns under the trees in my circle driveway. I caught 6 at one time in the portable trap right after that. I've had them rut up between the rose bushes and my foundation. When we get lots of rain and it floods the bottoms we have way more of them. Another time we were on the way home at just before dark, and I counted at least 30 of them crossing the road less than a mile from our house. Anyone that wants these around has not had to deal with the damage they cause.
RB5
Silver Member
Escaped monkeys... that's how Planet of the Apes started.
paulsharvey
Elite Member
Nope, Silver Springs had a money exhibit back in the 40s, and they got loose, and are down in Ocala National Forest. People used to trap them, and sell them, as much as $400 each, to testing labs, but that has been stopped. They are aggressive, carry disease, and are in general, something that should be wiped out, but politics, and they are "cute" so...
paulsharvey
Elite Member
On hogs, every farmer complains about hogs and coyotes, Until you ask if you can come out and drop some... then they tend to change the subject. That's cattle guys, don't personally know any of the peanut row crop guys, but from what I heard, they have a few folks they let hunt (normally friends/family), and none give permission.
good metaphor. believe we're now embarking on that adventure. buckle up.
sorry your area is so prone to invasive species.
what's interesting in my area of surrounding Ozark Nat Forest is up until mid '60's, open range cattle & hogs were legal. strange that there were no apparent feral hogs as a result when i took over my property in '77.
my understanding here, is that they were brought up from Texas years ago & released by hunters for game. sob
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RB5
Silver Member
They used to hunt the hogs from a helicopter along the river before COVID. I would hear what sounded like full auto rifles, although it could have been a bump stock. We had way less of them back then. There has not been as much hunting from a helicopter there since COVID.
RB5
Silver Member
I had to say something about this. In Texas it is getting way too crowded in many places with all the people moving here. I used to be allowed to fish farm ponds when I was young. Now no one will let you on their land. Landowners are tired of all the noise and people. There are many reasons. One of them is that lots of these people just do not respect property owners. I have a neighbor that has parties. They have 10 acres that is all flat with nowhere to shoot safely. Not long after they moved out here the guys cousin was shooting a pistol at their pond and the bullets bounced off the water and hit my mother's mobile home at the front of our property. We found 3 bullets in the back bedroom, and I had to fix the holes. Police report was filed. There is a propane tank about 10 feet from where the bullets hit. Some city people that move out here think 10 acres is a lot of land. Then there are also cases where you have to have insurance for protection in case something happens. People will sue now even if it is not your fault. I have a hill and a large draw with safe places to shoot. Even with that I am still careful. It really is not worth the risk to allow anyone you do not know very well on your property these days. Even leasing for hunting there should be a contract that spells out what you can and can't do. Things are way different than they used to be.
paulsharvey
Elite Member
RB5, I understand that side of it. I also know (kinda, more know of, and have bought beef from him), one cattle guy that has a ton of hogs. What he does, $350 per night, with his thermal, and he drops you in his box, is sell hog hunts. No idea how many hunts he sells, but between hogs, and a much more limited number of guided gator hunts, it's a significant part of his business. Think he might do turkey as well, but don't know.
