texasjohn
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umm.... image didn't post... am working on it. sorry
Dispatching of Feral Hogs
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texasjohn,
I could not open your attachment...an X for me. Anybody else??
I could not open your attachment...an X for me. Anybody else??
texasjohn
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stevenf
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texas john, that is way cool and cost effective, I paid $295. for my trap and I've only caught one at a time so far for the last 4 or 5 years. I'm going to have to try yours out. Do you have to reinforce the opening any way or just the two panels when they spring together are enough to keep them from crashing thru it. Our normal full grown sow will go 400lbs or so.
Steve
Steve
EddieWalker
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I've heard of this also, but with a one way door that swings from the top. They push their way in through the door and it will close behind them.
The guy who told me about it made it permanent with posts set in the ground and had it cover about a quarter acre of land with water and cover for them. He said this way they weren't stressed when he came back and either pulled them out or killed them.
I never understood how they remained unstressed when he started killing them. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif But it's more of the idea that's interesting to me than actually building one.
He aslo said they will find the door. You don't have to do anything fancy to it, just put food in there and they will find it. He also liked red coolaid in his baits.
Eddie
The guy who told me about it made it permanent with posts set in the ground and had it cover about a quarter acre of land with water and cover for them. He said this way they weren't stressed when he came back and either pulled them out or killed them.
I never understood how they remained unstressed when he started killing them. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif But it's more of the idea that's interesting to me than actually building one.
He aslo said they will find the door. You don't have to do anything fancy to it, just put food in there and they will find it. He also liked red coolaid in his baits.
Eddie
texasjohn
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You need to cut the last VERTICAL segment out of each "square" of the panel leaving the horizontal wires sticking out as little daggers. The objective is that when the panels slam together it is seldom an exact match... and one set of wires will fit inside the other's squares. When this happens, there is a kind of latch formed. Also, the amount of overlap on the V entrance needs to be such that it cannot be pushed outward, thus allowing escaping hogs. The trigger I have seen used is simply a stick picked up from the local area which has noches/bumps on it so that it will hold the ends open until a sufficient bump happens. When the hogs slam into the closed end of the V, they are deflected toward the center of the trap.
Let me know how it works... and when you catch enough to have a big BBQ, let me know /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Let me know how it works... and when you catch enough to have a big BBQ, let me know /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
dmccarty
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shvl73,
Using a full auto weapon to hunt will run into problems with state and maybe Federal law. The key word is hunt. Not is. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
In FLA hogs are considered property of the land owner, or at least the used to be, so I don't think you would be hunting. So if in your state the pig is the landowners I think you can kill it however you wish. But if the state considers it a game animal..... Then you are hunting and me thinks there would be a problem. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
All the rules for removing pests like these is really annoying. We have been having a problem with coyote(s) getting to close to the house. Within 30-100 feet. I found two deer heads withint 50 feet of my kids rooms that he 'yotes had killed. From the tracks I have seen I think they killed one of the deer 30 feet from our bedroom. This morning one of the 'yotes went yelping through the front yard at 5:40 in the morning.
There is no closed season in NC for coyotes. I do have to have a hunting license which is not really a problem but its a pain. What really ticks me off is that I can't hunt them at night nor spot light them. We have small kids and the coyote(s) are not showing any fear of our place. We had not heard or seen any evidence of them in awhile so I was hoping it/they had moved on. But they ain't leaving on there on so I think I'll have to be more active in making them leave....
Later,
Dan
Using a full auto weapon to hunt will run into problems with state and maybe Federal law. The key word is hunt. Not is. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
In FLA hogs are considered property of the land owner, or at least the used to be, so I don't think you would be hunting. So if in your state the pig is the landowners I think you can kill it however you wish. But if the state considers it a game animal..... Then you are hunting and me thinks there would be a problem. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
All the rules for removing pests like these is really annoying. We have been having a problem with coyote(s) getting to close to the house. Within 30-100 feet. I found two deer heads withint 50 feet of my kids rooms that he 'yotes had killed. From the tracks I have seen I think they killed one of the deer 30 feet from our bedroom. This morning one of the 'yotes went yelping through the front yard at 5:40 in the morning.
There is no closed season in NC for coyotes. I do have to have a hunting license which is not really a problem but its a pain. What really ticks me off is that I can't hunt them at night nor spot light them. We have small kids and the coyote(s) are not showing any fear of our place. We had not heard or seen any evidence of them in awhile so I was hoping it/they had moved on. But they ain't leaving on there on so I think I'll have to be more active in making them leave....
Later,
Dan
texasjohn
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I'm sure that the one way door works also... but is likely most effective for a large enclosure... and I like the large enclosure idea if you can do it. In fact, the larger the better and cover/water is a good idea too. I saw two traps of the size I indicated.. one with a swing door, the other with the V shaped cattle panels I indicated. The flat swing door presents a flat target for the hogs to hit, dig under and bend things instead of being springy like the ends of the cattle panels. The one I saw was being repaired for this reason... and the hogs had escaped.
Whatever approach you use, you gotta remember that hogs and other "domestic" animals have been tested for intelligence using a maze. Hogs are clearly the winner... the most intelligent of all critters that we commonly manage for food and pleasure. So, all you gotta do is build something that is stronger and outsmarts them. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Whatever approach you use, you gotta remember that hogs and other "domestic" animals have been tested for intelligence using a maze. Hogs are clearly the winner... the most intelligent of all critters that we commonly manage for food and pleasure. So, all you gotta do is build something that is stronger and outsmarts them. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
texasjohn
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I have a ridge with trees and cover surrounded by plowed fields and some drainage areas leading to the ridge from neighbor's fields. Neighbor reported having lambs and chickens lost to coyotes. Government trapper was called... and trapped 3 coyotes on my place, 1 on neighbor's. Even with lots of open range, I almost never saw the coyotes. Moral is that if you have cover and have ever seen a coyote, then they are there, even when you don't see them. It'll be a miracle if you see them when you have a gun in your hand... I recommend trapping... Watch the government trapper set traps one time, then you can do it yourself if you wish... and buy a trap and scent.
rox
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30' - 50' feet from the house, coyotes left over meals they left? These animals clearly are not afraid of humans. And you have childen in the home??? Umm ummm, no no, I would have my husband out there every night till he hunted them down, law or no law. Wait a minute how close are your neighbors? Would they turn you in? Well could you hunt them at night with a stun gun or something? Something quiet? I am totally freaked out just reading about this and it isn't even my house or my kids. Whoa I can say that I would not let my husband have a minute of sleep until those coyotes were dead. I wouldn't even want them just gone, I would want to make sure that they are dead.