Not again.......! Feral Hog Control in East Texas

Flintknapper · May 13, 2009, 03:30 PM

It never ends!

We just got rid of one sounder, now (a month later)….there is a new group.

This is just one area they have rooted up in the pasture (there are others):

I have managed to get this group baited into a “lane” between our property and the neighbor.

For now…there is no more damage to the pasture….but the destruction (so far)… is probably 3-4 acres in total.

Because of the confined area these hogs are in….I will not be able to “shoot out” this bunch. Time to assemble the hog trap I guess.

IH8HOGS!

Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow · May 13, 2009, 03:58 PM

Man I wish you could give them to me! Wish I had hogs on ma huntin grounds.

Flintknapper · May 13, 2009, 04:44 PM

Dr. Tad wrote:

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Man I wish you could give them to me! Wish I had hogs on ma huntin grounds.

Believe me.....you don't.

Yeah, they're fun when they first appear in an area...but they quickly become a nuisance.

Perhaps from a hunter's perspective...they could remain a novelty, but you will be hard pressed to find a land owner that finds them desirable.

They are considered "four legged fire ants" around here.

countertop · May 13, 2009, 05:19 PM

You ever try setting out a judas sow?

Folks I know in Oklahoma swear by it

Flintknapper · May 13, 2009, 09:55 PM

To locate a herd? Or do you mean the practice of using an estrous sow kept in a pen to attract boars?

Flyboy · May 13, 2009, 10:21 PM

Flintknapper, I have a .45-70 and better than two weeks of vacation left. Tell me when to be there.

flipajig · May 13, 2009, 10:25 PM

same here win 44 mag . just tell me when and where

Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow · May 13, 2009, 11:14 PM

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Believe me.....you don't

Everyone always says that. NO, I do. I wouldn't tire of having year round hunting of large ungulates which are tasty to eat - I have no crops or anything of the sort. I promise, I would do nothing but enjoy their presence.

janobles14 · May 13, 2009, 11:48 PM

so its a thr pig hunt at flint's place then? im in!

cbrgator · May 13, 2009, 11:54 PM

I'm down.

wankerjake · May 14, 2009, 12:27 AM

Oh I would love to shoot some hogs. They may be pests but at least they are delicious, unlike coyotes and skunks and such.

armoredman · May 14, 2009, 01:48 AM

Sounds like you have a bunch of people willing to help you with this problem...

cyclopsshooter · May 14, 2009, 01:51 AM

3" 4bk woo-hoo!

ijosef · May 14, 2009, 02:14 AM

Ah, good ol' feral pigs! We don't have them in Minnesota (at least not to my knowledge), but when I vacationed in Florida this past March there were times you could see them in the ditches just milling about. People from other states have told me that there's no season for 'em. Apparently they're an invasive species, and supremely adapted to survival - hence the fact that they multiply like crazy and get everywhere.

TehK1w1 · May 14, 2009, 02:57 AM

Last I heard Flint wasn't able/willing to bring people in to hunt them, but if he ever changes his mind, I'm in

Carbon Helix · May 14, 2009, 01:03 PM

I grew up in South and Central Texas, but there is nothing wrong with a little East Texas BBQ.

chas08 · May 14, 2009, 01:29 PM

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Everyone always says that. NO, I do. I wouldn't tire of having year round hunting of large ungulates which are tasty to eat

40 years ago when an occassional wild hog was considered a prize on our hunting grounds I would have agreed with you. Or if you could limit their range to "your hunting grounds only" I might still agree with you. But knowing what I know, I 've got to agree with Flintknapper on this one. Hogs are like a fire you can't put out or a plague you cant cure. They affect everything they come in contact with, crops, land, wildlife, negatively. The thrill of hunting and killing them fades quickly and you can only consume so much pork. Yet you're still left with this ever growing, ever destructive, eating machine.

Todd1700 · May 14, 2009, 02:27 PM

Do not wish for these pests. If all you wanted to do was just hog hunt then maybe you would like having them on your place. But they spread like wildfire and will compete for resources with other game species on your land. They will eat anything including the eggs of a turkey nest if found. The sows can have multiple litters per year. It is also pretty unbelievable how badly they can tear up the ground on your land. The photo at the top of this thread is mild. We have one field that has some type of roots they like to eat. It now looks like a firing range for 155 milimeter Howitzers. Seriously, it's that bad. Hundreds of holes that are 3 feet wide and nearly knee deep. We consider them a shoot on sight plague.

351 WINCHESTER · May 14, 2009, 05:56 PM

A lot of places in fl are overrun with these critters. You can kill as many as you want all year round, no size limit as long as you're on private land. The game and fish comission is even having special hunts on selected management areas to thin them out. I suspect this trend will continue.

Jmurman · May 14, 2009, 06:05 PM

Man I'd love to go hog hunting!

We don't have any of the four legged hogs here in MD...about 60 miles south of here they have hundreds and maybe thousands of the TWO legged variety.

Flintknapper · May 14, 2009, 07:47 PM

Hog trap is in place and baited out but NOT set. The hogs will need to get used to it for a few days...hopefully they will start going into it soon.

The doors are propped open so that the hogs can come and go freely.

As soon as I see activity inside the trap, I will move the game-camera over there to determine how many of the hogs are going inside. The little ones will be the first to go inside (they don't know any better).

Once the bigger hogs go inside and start rooting up the "bait hole", then I can set the trigger.

The hogs are bedding close by and are fairly comfortable coming into the lane right now. Hopefully, they won't be disturbed before I have a chance to trap them.

Ideally, a "teardrop" trap would be wider and longer...but the narrow confines of the "lane" just don't allow for it. As long as they don't feel too "crowded" they may go ahead and go inside.

Maybe I'll be rid of these "four legged fire ants" pretty soon.

Flintknapper · May 14, 2009, 07:52 PM

Yes, Kiwi (how you doing Charlie) is correct.

These hogs are on my Father in Laws place and he does not allow anyone except family hunt it. Such are the litigious times we live in. Once they come over to my place...that is a different story.

For the most part... my Daughter and I are charged with dispatching as many of these demons as we can.

Actually, I have her do most of the shooting, I am primarily a bowhunter.

In this case...it just makes more sense to trap them.

usmc1371 · May 16, 2009, 11:04 AM

flintknapper it apears you need a claymore or two, one on each side of your trap should pretty much do it.

I haven't seen any in oregon yet but the fish and game says they are pretty much shoot on sight just like coyote.

**Art Eatman** · May 16, 2009, 11:46 AM

Back, I dunno, maybe forty years ago, ranchers around Leakey had trouble with feral/Russian hogs. Lost lambs and kids from their sheep/goat herds. Some of those ranchers had relatives at Fort Hood, which provided a source for booby-trap fuses.

Ya with me?

So, they'd find where the hogs had rooted under the sheep/goat fence, and set up a booby trap with a couple of sticks of dynamite.

Rough on the occasional coyote, but it would definitely spread hog parts around the countryside.

Flintknapper · May 16, 2009, 12:16 PM

I think I can trap these out…without having to “blow them up”.

They have already started going into the trap. In a few more days…if it looks like they are going straight into the trap…I will set the trigger and see how many I get the first “go round”.

I repositioned the trail-cam this morning to get a better shot of the inside the trap, so I should have a pretty good idea of the hog activity tomorrow.

Ideally, I’d like to catch this medium sized boar that is with the group (the boars are most difficult to trap).

May 13, 2009, 03:30 PM	#1
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	Not again.......! Feral Hog Control in East Texas It never ends! We just got rid of one sounder, now (a month later)….there is a new group. This is just one area they have rooted up in the pasture (there are others): I have managed to get this group baited into a “lane” between our property and the neighbor. For now…there is no more damage to the pasture….but the destruction (so far)… is probably 3-4 acres in total. Because of the confined area these hogs are in….I will not be able to “shoot out” this bunch. Time to assemble the hog trap I guess. IH8HOGS!

May 13, 2009, 05:19 PM	#4
countertop Member Join Date: May 20, 2004 Location: At the diner Posts: 1,638	You ever try setting out a judas sow? Folks I know in Oklahoma swear by it __________________ "A gun zealot who's too blinded by the NRA" - Sam Penney, RaisingKaine.com

May 13, 2009, 10:21 PM	#6
Flyboy Member Join Date: April 19, 2004 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 1,894	Flintknapper, I have a .45-70 and better than two weeks of vacation left. Tell me when to be there. __________________ Be cruel. Make someone think.

May 14, 2009, 12:27 AM	#11
wankerjake Member Join Date: April 6, 2008 Location: Flagstaff AZ Posts: 1,457	Oh I would love to shoot some hogs. They may be pests but at least they are delicious, unlike coyotes and skunks and such. __________________ "I can skin a buck and I can run a trot line, and a country boy can survive." "Once you quit hearing sir and ma'am, the rest is soon to follow."

May 14, 2009, 01:48 AM	#12
armoredman Member Join Date: November 19, 2003 Location: proud to be in AZ Posts: 14,984	Sounds like you have a bunch of people willing to help you with this problem... __________________ If total government control equals safety, why are prisons so dangerous? http://czfirearms.us/ The original CZ Forum, new address.

May 13, 2009, 03:58 PM	#2
Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow member Join Date: November 14, 2007 Posts: 13,151	Man I wish you could give them to me! Wish I had hogs on ma huntin grounds.

May 13, 2009, 09:55 PM	#5
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	To locate a herd? Or do you mean the practice of using an estrous sow kept in a pen to attract boars?

May 13, 2009, 10:25 PM	#7
flipajig Member Join Date: March 12, 2009 Location: Gods coununtry. IDAHO. Posts: 696	same here win 44 mag . just tell me when and where

May 13, 2009, 11:48 PM	#9
janobles14 Member Join Date: April 22, 2008 Posts: 1,095	so its a thr pig hunt at flint's place then? im in!

May 13, 2009, 11:54 PM	#10
cbrgator Member Join Date: January 23, 2008 Location: FL Posts: 2,518	I'm down.

May 14, 2009, 01:51 AM	#13
cyclopsshooter Member Join Date: May 13, 2009 Location: The Shadow Knows... Posts: 2,189	3" 4bk woo-hoo!

May 14, 2009, 02:14 AM	#14
ijosef Member Join Date: February 10, 2009 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 201	Ah, good ol' feral pigs! We don't have them in Minnesota (at least not to my knowledge), but when I vacationed in Florida this past March there were times you could see them in the ditches just milling about. People from other states have told me that there's no season for 'em. Apparently they're an invasive species, and supremely adapted to survival - hence the fact that they multiply like crazy and get everywhere.

May 14, 2009, 02:57 AM	#15
TehK1w1 Member Join Date: May 21, 2007 Location: Where the Wild Things Are Posts: 865	Last I heard Flint wasn't able/willing to bring people in to hunt them, but if he ever changes his mind, I'm in __________________ >>It's pronounced "The Kiwi"<< Closed for thread veer, insults, wallowing in the bar-ditch beside the Low Road, and attempted homicide of a Moderator by way of coronary aneurysm. -- LawDog Did you have to wear welder's goggles when you set that beast off? Does the manual tell you to scream "fire in the hole!" when you pull the trigger? Does the Forest Service you tell you to keep that thing out of the woods on hot, dry days? Do you still have eyebrows? Can it fire grape shot? I could go on . . . -Shear_Stress

May 14, 2009, 01:03 PM	#16
Carbon Helix Member Join Date: April 16, 2009 Location: Cheyenne, WY Posts: 22	I grew up in South and Central Texas, but there is nothing wrong with a little East Texas BBQ.

May 14, 2009, 02:27 PM	#18
Todd1700 Member Join Date: May 28, 2008 Location: Pine Hill Alabama Posts: 159	Do not wish for these pests. If all you wanted to do was just hog hunt then maybe you would like having them on your place. But they spread like wildfire and will compete for resources with other game species on your land. They will eat anything including the eggs of a turkey nest if found. The sows can have multiple litters per year. It is also pretty unbelievable how badly they can tear up the ground on your land. The photo at the top of this thread is mild. We have one field that has some type of roots they like to eat. It now looks like a firing range for 155 milimeter Howitzers. Seriously, it's that bad. Hundreds of holes that are 3 feet wide and nearly knee deep. We consider them a shoot on sight plague.

May 14, 2009, 05:56 PM	#19
351 WINCHESTER Member Join Date: March 19, 2007 Posts: 3,136	A lot of places in fl are overrun with these critters. You can kill as many as you want all year round, no size limit as long as you're on private land. The game and fish comission is even having special hunts on selected management areas to thin them out. I suspect this trend will continue. __________________ "Beware the man who wears a belt and suspenders"

May 14, 2009, 06:05 PM	#20
Jmurman Member Join Date: December 28, 2002 Location: MD Posts: 661	Man I'd love to go hog hunting! We don't have any of the four legged hogs here in MD...about 60 miles south of here they have hundreds and maybe thousands of the TWO legged variety. __________________ Visit My site, Stand Up and Be Free, for my online novels. For Do It Yourself Gun Customizing, on M1 Garand, Rem 700 and Ruger 10/22 visit Guncrafter,

May 14, 2009, 07:47 PM	#21
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	Lets see what happens...... Hog trap is in place and baited out but NOT set. The hogs will need to get used to it for a few days...hopefully they will start going into it soon. The doors are propped open so that the hogs can come and go freely. As soon as I see activity inside the trap, I will move the game-camera over there to determine how many of the hogs are going inside. The little ones will be the first to go inside (they don't know any better). Once the bigger hogs go inside and start rooting up the "bait hole", then I can set the trigger. The hogs are bedding close by and are fairly comfortable coming into the lane right now. Hopefully, they won't be disturbed before I have a chance to trap them. Ideally, a "teardrop" trap would be wider and longer...but the narrow confines of the "lane" just don't allow for it. As long as they don't feel too "crowded" they may go ahead and go inside. Maybe I'll be rid of these "four legged fire ants" pretty soon.

May 14, 2009, 07:52 PM	#22
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	Yes, Kiwi (how you doing Charlie) is correct. These hogs are on my Father in Laws place and he does not allow anyone except family hunt it. Such are the litigious times we live in. Once they come over to my place...that is a different story. For the most part... my Daughter and I are charged with dispatching as many of these demons as we can. Actually, I have her do most of the shooting, I am primarily a bowhunter. In this case...it just makes more sense to trap them.

May 16, 2009, 11:04 AM	#23
usmc1371 Member Join Date: February 11, 2009 Location: Portland OR Posts: 481	flintknapper it apears you need a claymore or two, one on each side of your trap should pretty much do it. I haven't seen any in oregon yet but the fish and game says they are pretty much shoot on sight just like coyote.

May 16, 2009, 11:46 AM	#24
Art Eatman Administrator Join Date: December 22, 2002 Location: Terlingua, Texas Posts: 34,810	Back, I dunno, maybe forty years ago, ranchers around Leakey had trouble with feral/Russian hogs. Lost lambs and kids from their sheep/goat herds. Some of those ranchers had relatives at Fort Hood, which provided a source for booby-trap fuses. Ya with me? So, they'd find where the hogs had rooted under the sheep/goat fence, and set up a booby trap with a couple of sticks of dynamite. Rough on the occasional coyote, but it would definitely spread hog parts around the countryside. __________________ You're from BATFE? Come right in! I use all your fine products!

May 16, 2009, 12:16 PM	#25
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	I think I can trap these out…without having to “blow them up”. They have already started going into the trap. In a few more days…if it looks like they are going straight into the trap…I will set the trigger and see how many I get the first “go round”. I repositioned the trail-cam this morning to get a better shot of the inside the trap, so I should have a pretty good idea of the hog activity tomorrow. Ideally, I’d like to catch this medium sized boar that is with the group (the boars are most difficult to trap).