Not again.......! Feral Hog Control in East Texas - Page 27

NOLAEMT · March 3, 2011, 01:23 AM

now that bullets for the 460 S&W are available, i would think they would make excellent 450 bushmaster projectiles, the velocities are about the same.

HelterSkelter · March 5, 2011, 03:54 AM

get yourself a m18 claymore mine and hide it in a pile of corn. problem solved.

SSG B · March 8, 2011, 01:24 PM

An M19 automatic grenade launcher would be WAY more fun!

SSG B · March 8, 2011, 01:31 PM

Mr. Flintknapper

I never did make the trip down south this fall/winter as hoped. It will still happen, just not this year. It did allow me the opportunity to mount a quad rail on my DMPS .308.

I wanted to mention again that this is still the best thread I have read. It is very imformative, entertaining, and just plain awesome!

Do you have a "day job" as well? Or where do you find the time to make bows and arrows, reload powder actuated projectiles, and deliver an education to the folks on THR as well?

Flintknapper · March 8, 2011, 08:39 PM

Everyone has the same 24 hrs. in a day, its all a matter of what you do with them.

WALKERs210 · March 15, 2011, 12:54 AM

Flintknapper, thanks so much for your posting here on the subject of Wild Hogs. In Alabama or at least in my area we never had this much of a problem. Well I thought we didn't, last few weeks I started noticing tracks that looked like one or two deer roaming close to the house. But after closer examining it looks more like Piggies are here. I walked to the back of my property and more and more tracks everywhere, health as it is I didn't venture out into the wooded area to see if and what is going on there. My son had buried a dog several months ago and something had dug it up and scattered the bones all over. Don't know if a hog would do that or not so thought I'd ask someone with more experience. Going out tomorrow for a Game Camera to see what turns up

DammitBoy · March 15, 2011, 02:31 AM

Walker - that's hogs alright.

I hunt hogs all the time around Butler, AL and the hogs are as thick as ticks round there.

Flintknapper · March 15, 2011, 07:47 AM

Hi Walker,

Yes...hogs will root up carcasses....but coyotes will also dig things up.

Based only on that information...I am not ready to say you have hogs.

However, a "game-cam" and perhaps putting out a bit of corn....would be an excellent idea. So you are on the right track (no pun intended).

WALKERs210 · March 15, 2011, 09:54 AM

Coyotes have been in area before but luckily they are moving out. I did think that it could have been Coyotes at first until all the tracks around premiter , and the depth of prints. For a long time we had a heard of white tails that would litterly come to the back door and eat the flowers from garden. One really nice buck but he never came into the open area. I should have picked up that something was outside sooner, but when you get old you start overlooking and forgetting things to look for. Anyway tonight will have a game camera in place just to see what we can see. thanks

DammitBoy · March 15, 2011, 01:05 PM

What part of Alabama Walkers210? Game management in your area ought to know about a pig problem.

Harley Quinn · March 15, 2011, 02:21 PM

Hogs leave tracks, and so do Coyotes

Not easily confused

Baiting the location is a good idea...

Quote:

Anyway tonight will have a game camera in place just to see what we can see. thanks

Looking forward to your find

WALKERs210 · March 15, 2011, 02:55 PM

DammitBoy I am in WALKER county, tried to talk with the Wildlife management dept this morning. Don't know who pissed in there cheerios but they were of no help what so ever. Woman just plainly said, legal to kill them on "YOUR PROPERTY" during daylight hours only and trapping them is illegal. Basically I can kill them or ignore them.

tazbigdog · March 16, 2011, 09:23 PM

Flintknapper,

Thank you so much for your informative and graphic depiction of your hog problem. I sat down here for the last 2 hours and read the 27 pages of it. I can certainly get a sense of the destructiveness of these feral hogs and the tenacity of the species to reproduce.

I applaud your efforts and humanity of not turning this into a pig fest. I learned alot from you and your methods.

Keep up the good work.

Jeff

kcmarine · March 26, 2011, 11:21 PM

Would an 7.62x39mm Saiga work for that kind of work? I've got a bunch of ammo and no job over the summer lined up... and need a reason to justify my firearms purchases...so... if anyone needs someone to come in over the summer to help clear it out, I'd be interested. Pay would be even better, if there are those opportunities out there.

Admittedly, I've never done it before, but hey, it's worth a shot... literally.

Glockhead · March 27, 2011, 10:06 PM

It seems like poisons would be pretty effective to eliminate hogs if the delivery system was designed to weed out the smaller critters.

kcmarine · March 28, 2011, 03:56 PM

Poisons aren't as... targetable. The hogs will eat it, and so will the deer and turkeys and everything else. That's the big problem.

Cob · April 11, 2011, 05:51 PM

I started reading this string, but did not finish it...if it's already been posted, forgive me... when you set the trap, build a small pen on the back side of it, and keep a couple live hogs fed and watered inside the pen as part of the trap set-up... results will increase capture rate.
if duplicate, forgive the repost... it's important

hirundo82 · April 11, 2011, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cob

when you set the trap, build a small pen on the back side of it, and keep a couple live hogs fed and watered inside the pen as part of the trap set-up

The "Judas sow" technique was mentioned early in the thread

Hard to believe this thread has been going for almost two years. Don't think I've posted in this thread before, but I've really enjoyed following it. Keep up the good work, Flintknapper.

Flintknapper · April 13, 2011, 09:42 PM

hirundo82 wrote:

Quote:

Hard to believe this thread has been going for almost two years. Don't think I've posted in this thread before, but I've really enjoyed following it.

Yes, administration/mods have been gracious to make it a sticky and to leave it up this long. I hope it will continue, only because the information here might help someone else with what is a growing problem in many states (Feral Hogs).

I have pointed quite a few people to this thread and I see (currently) it has about 125,000 "hits", so someone is at least looking at it.

I haven't had much time this year to mount an assault on the hogs...but I promise...I will get back after them as soon as I can.

I will try to find time to add some more information here soon. I realize some folks read this thread only for the stories and there is nothing wrong with that. I like to read the stories of others and live vicariously through them, its fun, but that is not the real purpose of this thread.

Sharing ideas, techniques, successes and failures...all help to make us better hunters.

"Better Hunters"= More dead pigs. (a good thing IMO).

bbuddtec · April 13, 2011, 09:44 PM

Well, I just recently found this post and spent the last few days chipping at it when time allowed...

Flint, you are a model American.

Your bow and arrow work are priceless.

A hunter of the highest degree.

Gifted writer.

Great teacher.

That being said, I dig your SOCOM, your attitude, and your style!

ROCK ON!

PS- IH8HOGS!!! <----

IllHunter · May 6, 2011, 12:55 AM

inside information from shipmates on Vinson, (posted here as a new use for those feral, infernal porcine pests) after OBL was waxed by ST6, he was prepped for burial and placed inside a body bag. After dumping garbage astern for 30 minutes, OBL's bag was weighted with 16 frozen hams and the slide board was greased with bacon. When the bastard hit the waves, sharks were seen choosing the hams.

**Art Eatman** · May 6, 2011, 02:03 PM

Okay, okay, I'll leave it, but no more OBL comments will survive the Delete key.

Flintknapper · May 6, 2011, 11:24 PM

^^^^^^^^^^

Yes, this really isn't the proper thread for OBL discussion.

Thanks for leaving the thread intact as well, I continue to direct folks here in hopes they might glean something from the information provided.

Much appreciated!

Flint.

mtnjrm · May 9, 2011, 12:02 PM

One of the best hog stories I have read. So good I going to read it again.

AKTexas · May 9, 2011, 06:00 PM

Simply amazing!No hogs on our place. Plenty of goats ruining our feeders. We put up fence around our feeders recently the cameras tell us it has been successful in keep them out but still allowing the deer to get to the corn.

March 5, 2011, 03:54 AM	#652
HelterSkelter Member Join Date: January 4, 2011 Posts: 110	get yourself a m18 claymore mine and hide it in a pile of corn. problem solved. __________________ ½mv²

March 8, 2011, 01:31 PM	#654
SSG B Member Join Date: August 30, 2010 Location: West of the Mississippi Posts: 4	Still the best thread Mr. Flintknapper I never did make the trip down south this fall/winter as hoped. It will still happen, just not this year. It did allow me the opportunity to mount a quad rail on my DMPS .308. I wanted to mention again that this is still the best thread I have read. It is very imformative, entertaining, and just plain awesome! Do you have a "day job" as well? Or where do you find the time to make bows and arrows, reload powder actuated projectiles, and deliver an education to the folks on THR as well?

March 15, 2011, 02:31 AM	#657
DammitBoy Member Join Date: March 19, 2009 Location: Meridian, Mississippi Posts: 1,938	Walker - that's hogs alright. I hunt hogs all the time around Butler, AL and the hogs are as thick as ticks round there. __________________ "I shoot my gun at the moon like a primitive hick!" ~ dammitism

March 15, 2011, 01:05 PM	#660
DammitBoy Member Join Date: March 19, 2009 Location: Meridian, Mississippi Posts: 1,938	What part of Alabama Walkers210? Game management in your area ought to know about a pig problem. __________________ "I shoot my gun at the moon like a primitive hick!" ~ dammitism

March 16, 2011, 09:23 PM	#663
tazbigdog Member Join Date: January 21, 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 179	Flintknapper, Thank you so much for your informative and graphic depiction of your hog problem. I sat down here for the last 2 hours and read the 27 pages of it. I can certainly get a sense of the destructiveness of these feral hogs and the tenacity of the species to reproduce. I applaud your efforts and humanity of not turning this into a pig fest. I learned alot from you and your methods. Keep up the good work. Jeff __________________ "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." Julius Caesar

March 3, 2011, 01:23 AM	#651
NOLAEMT Member Join Date: February 19, 2010 Location: Louisiana Posts: 789	now that bullets for the 460 S&W are available, i would think they would make excellent 450 bushmaster projectiles, the velocities are about the same.

March 8, 2011, 01:24 PM	#653
SSG B Member Join Date: August 30, 2010 Location: West of the Mississippi Posts: 4	An M19 automatic grenade launcher would be WAY more fun!

March 8, 2011, 08:39 PM	#655
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	Everyone has the same 24 hrs. in a day, its all a matter of what you do with them.

March 15, 2011, 12:54 AM	#656
WALKERs210 Member Join Date: November 26, 2009 Location: Heart of Dixie - Alabama Posts: 958	Flintknapper, thanks so much for your posting here on the subject of Wild Hogs. In Alabama or at least in my area we never had this much of a problem. Well I thought we didn't, last few weeks I started noticing tracks that looked like one or two deer roaming close to the house. But after closer examining it looks more like Piggies are here. I walked to the back of my property and more and more tracks everywhere, health as it is I didn't venture out into the wooded area to see if and what is going on there. My son had buried a dog several months ago and something had dug it up and scattered the bones all over. Don't know if a hog would do that or not so thought I'd ask someone with more experience. Going out tomorrow for a Game Camera to see what turns up

March 15, 2011, 07:47 AM	#658
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	Hi Walker, Yes...hogs will root up carcasses....but coyotes will also dig things up. Based only on that information...I am not ready to say you have hogs. However, a "game-cam" and perhaps putting out a bit of corn....would be an excellent idea. So you are on the right track (no pun intended).

March 15, 2011, 09:54 AM	#659
WALKERs210 Member Join Date: November 26, 2009 Location: Heart of Dixie - Alabama Posts: 958	Coyotes have been in area before but luckily they are moving out. I did think that it could have been Coyotes at first until all the tracks around premiter , and the depth of prints. For a long time we had a heard of white tails that would litterly come to the back door and eat the flowers from garden. One really nice buck but he never came into the open area. I should have picked up that something was outside sooner, but when you get old you start overlooking and forgetting things to look for. Anyway tonight will have a game camera in place just to see what we can see. thanks

March 15, 2011, 02:55 PM	#662
WALKERs210 Member Join Date: November 26, 2009 Location: Heart of Dixie - Alabama Posts: 958	DammitBoy I am in WALKER county, tried to talk with the Wildlife management dept this morning. Don't know who pissed in there cheerios but they were of no help what so ever. Woman just plainly said, legal to kill them on "YOUR PROPERTY" during daylight hours only and trapping them is illegal. Basically I can kill them or ignore them.

March 26, 2011, 11:21 PM	#664
kcmarine Member Join Date: February 28, 2007 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 1,378	Would an 7.62x39mm Saiga work for that kind of work? I've got a bunch of ammo and no job over the summer lined up... and need a reason to justify my firearms purchases...so... if anyone needs someone to come in over the summer to help clear it out, I'd be interested. Pay would be even better, if there are those opportunities out there. Admittedly, I've never done it before, but hey, it's worth a shot... literally. __________________ Not a real Marine. Just one on Halo and CoD4. A well- regulated airsoft team, being necessary to the entertainment of the teenage state, the right of the pranksters to Keep and Bear paintball guns, shall not be infringed.

March 27, 2011, 10:06 PM	#665
Glockhead Member Join Date: March 27, 2011 Posts: 2	It seems like poisons would be pretty effective to eliminate hogs if the delivery system was designed to weed out the smaller critters.

March 28, 2011, 03:56 PM	#666
kcmarine Member Join Date: February 28, 2007 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 1,378	Poisons aren't as... targetable. The hogs will eat it, and so will the deer and turkeys and everything else. That's the big problem. __________________ Not a real Marine. Just one on Halo and CoD4. A well- regulated airsoft team, being necessary to the entertainment of the teenage state, the right of the pranksters to Keep and Bear paintball guns, shall not be infringed.

April 11, 2011, 05:51 PM	#667
Cob Member Join Date: January 6, 2011 Location: North FL Woods Posts: 446	I started reading this string, but did not finish it...if it's already been posted, forgive me... when you set the trap, build a small pen on the back side of it, and keep a couple live hogs fed and watered inside the pen as part of the trap set-up... results will increase capture rate. if duplicate, forgive the repost... it's important

April 13, 2011, 09:44 PM	#670
bbuddtec Member Join Date: December 21, 2010 Location: The Land of Opportunity. Posts: 460	Well, I just recently found this post and spent the last few days chipping at it when time allowed... Flint, you are a model American. Your bow and arrow work are priceless. A hunter of the highest degree. Gifted writer. Great teacher. That being said, I dig your SOCOM, your attitude, and your style! ROCK ON! PS- IH8HOGS!!! <---- __________________ "A golf course is the willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range." - Jeff Cooper Last edited by bbuddtec; April 13, 2011 at 10:04 PM. Reason: forgot the corn arrow, lol

May 6, 2011, 02:03 PM	#672
Art Eatman Administrator Join Date: December 22, 2002 Location: Terlingua, Texas Posts: 34,800	Okay, okay, I'll leave it, but no more OBL comments will survive the Delete key.

May 6, 2011, 11:24 PM	#673
Flintknapper Member Join Date: May 11, 2006 Location: Deep East Texas Posts: 1,444	^^^^^^^^^^ Yes, this really isn't the proper thread for OBL discussion. Thanks for leaving the thread intact as well, I continue to direct folks here in hopes they might glean something from the information provided. Much appreciated! Flint.

May 9, 2011, 12:02 PM	#674
mtnjrm Member Join Date: February 18, 2011 Posts: 9	Hogs One of the best hog stories I have read. So good I going to read it again.

May 9, 2011, 06:00 PM	#675
AKTexas Member Join Date: May 28, 2006 Location: Northern most city of Mexico Posts: 14	Simply amazing!No hogs on our place. Plenty of goats ruining our feeders. We put up fence around our feeders recently the cameras tell us it has been successful in keep them out but still allowing the deer to get to the corn.