Hoghunter
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I have been following Flintknapper and his hog saga for some time now. It's almost like reading a mystery novel...you never know what surprises will be in the next chapter. Very interesting and educational. I never knew there was so much to learn regarding hog hunting.
My limited hunting experience the past few years has been on a North Texas/Oklahoma area ranch thinning out the Prairie Dog herds. This year I did not go since the plague has pretty much wiped out the doggie towns. I do not have any experience (yet) hunting deer or hogs. I have been invited (this fall) to help thin out the feral hogs on a ranch near Devine, Texas. The owner wants to increase the deer population, not the hog population. I know that the hogs are there based on game camera pictures showing 20 or more hogs at a time around a deer feeder early in the morning.
The assumption is that you want to fatten up the deer and not the hogs. Why not place a series of 5' high hog fence panels around the feeder to keep the hogs out that would allow the deer to feed without hog harassment? Deer should not have any problem jumping a 5' fence. You would now be feeding deer (and probably racoons), instead of hogs.
You could still hunt or trap hogs using another feeder, but you would no longer be buying deer corn exclusively for hogs.
Am I missing something (or a lot of somethings)?
I am ready to be educated as this is all new to me.
Hoghunter
My limited hunting experience the past few years has been on a North Texas/Oklahoma area ranch thinning out the Prairie Dog herds. This year I did not go since the plague has pretty much wiped out the doggie towns. I do not have any experience (yet) hunting deer or hogs. I have been invited (this fall) to help thin out the feral hogs on a ranch near Devine, Texas. The owner wants to increase the deer population, not the hog population. I know that the hogs are there based on game camera pictures showing 20 or more hogs at a time around a deer feeder early in the morning.
The assumption is that you want to fatten up the deer and not the hogs. Why not place a series of 5' high hog fence panels around the feeder to keep the hogs out that would allow the deer to feed without hog harassment? Deer should not have any problem jumping a 5' fence. You would now be feeding deer (and probably racoons), instead of hogs.
You could still hunt or trap hogs using another feeder, but you would no longer be buying deer corn exclusively for hogs.
Am I missing something (or a lot of somethings)?
I am ready to be educated as this is all new to me.
Hoghunter