Need design plans for a hog trap

[LureheadEd]

We trapped hogs for 4 or 5 years on one of our properties in Hancock...Had a couple of welded portable type traps..Most of the time , we'd drop loop ropes into the traps and catch their back legs and tie the rope to the top, lifting the rear end up... Hogs aren't used to that !!!! Pretty soon their front ends would collapse, they'd be worn out... Then we'd drag them out, jump on 'em, and tie the front legs up !!!! WAY TOO MUCH FUN !!!! One guy to knock the pig down and hold the mouth shut , another to tie...My then 10yr. old loved tackling them, and he didn't even play football !!! We'd keep 'em in a holding pen for a couple of weeks, then put 'em on the smoker...But with the really big boars, we'd shoot 'em in the trap....And move the trap to another place, wouldn't catch any more where a big boar had been killed, some we just let go because they'd stink so bad, it would be weeks before another hog would get caught there...

[henpkd1]

Hello Shine Runner,
It has been my experience that if you kill the hog in the trap, the others will avoid it. It is better to remove the hog live from the trap and kill it somewhere else. If you would like to build a pen trap large enough to cause a mass extinction, pm me. I believe I have most of the things you would need. I also have a single trap you a welcome to borrow.

[crappielimits]

I would prefer to shoot them on sight in the fields, but hours spent looking .vs hours a trap stays ready is the reason I am looking at trapping. I can't afford the night vision/thermal options. They are really cool and some great videos on You Tube from Jager and some others. If money was not an issue, I would get on one of those choppers and pretend like the pigs were terrorist!!!!

A question about the traps: Do pigs come back to traps after pigs are killed in the traps? I don't want to remove live pigs to transport anywhere. I want them dead quickly and on ice quickly. Will pigs return to a trap after pigs have been killed in the traps, or do the traps need to be relocated?

Some really cool ideas on the www. for different kinds of traps. Material costs kinda suck. Bullets ain't cheap either, especially after all the recent BS over bullets. Maybe an old musket with a cap and ball is the answer. Get back to the basics!

Gonna have to move traps from time to time. If you kill in the trap it usually ruins the spot right away. Are you having a problem getting bullets? What kind do you need? My friend owns an Outdoors store and has most bullets, he getting about 75,000 22lr in tomorrow. They will sell out by Tuesday. The .223, 5.56, and 7.62 are in and out too. They keep everything else! We use a 17Hmr, 22lr or a 22short in the ear. Does the job with very little mess and cheap too!

[crappielimits]

You dont need the night vision stuff. Use a regular spot light! DNR will give you a nuisance permit! They come out at night we will park the truck near where they are coming out and take a nap til we hear them. They are loud you will here them. Then just get out and put the light on them. If you bury corn with hole diggers they will dig and make plenty of noise. My neighbors wife makes toys out of pvc for them to roll around to get corn too. One of the lands we hunt the landowner just walks on his front porch and can hear them. He calls and we come to sneak up on them. You gonna have to figure out a way to get the big females to slow them down and the only way we found is too shoot at night! Get those boys to camp out on them.