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Night vision is cheaper and easier than dogs. Ran dogs in the late 80’s and early 90’s. The hogs were not as prolific then. We would catch 6-10 most weekends. We would keep alive anything less than 40 lbs to feed and sell or train dogs with. We would clean the larger ones and sell them. In the early 2000’s people started buying them live to ship overseas. We had about 20 box traps and routinely trapped 20+ a week. We had a holding pen and would load them up once a week to take to sale. Hog prices went down and fuel prices went up so running traps became a loosing business. We then built large round pens with the funnels these worked ok until you get a big hog that turns your funel inside out. We retrofitted trap doors with tripwires and would catch up to 10 at a time. We had a feeder and water trough inside so we only had to check it once a week. We never caught any over about 250lbs in a trap. We once used a sow in heat as bait and had a large boar in the large trap until we drove up and he jumped the panel and ran off. The larger the hog the less likely they are to go in the loading chute. We routinely had to rope larger ones to load them.
These days I just shoot everyone I see. I give a lot of them to a family that eats them the rest I donate to the coyotes. When they get thick The preferred method is a single cattle panel with a trail of corn poured out in a straight line down the panel just a few inches off the panel. This gets the pigs in a line. I then setup on their level about 100yds away and shot through as many as I can with my .300RUM.
They are somewhat nomadic and will move one once you begin to disrupt their routine. If you can kill a couple out of a group they usually move on.
Good luck.
These days I just shoot everyone I see. I give a lot of them to a family that eats them the rest I donate to the coyotes. When they get thick The preferred method is a single cattle panel with a trail of corn poured out in a straight line down the panel just a few inches off the panel. This gets the pigs in a line. I then setup on their level about 100yds away and shot through as many as I can with my .300RUM.
They are somewhat nomadic and will move one once you begin to disrupt their routine. If you can kill a couple out of a group they usually move on.
Good luck.
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