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Hog traps

Blacksmith said:
I wish we had em in Ohio. I'd rather hunt pigs than whitetails.
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I don't know why people keep saying that. I live in what used to be one of the hubs for wild hogs in Ohio, Gallia county. Sure they might be fun to hunt but for wildlife management and property owners, they are a disaster on legs.

If you want to hunt hogs, go to a southern state get in with the right property owners and predator control groups and you'll get paid to kill them.
 
Blacksmith said:
If you just want to catch a few, watch the videos on snaring ??
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Its either illegal or functionally illegal to snare hogs in most northern states. Ohio forbids snaring hogs. I'm not quite sure if I as a licensed nuisance trapper can do so either. Legalities aside, it would a great way to cach a lot of deer while trying to catch hogs here
 
SNIPERBBB said:
Its either illegal or functionally illegal to snare hogs in most northern states. Ohio forbids snaring hogs. I'm not quite sure if I as a licensed nuisance trapper can do so either. Legalities aside, it would a great way to cach a lot of deer while trying to catch hogs here
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Dude in Florida you can take them by any means at all, and year round (if you’re on private)…
In Tx they shoot them out of helicopters with ARs :sweatsmile: can’t get too much more creative than that
 
BTaylor said:
They use boats here running through flooded timber checking high spots or catchin them swimming.
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I had a chance in GA to hunt hogs like that on the Intercostal Waterway. In a jet boat, landing on various knobs and high points. Drop a shooter off on one side of an island and use the boat to make a ruckus on the other side, like doing a drive. I hadn't planned for the opportunity and ultimately never took advantage of it but it would have been a unique experience.
 
SNIPERBBB said:
Recently in Tx and La, they legalized poison too.
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See with poison, I’d be scared something would eat the hog and end up dying from it as well. Birds, wild cats, and bears will all scavenge dead corps and could be secondarily poisoned
 
Blacksmith said:
I wish we had em in Ohio. I'd rather hunt pigs than whitetails.
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You can have them! They're tough as nails, built like tanks, and don't know when they're dead. I've personally seen one take two rounds of 9mm to the brain pan, play dead, and get back up.

They're incredibly intelligent (smarter than a well trained German shepherd), will eat anything, and completely deplete a place of it's resources before moving on to the next place. It's been years since I've seen or heard a turkey on the family farm.

Not to mention they're a pain to skin. The bigger ones literally grow a plate of armor gristle that is a nightmare to get off. They'll tank an arrow or a .223 and keep on trucking without leaving a drop of blood (and they'll laugh at you the whole time they're doing it). That in combination with all the mud and thick hair will dull my S30v steel blade in no time flat.

They may be fun for a little bit, but if I could I would kill every. last. one. of. them. with hostile impunity. I want my deer and turkey back! Seriously come take them, I don't want to play anymore :tearsofjoy:
 
SNIPERBBB said:
I don't know why people keep saying that. I live in what used to be one of the hubs for wild hogs in Ohio, Gallia county. Sure they might be fun to hunt but for wildlife management and property owners, they are a disaster on legs.

If you want to hunt hogs, go to a southern state get in with the right property owners and predator control groups and you'll get paid to kill them.
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I suspect people think having something they can hunt year round would be fun and perhaps the pork being tasty as a side benefit. I live in a state where there are rumored to be small pockets of them and I hope it's just a rumor.

However, there have been some documented kills of them.

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You might also see if the state Agriculture Department can offer any help. They might be interested in taking care of the problem for you.

I talked to one of the biologists here on a game management area, and he said the Ag Department helps them with the trapping. I sent him an OnX pin where I had run into a sow with a litter and he said they'd be out there right away after deer season ended. He said they also work with landowners who want to get rid of them.
 
There’s no shortage of ways to trap or snare. The trick is to find a way that doesn’t also catch other critters, domesticated or out of season. “Have a heart” type traps are only “humane” if you can check them 4x a day. Archery is probably the best all around solution.
 
From what I've seen, MN and ND have dealt with invasive hogs by forbidding hunting, and using both government and contract lethal pest control. They don't enter the food stream, and, as far as I can tell, any populations get completely eradicated in pretty short order. It's impressive, even if I would have liked to put a few in my freezer. From what I can tell, they don't want to do anything that would encourage hunters (or, more likely, outfitters and guides) from protecting and monetizing a huntable hog population. Your local conservation officers or county ag agent may have some resources available.
 
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