I didn't make it to the hunting lease this week end, but the guys who went set the hog trap and got these. We don't have a bad hog problem (yet) and are trying to keep them down. They can really mess up a food plot and compete heavily with deer for food, especially acorns and mushrooms. Good riddance and good eating. Looks like we'll be having a pig roast or two during the early season.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
And you say you don't have a hog problem... looks like a lot of fun. I'd be hunting the hogs as well.
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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, a total wreck, screaming Yahoo, with a big smile on your face."
Our lease is on gentlyrolling hills with pine tree plantation. Only one small intermittent stream through the middle with a few hardwoods - not a favorite of hogs. A club about a mile south of us has 2000 acres along a small river, mostly bottom land hardwoods. The hogs have gotten so bad in their area that their deer harvest has dropped fifty percent in the last two years. Yeah, they're fun to shoot, but smarter than deer and go totally nocturnal as soon as deer season opens.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
There is a lot of good pork there to eat. That would be an excellent way to fill a freezer IMO.
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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, a total wreck, screaming Yahoo, with a big smile on your face."
You can smell that trap from 100 yards away. What we do is fill a bunch of plastic buckets with corn and then fill them with water. Let them sit a week or two in the sun until they get sour and smelly. Then we set up the trap where we've seen hog sign and bait it with some of that corn, but block the trigger so the door will stay open. The first day or twothe hogs will come around, but sometimes won'tgo into the trap. In fact, they never seem to go in it unless we put a lot of brush in the wire - they're very leery of a bare trap. After a while, one or two will go in and eat the corn. Then we have to bait it every day.Pretty soonthe whole herd is showing up,racing to beat each other to the corn, and jamming togetherinto the trap. That's when we set the trigger.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
I've had Texas hogs and I smoke them always with a hickory wood or cherry wood flavor. I hate to say it but I think it's better than venison. Dang, I'm outa hog.
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Fire at will! Which ones Will? Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk
A Dead Hog Is A Good Hog
One of these days Lord willing, I'm gonna get me some
