Shooting Hogs inside the trap? Bad idea?
I recently bought a nice welded hog trap and its been out long enough for the hogs to get used to it and really start coming to the corn inside it.
Yesterday, I got 2 good sized hogs in the trap. When I walked close enough to check them out, they went crazy (of course).
I quickly dispatched both with a .22 mag bullet in the ear, and dragged them out of the trap.
I tried to wipe as much blood off the trap as possible, and I moved the trap to shovel up all the dirt that had blood on it.
I called one of my buddies that I remembered has trapped hogs before and told him about my good luck.........that's when things went south...
He said you should NEVER shoot a hog in the trap because the other hogs will NEVER go into the trap again................"well CRAP", I said....
So.....did I mess up or am I ok????