No, they're in my head. The one pictured is tall. It used to lie on its side until i got tired of crawling into it to remove the hogs. Our newest trap is 8' long, 34 1/2" wide by 42" tall. Its made of pig panels. Pig panels are 34 1/2" by 16' long.

The panels are welded to 1" and 1 1/2" angle iron. Use 1 1/2" by 1/8" angle for the bottom and front of the trap. Use 1" by 1/8" angle for the top and the closed end. After the metal is cut it takes 2-3 hours to Mig weld it up. Our traps are easily loaded by one guy.


We tried saloon doors and guillotine doors; but settled on a door hinged at the top. The door must close at an angle when its down. This prevents the hog from escaping and allows other hogs to enter the trap by pushing the door open. Our doors are easily removed to allow access to the trap. A piece of bar stock or rebar holds the door on.

My traps must be staked down using T posts; otherwise hogs will turn them over. i use a trigger line attached to a stake that holds the door up. The line runs through a small pulley about 18" from the closed end of the trap. The bait is put in the forward end. The hog hits the line, dislodging the stake and allowing the door to fall.

This is the last trap i built:

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Hogs are very smart and easliy learn new stuff. A rancher has game camera photos taken at a cattle watering tank. Somehow the hogs were causing the tank to overflow so they could mud bathe. Game camera caught a hog climbing into the tank and holding the float down.

Big boar hogs sometimes get a taste for fawns. i've called in a couple boar hogs using a fawn in distress call while coyote hunting.

The serious hog hunters in these parts use dogs to bay the hogs. I know one guy (Joe Boucher) that has actually caught at least two hogs by sneaking up behind a fallen tree or big rock where hogs were bayed and dropping a lasso around one. I kid you not! He's crazy.

Caught a good sow last night:

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/hogs...ml#post4007095