Hog Problem?
 

Over the past couple of seasons, our deer lease has acquired a nice hog population. Problem is now, they seem overpopulated - rooting and eating up all of our food plots, corn, etc. Would like to kill several before season, but really hate to bring a bunch of shooting activity right before bow season. Anyone have this problem? and does it hurt your whitetail activity? Also, I assume the risk of walking up on a group in the dark increases - what's the risk of them charging you up a tree?

RE: Hog Problem?
 

Get some bow hunters to kill as many as they can.
I'm sure it won't be hard to find a few bow hunters
that want to take all the hogs they want.

RE: Hog Problem?
 

Sure. . .hogs tear stuff up. . .but you get to shoot them 24/7/365. I consider it a fair trade, they tear up my white tail efforts and I put bunches of them in my freezer. If your anywhere close to hill country texas, I would be happy to help you out. :D

If they get really out of hand then take the next step and set up a trap. . . .these cages will hold 6/8 at a time and you can put a dent in the numbers a bit faster. To think you will rid your place of them for good would be a pretty amazing feat.

RE: Hog Problem?
 

ever have one charge at you?

RE: Hog Problem?
 

git ya a good pack of dogs.

RE: Hog Problem?
 

RE: Hog Problem?
 

Good idea if you have buddies who like hog roasts, you even get a chance to de-worm them and feed them good stuff until cooking time. Seen a few guys doing that the other day, had 4 hogs caged up in a mazda pickup, going to the farm to get sold to b-day parties.

RE: Hog Problem?
 

treblig
Where do you live? I would gladly come and shoot them with my bow for you before your season starts if you arnt to far of a distance away.
JOE

RE: Hog Problem?
 

Even if you kill every one you see, you will not make a dent in their population due to their reproductive ability. You might think you did if they become wiley for a while, but I assure you they will still be there. If you want to make a serious dent in their numbers, you must trap aggressively.

Aggressively hunting them year round on our 770 acres in South Texas, we averaged 20-30 hogs a year. Instituted a trapping program, and we're up to 40+ in 2 months. Even with this, I know we'll have to continue our efforts to keep them from rebounding.

Not killing them will hamper your hunting efforts for whitetail, as deer will abandon a feeder monopolized by hogs. We pen every corn feeder that we want deer to frequent; if we don't, all we see are hogs.

RE: Hog Problem?
 

Rgarza is correct once you have hogs on your place you can't get rid of them. They will drive your deer off the feeders. We have them where we hunt and we hunt them year round as well as trapping them. Luckily for us them move around and seem to move out during deer season and return around January. We shoot as many as we can and we never seem to put a dent in the population.

RE: Hog Problem?
 

i wish we have that kind of problem here in nevada las vegas!!!

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i guess hogs and deer act differently in other areas. i know where i hunt and the properties for miles and miles around where i hunt, the hogs haven't hampered the deer hunts. we have hogs running out of our ears. i might not always see them but their signs are there. we have one peanut field that is huge (not sure of acres) but huge. the farmer that planted the field in peanuts had to plant the field twice due to the hogs destroying it the first time. we have gone out spot lighting the field at different times of the night and all we see are herds and herds of whitetail deer. we have 6 traps around this field and average 5 to 10 hogs a week in the traps. we have caught them in the field or coming through the field about sunrise where we do have success dropping several with our rifles and shotguns. every time we see hogs in the field there are also a lot of deer. so in my opinion the hog population what ever the astronomical population of them are, has not kept the deer here from the feeders and fields that we deer hunt.

RE: Hog Problem?
 

If you hunt your land with dogs every night It'll eventually drive em off.
If it's that bad you have to start kiling the offspring

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Wild hogs are like a bad disease that you cant get rid of....... once you have them its almost impossible to get rid of all of them....oh did I say I HATE HOGS!!!

RE: Hog Problem?
 

You can get several traps and then sell what you trap. Use the money you make to get more supplies for the camp.