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Well if your goal is to control the population then start shooting the Sows and piglets . It will take a while to do this BUt this is the best way to get rid of them . Well you want really get rid of them but you will make a dent in the population. Alot of the wild hogs like to eat at night but there are ways to bring them in. A hog has to have water several times a day an they will eat during the day but they will eat more at night time. Good luck.

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Thanks teejarrardjr! They have plenty to eat and alot of water, the farm joins a large creek.

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oh and if you do kill a few .Please dont get there blood on you. Just in case they do have a disease. A little cut on your hand with there blood that might be infected could make the rest of your life very miserable with being sick and in the hospital. So always keep some rubber or latex gloves in your pack. Good luck with them . Remember feral hogs breed several times a year. So when they have litters of 12 piglets at a time .It doesnt take long to have several hundred hogs on the property. god bless. shoot those sows.

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The best thing to do is to have me come down and hunt them? I will put a dent on the population.Just my 2 cents

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You AND your neighbors have a serious problem if it's deer hunting you want to do. You and your neighbors need to declare unmerciful, unrelentless war on them, and you still won't get them all. Now that they are established it will be a never ending problem.I can assure you hogs cannot bemanagedif you want to have other types of hunting (deer, turkey)with any reasonablesuccess. You will not put a dent in the population by sport hunting them, i.e., shooting one at a time with your deer rifle. They will multiply faster than you can kill them using that method. This may sound cruel and unsporting , but the best method I know of is to use a shotgun with buckshot. Wait for them to be close together and open up on themfiring as fast as you can, anduse as many shooters as can be safely done. Of course the local laws must be checked first to be sure it's legal.If they are not already nocturnal, they will be after they're shot at, so shoot them at night if legal. Some folks might recommend trapping. Some can be caught by trapping, but they get trap-wise, and not so easily caught.

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There are only 6 counties in NC that consider feral hogs to be "wild Boar" and regulate their hunting. The other 94 counties have no regulations in regard to hog hunting.

Here are the regs http://www.ncwildlife.org/pg02_Regs/2007_08_Season_Dates.pdf

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As a rule deerdo not like to be around large populations of hogs. Hogs compete with deer for acorns and other natural food. Deer do not like to drink from ponds that hogs wallow in. I have seen hogs chase deer off game plots and wheat fields.

Your best bet is to start trapping hogs with a vengeance.This part of OK is over-run with wild hogs.

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find some one close that can dog them, you can shoot them, they will go feed and move at night, you can trap them, but they will get trap wise, but you can dog the crap out of them and go right to their beds every time, BUT you can not put pressure on them and have all of your neighbors not doing any thing about them. You should try to run dogs almost every weekend for a long as it takes they will leave with too much pressure once they are gone at the first sign of the comming back bring the dogs back in. Try to ask all of you neighbors if you can get off on all of their places so it does not limit where you can hunt and so they don't shoot your dogs if you get on their land.

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A guy I work with and I were just talking about going on a hog hunt. If you are serious about getting rid of them, PM me and we'll come down and shoot some.

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I agree with hog hunter 57. You can probably find some hog hunters with dogs in your area. If you cannot locate any, let me know. I know of some folks in Tennessee that have dogs and love to hunt them. Hog hunter 57 is right in that you need to obtain permission from surrounding land owners to allow the dogs and hunters access. If you cannot get that access, don't use dogs. Some hogs will run a long ways before taking a stand, so they might cross more than one property.

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I ahve a club here in South carolina that is seeing the same thing although they enjoy the hogs, i would suggest you let some of thee guys come down and hunt them and maybe contact some of the trappers down by the water shed on the border .
when i lived in the upstate area of south carolina i got request to go to NC to killhogs all the time and never really put a dent on them. dogs , catch cages and still hunters are what you need to get rid of them

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Guys, thanks for the insight and info. We plan on hitting them hard after New Years. We have some dog hunters coming and the adjoining farmers/landowners seem to be in accord with thinning them out.

The neighbors brother just killed a couple a few days ago, not sure what exactly. I'll update and hopefully have some pics.of them critters.

Thanks again,

Jamie

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jbar - I am in NC and would love to come down and shoot some hogs! Maybe we can work something out?

PM me if interested

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One way to bait up hogs is to wire a piece of carpet around a tree and pour waste oil on the carpet. Those hogs will come to that before they come to corn or any other bait and they will come to that all throughout the day to rubin that oil, especially on warm days. Set up several ambush spots where you can sneak up on them. Main thing with sneaking up onhogs is having the wind in your face. They can't see very good and they don't hear much better...but they sure can smell!

Anotherthing some guys I know in South Texas do is rent a helecopter and fly the property and the chopper will make those hogs start running. bring a case of buckshot and put it on thier nose. I've never done this but it sounds like a lot of fun!

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My father in law lives in South Port and I visit a bunch from VA. We would love to come and shoot hogs with you. We would even throw in some $ for you if that helps.

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:)Guys,thanks for the replies and advice. We have some local guys in there and they have taken a few(no pics yet).

I plan on setting up a camera this weekend, so hopefully I will have something to share soon. From what we've seen it shouldshow alot of hogs. I've been busy and haven't been able to go sit, hopefully that will soon change!

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I know a few guys that would be up for a weekend hog hunt if you need more help.

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I know quite a few guys if you want hunters around to keep the pressure on. Where in NC are we talking? I'm down fayetteville way but as the saying goes "have gun will travel".

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i have a couple of buds that will come with me to do the same thing.

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BUDDY GIVE ME ACALL I CAN HELP U OUT IF U WANNA USE DOGS WE CAN PROBLY TAKE A BUNCH OUT I LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE.