Hog Problem?
#1
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?
#3
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Posts: 528
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.
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.
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.
#7
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Waipahu, Hawaii
Posts: 37
RE: Hog Problem?
ORIGINAL: Georgetownboys
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.
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.
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.
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.
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: San Antonio Texas USA
Posts: 35
RE: Hog Problem?
ORIGINAL: treblig
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?
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?
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.
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 3,224
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.