Eliminating pigs

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I would have to agree w/ the sausage idea! Remember  aim small miss small.

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bad news boys the experts say you have to kill 80 % of all pigs every year just to control them , you really never can eliminate them, I say kill all hogs you can as often as you can. they compete with deer for food as well as tear up the woods.  good luck. 


HERE IN FLA AND GA THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS WELCOME. TRY TAKING OUT THE FEEDERS FOR AWHILE. 

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Sounds like a good day or two of target practice.  Go shoot hogs don't go to the range.  COULD BE another TH Challenge here.  Everyone get together on someone's place with a hog problem and have a prize for the biggest hog, most hogs, etc.  I am sure we have a few member who would like those braggin' rights.

Might even e able to get UNJ to do a remote and get TWD to film it.

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Yep the only good "wild pig" is one that is bacon and sasage already. To my understanding you will never get rid of them all once they get started in an area

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Have bow - will travel!  TH Hog Hunt after deer season?

Don't have any on our places, thank God!  There was a good show on one of the educational channels a couple of months ago.  They referred to it as the "Pig Bomb" because of the population explosion that has happened in recent times.  It takes somewhere around a 70% population harvest just to keep the numbers stable.

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Have bow - will travel!  TH Hog Hunt after deer season?

Don't have any on our places, thank God!  There was a good show on one of the educational channels a couple of months ago.  They referred to it as the "Pig Bomb" because of the population explosion that has happened in recent times.  It takes somewhere around a 70% population harvest just to keep the numbers stable.

The TH  Hunt idea sounds reasonable to me. sometime after the first of the year

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    With all the volunteers to shoot pigs, could be more guys in the woods than pigs.   I didn't get out to check my camera yesterday and am sitting here waiting for it to get late enough so I can stop at Dick'r before heading out.  Getting some fox urine as a cover and have heard that could also help keep the pigs at bay if they are there.  Hopefully camera worked as it did last year and I'll know for sure.

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   With all the volunteers to shoot pigs, could be more guys in the woods than pigs.   I didn't get out to check my camera yesterday and am sitting here waiting for it to get late enough so I can stop at Dick'r before heading out.  Getting some fox urine as a cover and have heard that could also help keep the pigs at bay if they are there.  Hopefully camera worked as it did last year and I'll know for sure.

I say that we need to help our Deep Southern Members DO away with the pigs--Jan or Feb after deer season sounds GREAT!!!

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OK..here's the proof!!

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I think removing the corn for a while is a good idea.  You won't get rid of them but you can move them for a while if you put the time in.  

They tend to lay up in cover near water and sleep in the middle of the day.  I've walked right up on them before in the brush.  You might consider getting some buddies together and setting up a hog drive.  I suggest shotguns with slugs or buckshot for this and a heavy caliber side arm.  If you have one charge and there isn't a good tree to climb nearby stand still facing him.  Just before he hits you lift the leg he is going after and spin on the other foot then fill him full of lead.  They tend to go for one leg or the other and try get you on the way by.  Usually they keep going if they miss.  A lot of shooting will also make them move to another area.

You may already know how to look for sign but this is what I look far.  Around water and heavy cover areas look for ground that is rooted up and heavily disturbed, spat, and tree rubs close to the ground.  They rub on the trees to scratch and get the mud off.  You will see the bark rubbed smooth and if the sign is fresh you will see mud on the base of the tree.  They spend a lot of time in the mud to cool off.  Then when it dries they scratch and rub on the tree bases.  Hope this helps locate them and good luck running them off.  SHOOTEM' ALL!    

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Thanks Russ...but deer season is only 3 weeks off and I just started with the corn.  The pictures indicate they are there early evening and so will I be on Monday!!!  My 35 marlin should help!!!

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That will work!  Anything that pumps a lot of hot lead quick.

It's hard to decide which is worse, having them around and leaving the deer undisturbed, or going ahead and driving them out.  They won't leave unless you show them the door or the back of their eye lids.

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Thanks Russ...but deer season is only 3 weeks off and I just started with the corn.  The pictures indicate they are there early evening and so will I be on Monday!!!  My 35 marlin should help!!!

Take an auto if you have one.... Shoot fast!   Once one dies under your feeder, the rest will stay away for a while.  They are very smart.  However, just because you run one pack off, the others will still come.  Good Luck!

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its a grat time to get your friends together and have a house cleaning

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HAHAHA I agree it ain't but a short drive down to NC!!!  Think about it!!!  LOL