You do as well, just maybe not as much.

I'm in for pics. Seriously, you probably shouldn't do that. But I hear you.

When you start piling Tannerite up it can make some incredible explosions. A lot of people underestimate it because it's not TNT and end up paying a hefty price for it.

Just how much corn are you throwing to provide the predominant food source for hogs?

JR

So......

We saw a tremendous reduction in the number of hogs we see by penning our deer feeders. A few years ago I shot a hog 3-4 hunts in a row with a few being doubles, was nothing to get pictures with 20-30 hog groups on the cameras. We pinned the feeders and slowly they have just disappeared. This season we have seen feral hogs 2 times.

Penning feeders is the only way to "mostly" keep them away from your property and change their travel patterns that I've found..

Remotely controlled catch pens like those the professionals use is the only way to create any noticeable impact on pig numbers in a given area. Anything less and you're doing nothing more than harassing them.

A rancher that I know in East Texas once left the gate open to a pasture after he had put hog wire fence to keep the pigs out, not expecting them to go through the gate until he had gotten around to closing it. After noticing a pack of them had found their way inside, his brother and a few buddies decided to remove them.

Animal cruelty laws can be so subjective from one person, place, or time and the current political and social weather is at it's worst ever for such things. It could involve felonies, can ruin lives both legally and via social media, or can bankrupt you paying for a defense even if not guilty. If charged and sentenced you risk losing several rights like gun ownership and unable to work in some careers. Risk to benefit, I would not do it and I sure would not film it if I did.

I saw that one - instead of putting the ham in hammer they put the hammer in the ham...

^^^agree

Around here the best way to temporarily run hogs off is to get after them hard with the dogs. Apparently they hate being ran by dogs, and even though the doggers may only get a couple of kills a night, after a few nights of it I've seen the hogs pack up and leave for a month or longer.

I also saw that Lone Star Law and the reason those guys got tickets was they were knocking teeth out and turning the pigs loose,not killing them.

yeah, they knocked the cutters out to train their dogs.

He's right you know.

The tannerite isn't a legal method of take for non game animals. It would be nice to see, but I certainly would not video tape anything lie that.

Never shot a mess of them in the trap. We try to get a few bucks for them live. If there is 1 or 2 I'll pop them with a 22 short behind the ear. They don't get anymore excited than just walking up to the trap.

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This has been my experience as well. As much as I hate hog dogs and 'most' hog-doggers. On occasion....we have some come in and run the hogs a few weekends in a row. Hogs HATE dogs and even though the hog-doggers catch few (if any) it DOES run them off of the property for up to a month at a time. But it can't be a 'one time' deal. You need to 'harass' the hogs with consecutive outings.

We only do this when other methods are not working well enough. And only at certain times of the year (starting right now until mid summer).

I trap, shoot and snare hogs all year 'round on my property and on my In-Laws. Been doing it for a bit over 30 yrs. now. When our neighbors also make efforts....we can keep the hogs sort of at bay. But its a full time exercise, otherwise you'll just end up 'swapping hogs' with your neighbors.

My least favorite method is using dogs. Dogs ARE effective at running hogs OFF for a period of time, but as a tool to reduce numbers they are a miserable failure (if not under high fence). Running hogs with dogs is largely 'sport' and in my opinion usually does more harm than good if you have more than one or two problem hogs. For the most part....it just spreads them out and educates every hog that isn't caught (which will be most of them).

Trapping and snaring are by far the most productive methods for me. I don't recommend snaring unless you really know what you are doing and live on the property OR pick up the snares upon leaving (never leaving them more than 24 hrs unchecked). Large pen traps are your best bet.

I shoot a good number of hogs each year from dedicated hog stands that have automatic feeders and lights set up on photocells. But....its just supplemental to other methods of killing them. Unfortunately, my property's topography is such that it forms a natural funnel. It is more wooded than surrounding lands and has a spring fed branch running through it. So even if I did nothing to lure hogs onto certain areas of it....I would always have a transient population traveling through.

If I had my way....there would be NO hogs in the State of Texas. Of course, my sentiment is one of a Land Owner whose property has been savaged by hogs over and over again. Other's enjoy having hogs around.

I agree, having someone run them hard with dogs is the best way to keep them gone for a while.

I wonder if any smells repel them? I know housecats hate the smell of citrus, dogs shy away from ammonia and vinegar, and deer are supposedly repelled by lion dung.

I’ve had a friend Tannerite them on several occasions and the same dumb pigs that survived the 10 pounds we’re back 2 days later so he says that method only works to take out a dozen or so at a time. I hear its pretty funny to watch though, he said their was a small piglet hanging about 10 feet up in a tree limb, at least part of it was according to him. The feeder was in pretty rough shape afterwards according to his reports, the timer had to be replaced

The legalities of it I’m not sure of so my friend never sent me the videos

Catch pens work great, sometimes when you feed them long enough and get a large numbers coming in with additives to the feed that can help thin the numbers down greatly, interpret this as you will

Interpreted. Thanks.

Answer to post. No.