Deer proof Hog traps

[baddison]

Does anybody have any good baits or trap designs that will catch hogs and won't catch deer? We are using a round trap with a top and bottom and diesel soaked corn....we caught a huge buck this week. He hurt the tip of his jaw where his bottom teeth are. I hope he makes it.

Brett

 

[Gus]

Hang some burlap material on the door. We had been seeing deer tracks in our traps and I was told to do this. Since we hung the burlap we stopped seeing deer tracks in the traps, but still catch hogs.

We hung a piece the whole width of the doors and to about 6 inches off the ground. We didn't know if it would work or not, but so far so good. No more deer tracks and still catching hogs.

 

[baddison]

Thanks Gus!

We'll give it a try.

 

[bigtusker]

Don't they croak when they eat the diesel? Or is that the purpose, just to kill them?

 

[baddison]

bigtusker,

We haven't had any die that we could find yet...

. What amazes me is that a very few eat it. You would think a deer wouldn't touch it.

 

[GruntHunter]

The diesel on the corn is to keep the raccoons from eating it. The pigs will still eat it though. Interesting about the deer though. I wouldn't have thought they would have touched it. You would think the meat wouldn't be fot to eat but I hear it doesn't bother it. Can anyone verify that? I'd sure like to get rid of my raccoon cage from around my feeder. It hinders the spread of the corn.

 

[HardCoreHunter]

Checked my traps today. Looks like I had a bear, notice I said had. The bear ripped the side open and got out. To be honest I am glad he got out.

 

[Hoggin Hank]

Originally posted by Gus@Jan 11 2004, 05:17 PM
Hang some burlap material on the door.  We had been seeing deer tracks in our traps and I was told to do this.  Since we hung the burlap we stopped seeing deer tracks in the traps, but still catch hogs.

We hung a piece the whole width of the doors and to about 6 inches off the ground.  We didn't know if it would work or not, but so far so good.  No more deer tracks and still catching hogs.

That is what I would do. I have only had to do this on one ranch because all of my traps were 4' tall and the deer would go into them all the time and it worked wonders. I since changed to 3' tall traps and have seemed to keep a lot more deer out. Those were all Guillotine Style doors on those 4' traps so there was a pretty BIG opening for them to go through. With a push-up-door you can either set it OPEN with a trip wire and trigger or just leave it set CLOSED and the hogs will root it up and go in..Good luck. Oh and the diesel will help detour the deer pretty good. I use it on EVERY trap I set...

Here is a pic of a push-up-door trap. The door is 2' x 3' and hindges from the top.