Trapped boar and sow

[XDHUNTER]

Just got back houston today.met rll sunday and check the place, would you belive it's only a mile from his house and 500 yards from where the kids are playing.its a nice place! pig heaven.its a good educational tour for me ,best placement of traps, baiting and location.no complain on my side the best thing is i gain a friend and he is texan.
Thanks RLL

XD

 

[Surfswest]

Hey RLL, if it's still possible, I would love to get ahold of your plans for the trip doors. What do you use most and what works best for you? Anyone feel free to help answer this question, need all the help and advice I can get. Thanks for all the help in advance.

Surfswest

 

[larrysogla]

Yeah, Texas is crawling with hogs. The ranch we used to hunt(2003 was the last year) was only 6 miles from the Houston city limits and the ranch(it's only a 70 acre ranch) was frontaged to the paved main road and was right next to the...................(well would you believe it???)....it was right next to the city park. And the hogs would come in herds at night. Back in 1995 when my friend first bought the place, his neighbor told him there where plenty of wild pigs in the area. My friend did not believe it until one day after lunch, he was relaxing in the front porch and he was startled by big black shapes that suddenly materialized in his overgrown hayfield. He grabbed his binoculars and to his amazement counted 30 wild pigs that were feeding in his hayfield. He borrowed a pig trap from another rancher friend and started trapping pigs and catching pigs in the trap every night. This was every night there would be a wild pig caught in the trap. He thought he had a bright idea and built a wire fence corral type trap about 5 ft. tall and the next day caught 5 wild pigs in his corral style trap. However when he tried to snare the pigs in their legs with a wire lasso, the pigs started panicking and running around the corral and suddenly one wild pig jumped the 5 ft. fence and the rest quickly followed until all the wild pigs were gone. From the Houston Hobby Airport where the Southwest Airlines flight from L.A. would land, it would take me only 30 minutes to get to his ranch gate. That is how close he was to the city of Houston. Texas, especially eastern coastal Texas is crawling with wild hogs. 'Nuff said.

 

[RLL]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Surfswest @ Apr 22 2007, 09:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Hey RLL, if it's still possible, I would love to get ahold of your plans for the trip doors.[/b]

I sent you a response thru JHO with my email. Contact me there and I can reply with an attachment.


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What do you use most and what works best for you?[/b]

Each have their advantages and disadvantages. I have used both types. Now, mMy traps have both a guillotine and a swing (continuous catch) gate. The guillotine gate is 4' from the back on a 10' long trap. The swing gate is on the front. When the guillotine gate is tripped, it falls and will allow the swing gate to close. The muddy sow in in the back portion, locked in with the guillotine gate. Additional hogs could have still entered thru the swing gate in the front section. Here is a pic of it.