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[Lrodshy]

I agree 100% with all posts about not paying to help landowners with THEIR problems,
I made contact with old HS friend at 'classmate.inc" and found out he had a ranch near cedar creek lake with hogs ion it, so I asked if I could set up my trap door with cattle panals on it it, said 'no problem, offered to share 100% 50/50 with him, said no way, don't eat wild hogs, catch all you want to eat, so we caught some four hogs  for for me and three for his cusin when  I  was not able to retreive the last hogs before he sold his property
so that is my preposition:
1. find some owner who has  them;
2. make contact at nutrual place;
2. offer to share them;if he is willing, maybe for his friends or whatever if he doesn't want any;
3. offer him a meal at his choice of resturant, if we are retried, can't be so much to    do for something we love;
4. offer to take him along for the ride to let him feel comfotable or let him shoot them from your ranch buggy
maybe even set up an add in local, small town newspaper, even a church bulliten
Can't hurt, and worth a try.
I am currently looking for such a place, may have to buy some land. Am currently having a ranch buggy converted for such use from a burned out v'6 Mustang

Do any of us have some money to buy/least some property?


Lrodshy

[Dadfsr]

Yeah finding some private land in areas that are really having a lot of damage from feral hogs is really the way to go.  I've had some luck with that in SC when we are vacationing there but finding places is a multiyear process since hogs do move around and occasionally landowners get totally disgusted with the hogs and have them trapped or dogged out.

However the most difficult places to hunt are areas that have just a few hogs on them and the landowners don't realize that leaving them go will eventually cause a bunch of problems.  Indiana has hogs in the southern part of the state but the property owners are real secretive about it and are not very likely to let "outsiders" in to hunt them.  Unfortunately our state is not doing much, outside of the the paid animal control people, to try to get rid of them either.   It's literally taken me almost a decade to finally find someone in S. Indiana that would let me hunt what few hogs he has occasionally running through.  I've been down there three time in the last few months but so far have only seen where the hogs HAVE been and not where they are.  Hoping to set up some bait stations to pull them in and hold them in the next couple of weeks though.

Anyone else have any places in S. IN or S. IL to hunt hogs that wouldn't mind letting someone like me take a shot at them I sure wouldn't mind an email!!!

[Lrodshy]

Dadfsr, on 26 January 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

Yeah finding some private land in areas that are really having a lot of damage from feral hogs is really the way to go.  I've had some luck with that in SC when we are vacationing there but finding places is a multiyear process since hogs do move around and occasionally landowners get totally disgusted with the hogs and have them trapped or dogged out.

However the most difficult places to hunt are areas that have just a few hogs on them and the landowners don't realize that leaving them go will eventually cause a bunch of problems.  Indiana has hogs in the southern part of the state but the property owners are real secretive about it and are not very likely to let "outsiders" in to hunt them.  Unfortunately our state is not doing much, outside of the the paid animal control people, to try to get rid of them either.   It's literally taken me almost a decade to finally find someone in S. Indiana that would let me hunt what few hogs he has occasionally running through.  I've been down there three time in the last few months but so far have only seen where the hogs HAVE been and not where they are.  Hoping to set up some bait stations to pull them in and hold them in the next couple of weeks though.

Anyone else have any places in S. IN or S. IL to hunt hogs that wouldn't mind letting someone like me take a shot at them I sure wouldn't mind an email!!!

[Lrodshy]

when I was younger and full of it, I wanted to hunt then on hoof, but, now at 70 years of age, am content to trap them and shoot them in there, just for eating, too old and fat to run after them with dogs, after all not much difference either way either they get bayed by fence of dogs, and we sneak up to shoot them, always chance of hogs hurting one of digs and trapping them in a pen and walking up to shoot them , no chance of hogs hurting our precious dogs, so go for it

[Dadfsr]

I'm by no means young and full of it!!!!....mostly just full of it    Looking at going past the mid-50 mark this year but probably look forward more to going after hogs than almost anything else when I'm hunting.

Edited by Dadfsr, 27 January 2012 - 07:46 AM.

[Tombob]

A buddy just sent me an apparently legit story about a kid taking a 1051 lb'er.

[Lrodshy]

Dadfsr, on 27 January 2012 - 07:23 AM, said:

I'm by no means young and full of it!!!!....mostly just full of it    Looking at going past the mid-50 mark this year but probably look forward more to going after hogs than almost anything else when I'm hunting.

[Lrodshy]

I did 'fair' in iq tests, not sure I was 'officer' material, but not really an idiot!

so I feel fairly confident when I asessed myself as too old and fat  old  to actually run after ferals with dogs, so 'am ok with luring hogs to a baited coral with trap doors for easy and safe shooting for the frezer! had to buy a bigger one
trap doors are so eazy to make, bought a set of them to use as model and copied them for other traps for other then just one ranch, since I really enjoy fusing metal together and creating something practical, have made another set-up and improved the doors!
GOing to visit some old falmily friends this weekend to se if we can work out an agreement to setup one of my trapping corrall
I wish you and all others in our situation good luck

tnx 4 reply, Leo Roderick Guajardo11

[Lrodshy]

Tombob, on 27 January 2012 - 07:57 AM, said:

A buddy just sent me an apparently legit story about a kid taking a 1051 lb'er.

[Dadfsr]

Lrodshy-I've never been to the great state of Texas to hunt but a buddy of mine was trying to talk me into going down turkey hunting last year...if he can talk me into it sometime (which means I have the $$$!!) I'll have to look you up!

[Lrodshy]

yes! I have also read about these stories, too but after reading father, it turns out that it was a farm raised pet and tuned loose! Think about it, no way wild hog could ever survive  if really like that! A wolf or bobcat would easily tear into soft skin and wait till it died to eat it.
preditors did not evolve to such status by being dumb  

tns 4 reply, Leo Roderick Guajardo, 11

[Tombob]

Lrodshy, on 27 January 2012 - 08:27 AM, said:

preditors did not evolve to such status by being dumb  

tns 4 reply, Leo Roderick Guajardo, 11

No....but guys that post on hunting forums did...

You are right- I checked this out afterwards. From now on...unless I was there...I'll never mention another "monster" anything having been killed.

[Lrodshy]

Hope I didn't offend any with my prompting us to get active with feral hog site!
so sad to inform all that I am homebound, so wish you able and free guys get going

My mother is 93, blind, deaf, wheelchair bound and only sister will NOT help me with her at all, too busy and doesn't reaaly give a feces about mom or me, so untill Dr. forces me to put her in a home, shall depend 100% on lady friend for any short free time. like few hours only !But!...

don't let my situation stop you guys, get together with a meet, then decide how to make ourselvesinto a hog clearing business and make landowners to pay us for getting rid of their feral hogs! I can loan my steel trapping doors until

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Lrodshy