Anybody else on here trap pigs?? A couple years ago I trapped hundred then they just disappeared. On Friday I noticed tracks again so I baited the trap. Corn and lime jello!
When I lived on a property with 5000 acres we had a couple of traps. We would bait them with dead sheep.
The worst part was, the guys who maintained the traps reckoned that you could not just shoot the pig inside the trap, as the other pigs would smell the blood and not go near it again. We we would have to remove a huge angry razorback boar, get it far enough away from the trap, and dispatch it with a knife (cant shoot it at that point or you will probably end up shooting one of the guys wrestling with it by accident.)
What with crawling into a rotten sheep filled trap, risking life and limb to drag out a pig, by the end that doesn't have big tusks, and then having to dispatch it, without piercing its gut and poisoning the meat.... I generally would put off checking the traps until after lunch.
Never again.
That's what supermarkets are for.
Yes sir.
The thing was, we didn't even get to make BBQ. We would get paid by the KG for the carcass and then spend the money on beer and sausages.
Bad reception today....
I hope you update this with a picture of the pig in it when you catch one.
Was that meant for me or Robert?
I hope you update this with a picture of the pig in it when you catch one.
That sounds like some good times!When I lived on a property with 5000 acres we had a couple of traps. We would bait them with dead sheep.
The worst part was, the guys who maintained the traps reckoned that you could not just shoot the pig inside the trap, as the other pigs would smell the blood and not go near it again. We we would have to remove a huge angry razorback boar, get it far enough away from the trap, and dispatch it with a knife (cant shoot it at that point or you will probably end up shooting one of the guys wrestling with it by accident.)
What with crawling into a rotten sheep filled trap, risking life and limb to drag out a pig, by the end that doesn't have big tusks, and then having to dispatch it, without piercing its gut and poisoning the meat.... I generally would put off checking the traps until after lunch.
Never again.