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    Pig Trap Lessons

    A few things I’ve learned in my very limited experience of pig trapping.

    You cannot use too many TPosts.
    Weak little welded wire fence does nothing against a bowling ball size pig going berserk.
    Cattle panels can be broken when unsupported letting 13 pigs escape.
    Use heavy wire when connecting panels to TPosts.
    Double the wire ties you think you need.
    Pigs can launch themselves 4’ high at a dead run.
    Use double the TPosts you think you need.
    Remove the safety rope when setting the Guillotine trap.
    A 4’x4’x.25” steel plate sliding between angle iron works well as a guillotine door.
    An engineered trip mechanism works better than stick and string.
    Don’t soak corn with diesel in a bucket previously used to slow water trees. It will ruin your day when left in the truck bed.
    Diesel soaked corn has worked very well.
    .22 to the ear hole works well for dispatch.
    Use more TPosts and more wire ties.

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      #3
      Trapped pigs will beat the tar out of your trap. Build accordingly.

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        #4
        Spent grain from a brewery is a good, smelly, free attraction bait.

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          #5
          Looks like bacon to me

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            #6
            Approach the trap quietly with gun ready when checking it. There will often be pigs hanging around outside the trap.

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              #7
              Good advice all around. How many pigs are you catching at one time?


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                #8
                Originally posted by MUZZYSLINGR View Post
                Good advice all around. How many pigs are you catching at one time?


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                My first bait and trigger was 2 months ago and I got 9. Last night trapped 13 that escaped. I use a cell camera to monitor so I know how many are in the trap and if the door has dropped.

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                  #9
                  Don’t assume your gate has sprung just because you see pigs in the trap. I learned that last year just about three seconds after my JRT launched himself off my Ranger and into the middle of two boar hogs. They wouldn’t exit the trap with a big fat guy hollering and cussing his dog while standing in the doorway, one of them tripped the trigger, and after about 5 or 6 minutes of pig/dog rodeo and poor marksmanship on said fat guy’s part, they finally ran out of steam (blood) and laid down. I only have one regret..........no video !

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Drycreek3189 View Post
                    Don’t assume your gate has sprung just because you see pigs in the trap. I learned that last year just about three seconds after my JRT launched himself off my Ranger and into the middle of two boar hogs. They wouldn’t exit the trap with a big fat guy hollering and cussing his dog while standing in the doorway, one of them tripped the trigger, and after about 5 or 6 minutes of pig/dog rodeo and poor marksmanship on said fat guy’s part, they finally ran out of steam (blood) and laid down. I only have one regret..........no video !
                    I bet that was a hell of a 5 min circus right there..........

                    OP, I like your trip mechanism. Hadnt ever seen one like that.

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                      #11
                      Next lesson....the 13 pigs that escaped will probably never go in a trap again. The only way to get them now is to shoot an occasional one in daylight, go thermal, or use dogs. They will also teach their offspring to not go into traps.

                      -john

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                        #12
                        Escaped pigs almost always come back as long as they feel like they can escape again.

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                          #13
                          What is your corn to diesel ratio?

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                            #14
                            That light wire you have on the inside of the pen won't do much, I would double up on the hog panels, personally.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by TP3 View Post
                              Escaped pigs almost always come back as long as they feel like they can escape again.
                              Not around here. They get trap smart real quick.

                              -john

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