Posted: 11/12/2011 6:48:26 PM EDT
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What's up with all the Hog Hunting shows all of a sudden???
Did people just realize that you can make a show with bunch of hillbilly's and hot/butter face girls?? If anything I believe that this is going to cause more trouble of real hog hunters, why? People are all over are going to start charging a crazy amount and some people will just let them run wild. Some people will protect them and the cycle continues again |
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What's up with all the Hog Hunting shows all of a sudden??? Did people just realize that you can make a show with bunch of hillbilly's and hot/butter face girls?? If anything I believe that this is going to cause more trouble of real hog hunters, why? People are all over are going to start charging a crazy amount and some people will just let them run wild. Some people will protect them and the cycle continues again  tis a good queston...
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Well from what I know and see which aint much, hogs are fast athletic and mean. Its the only animal I can think of outside of a predator that will go after your asss.
Its like hand to hand combat sometimes, with dogs in armor, throats getting slit by guys with Bowies, helicopter shoots, ARs and other battle rifles, mini guns for Freds sake...Its a reality show with action and guns and blood, all in the name of habitat preservation and sport. The greens gotta love it, and dopes like me are catching on... Everybody loves a car wreck right? |
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Are there revenue opportunities? Not just guiding/ offering hunts, or pest control services. But what about classes for proper hunting and safety techniques, or trapping and trap manufacturing and sales? Just thinking out loud...seems like an opportunity to make lemonade...
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| Most of the country doesn't have wild hogs, and a lot of hunters don't have the opportunity to hunt wild hogs without spending big bucks on travel + the hunt, etc. So hog hunting in some ways like hunting in Alaska, something that a lot of guys would like to do, but relatively few will be able to. |
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Are there revenue opportunities? Not just guiding/ offering hunts, or pest control services. But what about classes for proper hunting and safety techniques, or trapping and trap manufacturing and sales? Just thinking out loud...seems like an opportunity to make lemonade... hmmm bringing home the bacon.... 
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Are there revenue opportunities? Not just guiding/ offering hunts, or pest control services. But what about classes for proper hunting and safety techniques, or trapping and trap manufacturing and sales? Just thinking out loud...seems like an opportunity to make lemonade... Of course there are. I don't know how many people would take hog hunting classes and how much money there is to be made there but I suppose it could make something. We build and sell traps but the issue there is that it mostly has to be something local. You can't really ship a 250lb trap and still be able to sell it for a reasonable amount. We've had people from all over Texas drive up here to pick up traps though. We once had a guy drive all the way from Nashville, Tennessee to pick up a trap from us. We don't have a huge air conditioned shop though so we mostly only build traps in the late spring and early fall because the rest of the time it's either too damn hot or we're busy hunting. 
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Ponyboy, I'm building my hog trap as we speak. I haven't decided on whether to build it a rooting door (or doors) or with a swing door. Thoughts on each? Thanks, We've experimented with all types of doors and settled on the side swinging doors. You want your door to be open initially and then close when the hog or hogs are already inside. Lots of hogs won't push open a trap door to go inside, though they're more likely too once there are already hogs in there. You can setup a trip line to keep the door open on either a root door or a side swinging door so this isn't a pro or a con for either, just some information I wanted to start off with. To be as effective as possible the door needs to be as wide and as tall as you can make it. This will make the hogs more comfortable and willing to enter the trap because they won't feel like they're getting trapped. If you make a root door too wide then it's possible for it to be wide enough for hogs to escape around the sides of another hog coming in. On a side swinging door the door will only open up wide enough for the next hog to come in and it will minimize escapes. We also found that hogs are more likely to push open a closed side swinging door than a closed root door. Some will come right up to the door an stop and that happens with both types but it seems to happen more often with the root doors. Once a hog pushes open a side swinging door then it's pretty much a guarantee that they're going to go the rest of the way in and get trapped. With a root door it's not as much of a guarantee that they won't back out before they get all of the way in. I think it's because all of the weight of the door is on their back but that's just a guess on my part. Lastly, setting the trip line for a side swinging door is simple, simple, simple and the copper wire and quick link is the most effective trip we've ever used. We used super complicated trips, more rudimentary trips and everything in between and the wire and quick link works great, we virtually eliminated false triggers and it's simple, cheap and takes a couple of minutes to put together. Using it on a root door would be more complicated just because of the way we set it up. So, my vote is for a side swinging door. I think the only way you could do better is to build a set of saloon doors but it gets more complicated and costly. |
| Here's an entire section on hog trapping. There you'll find not just the trip but the whole trap and how to build it. Trapping Wild Hogs |