the pig apocolypse is drawing near.

[603Country]

I had heard that if you trapped a hog and he/she got away, they'd never go in the trap again. That may be true to some degree, but I had a polka dotted sow that I caught once, and she got away. That was when she was small and sneaked through a hole in the fence. But I did catch her again, and for the last time, about 4 months ago. As for other things to consider, I have a small portable trap on the back of my place and couldn't catch a thing in it until I took a shovel and put a lot of fresh dirt in the bottom of it. For some reason, and I think it's that the dirt covered the hard metal wire on the bottom of the trap, I started catching them again. But...now I'm in a lull again, but so are all the guys around me. Now that it's Spring, maybe the hogs won't leave their traditional food for corn, even smelly stinky corn. And I sure agree with you that they are smart. I put a game camera on the entrance to one of my traps to see what was happening. Corn outside was gone. Corn inside was untouched. What I found was that a big male would eat all the corn outside the trap, and he'd even stick his head in the entrance, but he would not go inside. Very interesting. I never did catch him.

 

[ripnbst]

AR type rifles are king on hogs. Empty mags into the herds.

 

[rickyrick]

The problem is....one shot, followed by total mayhem for a minute...

My pigs hide amongst the bedded down cows....so its takes about a minute after the gun light comes on to make sure the shot is clear. But, amazingly they keep coming back, they shift show-time somewhat.

 

[603Country]

I'm with Rickyrick...shoot the first hog and things get crazy for a while. I can't remember a time that a semi-auto (or even a full auto) would have gotten me more pigs than that one bolt action shot, unless you got lucky with spraying ammo. And yes, they do come back again. Supposed to be so smart, but sometimes they do come back into the beaten zone again, if you wait long enough. What I need is a claymore, if I can just remember which direction to point it....I think the directional arrows are on the mine, aren't they? Gotta go to the ArmyNavy surplus store.

 

[M.O.A.]

hogs are smart but the want of easy food is stronger than the fear of the big bang loud noise that they heard when they lost there last member of there pack

 

[Double Naught Spy]

The first two boars I killed were a pair that showed up together on the game cams. Killed the first one and two weeks later killed the second one at the same feeder.

In the few cases here in Iowa the person got hurt isnt able to sue the landowner. Maybe your state law is similiar? Had a few last season too.

This isn't exactly correct, markj. Iowa may provide limited protections, but the landowner certainly may be encumbered with liability and it may be of the type that could wipe out the landowner...

Iowa statute section 461C.1 encourages private landowners in Iowa to make their land and water available to the public for recreation. The law also controls urban deer populations by providing liability limitation for persons who agree to let members of the public onto their land for this purpose. Controlled deer hunts are a typical means of urban deer control, and this statute provides private landowners a legal safety net, protecting them from being sued for accidental injuries that might occur on their land when open to these types of public uses. The statute does not protect landowners for "willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity," or if the landowner charges members of the public for access to his land.

Read more: Statutes Regarding Land Use in Iowa | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_7378053_statutes-regarding-land-use-iowa.html#ixzz1HmlFmj7h

So a hunter falls in an unmarked ravine and is injured. If he was not warned of the dangerous condition, guess who can be liable?

Notice that the coverage only includes incidents on the landowner's land and doesn't protect them from several things on their land. Moreover, if one of those participants shoots somebody on a neighboring property, the landowner isn't protected.

After my first attempt at a hog, I prefer to take them from angles and directions where I have known backstops, especially down in ravines or at my water hole. Pulled this off the cam last night...