Rooting up my hay pasture no more

[WalkerRanch 3-2]

Piggly Wiggly has been tearing up the hay fields so badly our hay guy won't cut some fields. We have trapped the hogs, used to dog some and my son killed over 90 this last year. A group of 9 were browsing along one morning last week so I used a Thompson Contender .223 on a sow on my way to work. My 95 year old dad wanted me to bring her to house for processing.
New poster here been enjoying reading and learning.

 

[farmerjan]

Where are you located? Please put your general area in your avatar....
Hogs running loose like that are not seen around here, but they are working their way up into the southwestern part of Va....I can not imagine having to deal with them.
Our biggest problem is ground hogs digging holes and dropping tractor tires in them... broke a front spindle on one tractor 2 years in a row... different places in the field....and we have rock.... ledges and stuff that seems to "grow" up into the field every year.... and then sometimes we get some sinkholes that just appear....

Good for you getting that big sow.... gets one breeder out of the gene pool....

 

[Brute 23]

Good shot. Welcome

 

[skyhightree1]

Where are you located? Please put your general area in your avatar....
Hogs running loose like that are not seen around here, but they are working their way up into the southwestern part of Va....I can not imagine having to deal with them.
Our biggest problem is ground hogs digging holes and dropping tractor tires in them... broke a front spindle on one tractor 2 years in a row... different places in the field....and we have rock.... ledges and stuff that seems to "grow" up into the field every year.... and then sometimes we get some sinkholes that just appear....

Good for you getting that big sow.... gets one breeder out of the gene pool....

Jan there's plenty of hogs in VA beach and ponies in sandbridge

 

[WalkerRanch 3-2]

Where are you located? Please put your general area in your avatar....
Hogs running loose like that are not seen around here, but they are working their way up into the southwestern part of Va....I can not imagine having to deal with them.
Our biggest problem is ground hogs digging holes and dropping tractor tires in them... broke a front spindle on one tractor 2 years in a row... different places in the field....and we have rock.... ledges and stuff that seems to "grow" up into the field every year.... and then sometimes we get some sinkholes that just appear....

Good for you getting that big sow.... gets one breeder out of the gene pool....

I am in SE OK. Rocks, tiny mountains, lots of poisonous snakes. Beautiful scenery. Middle of Choctaw Nation.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Piggly Wiggly has been tearing up the hay fields so badly our hay guy won't cut some fields. We have trapped the hogs, used to dog some and my son killed over 90 this last year. A group of 9 were browsing along one morning last week so I used a Thompson Contender .223 on a sow on my way to work. My 95 year old dad wanted me to bring her to house for processing.
New poster here been enjoying reading and learning.

You got one, there are thousands more coming.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I am in SE OK. Rocks, tiny mountains, lots of poisonous snakes. Beautiful scenery. Middle of Choctaw Nation.

Anywhere near Nale Rd?

 

[bird dog]

Yep, hogs are like mesquite trees. You can get rid of most of them but you are going to have yearly maintenance type work for the rest of your life.

 

[MurraysMutts]

You got one, there are thousands more coming.

Good excuse to make more ammo!

 

[farmerjan]

Jan there's plenty of hogs in VA beach and ponies in sandbridge

Are we talking 4 legged porcine type hogs????

 

[skyhightree1]

Are we talking 4 legged porcine type hogs????

Na real hogs just like he shot

 

[Ky hills]

I am in SE OK. Rocks, tiny mountains, lots of poisonous snakes. Beautiful scenery. Middle of Choctaw Nation.

Welcome to the board. My wife is from SE OK as well.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Good excuse to make more ammo!

Ammo is useless until they are in the trap. You can't put a dent into them hunting.

 

[tex452]

I hog fenced my hay meadows and so far so good. If I wouldn't have it would of been a disaster
We are going to fence off another 40 acres this winter. We will have to plow and drag

 

[WalkerRanch 3-2]

Anywhere near Nale Rd?

South of McAlester.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

South of McAlester.

Gotcha, my son in law has some land off Nale Rd. I've been there a couple of times.

 

[Shoestring]

Ammo is useless until they are in the trap. You can't put a dent into them. still way more fun than plinking at targets.

 

[Shoestring]

still way more fun than plinking at targets. And a great way to scare the hell out of future S. In. Laws

Welcome to the board. My wife is from SE OK as well.

Spent a year in '81 working at Holton's feed mill. That sucked. The town was great, the job, not so much.

 

[9082andy]

Trapped 20 ourselves in South Texas Saturday night. Makes 65 since January. Totally destroyed new 17 acre hay field.

 

[Caustic Burno]

You just educated them.
All shooting does is make them nocturnal. Shoot them here and none escape educated.
Like seeing them in the daytime there easier to trap.

Every now and then on a super smart one have to dig about a three foot hole with post hole digger fill with corn.
He will get infatuated with digging it out.
Put a SPYPOINT camera on it and you can shoot that trap wise one.