No hog trap yet. Been thinking about it, but we're actually worried about it being too successful. What do we do with them if we catch them? It's illegal to sell wild hogs without shot records. They fall under the same laws as domestic hogs and if your caught selling wild ones, it's a huge nightmare. We killed 6 last year, missed three and had oportunites at least two dozen other times that we didn't bother with.
We did have one hog that discovered the bird seed in our front yard. She started rubbing on our pine trees and I saw her tracks in the yard less then 25 feet from our front door.
I rigged up a motion sensor that would turn on a shop light that I hung on my bedroom window. In the middle of the night, the hog would walk past the sensor and the light would shine into my bedroom. It woke my wife up, who sure as heck woke me up!!! hahaha
It usually showed up around midnight, or just a little later.
The first time I tried the front door. Nope, scared it right off. Nothing for a few days, but then it was back. This time I tried the back door and snuck around the house. It smelled me or something, because it was gone when I got around the corner.
Third time I was ready. It took another few days, but she came back. I took the screen off our son's bedroom window and had it unlocked. Luckily it was a Friday or Saturday night. I'm not positive. The kids were exited about the hog coming back, Steph was terrified of it, and I was having doubts on wether I could kill it.
The kids were asleep when the light turned on. I woke them up, told them to be quiete and then I shot it out the bedroom window.
We were up for a couple hours after that, but nobody was tired!!!!
Eddie
