Burk Cornelius said:
I figured you could shoot more of them than you trap? Not true?
Hogs by nature are an animal that is an opportunistic feeder and is not territorial. They eat, move along, eat, and keep wandering.
Exactly the opposite of a deer that is very territorial and may spend its entire life in 1 square mile or so depending on the terrain.
Trapping with a preferred food source will take out the entire sounder of pigs. They can breed up to 4 times a year in warmer climates and the litters are large.
Like has been posted, and I saw at the Backwoods Show in OKC today there are traps that have video feeds, and remote capabilities.
Shooting them from a helicopter is the second best. The Oklahoma Dept of Wildlife uses this method a lot to control the numbers.
On Kaw lake , one day they killed 171, and a few months later killed almost that many.
Pigs hang out in the most dense cover available during the day and feed mostly at night, although if there is a feeder throwing corn in the area they will start coming to it in the day time.
In Oklahoma, no hunting license is required and there no limit. They are the only animal in Ok that is allowed to be shot with 00 buck.
