Just a couple questions for the people out there routinely catchIng or that have caught barr's!
1.) what % of barr hogs that you catch are actually hogs you cut yourself?
2.) how are they usually laying... By themselves, with sows, with boar hogs, other barr's???
3.) do you usually have longer races bc they've been caught before or short ones cuz they're fat and outta shape??
4.) what's everyone ear mark??
5.) (ole timers) does anyone know why people bob their tails?? Is it strictly for identifying it as a barr(kinda frustrating to catch a 300lb hog w/ 3" stub for a tail)
6.)what % of boar hogs that you cut survive to become barrs??
7.) post any interesting pictures or stories of your past barr hogs....
1.) very low %. The places I have been hunting regularly here lately dont have many barrs and I have only recently changed out a few boars myself
2.) I find them with groups of sows and smaller boars but have found 2 together on a few occasions.
3.) depends on the barr. No pattern noticed.
4.) dont have a mark myself
5.) I cut tails for deer feeder identification. Helps the deer hunters identify the barrs as the better eatn ones.
6.) All that I know of. You gotta do it right and fast or their survival % drops dramatically. No different than show hogs. Get it done and let em go ASAP.
7.) No dramatic stories other than releasing them after changing em out. They usually aint real happy about it. lol I will say that they seem to get smarter or maybe think their way out of a situation a little better than the average hog. Maybe its because the lack of a pair of nuts they tend to think entirely with their big head.
