BYE--BYE HOGS

Hippockets............Traps work good this time of year, and with deer feeders getting switched off in the masses as we speak, it will just get better till spring. But thats not always the case. You give me a river bottom during the warm season with acres and acres of standing corn, wheat, milo, or what ever crop, and you can bring in traps by the ship load being run by the best trapper around and he will not be able to compete in the ammount of hogs removed with a man that had just a handfull of average dogs. Why? Because a hog is not gonna go into a trap to eat some dried up corn that sat in a grain bin for 6 months, when he is standing in a fielld full of jucy corn of the cob and allready has a belly full. I'll let some one else spend thier gas driving out to put the trap up, then back again to check a few times and back again to get the hogs. On the other hand, take a property thats too small in size or too close to civilization to run dogs on and let the hogs get hungry like this time of year. Then trapping is the best bet. However, dogs are and will remain the most consistant, sucessfull, and time effecient method of removing hogs if it is feasable to do so on the property. I hope everyone sells thier dogs and buys traps. Then there would be less pressure on me to keep my spots from all these newcomers. County trappers have been wasting money with those helicopters for the past 15 years or more. I seen first hand the lack of sucess with that method and with the price of fuel as high as it is forget about that being a threat to hog numbers. Buy the way, the county trapper I know took his counts of hogs killed from the ammount of time he pulled the trigger not the ammount of hogs that actually died.

Waylon