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It’s probably better that it was you than me because I would’ve engaged him in the debate. Ask him what the 3 concerns of ANY wild animals are? Answer: Food, water, and safety Question 2 would be how many hogs is your trapper catching at a time, how regular, and what is the average size of the hogs being caught? The how many is subjective to how many there are in the group to potentially be trapped and the type of trap being used. He might trap a few a day for a few days and then it’s likely over until all those bigger hogs that watched the dumb smaller ones get trapped have another litter, and he will catch fewer of the next litter because the sow will school the coachable pigs. Most of the trapped hogs will be big shoats and smaller sows, especially if the hogs have ever been exposed to traps before. Maybe he’s never had traps on his place before but likely someone in close proximity has. What is used to get the hogs to go in the trap? Food and when the dumb hogs go in and get trapped, the smart ones hang around and cause damage because their pigs are in the traps. Once the dumb ones are all caught, the smart ones keep coming to eat what food they can without jeopardizing being caught. So essentially you are just continuing to invite them. You aren’t giving them a reason to go elsewhere. Down here in our area we have a different dynamic than the oldman does where he’s at. We caught two sows one day that both weighed 170-180 each and both were close to pigging. Out of curiosity we cut them open to see how many pigs they were carrying. They had 12 a piece/24 total in them. Now how many would’ve survived out of those I don’t know, but it isn’t uncommon at all to bay 4-5 sows and them have 25-30 pigs between them. We have consistent groups of 50 or more hogs if you count grown hogs and pigs or shoats. Now what causes those litters to get smaller and what causes fewer sows to have pigs? Stress does and the only two stressors a wild hog has is Mother Nature and humans for the most part. We have watched litters go from every sow having multiple pigs to only one or two sows having 2-3 pigs during the droughts. Those litters also get smaller when they are getting pressured in every way possible by humans. That pressure takes its toll. The spreading them is absolutely bs too. There are too many cameras that prove that. I have seen numerous times that we’ve hit a place and catch multiple hogs in a day and that very evening or night the same group would be back on camera at a feeder or water hole again. They may scatter while we are hunting, but when we leave they regroup. They don’t just take off running every direction and put down roots wherever they run out of gas. I talked to a guy about a month ago. We were hunting and he was getting hogs out of a trap on the same property. We were in there about a week prior to that. He told me that he trapped 34 or 3500 head of hogs in 2025. That sounds like a lot but he has numerous traps and will trap anywhere within 50-60 miles of home, providing the land owner lets him know when there are hogs in the trap. That trapper you are speaking of is full of it and I would’ve told the land owner to not let people prey on his lack of wild hog knowledge. It should be insulting for people to think they can just blow smoke and manipulate you. I’d have told him that his trapper has an uneducated theory and that I have definitive proof and he was welcome to go with me anytime to see it first hand.

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