Fursniper
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I'm from Arizona and a friend of mine here told me that they had relatives in Oklahoma that occasionally have problems with feral hogs on their property. I was planning a trip to Arkansas to look at hunting properties to buy. So I arranged to meet their relatives on my way to Arkansas.
I stopped by their 500 acre ranch in Oklahoma to meet them and see what I was getting into. They had some feral hogs there recently, but the hogs appeared to have left the ranch when I arrived. They had a couple of hog traps. I got some corn for bait and asked if they could put some bait out by the traps and I would return in a week to try and get some.
I left the ranch and went to Arkansas.
I returned to Oklahoma a week later and no hogs had showed up. So the next day I start driving back to Arizona. I drive for 10 hours, almost make it to NM, and spend the night at a rest area on the interstate in my travel trailer. In the morning, I get sent this picture of 7 hogs caught in 1 trap. NOOOOOO! As soon as I leave, the hogs come back. First thoughts were its too far to turn around. A couple cups of coffee later and I was on my way back to Oklahoma. I made a 20 hour U-turn to get these hogs!
Harvested the meat, put it on ice, and made sausage the next day. I did not use the meat from the adult boar, their meat is too strong, and that guy went to the scavengers. My travel trailer is set up to double as a mobile meat processing facility. A board is placed over the motorcycle carrier. The external shower on the back provides hot and cold running water.
I spent a week there trying to hunt hogs at night by calling them in with a Foxpro using juvenile hog in distress sounds. No luck. Was only able to get hogs that were caught in a trap.
Ended up with 15 chub bags full of sausage. Gave some away to the landowner as a thanks for letting me hunt hogs there and also gave some to the folks in Arizona for putting me in touch with their relatives in Oklahoma.
This bald eagle showed up to eat the carrion dumped in the clearing.
I stopped by their 500 acre ranch in Oklahoma to meet them and see what I was getting into. They had some feral hogs there recently, but the hogs appeared to have left the ranch when I arrived. They had a couple of hog traps. I got some corn for bait and asked if they could put some bait out by the traps and I would return in a week to try and get some.
I left the ranch and went to Arkansas.
I returned to Oklahoma a week later and no hogs had showed up. So the next day I start driving back to Arizona. I drive for 10 hours, almost make it to NM, and spend the night at a rest area on the interstate in my travel trailer. In the morning, I get sent this picture of 7 hogs caught in 1 trap. NOOOOOO! As soon as I leave, the hogs come back. First thoughts were its too far to turn around. A couple cups of coffee later and I was on my way back to Oklahoma. I made a 20 hour U-turn to get these hogs!
Harvested the meat, put it on ice, and made sausage the next day. I did not use the meat from the adult boar, their meat is too strong, and that guy went to the scavengers. My travel trailer is set up to double as a mobile meat processing facility. A board is placed over the motorcycle carrier. The external shower on the back provides hot and cold running water.
I spent a week there trying to hunt hogs at night by calling them in with a Foxpro using juvenile hog in distress sounds. No luck. Was only able to get hogs that were caught in a trap.
Ended up with 15 chub bags full of sausage. Gave some away to the landowner as a thanks for letting me hunt hogs there and also gave some to the folks in Arizona for putting me in touch with their relatives in Oklahoma.
This bald eagle showed up to eat the carrion dumped in the clearing.
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