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<blockquote data-quote="r00s7a" data-source="post: 1488397" data-attributes="member: 9675"><p>I'll give you my opinion on it, not saying it is correct by any means, but just what I have experienced.</p><p></p><p>Suppose you spot pigs in a pasture, coming out every night, same place, same time. You go in there and shoot them up for a night, maybe two, what generally happens? The pigs do not return. They have felt that human pressure. So you got two nights hunting out of it, killed two or three pigs, now they have moved off to the neighboring property. Next property, pretty much same story. Two or three pigs are killed, the pressure is felt and they move on... and eventually they return to the original property. That might be a week, might be a month, but all they are doing is shuffling around with no significant decrease in their numbers. </p><p></p><p>Take the same scenario as above and this time, introduce a trap instead of a gun. With the right trap, patience, skill and LUCK, you can take out the whole sounder in one night. Maybe you don't get them all the first night, so you rebait and wait for them the next night... and the next. This whole time they find a continuous food source there every night with no human pressure. So the numbers that you can take before they move off, I believe, is considerably more than what you can do slinging lead at them.</p><p></p><p>Why would that matter? In respect to this particular thread, some guys were trying to get access to pigs while helping the land owner at the same time. From a land owner's perspective, the more hogs you take, the more you are helping me out. It isn't a tremendous help for someone to come in shooting at them, pigs scatter only return a few days/weeks later. You come in there and trap that whole sounder and cart them past the rancher's house on the way out the gate, by God you just made a friend. You might just get your own key to the gate out of it. It happens. <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Like I said, this is just my opinion. Pigs (and trappers) do stupid, random things. There is no defined set of rules as to what works best, all the time. If you're in an area that has pigs, you are probably never going to completely eradicate them. But in my experience, trapping gets bigger numbers, and prolongs the amount of time until the pigs come back... cause they will come back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="r00s7a, post: 1488397, member: 9675"] I'll give you my opinion on it, not saying it is correct by any means, but just what I have experienced. Suppose you spot pigs in a pasture, coming out every night, same place, same time. You go in there and shoot them up for a night, maybe two, what generally happens? The pigs do not return. They have felt that human pressure. So you got two nights hunting out of it, killed two or three pigs, now they have moved off to the neighboring property. Next property, pretty much same story. Two or three pigs are killed, the pressure is felt and they move on... and eventually they return to the original property. That might be a week, might be a month, but all they are doing is shuffling around with no significant decrease in their numbers. Take the same scenario as above and this time, introduce a trap instead of a gun. With the right trap, patience, skill and LUCK, you can take out the whole sounder in one night. Maybe you don't get them all the first night, so you rebait and wait for them the next night... and the next. This whole time they find a continuous food source there every night with no human pressure. So the numbers that you can take before they move off, I believe, is considerably more than what you can do slinging lead at them. Why would that matter? In respect to this particular thread, some guys were trying to get access to pigs while helping the land owner at the same time. From a land owner's perspective, the more hogs you take, the more you are helping me out. It isn't a tremendous help for someone to come in shooting at them, pigs scatter only return a few days/weeks later. You come in there and trap that whole sounder and cart them past the rancher's house on the way out the gate, by God you just made a friend. You might just get your own key to the gate out of it. It happens. :) Like I said, this is just my opinion. Pigs (and trappers) do stupid, random things. There is no defined set of rules as to what works best, all the time. If you're in an area that has pigs, you are probably never going to completely eradicate them. But in my experience, trapping gets bigger numbers, and prolongs the amount of time until the pigs come back... cause they will come back. [/QUOTE]
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