Any idea how fare a feral hogs home range would be in farm country . The hog has ditches full of water a corn field about 40 acers with plenty of safe areas in these nature area set aside when building subs all around the corn . There's much more crops just a mile north with beans and more corn . Sorry sounds like I'm asking how to catch a ground Q I'm sure but just know little about these hogs

They can range for miles if need be, usually food related. Sounds like you have plenty for them to eat so they'll be around until it's gone.

Pesky,

You will find that since Michigan has abundant food and water sources as well as cover what is good on one area of 100 acres, might be just as good right next door. Some areas hogs inhabit they are forced to water and it is limited like where I now exist. However, you hit an area of flooded bottomland and those hogs can literally go anywhere for water, which generally speaking is their number one limiting factor. Food is necessary yes, and cover, but if they don't have water things get tight in a hurry right around a water source. Out here we have used that to our advantage and folks continue to do so in the arid southwest and in other countries like Australia that have similar semi-arid lands where many of the hog populations exist.

If you get serious about feral hogs you ultimately need to know how to do everything from box trapping, to corral trapping, spot and stalk, baited hunting (if legal) and a variety of other methods. While thermal optics and scopes are lovely, unless you have a govt. credential, strapping a true thermal scope on your rifle isn't something the rest of society is able to do. Let alone the investment.

Recently myself and another individual gave some thoughts on box traps versus corral traps. Boxes are obviously more transportable, but you can catch the whole "sounder" (family group) if you set corrals in one whack.

I always married my traps with trail cameras, even the poorest quality trail cam will tell you how often they are coming to your bait, how many and how comfortable. Rod and his folks came up with some remote triggered doors which I think are slick, however you can also use your camera with a feeder on a timer and when you see every hog is in every time they come, set your door to fire and voila!

To each his own on invasives like feral hogs, but I can say having trapped them in OR/NM/TX that corrals really shine if you've got the money and time and the hogs are fairly established.

If they are being run around by hunters, all bets are off, out here often dog hunters will convince a rancher that they can get all the hogs, the result most often was 25 hogs on camera ended up 1 hog in their truck maybe 2 at the end of the night and the other 23 went up the valley for the week and returned when the pressure left.

Wife and I have a feral hog website that provides info on impacts, need to start writing about the on the ground aspects again, but haven't found the time.

Can check it out here...

http://rdferalhog.com/

Justin

I think one of the best ways to stop further incursions of feral hogs in the Midwest would be Wanted Posters with the pictures of farmers, ranchers, and so-called sportsmen that insist on introducing ferals to the upper Midwest.

True enough Paul! In some parts of the country being a "good neighbor" does have an effect, but I've seen one rancher in a valley contribute all the hogs even though nobody else benefitted. These issues are becoming more pronounced and the ability to transport a FAD (foreign animal disease) or an endemic disease to an area where it spreads to livestock or people from these invasives is getting more and more likely.

Here is information that will explain the trapping procedures with pictures, which always works better for me, hope it helps you. http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/feral-hogs/feral-pig-landowner-management.pdf

Kurt Temple