Your opinion for snares.

An effective hog snare is also a potential deer catcher, so just be aware of that and check your state regs regarding snare restrictions.

If legal, a snare made of 3/32" to 1/8" 7x7 cable with cam locks would be a good choice.
 
Trooper, here in the Texas panhandle we have quite a problem with pigs. I have tried to snare pigs and had little success. To really do damage to their population, traps are a far more effective method. I built a trap gate set it up with stock panels and bull wire and caught fourteen in a night. In the same trap.
 
grafton said:
Right. Modern snare cable has made the spring pole obsolete. The spring pole does have its place, especially with weaker snare materials, unfortunately they are illegal to use here.

I have even had a few coons chew through cable, but only a very few.
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Spring poles are illegal here, as well, but so are modern snare cables.

Doc
 
ranchmanben said:
Trooper, here in the Texas panhandle we have quite a problem with pigs. I have tried to snare pigs and had little success. To really do damage to their population, traps are a far more effective method. I built a trap gate set it up with stock panels and bull wire and caught fourteen in a night. In the same trap.
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A cattle station I worked on in western nsw had a comerical pigger come to reduce the numbers on the property , he set up a circle of weldmesh , star pickets to hold it in place and upright , the ends of the mesh tho he just left both against each other but so they pointed inside the circle , a pig could easy push in , but the mesh naturally sprung back together and prevented them pushing out

he shot a couple rabbits and tossed inside the trap for bait , cleaned roughly 15 pigs out of each trap , morning and evening , for 4 days . he set up a fair few traps too . His truck was always loaded right down when we saw him leaving .
 
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