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Pig Brig?

PickettSFHunter

PickettSFHunter

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Anyone use a pig brig to trap hogs? Seems crazy to use netting but this is what the USDA uses in my area and what they recommend. They seem to get great reviews as well. I prefer shooting and that works just fine at my house but some of my properties are farther away and need some trapping. Cell service is an issue for those drop on command traps.
 
My cousin builds a very effective trap out of flexible cattle panels with a tripwire to a log inside the pen. He has become quite good at it, and I think he is up to over 300 hogs killed now on Fall Creek Falls.
 
Yeah pig brig is what I use. I don't think it's near as good as the circle traps that drop from the sky but it works. Where it connects with the coated cable needs extra caribeaners and I made a boar guard on the top out of heavy duty fish net after seeing a guy do something similar on YouTube. It doesn't seem to spook them much and is fairly portable are two advantages I think it has. I have posts driven in the ground at three different locations but i haven't seen a hog in three years so I haven't needed to break it it out again.
 
timberjack86 said:
I know of a guy that has one. He caught a ton of hogs with it but just like any trap once you start catching them they get wise to it.
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I hear you on that. Using all methods available is certainly important. I want to trap what I can and use thermal on the trap shy.
Planking said:
Yeah pig brig is what I use. I don't think it's near as good as the circle traps that drop from the sky but it works. Where it connects with the coated cable needs extra caribeaners and I made a boar guard on the top out of heavy duty fish net after seeing a guy do something similar on YouTube. It doesn't seem to spook them much and is fairly portable are two advantages I think it has. I have posts driven in the ground at three different locations but i haven't seen a hog in three years so I haven't needed to break it it out again.
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Thanks. I've actually ordered one now, going to take awhile to ship though looks like. The USDA abandoned trapping in the area of one my properties so it's getting really bad up in that area. They abandoned because the hog dog guys found out where their trap was and kept on releasing their dogs on the trap before the trap was in catch mode so the hogs would never get conditioned. I'm planning on setting up posts on all my properties and rotating the trap as need.
 
Yeah the hog doggers did that repeatedly to a guy that traps in my area. That practice is a disgrace. Dogs and people can certainly mess up your trapping efforts. I had people mess me up one night and I never saw them again in that spot.

One other thing I forgot to mention is I ended up buying longer heavy duty cable stakes and using my t driver. The driver that comes with the trap isn't a t type so it's hard to get out if you drive in deep cables which is what I switched to after one got pulled out.
 

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