Just curious how everyone runs there. If you have the top cut off, soak corn in diesel or neither. Just curious cause I have only ran them a couple of times. I ask because im fortunate enough to have a job that keeps me in the woods alot, but today was not a good day in the field. I was on the wheeler and went around a corner and heard a loud bang. I turned around and there was a 2.5 yr old 8 point in a hog trap with a broken jaw. It looked like it was broken trying to get out of the trap. In the end I had to call the game warden to come put it down. It could not get out cause the top was on and the corn was spread all over the bottom. I was curious if this was common practice with hog traps or not.
Ouch!!! That had to hurt. The plan was to set the deer free until I noticed its lower jaw was hanging off its face when I got closer to it. I guess it happend when it was trying to get out of the trap. The thing is the door was pretty low on this trap but who knows if it was hungry it was getting in there..
Unfortunately, there is not much that can be done. No matter how small the opening is, if a deer is hungry, it will find a way into a trap. Yes, some deer get hurt, and some must be put down. You did the right thing calling the game warden. But I must say a deer in a trap is about as pleasing as seeing deer run around with broken arrows in them. Hopefully, people are checking their traps daily and letting the deer out. I have seen some traps with dead and decomposing animales because they were set, and forgotten.
are you using a guillotine trap? if so, that may be your issue. We do not use guillotine traps bc they are to easy for deer to enter. the only way they are permitted is if there is an open top. for example, we have a hog trap thats 25yards in diameter with cattle panels for the perimeter w/ a guillotine door. this works for us bc there is no top on the pen and the cattle panels have 6 feet of heavy gauge paneling to prevent the pigs from getting out. the only area we didnt put the extra paneling is above the door so that deer can get out...pretty successful thus far.
if the pig jumps out of the trap then so be it. it will be there another day and you'll have another opportunity to take it. guillotine traps are just not useful sources to trap hogs when there happens to be a high deer population in the area.
I have had both types. I prefer the open top, closed bottom. I have never seen a hog climb out but I guess they could. We had fourteen in an open top one time and they did not climb out.
cattle panel trap about 30 ft by 30ft, no top , had 1 to many deer caught in the trap, for some reason the 4 deer we trapped before redesigning the trap were bucks, and nice ones at that, we had to put 2 down and did manage to free the other 2
I cut the top off my trap and have had zero issues catchin deer now and still catch a ton of hogs. I have a swing door style trap by the way. The diesel on the corn did not keep the deer out.
This was not my trap but it did have the cattle panels on the side and on top and had the swinging door. It was sad to see a good young deer have tobe put down like that, but I guess everything happens for a reason.
ours is a one way door with a top and bottom and we have never caught a deer in 18 years ..im not saying a deer wont push open the door and go in but it seems to deter them at our place ...did i mention that we have a deer feeder mounted on top of our trap and we just open the doors during deer season and hunt it like any other feeder ...
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