Not real sure what is going on at my place but the pigs have left! Winged one a couple of weeks ago and then nothing! My friend's place is a little more obvious. Landowner across the county road has moved in with a bull dozer! What was a huisache jungle is now big open field! Dozer is in the next pasture now. Lots of travel corridor gone! Going to take awhile to get accustomed to all that! Landowner north of his place is clearing fence lines and dozing big open spaces also. People across the state highway to the west have added net wire behind their white board fence. The place one pasture to the south west sold and now has a high game fence. What has the world come to? Texas is supposed to have pigs behind every bush, three deep! Oh well I am going anyway!!!! ha ha Pigs at my wife's place have a new plan. Total randomness. Never two times in a row and then all times of the day or night! How do you sit for that?

It's similar here. After having them ALL the time, hogs have been sparse for about a year or more now. And now, a property to the west has been sold, and the new owner is clearing some prime wildlife habitat. I used to hunt and trap that place years ago, and it was rare for a human ever to be on that property. All sorts of wildlife thrived there, but that's all coming to an end.

I have been watching a pig parade across the east net wire fence where I do not have permission to shoot since January. I've seen as many as 35 in sight at once. On my side of the fence, it was 3 or 4 adults, and I have knocked them down to one I think. The other 3 sides are all 5-strand barbed wire so no restrictions on access from those directions (S, W, and N). I shot the big boar last week on Monday night and have not checked cameras since but I will be checking Sunday. I hope I only find the one boar but I suspect there will be other newcomers.

At my two other places, on one, I killed a sow about 3 weeks ago and have zero pigs on camera since then. The old rifle range down the road 1.25 miles has a new sounder---3 sows, a boar, and 10 little ones. I need to get them coming to the trap and for the little ones to grow enough they can't squeeze thru the cattle panel trap sides, and then set the trap and catch the whole bunch. I learned to not build pen traps with cattle panels, but to use the panels with the 4" x 4" openings to keep the shoats and piglets inside.

Report to follow Sunday after the camera check--

Sat at my friend's till 11:30 last night. Deer then cows. Cows tried really hard to get into my feeder pen. Why? I don't know, most of the corn was eaten by the deer. One them got her tail hair caught in the barbed wire. Real rodeo for a minute. Turns out the cows weren't even his! Broke in from his neighbor's!

Wow. Sorry for all the disruptions, gentlemen. Hate to see good habitat scraped.

thats happening all over here too. pigs been gone for months. lots of dozers at work. soon as its cleared the FOR SALE signs go up. land next to us is for sale in 10 acre lots at 34k an acre.

Yep, more Hobby :"ranches" as they're
called. Out here they sell it in 40acre
batches. Not much open land these days.

George