Found this site,lots of info.
http://images.google.com/imgre...2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Do I get this right: you first catch them in a small cage and then shoot them?

No disrespect to your traditions and ways, but isn't it a bit brutal and unethical?

I understand that your hunting culture is very different from ours, and not (as much) influenced by German hunting culture, but to me this would not qualify as hunting, more like butchering or extermination.

While I cannot understand the pleasures of shooting a helpless animal in a confined space, I do have to admit, trapping hogs (building the trap, disguising it and etc.) must be very exciting. My ethics just wouldn't allow me to kill the animal in the trap (I would rather use a trap that kills instantly or one that catches the hog alive, for a zoo or something).

Anyway, as I said, I mean no disrespect. Just trying to understand.

Good luck to you on all your hunting adventures!

Pric65, I didn't see anything there advocating shooting the hogs that have been trapped. That segment is simply about trapping them -- unless I missed something........

Whitworth is correct. That page was just dedicated to trapping hogs. Many ranchers trap hogs here in Texas to remove them from their property. They are a real problem. We have over 3 million wild hogs and they do a lot of damage to farm and ranch land. The trapping has nothing to do with hunting. If you look at their "Hunting" page you will find a hog hunt in Estonia featured on the first page. How 'bout that...........

Good Hunting,

Bob

My wife's best friend's step mother traps hogs and sells them to someone. Not sure what they do w/them after that, I think the meat goes to the Far East?
Bob is correct, they do million$ in damage to crops, hay fields, subdivisions etc.
Many just kill them an leave them, just to get rid of them due their destructiveness (if that's a word)
Robert

i got my ideas from this paragraph:
"After a successful trapping, you might want to consider shooting larger feral hogs from a distance, depending on your comfort zone and how well your trap is built. Most hogs will be easy to handle, but the dominant boar can be hard to deal with if you are not use to it. Walking right up to the trap can cause quite a bit of damage, even the smaller hogs will try to bust out. Damage to their nose and your trap is common."
I may have overreacted a bit, it really isn't mine to judge. Being a landowner myself I know how much headache a herd of wild hogs (or any other wild animal) on your land can cause. And if you're going to sell the meat, getting a "clean" kill is much more likely with trapping.
That article about Estonia sure was a surprise, I missed that completely. Although the photo looks a bit dated, like it happened 10 or so years ago.

Thanks for your explanations, guys!

Think of hogs in Texas and Oklahoma as being the same as rats. No season, shoot them anytime of the day or night - just put holes in them and hope they die. Nothing ethical about it, just shooting vermin. Every now and then we get a large boar and keep the skull, can't eat them because the meat stinks so bad. Sometimes we get a smaller one and butcher it, but in any event, they just need killin'.