Can someone tell me how to build a simple "catch alive wild hog trap" or post pics or plans?I have a friend that told me i could make one out of old chain link fence but he said the one he made the hogs wouldnt go into,I never heard of this before...I got a place to catch some ....but dont want to catch any neighbors dogs and such in a non-catch alive...I want to try and build one as cheap as possible,would rebar welded up be a good start or just heavy gauge drain pipe kinda like a DNR type bear trap?Any help appreciated I have a friend the wild hogs have been getting on his property at night & they tore up everything by the rooters and diggers & he wants to eliminate a few..a trap would be the ticket..

Found this ..
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You've got too bait them in. use the bait as the trigger on your door. make it damn strong(the trap) and secure it well to the ground. Never meet a happy hog in a trap. We use them all the time and they are very very effective, sorry i can't quickly lay my hands on a photo.
Half the funs in the planning and biulding.

Unless you're working with virgin, meaning untrapped, hogs the small traps like the one in the above link won't work well or at all and when you do catch something, it will usually only be small shoaty type pigs. Of course, there is always an exception.

It depends on how much labor you want to put into it, as well as how many hogs you have, but one of the easiest and cheapest to make is made out of what we call cattle panels, which are heavy wire panels, 16 feet long. Take them and build an enclosure out of them, the bigger the better and the more hogs you can catch at once. I'd use a minimum of 4, but you can get by with 3, and put them in a round or trapezoidal shape. Put well driven in t-posts about every 3 feet and wire the panels to them especially toward ground. Finally bring one panel around and bend it back (they're quite springy) so that it is bent INSIDE the enclosure and hold it with a trigger that would be set off by pigs at the BACK of the trap. When the pigs go in there to eat the bait (usually corn), they'll hit the trigger and the panel will spring back ACROSS the T post (be sure you've got a couple of feet of overlap and they'll be trapped. Without going into great detail you'll have to bait the local pigs for a few days with the "door" panel tied back, letting them wander in the trap before setting the trigger.

Another way to do it is to use a "swinging door" on the same type cattle panel enclosure. The "swinging door" uses gravity, make a frame of heavy duty angle iron say at least 3 feet wide by the ht of the panel's, 5 feet, then hinge the "door" at the top, make door out of same hvy duty angle iron or square tubing, weld cut panel on it, then set door up at slight angle inward towards trap, so when it closes gravity holds door set into angle iron frame, well secured on both sides to t-post that hold door frame as well as the cattle panels that make trap enclosure. Tie door open for a few days while baiting pigs into trap, then let door down, pigs will push door open to get to corn and when it swings back shut they're caught.

These set ups are harder to describe than they deserves but they work well. The small traps as pictured in the above link don't work well, if you're going to use one, make it bigger if at all possible.

Oh, one more thing which is quite important....whatever kind of trap you use, DO NOT kill the hogs in the trap, it will "poison" it for quite a while until the blood smell wears off if it is a moveable small trap such as pictured above and will make it worthless if it is a cattle panel trap. Pigs are plenty smart and won't go back where they smell blood. If you have to kill one in the smaller traps, try to wash it off as much as you can.

Now, how to get the hogs out of a larger trap without killing them is another story......

Thanks for the help