Hi, I'm Charlie Killmaster, 
the state deer and
feral hog biologist
with the Georgia Wildlife
Resources Division.
Let's talk about a few 
myths with feral hogs.
A lot of people think 
that hunting
is the primary solution 
to controling feral pigs.
Despite no closed season 
and no bag limits,
the feral hog population 
in the Southeastern 
United States
has exploded over 
the last 40 years
If you're managing a 
piece of land,
and you want hogs gone 
off of that landscape,
you really need to set 
the guns down and 
start trapping, 
and use a whole-sounder 
trapping technique.
There's a lot of
different traps 
out there on the market.
Everything from small
box- or cage-type traps,
all the way up to the remotely-
triggered traps. 
And there's a range of 
expenses there.
The small box traps,
they're not really suitable 
for doing efficient hog control.
If you're trying to catch a pig 
for some meat,
then, yeah, maybe that's 
the way to go,
but if you're looking at 
effectively controlling pigs,
you need to look at the 
larger traps,
corral-style traps,
there's a variety of plans 
for constructing these 
on the internet.
And then the 
commercially-produced,
remotely-triggered traps,
really are where you get 
into the most efficiency
in trapping pigs.
The current method that
we're employing 
on a lot of our Wildlife 
Management Areas
where we have hog problems
are what's called "whole-
sounder" trapping methods.
And these are remotely-triggered
traps that allow us to get the 
entire group, 
the entire family group,
of pigs into the trap 
at the same time,
and we leave no educated pigs 
out on the landscape.
So if you're trying to 
control pigs 
on your property,
and you ride around,
and you see a group of 
pigs run off,
instead of reaching for the rifle
to take a pot shot 
at a few of them,
make a note of that spot,
pre-bait it, and get 
a trap set there,
and get the whole entire group.
