Hog Control Using The Combined Arms Approach

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HOG CONTROL USING THE COMBINED ARMS APPROACH
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• Saturday, Brian Monhof and I went to deliver
  a JAGER M.I.N.E. Trap to a farmer in South
  Georgia. We then continued to Thomasville, GA to
  service a few hog bait sites and conduct hog
  control on a plantation in the area.
• We had every intention of spending the night on
  the plantation conducting hog control when my
  phone started receiving text messages from one of
  my traps 15 min southwest of Perry, Georgia. The
  first picture, of a single sow in the trap, came
  in at 621 P.M.
• I was expecting the sounder to show up as
  they are on about a three day visit schedule. 10
  minutes later I received a picture with 3 adult
  sows in the trap.

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• This is the first time that I had seen these
  three adults in the trap in the month that I have
  been working this area. Normally there are two
  adults and 9 shoats in the trap and four adults
  that stay outside the trap.
• We started monitoring the I.C.E. camera I have
  mounted outside the front gate and made a
  decision to close the trap if the fourth adult
  showed up in the trap and there were no other
  hogs around. At 651 P.M. the M.I.N.E. camera
  sent me a text message showing four adults in the
  trap, 3 pregnant sows and a boar.
• We turned the truck around and started heading
  to Perry, Georgia. The trip was going to take
  about 2 ½ hours and I was concerned that the
  other 11 hogs might be in the area, so we waited
  to close the two JAGER M.I.N.E doors until I felt
  we could wait no longer. At 705 P.M. I received
  a picture showing all four adults in the trap and
  most of the corn gone. The time had come for
  Brian to close the two gates by sending a text
  message to the M.I.N.E. camera.

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• The time had come for Brian to close the two
  gates by sending a text message to the M.I.N.E.
  camera. Brian then sent both the I.C.E. and
  M.I.N.E. cameras a text message to command them
  to take a picture. The two cameras sent us a
  picture showing both gates were closed, four
  adults in the trap and no other hogs in the area.
• We pulled in to the field about 930 P.M. I
  wanted to take a look at the field to see if any
  hogs had come out to feed prior to going to the
  trap site. I walked up to the top of the hill.
  The wind was out of the southwest so we had a
  great crosswind. I glassed the field through my
  100m thermal optic and found the trap site. One
  hog was in the wood line at the traps front
  door. I went back to the truck to get my AR 10
  .308 rifle outfitted with the Armasight 640 x 512
  75mm thermal optic. I told Brian we had one hog
  and he said I know, I saw the text picture that
  just came in at 951 P.M.

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• I told him I was going to shoot the single
  outside the trap with my suppressor and then we
  would get the hogs in the trap.
• When we made it back to the top of the hill, we
  saw that the one hog had turned into 8 hogs
  trying to get into the trap and 2 adults and a
  shoat feeding in the field.