According to my neighbor, based on his experience there, I can take about a pig per month from my property.
He said any more than that and hog traffic will start to slow down and even stop for a while.
Looking forward to shooting my first living animal and feeding my family with it.
I'm not sure if the loud sound of 22lr rifles from the range will keep animals away so we are just going to shoot my 22lr supressed rifles.We purchased this place after checking into some leases in southern FL. I didn't realize how expensive leases were down here so we just purchased this property instead. Couple years of lease payments will pay for it.
I would not base my decision on that. You need to shoot 70% of the population to keep the population where it is, or you will be run over. Until you put game cams up, you don't know how many you have, not just on your property but surrounding. Shoot as many as you want
I don't think I have any resident hogs or deers on my property.
My place is only 12 acres in size and so is my neighbor's. Also we don't have any densely wooded or densely brushed/palmetto area where games can lay hiding. We are located between a citrus grove on one side and a state WMA on the other. All games I've seen are moving from the grove to WMA or from WMA to grove. I think we could scare games to other route/property between two areas.
My neighbor take 1 or 2 hogs and maybe a deer every year for past three years and he said it doesn't seemed to have effected the movement of games. Again, this is just his opinion.
the less you disturb them the better if they are just using your property as a travel route.
if you have a surpressed .22 use it as much as possible and take care to clean up any messes from the kill sites.. get an auto feeder and they will keep coming back..
Unless you have a coyote problem I disagree with cleaning up the kill site. Pigs will happily eat the gut pile from their best piggy friend.
We are there only 2 or 3 times a month and usually stay 2 nights each time but as time goes by I expect we'll go 2 times a month and stay 3 or 4 nights each time. I try to keep my place pretty quiet and minimize the disturbance on the property. I have two places along a "trail" where I put out some corn each night when we are there. It seems to attract the hogs to the spot couple times a week as corns disappear and I can see hog tracks and occasional deer and turkey tracks too. We have not been out there since the 3" of rain last week and can't wait to see what has changed.
I'm going to buy couple of those game trail cameras and put them up in couple spots to see that is coming through my property and when. I'm also puting up two tree stands near the feeding spot to observe animals in the morning and at evening.
