My old fur buyer Al Barton lives in Mansfield.
I need to go down there and get some blacksmithing videos I loaned him.
Myself, I live south of Lancaster, give me a hollar.
Most of my posts are with old Bogman on the trapper forum.
But I have two hog traps right here and they will hold 12- 200 Lb Hog.
Only caught one last year, even though I could have shot one nearly every day while out on the trapline. Hog are here.
This year I am using field corn figuring it will hold the smell longer and better, having the dry cob, and husks to hold the smell.
I have been rotting the corn two weeks and hog root within rock throwing distance of the traps. But don't go in.
Even if I hadn't been murdered four years ago, the economy is so slow, I am having trouble buying enough corn even at $4. a sack during deer season, to interest hog in my traps.
This year I met a landowner who I asked how much corn he thought
12- 200 LB hog could eat in a night?
He was thinking and I said:
"300 LBS?
And he said oh sure 300 easy.
I then said:
How much corn do you think 12-200 LB hog could destroy in a dry corn field like this on in one night?
His eyes grew wide as he imagined...
About 3,000 LBs? I said
He agreed,
"I see your point, use all the corn you want Knife."
My land is right between his corn field and the creek where hog come from.
The last thing I said was:
"Need a Hog?"
He laughed like he was going t bust.
And now we are great friends.
Good Hogging Ya'll
J. Knife
