Snares for Hogs
watergator
Fort Pierce Posts: 170 Deckhand
Are snares legal for trapping hogs in Florida? I have a small plot that hogs tend to use as a travel corridor and I am thinking of setting a snare on their trails to get one occasionally to fill the freezer. There isn't really a good place to hunt them where a bullet wouldn't carry off the property and retrieving one shot with a bow has been very difficult because once they get into the pepper trees they're all but impossible to find or get to.
Assuming a snare is legal, is there a good way to neck snare them without strangling them? I wouldn't want to get one after I check it in the evening and for it to die and spoil before I got to it in the morning.
Assuming a snare is legal, is there a good way to neck snare them without strangling them? I wouldn't want to get one after I check it in the evening and for it to die and spoil before I got to it in the morning.
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Per myfwc.com
Now hoping someone has some info on keeping them in the snare but alive until I come back.
The deer stop is interesting. I may try that if the strangling is a problem.
You’ll want to look into leg snares. They work a bit like steel leg hold traps except with snare wire instead of a steel jaw. But beware, anything that will snare a hog above the hoof will also catch a deer, and deer have a tendency to thrash themselves hard.
A coyote can break thick snare cable. If a coyote can, so can a hog. It may kill them in the process though.
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