Snares gettem at the waste???

[hunt82]

I have my hog snares set up and the first time I accidentaly caught somebody's dog...don't worry I got himout and he's ok. BUT the snare caught the dog at the waste. The only thing I can think is he felt it and tried to jump through it... Then yesterday finally I caught a wild boar and it did the same thing. The snare was wrapped around his waste. Since we can't use bows or rifles/any types of firearms in the area I'm in, we had to cut a piece of bamboo and stick a long knife in the end and tie it tight just to take the hog down. I have the snares set at 4-5 inches from the ground and about 20-24 inch loop. The snares are on really narrow trails tracked down to mud. But why are the snares not catching them around the neck???-

[Snareman]

Your snare dimensions are about right for the successful hog snareman I talk to... even adding an inch or two in height wouldn't hurt.

Your support wire needs to be real stiff. If it's sloppy, flimsy, flexible or bends easy, it delays the snare in firing. If you use a good stiff support wire, it helps trigger the snare sooner. You don't want the snare support wire flexing as the target gets into loop and starts to tug. I would like a just enough length of #9 galvanized wire or doubled strands of #11 will give you adequate support.

Also, if you envision the open loop of snare like the face of a clock, the top being 12 O'clock and the bottom being 6 O'clock, you want your lock position around 10 to 11 O'clock position to the 1 to 2 O'clock position. If the lock is too far off to one side, you are making it harder to trigger the snare. If you get lock too far on top, then it triggers too easily or it can/may drop on it's own weight by slight winds and bumbs from smaller animals, etc.

I wish I had hog snaring experience to get in the field observations, but if I was in hog country, I would drop what others are using(despite their success) and try a 17" loop about 9" off the ground. How did I come up with this? By watching video footage. LOL! It would be experimental, but from watching some hogs, that's what I'd use first for neck catches. Because hogs vary in size, one would be hard pressed to have the ultimate loop size unless they're targeting a certain weight class of hog.

Snareman

[45/70]

Why are you taking him down anyway? I have been a hog hunter for more years than I care to remember. A live hog has advantages over a dead one. The first is that you can "walk" him to the truck -- no carrying dead weight. The second is, IMO, and I do not give a tinker's dam about how much some of ya'll brag what good eatin' a boar hog is, if you cook him right, there is no good way to cook a boar! Not smoked! Not on a hardwood grill! Not ground-up for sausage. Not stuffed full of roses and pineapple and buried in the ground! A boar hog stinks. If you cook him inside, he'll make the house unfot for human habatation, and he tastes badddd, that's why they are cut as pigs, or chemically castrated before they are butchered (and that doesn't always work). The only way to handle a boar hog so that he is fit to eat is to cut him, put him in a pen, feed him out until he is healed, appx 6 weeks. Kill him at a conveniet time, and butcher him. A sow is a different story, but you can't eat a boar hog!!! Killing a hog in the woods is a waste, unless your are into ADC hog work, and even then there are a lot of folks that would like to have the meat -- if it was fit. And why put a knife on a long stick, and poke away at him?. If you just have to kill the hog on a hot day, in the woods, reach over and cut his throat! Yes, a hog is tough, and a hog can be bad, and he can have a bad temper, but the popular press or somebody has made him into the American verison of a Cape Buffalo. It just ain't so! Waugh! 45/70, RKBA !!!

[Snareman]

And here I thought they'd by good eatin'! Sounds like they're not. LOL!

I still wouldn't mind taking the tenderloins, marinating them in my favorite saute' for about 12 hours, then slow cookin' them for about 8 hours. Serve 'em up, salt, pepper...Wonder how'd they taste then? !!!

Snareman

[45/70]

If it is a boar, and he isn't cut (castrated), it will taste like a boar hog. Adios, 45/70, RKBA !!!