Need help with trap rooter door

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Aggieman775

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I have a corral trap with a rooter door it also has the trip wire feature but I have tried it and I'm not a big fan. When I leave the door open hogs will go in and everything else but when I close it for them to push it open they just stare at it since it's closed. They havnt figured out they can push it. I have been thinking about propping it open with a stick about half way and when their back hits the bottom of door the stick falls but I'm not sure. Do y'all have any suggestions?
 
The stick will work but is probably only going to catch the first hog to hit it and maybe some too little to trigger it . Try the trigger and you are likely to catch more than one at the outset.
Once there is a hog in the trap the others are more likely to make the effort to get in. Setting a feeder over the trap on a frequent but small volume cycle seems to help get them comfortable with a trap and keeps enticing more hogs after the first one triggers the door.
 
We trap A LOT OF hogs using trip wire traps using normally like 12x12 traps. I've seen as many as 8 in one and all be atleast 125lbs or so. But if your set on using the rooter door imo I would just bait the [beeep] out of the trap and use a feeder inside it having the feeder go off at around 12pm or 1am prime feeding hours unless you have one that's completely solar powered. Then they will see its baited and will search for ways inside and will eventually figure out that the can push open the door, once one figures out all of them will figure it out quick.
 
The main reason for the root door is so it will keep catching hogs after the door drops. I don't think it really intended to be set with the door down before hogs are in it.

Not sure why you would do that, unless you were worried about catching deer.
 
Originally Posted By: YellowhammerThe main reason for the root door is so it will keep catching hogs after the door drops. I don't think it really intended to be set with the door down before hogs are in it.

Not sure why you would do that, unless you were worried about catching deer. I think he is saying he did that so they will learn they can push it open because they only go in when it's already open and after it closes no more go in.
 
I guess I don't see why you would try to let them learn they can push in. The first time they go in is the last time they go in, so did they learn anything?

Set the trap with the door up, then if others come around while there are hogs in the trap they may push in. Why try to trap with the door down on an empty trap and hope they "learn" to push in?
 
He is saying they just stare at it once it's down and is not catching more than just one at a time because the others don't know they can get it once it's shut lol...
 
What about a smaller opening to enter that is like an Igloo. They walk into the shoot and it's a bit to small to turn around and go in past a spring loaded door that allows them in but can't get out?

Or..

What about setting a bucket of feed in the middle with the broadcast feeder to seed the ground and call them in (the sound seems to call them) then hook your rooter door to a bucket or tray that has feed in it, that when eaten will be lighter and then the door will drop down and work like a normal rooter door?
 
Good ideas Tbone, the first idea I'd be more worried that they would feel to constricted going through a tube like object that might not fool them.

The second idea would work but is feel more that they would just dump the bucket over or coons would come in and eat it all.

The game wardens in my area tell people to make a simply heart shape trap with fence or cattle panel which is just heavy gauge fence, make it where at the crease of the top of the heart is where the opening is but make it where they have to push it just a little bit and can get in but not out. My uncle made one and caught some but trip wire traps really rack em up because they are just always fooled by that no matter how many go arounds there are even with the same group over and over again.
 
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