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I’ve not seen any, and the sows locally still look pregnant. Generally in our area (NW Missouri) late April to early May is the birthing time. Our season runs through April 14 to align with the birthing time.

Coon 15 down. The birds are taking the bait from the cuffs and cages....I had six empty traps, with the crows and blue birds on camera as the culprits!

Missouri has a Private Land Extension that extends trapping season on private land from March 1 to April 14. Regular season ended Feb 28. We can also get permission from our conservation department (which I have done) to trap critters that are harassing or killing livestock, such as our chickens.

One more coon today, so the tally is 14 coons, 3 possums. I still don't have the coon that keeps coming on our porch. Also got a stray cat (in the cage trap) that was not too happy. She was released without harm.

People underestimate the damage squirrels can do. Squirrels got into the intake and stored nuts in my wife’s Mini Cooper. When she stated the car, the nut shells got into the cylinders and ruined the engine when the car was 3 years old. They also ruined the wiring harness and seats on my F150...

Raccoon 13 and Possum 3 down. Both were trapped outside the front door by the chickens. There are so many on our game cameras that I am getting depressed!

April 4 and this one is still holding on one side… I am seeing others with velvet starting to show.

I have the Green Guard (JD-9). Buy Once, Cry Once. Great quality and makes marginal sprayers work like a champ.

I deployed a second Revolver (a freebie for renewing DeerCast). Stealthcam provided a promo code that allowed me to replace an annual account that had a failed Matrix camera with the Revolver. So far it is taking some great pictures of birds and squirrels. I am running a Stealth Sol-Pak to...

Matrix Update: Camera #1 died January 17, 2025. The camera sent a nice video of a bobcat in the snow that evening, and stopped transmitting after than. I put new batteries and a new SD card in the camera, expecting that to work, but alas, the camera fails to power on despite those efforts. I...

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In hindsight, I would agree that bringing more gun would be wise. We had great guide and generally good weather until the last hunt, which was almost a sand storm (and the one which connected me to a hog). It was a fun experience, and I hope to return to the area next year.

The original week of my scheduled first hog hunt was met with a blizzard that shut down I-44 and brought record-low temperatures to Missouri and Oklahoma. We had to postpone the trip for two weeks, but on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, my three colleagues, who I count as close friends, joined me on a...

For the rest of this story, check out First Hog Hunt in the successful hunts thread.

That is so very true, and is the reason that there are far more landowner "wannabe's" than there are landowners. In 2021 we added another 65 acres to our place at a cost of $6000/acre--that took our breath away, but we took the plunge and now have a piece worth twice that, plus it is fun to hunt!