Was blessed to have grant money supporting the trapping that was done on my place, but with that said the consequence is that the remote control drop traps (boar buster brand) never belonged to me and were removed once trapping was deemed more necessary elsewhere.
I also do have one single panel fence trap I built with a guillotine-drop wood door entry that works fairly well... I set it up to manually trigger by long rope (live at my place so I could sit and trigger it). but I found it usually got only a portion of each sounder and educated any that were nearby and / or escaped. The remote ones definitely were more useful in being able to perfectly see what was going on / triggering with best chance of catching full sounders. Trapper that was triggering it lived about 30 miles away / along the Florida coastline and it was funny hearing him telling stories about when he triggered traps -- remember one time was when he was eating dinner at a coastal restaurant celebrating his Mom's birthday with his Mom and about 20 ladies in their 60s who were shocked he was able to trap hogs via his cell phone sitting at the restaurant.
As for making dent on 125 acres, the 75+ we got off my place was on even less acreage -- about 112 acres and a long/narrow rectangular pass-through property at that. What made for catching so many off my place is that I have a couple of decent stands of swamp chestnut white oak trees near the middle of my place and the hogs were continually being drawn to them. As soon as one sounder would be trapped, another would move in to feast on the heavy acorn crop dropping. Almost impossible to completely eradicate them, but I've had very few camera hits since 2022. Know it's just matter of time before a sounder crosses a road onto our place but sure thankfully to have not had to deal with them for the past 3 years and will act MUCH more aggressively when any future sounders show up.
