Pigs of escaping!!!

It has been an interesting week.  Since setting up the game camera and the pig trap, I must say it has been an exciting and interesting week.

It started out with putting up the trap last weekend and baiting it but not setting the trap.  this was so the pigs were used to not only having the trap around but also getting pigs in the trap, then on Saturday night I set the trap and spent the night wondering what the morning would bring.

I popped out early on Sunday morning to see what ferals I might of caught.  Where I have placed the trap I can see it from over 200 meters away, and with the help of my zoom lense on my camera I could see that the trap was not in the same state as it was when I left just 15 hours eairler.  I could see that the trap had been sprung as the steel bucket was on the ground and the heavy steel door was closed.  The strange thing is that it appeared that the trap was not sitting square to the fence.

Grabbing my combination .222/12g and releasing Scarlet from the back of the Ute I stalked up to the trap and on arrival it was obvious that while the trap did catch some pigs, they have managed to move the trap the couple of meters toward the fence and lifted the trap so it was sitting on the bottom wire of the fence, giving the pigs the opportunity to escape. [:'(]

As I wouldn't have time to come back out during the week I locked the trap door open, set the camera, while of course putting the trap back in position. 

On getting home I looked through the video footage to see what happened, and I must say that the video evidence was clear.  The trap caught 3 pigs with another couple moving around the outside with some fighting to break them out.

Have a look at the footage of the Great Pig Escape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mobq750ovs

Here are some of the photos of the trap after the pigs have escaped.

http://www.ozhunter.com/media/p/2778.aspx

http://www.ozhunter.com/media/p/2779.aspx

Even though the trap had let 3 pigs escape I was very excited that the trap was in great condition considering my lack of experience in welding and the amount of hammering it copped through the night and that I caught it on camera and even more so that my trap worked.....

Now was the time to bring is some extra star pickets to stop even the toughest pig from move the trap again.