I've been hunting sw Arkansas from time to time for the last 5 years or so. One of the guys who has quite a bit of good hunting land where I've been hunting has recently got a remote camera/triggering trap set up... and doesn't want me hunting the area since he's trying to trap entire sounders of hogs. I can't blame him. He's been doing very well. When I was down there (I live in Iowa) last week, I didn't hunt his land because I now don't have permission to do so, but do drive by it on the way to a few properties where I do have permission. I scanned his fields with my thermal and only saw two hogs once. Very different from what I've seen before (much fewer hogs). Word around town was he'd got 70+ hogs in the trap in one night a few days before I got down there. So I only ended up with one lone boar in my two nights of half-hearted hunting attempted... the one field I've done well in before wasn't planted yet and was bare, and the other is pasture and the grass was almost waist high. I just happened to see the ears of the one boar I got as I was very close to him and could look somewhat down at him with the thermal. Too tall of grass to hunt it effectively.
Sooo, my question is whether hogs wise up to these live video, remote operated traps. Do they become less effective after some time and the hog populations in the areas come back up despite these fancy traps, or not?