David, don't take the comments here to heart. I trapped when I was back in high school and I know what it takes, there are a ton of folks out there that are ignorant of anything beyond their doorstep. You keep doing what you're doing, plenty of us support what you are doing.
I trapped while in school too. It gave me pocket money and kept me out of trouble and kept me busy every morning before going to school. Mostly raccoons and muskrats.
"We got a 100% chance of head knocking going on" 😂😂😂 " I ain’t the weatherman but I’m finna make it rain" the best and funniest sayings. You’d be a good comedian and hell of story teller.
Hi David, I'm from the UK where a lot of people don't like us hunting. However they don't understand land management. Everything you do is very ethical. Keep up the good work, I love your videos and would love to hunt in the areas you work on.
I too am from the UK, I am a retired slaughter man and I used to cull farmed wild boar, ( hybrids ) for sale to the game dealers. The boar were large fenced catchment areas, selection was made by running a selection into a smaller area, selected then dispatched.
Good evening David ! I’m glad you throw in the educational aspect of Hogs and why they are trapped . You feed many family’s and you are managing the land from being destroyed . This has been a thing for centuries!! Why people act like you just started trapping !! Keep up the great work and blessings to you all !!!
34,606 views and 10% remembered to hit the LIKE button. Your soliloquy starting at 10:44 makes this one of the best RU-vid videos ever. You have more kindred souls in this world than you'll ever know, and you're a blessing to all who have ears to hear. I'm downloading this one to my archive.
I asked the same questions a couple years ago when I found your channel about raising the piglets to 6mths, only because you are feeding families. Your explanation to me about your areas laws enlightened me. I’m not a trapper but have been involved with pest control/land management. So I know the devastation that can occur from little rabbits to the larger like buffalo or brumbies. Keep on keeping on Yawt, you do your area a great justice👍👌🍺🍺
I thank God for leading me to your posts and videos. You do a great job keeping me in thinking the right way. I really enjoy your testimony. I hope you have a blessed day.
Every once in a while, I run across an article about feral hogs. Last one I read talked about all the diseases pigs can carry. Hogs are great reservoirs for the flu virus to do some shifting and mixing up of the flu DNA. They can also carry several other zoonotic diseases (diseases that both the hogs and humans can catch). Just another reason we need people like David to eliminate the pests.
You're doing good work with the hogs. I thought it was amazing when you dropped the trap one of the piglets was almost fast enough to escape. You would be great person for Ranger commercials.
David Just look at those cute lil baby piglets. Those piglets and their mommies are gonna be great table fare for a family in need. Great job brother. Keep up the good work.
@@knotengajin7359 the problem with that is in most states, keeping wild hogs is illegal. Back in the day. My grandfather kept a wild hog in a pen at all times. That hog would be fattened up by feeding it corn and would be taken to the slaughterhouse and processed for the table. It's been my experience from feeding those wild hogs as part of my chores. Those hogs never got over being caught and locked in a pen. They were wild until the slaughtering.
@@overwatch2671 Not that long ago, like up into the 1960s, homesteader types still existed and let their meat hogs wander free feeding themselves until slaughter time. These domestic hogs interbred with imported boar producing the diversity in size and coloration we see in feral hogs today. Setting that aside, I was speaking more along the lines of going the pet route rather than ham meaning lots of direct interaction.
When I was 16 and in high school, I got hired along with my grandpa trapping wild horses . These feral horses did a lot of damage to the land and made wildlife very scarce. So I understand what your doing and seeing you trap hogs takes me back to the days I use to trap wild horses. Awesome channel.
David all the respect to you and all the people doing these trapings. I've seen your previous videos and the damage these hogs are causing. Most people are just what I call "keyboard worriers" by complaining about everything but not understanding the impact these damages has to farmers and homesteads. Don't take these bad comments to heart. Be safe and may God bless you
That bridge looked a little iffy! Be careful out there! Great to see all the varmints you catch & love your commentary & testimony! May God continue to bless you as you do His plan He has for you. You bless so many folks by feeding them, witnessing & just being you! Thank you!!💜
That bridge looked like it was made of steel with boards laid over the top. In the middle of the woods you need wood to replace rotted stuff? A bit of irony there.😁
@@deannajones6963 Nothing to be sorry about here. The same thought occurred to me which was why I was looking a tad harder. Lumnah's Acres have a bridge over a creek which they took on for the same reason. Theirs was wood on wood however. Dave doesn't have the same call or permissions. He still reads comments so he might pass it along to who ever does. Never hurts to say something cause nobody likes Mr. Murphy's mischief to hard working friends. Such as baptizing his piggies in the creek as he did.👍
RIGHT ON DAVID!!!!! what you do is KICK ASS and those who dont like it dont understand the damage these things do to our lands and habitat as a whole. I appreciate everything you do. Being able to feed families at the same time as getting rid of these buggers is just Icing on the cake
David, you are a wise man and speak the truth. I agree with you fully it's important to stay busy and contribute something to the world, not just sitting on your butt waiting for a handout. I think about the bums and drug users who are sleeping on the streets of many cities, doing nothing productive but just getting high, begging and/or stealing from others. They could learn a lot from you and your work ethic.
Great channel! Land management is the same as a house pest problem. In our homes we trap pest, either indoor "rodents" or outdoor "racoons, skunks And hogs! Farmers, Hunters and Trappers are the best teachers in Land Management! And Thank You for all you share in Faith, Charity, Land Management and Feeding Families!
Awesome vid, I had a feeling them pigs would fall off after you put the back down, said to myself "That ain't locked out" hahahahahaha. Love your ethics, morals and how you go about life not only bringing up your family but going above and beyond to help provide for others. Keep up the great work bud. and, stay dry. 🙂
You sure do have a nasty job. In order to have good property, this is necessary. You are a tough person to do this. I thought it was cute, you washing those pigs. I was praying that you wouldn’t get washed away. I am an 81 year old widow. Can you believe that I am watching your video’s. The world news is so bad that this is a great replacement. You trap, you kill, then people eat. The best part is that you are awesome. I love it when you say, Jesus loves you. We love Him, and you.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
When you were saying in the video that "The Lord chose me to have this job to do what and live a dream making money...and here I am at 43 doing what I love and being exactly what I want to be..." I can so relate to this. I got saved when I was 19. A few years after I got saved, lots of people told me "You'd make a great pastor someday." I said, "NO WAY!!!!" 9 years ago, 2 years of Bible school, and applying to 55 different churches, God blessed me with a job at my home church as an assistant pastor. I know the feeling when God has you doing what you were designed to be doing for work. Thanks for sharing, David!!!
David it is so nice to watch your videos without hearing bad language. The job you are doing take a mean vicious animal out while helping people get the meat. The damage these hogs do is aweful. Thank you for a job well done. Stay safe. God bless.
Hi David I love every video I've seen you put out. And what I love even more is when you put that spiritual food out there for people to hear. Addiction is a terrible thing to have and harder to get rid of. I saw a lot of things I had never seen before when I was living in N.O. I read somewhere that idle hands are the devil's workshop; and idle lips are his mouthpiece. A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is a scorching fire.
Certainly respect your taking the time to try to educate people and not just telling them to go jump in the lake. Those little buggers grow up real fast, and do plenty of damage in the process. Get em while they're young!
I’m a 77 year old great gramma and I love your videos. I have seen the damage wild hogs can do. They need to be managed and controlled. You are doing a great job.thank you for speaking about our Lord
I was born in Idaho and we have special hunts for when the deer population is to big. People don't understand why we need to care about the deer population. When there are too many they run out of food and, eat the farm crops. Sometimes they can't get enough to eat and starve. God bless you for sharing your thoughts and feeding folks. 🙏❤️ From Texas
hi David my name David Bernard iam 65 like what u had to say starting do what u r doing the trapping part doing it with grand kids have one hog trap getting set up with fur traps going to keep watching. u here from me time to time great job man!! oh live in east ark.
Great video. You educated the weak is my favorite part. We don’t have a huge hog problem here but I’ve been to hunt clubs where they do and everything you say is spot on. They will destroy land, crops, and ruin wildlife management.
Some people just don't realize how much damage these hogs can do to a place. They just keep coming back but keep up the good work knocking them in the head and feeding the family's. God bless 🙏
I like the words that you use to describe what you do and how, it doesn’t matter the weather , you move forward and do the job to support your family, you are a blessed man
David, I am new to the channel and watched all the videos made and aired in 2023. I enjoy your channel and your love and respect for the Lord. Thank you for sharing your journey.
So enjoy your videos....entertaining as usual. I don't hunt or trap anymore but understand the need for it, I don't because my station in life doesn't allow it. I do get outdoors in the mud, rain, snow, and cold....one reason I watch your videos, the outdoors is the place to be. Another reason is I study languages of the world and your richness of language is a treat....and of course your down home style of living. Thank you....Dia dhaoibh ar maidin (God to you this morning in Gaeilge ....Irish)
David there you are again in the mud. What did I tell you quit playing in the mud lol 😂. I’m so glad your doing what you can on those pesky hogs. Here in Arkansas they won’t let us trapped them unless it’s on private land. And in WMA they won’t let us hunt them only during modern gun crazy isn’t it. God bless you be careful and safe out there.
I’m late to the party :/. Great job maneuvering through the woods (and mud) to get to those hogs. Looks like the land owner needs to do a little maintenance on that bridge! You be careful out there David. We love your videos muddy or dry. Thanks for your part in helping control this hog nuisance. Thanks for sharing part of your day :)
Some really great comments about the work you do and also about the part of the population that does nothing to improve itself and world. The mystery to me is why there are so many like minded people and we cannot effect a change to improve the situation.
M’s husband (Parker), good word David, at the end of the year have a quiz of the most successful traps and the nastiest traps, say around 5 episodes and the one who gets all 5 right first wins a prize. Nock On brother. You’re a great conservationist!
The Lord has you rite where he wants you Brother David. You are the preaching Trapper who shares the gospel as you pursue all those pigs in the wild that's exactly where Jesus finds us in the wilderness but then we hear his voice and his sheep will gather around him. Please keep doing what you doing and keep sharing the scriptures we love you over here in South Carolina
You need a pop-up windshield! It'll make a world of difference on those high humidity days here in Mississippi. It's nice to have that option when the windshield is all fogged up.
Well done. We just visited the Cataloochee Valley of the Smokey Mountain Nat'l Park & the hogs are tearing up the elk fields. They don't have many predators to keep the population down. I can remember when the rangers would trap them, shoot them & let the bears have them. They would be gone in a day or so. Greetings from the Old Jarhead in WNC
New to the channel, but I Like watching you work. Heard you say Mississippi and did my heart good. Gulf Coast Native. Keep going,not sure where you are in Mississippi but if you ever giving lessons let me know!🙂
Is the Orange cap sold in the merch store? why do you not use the 270 instead of the 22 mag? to me the 22 mag is an iffy for longer range stuff. the 270 will do the job better clos and long range.
Feral or wild hogs are no different than rats or mice getting into your home and making your food inedible, or your home unlivable. UNLESS, you're ok with that kind of living situation.
You explained the laws with keeping small hogs And what a trapper vs Hunter is . In Spain the suckling pig is gourmet " meaning " the small ones are more tender but you don't write laws just follow what's on books. Great content thanks👍
David, I can not express in words how absolutely blessed I was from Mr Melvin! Such a rich experience with a delightful, funny, and Christian man EVEN after Viet Nam! Hope he comes back again sometime!
I understand you even though I am from the city. While you were explaining the reasons for hog control, you made me think of it like the city rat problem here in Chicago. I don't know a single person who would have that same sympathy for rats. Instead of rats, you have dangerous hogs. Many folks don't understand how dangerous a wild hog is as well as being the nuisance. You keep doing what you're doing. That's your calling! Thanks for feeding the needy.
Great vid. Luv your attitude to life. I too, jumped out the rat-race in 2002, and did what satified my sole. Renovated a derelict seaside building and restored life in it as a traditional Bed & Breakfast guest house. We also have a drug problem, with landlords converting guest houses into bedsits in rundown areas. Waists of spaces contribute nothing to the community. God bless, Big Steve in East Yorkshire, England.
It has been a nasty week here in north Louisiana. We made drop this week in this great weather we are having. It was a muddy mess not as bad as some of yours but pretty bad.
Most of us who are older know that sausage, pork chops, and country hams don’t come from the grocery store. We raised, shot the hog between eyeballs, gutted it, boiled the hair off and scrapped it. Most young folks who watch this video don’t have a clue the work that went into hog killing day. I understand and appreciate what you do 😁👍👍
You fed them corn, some hot lead, and bathed them. Maybe you should brush them after the bath. LOL, Keep doing what you are doing and give the Lord thanks for good health to be able to do it.
David, you do a GREAT job, I'm live in Baytown,Texas and in the rural area outside Houston, the Hogs promplem is BAD, Three ago years hogs KILLED a woman in Anahuac,Texas.
Love the videos, brother. I use to trap for money from 12 to 17 years old on the Shiawassee River next to my house. Now I live trap to keep the critter population down in our area. Their killing our game birds and the eggs. God Bless y'all. John V. Mi.
