Charles
Sounds like you got most of this planned,,,with
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 20:15

The exception of one important thing. You said you planned on shooting them. I won’t get into where to shoot or ammo. 22 is fine. I used mine for years.
But If you shoot even one in that trap you just screwed yourself and created a lot of work. Pigs have a very keen sense of smell.. they smell blood for weeks. You shoot a pig inside that trap, you have to move it and you have to wash it. That is, if you want to use that trap again, anytime soon. Otherwise it would have to set there several weeks and hopefully a rain or two would happen.
Best thing is to build or get you a cage for your truck, and haul em off to kill them. Definitely do not let friends or neighbors let their neighbors see this happening. You will get a call from someone... know what I mean?
I hunt an trap em year round. They are a big problem here in Texas.
Supposed to go to a ranch within a week for coyotes an hogs. Don’t get much more fun than that. Good luck to you.
Oh and it’s best to run the panel wire at a 45 degree about 1-1/2 wide at the top of the trap.. deer can get out and bears can, but pigs will have a much harder time, weather they jump or try the old method of going to a corner and one stands almost erect and allows the smaller ones to run up their back and escape.
You going to use a guillotine door ? Make it very heavy!! If it’s light and a sow is standing under it she will keep staying there till all the others escape. If it’s heavy enough she will move when it comes down with force. If you go with spring loaded doors use strong springs.
I prefer round traps like a horse corral.