There maybe some misconceptions about hog control, which is entirely different from hunting.

Feral hogs aren't anything other than one time domestic hogs that have reverted back to their wild state. After a few generations, they are as wild as one would want and more destructive than most people know about.

Here's my front yard this past March.

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It usually takes a few trips with a disc and then either a spike tooth harrow or tiller to get things back pretty much to normal. When it's a hay meadow that has been rooted up or other crop land, it's an even bigger problem.

Here's a 100 foot row of Apache thornless blackberries that was rooted almost out of the ground.

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People think it's great fun to hunt hogs and maybe profitable too, so they have "imported" and released quite a few of them. That wouldn't be so bad, if the hogs would stay on the release land, but they don't! The end result is everyone having to deal with the problem of destructive vermin over running the county.

We applaud the demise of hogs and it doesn't matter if they were gut shot with a .22 or a .458 Win Mag, just as long as they're gone!

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