I agree that hogs are fine table fare......even the huge 400-500# boars eat pretty good as long as they aren't breeding (rutting?) actively or stirred up by dogs or wounding before being killed.
However......just how much pork can you eat?? ColsPaul, be very careful what you wish for as far as wanting more hogs. For several years we actually trapped and hauled hogs INTO our hunting club. We THOUGHT that's what we wanted. Then they "took" and within three years we were trying everything possible to get rid of them (unsuccessfuly I might add).
Hogs are unbelievably destructive and prolific. Once established they will out breed and out eat all other wildlife and be the ruin of your hunting area. If you could have just a "few" hogs around to hunt, that would be nice. Unfortunately hogs don't work that way......it's either none or too many.
If you want proof of that just look for any story about wild pigs in NZ in the forties. Before WWII the pig population was kept in check by hunters, while the men were away at war the population exploded. There were quite a few farmers forced off their land due to the damage pigs did, they went from one or two pigs to mobs of hundreds that would move like a swarm of locusts destroying everything.
Once they got like that they were pretty much good for nothing, they started to get really lousy and you could hardly find a fat pig or one with enough meat on its bones to eat.
That is the situation you guys could easily face in the not too distant future.
