A quick search on just TX showed 1.1 million licensed hunters and an estimated 1.5 mill hogs. If each hunter tried to shoot just 2, they'd be out of hogs. Of course many of the hogs would be inedible.
You don’t quite grasp the reproduction cycle of hogs……
It is my understanding that hogs were also kept in check in East Texas back in the depression. With regards to deer I’m pretty sure even they got shot out most places back East even while muzzleloaders were still in common use.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
