Just thought if they are such a problem there would be folks offering self guided type hunts to get rid of them. But I suppose the same old open hunting problems would pop up, and may be even worse with people paying a trespass fee.
Most farmers will allow you to shoot hogs. The problem is that when the pressure is turned up, hogs can lie in the bottoms and wait it out. You may catch or shoot one or two by driving them, you may even get two or three at a time with dogs. However, when there is nothing but farm land and bottoms for 50 square miles, hogs will move for property to property at will...or go nocturnal.
Hunting at night is not simply a matter of playing with cool toys...it's about your only chance to see enough hogs congregated together for "multiple kills."
Just for perspective. I have a friend who is a pecan farmer. His pecan grove is surrounded by bottom land, timber tracts, and scatter/diverse agriculture. He has caught...in traps...over 500 hogs over the past several years. This does not include the hogs killed at night, or the three of four taken during deer season. Even after having taken over 500 hogs...one would not notice that a dent has made in the problem.
The point is, if one is not killing or catching 20-50 hogs a week (depends on the area) one is not really doing the farmer any favors. Hogs have to be completely eradicated...they breed too fast for the occasional "pig shoot."
