Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Don’t Shoot Feral Hogs in Missouri

Missouri does not want you to hunt wild hogs.
They claim better success with them doing all the removal.
I am from Missouri and they have yet to show me that this is true...

“The take of feral hogs is prohibited on conservation areas and other lands owned, leased, or managed by the Conservation Department. Hunting hogs on other lands is strongly discouraged.
Instead, report feral hog sightings to 573-522-4115, extension 3296 or online. The Conservation Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, along with other partners and hundreds of private landowners, are working to eradicate feral hogs in Missouri.
When hunters shoot feral hogs, it complicates efforts to remove these pests. Hogs are social animals that travel in groups called sounders. Shooting one or two hogs scatters the sounder and makes trapping efforts aimed at catching the entire group at once more difficult, because hogs become trap-shy and more wary of baited sites. With their high reproductive rate, removing one or two hogs does not help to reduce populations. Anyone who observes a feral hog or damage caused by feral hogs should report it to the Conservation Department rather than shooting the animal so we can work together towards eradication.
Releasing hogs is illegal. If you see someone releasing feral hogs, report violators to your local conservation agent.”

When it was legal to shoot them it was encouraging people to release them into the wild resulting in an increased hog population.

They are absolutely correct in that.

If you have trained professionals that have hog control methods in place and potential to rid many hogs from the system, hunting them makes the hogs wary, nocturnal, and much harder to catch using methods that can and will take multiple hogs at different locations.

Hunting ain't putting a dent in them.

We're from the government, and we know what's best.

Well... Perhaps you can tell us about the areas of wild hogs that hunters have rid us of?

Have heard that said here by those who have their fingers in the government pie...I don't really give a flying ƒuck what they think and shall continue to do as I will.

Bwahahaha!

As long as it's not with an AR, right?

Pretty sure they exist here.

Perhaps you can tell us the areas where the trappers/pros are successful?

I know a few spots in GA where the pros supposedly decimated the hogs, only to have them back again...at the cost of taxpayers.

Is there any place where an invasive species, once established, has been eradicated for good?

I'm certainly not in the know regarding feral hogs, but it seems like the best one could hope for is to manage the population.

Some of the effective areas of hog elimination have been done by USDA Aphis, and some are done by university agriculture studies.

You can get close to 100% control, but it has to be maintained.

"Only to have them back again"... LOL.

Well, Ace... If you could solve that problem, you'd be a rich man indeed.

Reminds me of the 100% guaranteed eradication of insects around my house, that I keep paying for every quarter for the past 15 years!

Look at Bigfoot, what is there 1 or 2 in the world, tops? How many professional hillbillies have been hunting him down and they can't kill his ass off either!


Sorry, but when operation government/professional anyone does anything right it's always upfront and always ends up fucqued up later on.

Same law here in Illinois. Funny that MO did this since they were bragging how hunters had removed the hog problem from Ft. Leonard Wood a few years back.

Hogs aren't going anywhere no matter what. *might as well hunt them

I love missouri’ans...

SHOW ME !!!

LOL..

I suspect the "magic bullet" to control wild hogs will include biological weapons.

Planting the right disease into the hog populations with little collateral damage. (That's the trick)

Anything else is spinning our wheels.

Screw worms. Med fly.

Well, yeah.

Couple islands in the Aleutians have been rid of rats and foxes. The rare subspecies of geese are doing much better, even re-establishing on places the rats and foxes had totally eliminated them from.

That sounds great. I wonder what it would be?

At least shooting them on private land is still legal. Their destructive and by law you can shoot any state protected wildlife that destroys your property. Hope the Conservation Dept trapping methods works for them as the coyote trapping has! Not safe anytime of the year in my area for Coyotes, Armadillos, wild Hogs (not that we have that many, Groundhogs. Their not farmer friendly and farmers are not friendly with them. GW