Many of the states that now have a serious hog problem made some dumb mistakes very early on. The Fish and Wildlife people in many states are still deathly afraid that someone is going to poach a deer. Instead of encouraging hunters to just kill hogs; they require hogs to be checked at game reporting stations and put restrictions on the killing of hogs until they can "study" the problem. In OK they still will not let us hunt hogs with a light at night.

Several states that have a budding hog problem refuse to allow folks to hunt hogs because they are afraid that will cause the hog population to "spread" to other areas. Not to worry, their hog population is going to spread so fast it will make their eyes blurry.