Hybrid Hogs may be evolving and it seems they can be some different from true Boar. 800 acres home range sounds way small to me. Sounders may settle into an area and if unmolested stay there for months, but here they typically cover a rough circle with a radius of 5-10 miles Pi X R squared. Roughly 100-300 square miles.

They may settle into an area as long as there is food, cover and water, but the home range can be huge. Depends on geography, rivers to be crossed, food supply, weather, hunting pressure and other factors.

We aren't interested in eradicating them, we try to manage them and use basically the same techniques that we have been using for 500-600 years.

Our basic philosophy is not to let them settle in and try to keep them on the move. All the farmers suffer a little, none suffers all the damage.

Planting Corn for fuel and bureaucratic meddling has changed the game. The Corn accelerates growth and sexual maturity. Giant corn fields are a dandy habitat for Hogs. The Bureaucrats (policy makers) are political and change the rules on a whim. Makes no difference to them that the techniques for managing Boar has evolved over centuries, they know better.

They tend to forage in squad and platoon sized units (10-20), sometimes for short periods in larger groups, but usually not for long.

If somebody shoots the lead Sow, the Sounder often breaks apart, sometimes for months. About half the time it breaks down into age groups. The other half the time one of the leaders older daughters takes over, but reorganization may be a long term process and not short term. It can take them awhile to reorganize, days, weeks and sometimes months. IMO this is the reason they discourage hunting them some places, a cohesive Sounder is easier to trap.

Our solution is to hunt them in the middle age years. Big enough to be worthwhile, not so large they reproduce (much). We avoid shooting the lead Sow, it makes the Sounder much more predictable. The lead sow teaches them how to survive, how to cross the road, where the safe places are, where to find food and how to avoid hunters.

Ours isn't a perfect system, but it has been working successfully for hundreds of years, not so well the last 20 years. The bureaucrats insist on fixing it beyond all repair (FUBAR).