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Old 01-14-2022, 04:48 PM
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Father Forkhorn
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Originally Posted by North Texan
Being burned by people wanting to "help" by hunting hogs is one reason a lot say "no". Been there, done that. Not sure how anyone can mistake a 600 lb. angus steer for a wild boar, but it happened.

Also, hunting is just not effective. Shooting 1, 2, or even 3 pigs at a time as time allows doesn't dent the population. Especially if all the neighbors aren't doing the same. It takes solid, consistent pressure from multiple sources to keep the pigs away. Trapping as many as possible, then specifically targeting and shooting those pigs that are trap-wise. Even then, something like poison would still likely be necessary to take the numbers required to decrease the population, and getting poisons approved has been a difficult, slow process.
This will sound convoluted, but here in Kansas, what you described actually resulted in a ban on shooting any wild hogs. What happened was about 10-15 years ago, there were some instances of people who like hog hunting dumping pigs at random to get a population established for hunting. Farmers were starting to discover groups hogs on their property that had gone feral.

Luckily, the state got them eradicated before they spread far and wide. To dash any hopes of ever hunting hogs in Kansas, they convinced the legislature to pass a law against shooting any wild hogs.
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