re: Controlling wild hogs

There is an OB expert on this subject, a TCU fan who goes by the handle of BleedingPurple, but he hasn't been around lately.

I hope nothing happened to him. He was not posting frequently and nothing since April.

Shooting is simply not a control strategy for hogs. All the science is pretty solid, if you do not eliminate 90%, the population will rebound (based on the area of the range and food supply) within 12 to 14 months. The only way to do that is a comprehensive bait/trap/poison and, possibly, some shooting just as a supplement to an "all of the above".

Problem with any of it is you have to be working every day (or most days), regardless of the strategy. If you're an absentee landowner, you're going to have to pay someone to do it.

And, frankly, if you have this problem to begin with, it is a chronic problem, not an acute one. It will literally never go away. You will get rid of your pack/packs of hogs and then your neighbors' packs of hogs will expand onto your land.

Rinse/repeat