re: Wild hogs chomp and stomp their way through $90 million worth of Louisiana crops

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Sorry to take this on a tangent, but am I missing something? How would this not be allowed, but picking up litter on the side of the road is?

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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it probably is allowed. as is litter pickup, as is farming. once you're incarcerated/convicted, that "except" comes into play.

slavery/involuntary servitude is now under the purview of the State. the state now owns the convicted person.

that's what it says.

it's not that hard.

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Hunting them is now an industry, hogs aren’t going anywhere.

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Too many people see them as a target opportunity to get rid of them now. That mixed with the litigation culture ensuring that no land owner wants anyone willing to put a dent in the population on their land.

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Prisoners at Angola have been farm and livestock workers since it opened essentially.

I mean, it's called 'The Farm' for a reason.

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Yeah it ain't 'cause they're raising a crop of responsible citizens....

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Hogs are one of the truly delicious pests. It still baffles me how we haven't turned this into an opportunity. Is it too costly to trap or hunt them and sell the meat? I know there is red tape for selling wild game, but this just seems like an opportunity squandered.

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From what i understand, wild hogs are exceedingly gamey.

It is bad. I hunt Ft Sill for elk and big bucks and there are so many hogs there. They've tried just about every way to curb the population. Now one reason the hunting for them sucks is outside of gun season for elk/deer, you can only use a .22 rimfire.

But the government has to contract out teams with helicopters to gave any impact on the hog population at all.

Might be a stupid idea but why not harvest them and burn them to create electricity? I'm sure their fat bodies will burn like gasoline, driving a boiler, turbine and generator.

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I would gladly shoot hogs for free. I bet a lot of guys would. But nobody is inviting me to go onto their property to do it. And then there are “ranches” that charge $1 per pound to shoot a feral hog which quickly renders it too expensive to bother with. Those places aren’t interested in eradicating the hogs.

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Most landowners are not interested in it. They see them as a source of revenue without regard to the damage they are doing to their property.

There is a way to keep them and all destructive animals in check. They do it in most of Europe. If you own land in Europe and an animal BELEIVED to have come from your land damages the property of another person you are responsible. You can mitigate this risk by allowing hunting on your land. If your hunting is properly managed and documented...you have a professional game manager keeping records of efforts and populations, the exposure is severely limited or non existent. You almost never hear of car accidents involving deek, elk and wild boars because they are micro managed instead of at the state level...each land owner is responsible. They also make a lot of money off of their effort because they have high quality hunting opportunities. Finally all hunting and fishing in Europe is considered a commercial operation...so when you kill a couple of wild boars a local meat market or restaurant can and will pay you for them. We are not really interested in doing anything. Landowners are happy to charge to kill them but won't let someone hunt on their place on a dare.

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I have a guy a couple miles from me that hunts wild hogs with dogs. He has some curs he uses as chase dogs and then a pit bull he uses as a catch dog. He has to put body armor on the pit bull.

Anyway, he uses no firearms. Just ropes to wrangle the wild hog then a knife in the throat to kill it.

I never would have believed how crazy it was if I hadn't gone with him once. Talk about some crazy Okie fun.

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Pretty common around east Georgia and South Carolina. Crazy shite.

I have more this year than ever. Put six in the freezer and have at least 15 currently on my land.

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From what i understand, wild hogs are exceedingly gamey.

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Lot of debate here but in my experience it depends on what they have been eating. The bigger boars are more prone to be carnivorous and eat carrion which makes them smell and taste bad for obvious reasons.

I have eaten both big boars and sows that have been on my feeder for a month and they taste fine.