re: How bad are feral pigs in Louisiana?

Holy Hell man 600 per year is freaking insane. We kill approx. 150 per year on 3,000 acres and you can definitely tell a difference. We don't see them on camera as much and don't see nearly the numbers we were seeing before we started killing approx. 150 a year. I hope to god ours don't get as bad as you guys have it.

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Honestly that is not and never would be an area of the state id be looking toward too purchase land to make a camp. Large hog population YES. Very low deer herd numbers so much so the bag limit has been restricted in that area by the state. Not to mention the outlaw population in the area.

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That's the thing. We are relocating to EBR so I want something in the vicinity. Also I'm a complete noob at this too. Not rushing into anything, just pondering and looking into it. I've just seen a lot of videos about feral hogs all over the South tearing shite up, ruining soil, etc.

Still speculating and looking into it right now.

Call me crazy but if I was looking at small acreage in the south, I'd prefer hogs over deer. I've never had the issue and maybe I'd get tired of it, but small acreage the chance of a decent buck are pretty bad. No one cares about hog sizes, smaller the better often times. I'd rather shoot a bunch of hogs yearly on my back 50 then wait around and shoot a decent racked buck every 3-5 years personally.

What area of Florida are you in?

Back in the day, many people would buy hogs at the sale barn and release them on their or others land to have something to hunt after deer season closed. Much of the land then was free range timber but it all changed in the late 80’s and went to leased property. Katy bar the door after that occurred.

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Apparently this is a bounty on feral hogs, but there is just so damn many, like someone else said, they’re unstoppable.

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They spread so quickly beacause folks that would rather shoot hogs than deer and have extra hunting time spread them or find value in hogs being on their land or lease. Fkn dumbasses can’t see the forest for the trees. Typical self serving dumbasses.

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Are these domestic pigs that got out and went feral or a completely different animal?

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Both. Most places you’ll run across the Razorback type wild hogs. For years a local highway was the divider. To the south swamp area was all solid black razorbacks. To the north was multi colored domestic looking hogs. That’s due to the local prison farm having about 100 get loose 50 or so years ago during a storm.

As others have stated the population has exploded. I tend to think locally it has a lot to do with the decrease of pasture / crop land and increase in timber. About 20 years ago many of the large land owners quit planting, reduced cattle herds and planted pines. Where there was once 200 acres of open, non habitat, there is now dense cover. And I’m sure this didn’t just happen locally but all through the region.

Google Texas and feral hogs.They are shooting them,trapping and shooting out of helicopters and they are losing the war.
The reason they are spreading all over is because ignorant people released them,thinking it would be cool to have hogs to hunt.The hog dog people released a lot of them,also.
They’re getting them up north.Somebody brought some to Alberta,Canada for a high fence hunting operation,of course some got out and now they are spreading over into Saskatchewan and into Montana.Some shot in Kansas had dNa from hogs in Texas.
They are the ultimate survival machine,they can live about anywhere and eat and thrive on almost anything.They multiply like crazy and have no natural enemies.
Some state have trapping programs and have outlawed hunting of them on public land.Trapping is much more effective and hunting of them keeps them scattered and harder to trap.
Besides all the problems they cause farmers and landowners,they carry lots of diseases and bacteria that harm native wildlife plus eat up foods for wildlife such as acorns.
I have 140 acres and they have ruined the enjoyment of my land for me.If I had known this was coming I never would have bought it.
I don’t see any solution,biologists say it’s necessary to kill 70% of the population every year just to keep the population from growing.Thats every year.
Texas has the most aggressive control programs and they aren’t coming close to 70%.

Sorry to hear that man. I saw a Youtube channel called Jager Hog or something. Just a dude setting up traps that sometimes catches 20-30 hogs a night. Then he goes in and dispatches them all with 22 long rifle.