Originally Posted by tammons
You have to kill 7 out of 10 just to keep the population in check.
If they dont have any natural predators, like probably in Hawaii then its more.
Wont happen with a gun. You have to trap them and dispatch to keep the population in check and still
that probably wont do it but they do make for good target practice.
I shoot every one I see and if the are around 60# or below, fat and a sow, I will
put them in the freezer.
Know of one peanut farmer that had killed about 200 in 3 months on just one of his fields, hunting at night and he was still having problems.
Know of another that trapped 300++ very close to where I hunt. He knocked the local population back a bit temporarily,
but they were back in no time.
Our neighbor has trapped like 20 in the last 3 weeks, but 20 in 3 weeks is just a drop in the bucket.
I watched a program where they said that one sow, if she had max litters, and all her offspring lived and had max litters, etc etc, by the time she died she and her offspring would have propagated 7 million pigs.
As far as boars, they are nasty.
Could not pay me to eat one. Castrate and feed off for a year yes, but otherwise forget it.
They get recycled into the environment via buzzard food.
Have a friend that killed a 250# boar and not wanting to waste it had a huge amount of smoked sausage made by the local
butcher, and not cheap and it was so rank he threw it all out.
That is in Ga, but what they really need to do is allow baiting hogs while hunting. I suppose if it gets bad enough they will.
On Fort Benning land along the river, they are so bad they have a bounty on them.
I think $35 a head.
A bounty would be a good way to keep the population down.