Tennessee Hog hunting regulation changes

[Eric Krewson]

I heard of one Bozo being caught with a trailer load of hogs he had trapped in Texas and was headed to his home in Tn to turn them loose. This is a lot more common than a sensible person would believe.

One comercial hog hunting opperation that had a fenced enclosure near Waterloo allegedly released their hogs on Lauderdale Mgt Area when their opperation folded. I hunt the area and parts of it are covered up with hog sign now where there had never been any in the past.

[LBR]

Only thing I know of hogs is what some friends in TX told me that a sow will birth 7 piglets and raise 8!  

They can have 14 or more, and a good "momma" sow will raise a dozen out of the 14...plus they give birth twice a year on average, and sows can start reproducing at 8 months.  Doesn't take long for them to take over an area, especially if they have no predators.

We have them in Northeast MS.  For years they were fairly close, but not right on top of us.  That has changed--it seems due to some idiots "stocking" them.  

I can't see how the pay places will stay in business--people will be begging folks to come shoot the dang things.  They can destroy a planted field literally overnight.

[swampthing]

Looks like just an "addition" to what ever was in place last year

[ethan]

Landowners can get a free permit to kill hogs on their own property and can have 10 people listed on the permit.

[J-dog]

Once they are in an area, they are there. HARD to eradicate them things.

J