A couple things since I have lived this nightmare: first there are trappers who won’t shoot your calves. Second, you can’t shoot enough of them to arrest the growth. And last is the suckiest part: they are intelligent and will move out under pressure, only to come back. It’s a freaking game of whack-a-mole. They get trap-wise, learn human patterns and breed like rabbits. Leasing land has little effect by and large. Around here there was an attempt by the state gov to thin them out using helos. The only thing really accomplished were horsee and cattle run through fences.
ok, so what you are saying is basically only solution is to hire trappers.
seems to my backward ass though, that shooting as many as possible may not eradicate them, but a dead hog is a dead hog and immediately ceases to breed and destroy land. if it were truly as devastating as people make out, then every little bit would help I would think.
again Im not trying to be a troll, I just dont get the mentality.
2 years ago I went to Texas for my sisters wedding, while there for 2 weeks I called nearly 100 ranches and EVERY ONE had a price list on hand ranging from 500 a night to 3k per night. that tells me the land owners dont really see this as that big of a problem.
sitting in a diner one morning 3 days before I had to head home, I overheard 2 ranchers complaining about how bad the hogs were on their place, I turned around and asked them if they let people shoot them, and both said yes for x dollars a day.
now, im just a simple redneck from Wyoming, but that tells me money is more important than the hogs problem is to Texas ranchers.