It has to help, every sow you catch or kill is a sounder that won't happen. That's what's wrong now is these agencies soured on hunters because some transported hogs. The agency is so soured they shut off these big public land pig factories and let the hogs have their way. We hunters didn't create the problems in South Cherokee, Twra did in the 70s. I think a hog control season like at catoosa and allow trapping year round would help South Cherokee and surrounding properties deer, turkey and bear populations thrive. Another beef of mine is the wild hog is diseased vermin theory. All us hunters know they are fine eating and more people might be inclined to hunt and kill them for food if they knew better. Bottom line I wish we could exterminate then
Statements like that will make you question someone's intelligence.
Not when you're getting paid by the state to trap and shoot them on the management areas. They don't want this info made public but there are "private contractors" that get paid WELL by the states and get special contracts from the states after a deep background check that sign said contracts with the state to trap and hunt hogs on the management areas for a fee and also bounties on the heads of each individual hog they kill which allows the contractor to not only buy top of the line toys as a tax write off but to also make a very good living off this too. There is a situation in another state which the guy has a contract with the WMA and also several farmers who has land from bordering the WMA to within the vicinity of the WMA on the hogs travel path that has contracts with the farmers and when you are paid by the head on top of the contract with the state it kinda makes you wonder about their integrity level.....
Understood. Rarely, are both integrity and intelligence present in government. Sometimes both are missing.
That may be true in your area but here our bear hunters hate them. I personally hate them. I'd rather run a bear than a hog but we kill every hog we can in South Cherokee. There's a group that hunts the Tellico side, and word is they killed 90 hogs last bear season. I think my group is going to try and compete with them. Should be fun trying to get the numbers!
He's coming from the wma and is legally protected till the September bow season.
That's a shame you can't kill them on your property. I am going to keep two of my cell cams going in case the one I keep seeing makes its way here.
I'm not sure how much a game warden gets paid. But I don't think it's "well" and by the head?
Yeah definitely keep a watch out. My neighbor owns 30 acres joing the forest. He bought a trap and caught a couple but now they are trap shy. He's asked me to bring my dogs but like I explained to him there's no doubt we can catch them and kill them but there's a 99 percent chance they will get on the wma and then we would be illegal. I'm not risking breaking the law or worse have a dog torn to pieces because I can't legally retrieve them.
Its a private contractor here not a game warden
