Lol yea I was thinking that too.wish they would try 10$ tail bounty in Arkansas!I would prolly only work 2 days a week and spend the rest huntin hogs. Eaven if someone did try and cheet the system and screwed it up for us I would have a heck of a run!

You honestly think that would help? They would just release more to make more pigs for more money....sows would be given a free pass, bounties never work.

Harlan County Reservoir in Nebraska has gilts gone wild too. F&G gets a pickup load annually.

I used to believe that a bounty would solve a wildlife problem, but now I know it won’t—-at least in most cases. Nutrias? Yes, I feel as though it was successful. Hogs? Beavers? No.


Too many unscrupulous “trappers”. Buying tails and turning them in. How can a county seriously expect honesty when the going rate is $3 each for as many as someone wants to buy? Anymore it seems that honesty and integrity are getting hard to find. If you know people that are honest, ya better be good to them.


Also, bounties are rarely enough to justify intense trapping. Nutrias were the exception, because huge areas were wide open to an airboat. There was no area out of their reach. With hogs or beavers, there are pockets that are too hard to reach for “road trappers” to be able to justify spending time going after.
The result is a population knocked back a little, and then it rebounds shortly after.

If a bounty were high enough, yes, professional trappers would hammer down and eradicate them. Will anyone ever pay a bounty high enough to get those professionals to kick it into high gear? Unlikely. No one could afford to pay what it would take. No one short of Bill gates, the Amazon.com dude, or the Facestalk guy Zuckerberg. So.....a bounty on hogs is out. For areas with open terrain, aerial gunning is the ticket. For everyone else, an approved poison is the only way we’ll ever have a chance of eradication or the closest thing to it.



Those are my opinions anyway. I’m not eradicating anything larger than a mouse for $10 or each or less. Maybe some people will, but I won’t

Just rough top of the head calculation I'd need 200 a head bounty to make it worth my time and I'd be in the hole just in start up costs on equipment. Traps and guns ain't cheap. But a few sounders would pay off start up then it's time and labor which would quickly eat into my other paying work so I'm not actively perusing hogs at the moment.

Yea I see what u mean. I was just thinking it would help around where I live anyways. Got alot of friends and family that have river camps on the oauchita river and if I'm headed to the river camp for the weekend to fish with everybody and it's late and I just got off work on a Friday night and a bunch of hogs cross the road like they allways do and most of the time in multiple spots down the long gravel road through bean fields and timber I dnt stop and shoot any. It's late and that's not what I'm after I just want to get to fishing lol. But now if them hogs was worth 10$ a piece time to make some boat gass money lol! And I know alot of people that would do the same.

Just having fun entertaining the idea if hogs were worth 10$ a piece. Lol Yall dnt take me to serious.